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i am thinking about making a chinese sword pure int nuker but everywhere on this forum and on other sites they keep telling that if you want to nuke you need a wizard. are chinese nukers out or can they still compete? and im someone who prefers pve so i dont care about pvp. btw now im asking is sword okay or should i take spear? and what about that fire/lightning discussion?

i play on a alt char sometimes and 1shot most generals with a 72+7 spear. Char is a pure int spear 80 heusk 80 fire 78 light and 34 ice. hope that helps

okay so that proves that chinese arent out of buiseness yet but that still didnt answered my question about lightning/fire discussion.

Pure INT s&s is a great build. It works good with the 80 fire 80 bicheon 80 lightning 60 ice layout at the current cap. The only disadvantage is, you have to delevel fire for the next cap.
80 bicheon 80 lightning 80 cold & 60 fire is still a good build at this cap.

Pure INT spear needs lightning and cold maxed, as well as heuksal. Lacking the defense from the shield, the spear needs to compensate with more physical defense and a larger snow shield.
There are two very good pure INT spear builds at this cap:
80 heuksal
80 fire
70 lightning
70 cold
(taken from LockStar a.k.a. 1ronMonkey - server Alps)

or 80 heuksal
80 lightning
80 cold
60 fire.

The advantage of the latter, is that you don't need massive deleveling for the next cap, except for the fire, that needs to drop to 30.

Overall, if you look at it as a whole tree, lightning has way more advantages than fire for an INT. However, fire still has the "pro" imbue and nukes.

I'd go for the light/ice build, rather than fire/light