durant wrote:1. Decreases the damage you do overall.
No over all damage will be increased provided that your mag balence is high enought to off set the loss of phy damage.
durant wrote:2. It's a bad thing. Physical damage is one of the strengths of a Str build.
Yes but as mentioned above this loss is offset by the increased imbue damage.
durant wrote:3. While Str builds do lack a lot of magical defense, it doesn't make it a good trade-off. In my opinion, it isn't worth what you can be gaining by just adding more Str (more HP to withstand nukes).
In my experience the loss of 2K hp is well offset by the increase of Mag Defence. And at 80 I will be happy with 13.6K naked (also not counting passive from Glaive tree)
@ others
I think you are wrong about it being a bad build. I agree that it can be very bad if
1. you add too much INT and lower your Phy balence too much (i.e. 1:1)
or
2. you dont add enought INT to actually make up for the phy damage loss. i.e. 3:1
Hybrid blade can be a fine and strong build, although it has recived much criticism (and clearly still does). Most of this is from people who have only played hybrid blade at low levels or have never played it at all.
Anyone who wants to prove me wrong on troy and has a lvl 72ish pm me in game. DigCowboy.