Fire/Lightning Nuker

xCrazyAzn301 · Post by **xCrazyAzn301** » Tue May 23, 2006 8:04 pm

OK ive made my decision! To become a Fire/ Lightning Nuker. ( i wanna try something different )
Couple of questions

1. What skills should I put on?
2. What type of armor should I wear
3. What weapon Should I use? Sword/Shield or Spear?
4. What should I put my stats on?

Finally has there been a discovery of another Sp Calculator? I know the nerdwerx or w/e thier calculator has been shutdown. If there is a new one plz pm me or just post a reply here.

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Does having an imbue on while nuking add extra dmg?

Amps · Post by **Amps** » Tue May 23, 2006 8:35 pm

1. The level 30 nukes and anything else really such as the buffs and passives. The Shock Lion Shout will be helpful too.

2.Armour.

3.Spear will give you the heuskal passive increasing your hp, sword/shield will give you more defense and allow you to block. Up to you but id go with Sword/Shield.

4. INT. Always.

Stefan7487 · Post by **Stefan7487** » Tue May 23, 2006 9:48 pm

1. Get some minor sword or spear skills, maybe take the mastry as a whole to lvl 20 or 25. Max out light and fire, taking most skills. Firewall is useless...concentration is too, unless parry is implemented. MAKE SURE to get Force Piercing series in light, it is HUGE for a nuker. From there I think you can figure out whats good and not.

2. Armor for pvp, garment for grinding ect. This is debatable. I use garm 24/7 and have no problems what so ever....maybe when Im in the 50s Ill switch to armor for pvp.

3. Your decision. Want higher mag attack....or defense? Or why not take both masteries? Give yourself a variety. This is what I did, I can block when needed, or get higher mag attack when needed.

4. Nukers = pure INT. So um, INT plz.

kitary · Post by **kitary** » Tue May 23, 2006 11:14 pm

if you want to have a very high nuke damage use a spear and put every stat point you get into int, the hexual passive will also be very good for you
imo multy skilling biseon and hexual is a waist of sp ,
you can always put on a sword and a shield with say 17% block rate with out any biseon skills , 17% blockl is still better than nothing

get and max 2nd book fire nuke , and 3rd book fire nuke ,
max all lightning skills , ( walking speed increase skill at own discration)

fire shield should be taken and eventualy maxed , couse it realy helps vs curses such as zombie ( very dangerus for nukers couse of nukers low life) and agains frostbite and freeze

the magic defence increasing fire buffs can be maxed , but ill leave that up to you its not a waist to invest in defence imo

DO NOT TAKE ANY PHYSICAL DAMAGE INCREASE SKILLS FROM FIRE
those skills are realy not worth the sp

the best armor to wear would be armor , your int gives you a good natural magic defence and if you take the fire tree's magic defence increase buff it will be even better, your phy defence how ever will be naturaly low so the big phy defence of armor will suit you best

Antione · Post by **Antione** » Wed May 24, 2006 4:50 pm

kitary wrote:the best armor to wear would be armor , your int gives you a good natural magic defence and if you take the fire tree's magic defence increase buff it will be even better, your phy defence how ever will be naturaly low so the big phy defence of armor will suit you best

i'm currently using 4th degree protector on my Nuker....granted, its not as strong of physical defense as armor, but it has high magic defense (fire protection and pure int help out to) and between the physical defense of protector (greater than garment) and the ice buffs, you'll do fine. and it'll save you money cause you can use it for grinding and pvping so you don't need to sets of "armor" (with extra cash, you could buy a better weapon or somthing so that you don't have to take hits that often either.).......(it still has a 10 % mp reduction and 10% speed increase)

MALDITO · Post by **MALDITO** » Wed May 24, 2006 5:33 pm

Regardless of the armor u are using, when u'll reach about 55-58 lvl is better to switch to armor for all mobs between 59-68 beacuse of the phisical dmg they do, then on lvl 69 switch to garment to fight yaksha mask :wink:

Ironchef · Post by **Ironchef** » Wed May 24, 2006 5:44 pm

Can someone explain to us noobs what a "nuke" is? So far, all I can guess is that it's a force skill being very, very powerful having built an INT only char.

On the topic, i have a nice INT only fire/light spear user. I had thought about doing sword/shield but I've noticed the magic damage being, on average, higher than the sword. And since i believe a good defense is a good offense, why not kill quicker rather than invest SP and $ on shields, armor, etc?

I am guessing that garments are better for an INT player as it will benefit you more. But hey, just a noob here...day 4.

MALDITO · Post by **MALDITO** » Wed May 24, 2006 5:47 pm

Nuke = magical ranged attack

Fire, Cold and Lightning has a nuke and every nuke has different levels and books.

Ironchef · Post by **Ironchef** » Wed May 24, 2006 6:11 pm

So what are the names of the fire and lightning nukes so I can look for them?

MALDITO · Post by **MALDITO** » Wed May 24, 2006 6:23 pm

Ironchef wrote:So what are the names of the fire and lightning nukes so I can look for them?

Check here :

Snow Storm Series
http://sro.mmosite.com/database/skills/cold.shtml

Thunderbolt Force Series
http://sro.mmosite.com/database/skills/lightning.shtml

Flame Wave Series
http://sro.mmosite.com/database/skills/fire.shtml

Ironchef · Post by **Ironchef** » Wed May 24, 2006 7:27 pm

Daaaaaaaummm! Very not bad! Think I'll focus on one element for damage so I can get them sooner rather than later.

Antione · Post by **Antione** » Wed May 24, 2006 8:09 pm

you max 1 imbue......(first skill) and then lvl them both up so you can 1 nuke then finish with combo or 1 nuke 2 nuke or 1 nuke 2 nuke combo or somthin like that