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[[Category:Soul Ascetic]] | |||
== Introduction == | == Introduction == | ||
Hello there! I've been playing Soul Ascetic for a while now, and I find it very fun and slighty overpowered as a farming character, so I'd like to share this guide with you all in the hopes of addressing some questions players have about when to farm what. | Hello there! I've been playing Soul Ascetic for a while now, and I find it very fun and slighty overpowered as a farming character, so I'd like to share this guide with you all in the hopes of addressing some questions players have about when to farm what. | ||
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'''Soul Ascetic:''' | '''Soul Ascetic:''' | ||
* At this point, your exp book should be about to expire. Try to get in another Illusion of Vampire quest, so you get enough skill points to max {{#skill:5429}}. Once you get it, your next priority is leveling to 210 using this new skill. Dump all your trait points into SPL and you'll see that you're easily doing double the damage you were doing before, and now in a big area. You can try Illusion of Teddy Bear until 210. The rest of your leveling will happen as you farm to improve your gear, so that's it for this section. | * At this point, your exp book should be about to expire. Try to get in another Illusion of Vampire quest, so you get enough skill points to max {{#skill:5429}}. Once you get it, your next priority is leveling to 210 using this new skill. Dump all your trait points into SPL and you'll see that you're easily doing double the damage you were doing before, and now in a big area. You can try Illusion of Teddy Bear until 210. The rest of your leveling will happen as you farm to improve your gear, so that's it for this section. | ||
== Skills == | |||
=== Important skills breakdown === | |||
=== Skill trees === | |||
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!Taekwon | |||
![[File:Taekwon skills.png|none|thumb]] | |||
!You can keep Sprint at 9 if you want | |||
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|'''Soul Linker''' | |||
|[[File:SL Tree.png|none|thumb]] | |||
|Level your Ka skills and get whatever spirit skills you want. Bard spirit is useful, the rest are a bit outdated nowadays. | |||
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|'''Soul Reaper''' | |||
|[[File:SR Tree.png|none|thumb]] | |||
|You can keep Soul Revolution low and use the extra point to level Sprint, or not. | |||
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|'''Soul Ascetic''' | |||
|[[File:SA Skill.png|none|thumb]] | |||
|I prefer to spend my last 4 points in Totem of Tutelary for extra sustain, but you can level Talisman of Warrior if you tend to party a lot. | |||
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== Gear and farming progression == | == Gear and farming progression == | ||
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== Movement == | |||
As a Soul Ascetic, moving fast through the map while killing everything is one of the most attractive and strong points of the class. It's what makes it so good at farming. Let's take a look at how this happens. | |||
=== Standard teleport and skill farming === | |||
We have pretty big AoE skills at our disposal, so the basic "spam teleport and skill" tactic is better as SA than as other classes. Our 15x15 White Tiger will cover a big chunk of the screen, so after teleporting you'll be clearing a lot of enemies and teleporting away quickly to do it again. You can also choose to use only Black Tortoise, which allows you to aim the skill at the cost of a smaller 11x11 area (which is still pretty big). This is how you'll be farming at the start, and it's pretty comfortable. So comfortable in fact, that it won't be strange if someone mistakes you for a bot once in a while. | |||
=== Leap === | |||
Leap is what makes you stand out and go fast! Master this skill as soon as you start farming seriously. | |||
The skill is deceptible simple at a glance, but it has a lot of caveats that make it interesting. Leap will have your character move in a straigh line instantly, in the direction your character is looking, by a set number of cells. Let's go over the points that make it such a good skill, and also over its limitations: | |||
# +It ignores obstacles. As long as the destination cell is something you can stand on, you'll get there no matter if there's a wall, a cliff or a river between you and your destination. | |||
# +Its fixed cast time is reduced by 0.5s with each level. Starting at lvl3, it has the same FCT as your other skills, so you'll be able to use it instantly. And of course it has no after cast delay, so you can use it as fast as your attack speed allows you. | |||
# -It can not be used in areas where teleport can't be used. This unfortunately makes it useless in instances and special maps like Depth and Garden of Time Zones. | |||
# -If the destination cell is something you can't stand on, the skill will fail and nothing will happen. This behaviour is a bit annoying until you get the hang of the skill. | |||
Let's talk about how to use the skill to farm. First of all, note that this method of farming requires that your character has good attack speed. It starts feeling real good when you hit the 186ASPD mark. At that point, you can spam the skill often enough, and there's almost no delay between the time you leap -> use WT/BT -> leap again. This is the reason most SAs will take Agilty enchant for their crowns, over Intelligence or Wisdom, even if we don't benefit from the ACD in this enchant. | |||
Let's look at some examples of how to use Leap effectively. In the following images, I'm using @lgp with square 6 and circle 10. | |||
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![[File:Leap1.png|none|thumb|Image 1]] | |||
![[File:Leap2.png|none|thumb|Image 2]] | |||
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One of the tricks you have to learn about Leap is that you can use different levels of the skill to Leap different distances. The most common way is to use lv3 Leap and lv5 Leap. This will allow you to jump distances of either 6 cells in front of you with lv3, or 10 cells in front with lv5. | |||
Now look at Image 1. Here, if I tried to use lv3 Leap the skill would fail, because the destination cell is not something I can stand on. On the other hand, if I were to use lvl5, I'd jump 10 cells in front and the skill would move me there, jumping over the obstacle. | |||
The opposite happens in Image 2. Using lv3 here would succeed and using lv5 would fail. | |||
The more familiar you're with a map, the easier it will be to navigate it fast using Leap. The faster you navigate the map, while killing everything in sight with WT/BT, the faster you'll farm. | |||
Another thing to keep in mind is what happens when you teleport after leaping. After teleporting, your character will always be looking north. This doesn't mean you'll leap north if you leap after teleporting. Leap remembers the last direction you leaped at, and it will use that until you click in another direction. You will want to look at your turbo setup and decide whether you like to use turbo on a Cast + Click key or a Cast only key. I definitely like Cast only better, but Cast + click can have some merits if you know what you're doing. I'd say start with Cast only and then try out Cast + click to see how it works and whether you like it or not. | |||
One last thing to consider is the use of /bingbing and /bangbang. These two commands will make your character spin either clockwise or counterclockwise, and they can be bound to your arrow keys <- ->, or maybe A D if you prefer. Why should you consider this? Well, because once you get used to it, this way of changing directions is faster than clicking, and it will allow you to control your movement better. | |||
That's about all I know about the mechanics of Leap. For this to be effective you want to be comfortably one shotting the mobs in the map you're trying to farm (even better if you can do it only with a manual cast of BT, without relying on the autocast from the crown). You also want 186ASPD (you can use Celermine Juice, transformation scrolls and Berserk Potion to help a lot with this). | |||
How much better is this than the standard teleport + skill? Around 20% better, from what I've gathered. But at first it will be like 30% worse, until you get really used to it and know the map well. It's definitely worth doing if the map has big areas and many obstacles you can jump over, like it's the case with Temple and Niff2. If it's a map with a lot of narrow corridors like Mjolnir Underground, I prefer not to do it. | |||
Now that you know all I know about Leap, go ahead and try it and do let me know how it goes. | |||
== Things I wish I knew from the start == | == Things I wish I knew from the start == |
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