How do Base Statistic affect you when you make a level?Follow

IMO

you would get more bang for your buck to get the natural durability AA's if your concerned about your HP. those would give you more HP overall than if you got the STA AA (just like a caster should get spell casting mastery soon as possible). plus, sta will max easy enough with buffs and gear. "base" sta realy only IMO helps if your nekid and buffless! at lvl 51, you will "hopefully" start raiding soon, and you will pass your sta cap with ease. at that point you would be going for your plainer power AA to raise your cap.


so, don't worry about your base sta, later, like most, you will regret spending those AA on sta, just like i regret spending aa on wisdom. it was a total waste. get your natural durability, and the avoidance and mitigation aa first. it will help you with tanking the most.

Edited, Fri May 26 18:14:22 2006 by Keyera

agree...
but, IMO is wasted aa for minmal improvment. the defensive AA are far better purchases.

so, it is around 2 hp per sta. so you get the first 5 ranks....= 10 hp. you get natural durability and it is IIRC around 150 hp. then the additional mitigation and evase AA make those 5 lvls of STA just wasted aa.

altho, i am not a warrior :-)

but i do wish, i had never purchased the wisdom aa that i did. i purchased the sta AA long after i got other criticle aa done. but even as a cleric i knew that getting hit less, and when hit, get hit not as hard were far better than the few hp gained from the sta aa.

Ack, dupe post...

Edited, Fri May 26 22:17:34 2006 by Lyratrix

Edited, Fri May 26 22:17:56 2006 by Lyratrix

2 hp/sta is a bit low, as a druid i got 4-5 hp/sta, my pally even better.

Those first few aa's you have to spend in order to get to the archetype shopping list that has the natural durability stuff, will take as long to accumulate as 5 or 6 levels though so it is really a wash in how you go after it.

hey Lyratrix,

my mistake, no need to be an *** about it eh?

my advice then, burn 3 for run3, very usefull, then get to lvl 55, burn 3 more, best spot is regen or lower food consumption. then if you still want to do more AA, get the first ranks of your tanking AA.

reguardless, STA AA is worthless IMO (i did get some way down the line to max out my STA, but i got all of the "cleric" nessesary ones first ;-P).




FYI

General, only need to be level 51 to train an ability of this category, in any order.

Archetype, must be level 55, and have 6 AA points trained in any of the General abilities, to be able to train an Archetype ability.

Class, must be level 59, and have 12 AA points trained in any of the Archetype abilities, to be able to train a Class ability. Since Archetype abilities have their own requirement, there is a minimum of 18 AA to train, 6 in General and 12 in Archetype, before access to Class abilities.

Level-restricted, only needs to be level 61 (for PoP) or 66 (for OoW) to train an ability of this category. However many have additional requirements. Several abilities introduced with GoD fall into this category. Also, DoN abilities obtained along the progressive quest of this expansion require the toon to be level 65 or higher.

Thanks for your responses.

I have set my exp percentages to 60/40 (Aexp/exp) so that when I hit level 55 I will have my 6 AAs.

I plan on spending them on speed upgrades and First Aid so I can get Critical mend. I have a Fungus cloak so the regeneration wouldn't have that big of an impact.

I am glad that I didnt waste points/time on stamina, I had heard that each point of stamina at lvl 50+ could result in as many as 10 hits/level, which could have given 1900 hits if true by lvl 70. But apparently that is not the case.