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Hi lady and germs,
I'm thinking about creating a Genetic for the sole purpose of fun. However, I can't seem to find any good guides out there. I plan to PVP, WOE, and MVP using the gears that I already have sitting in storage.
I would greatly appreciated it if you could help me with my stats and skills based on the items below. Please let me know which gears I should swapped out for optimal damage in both PVM and WOE situations.
For PVM:
Headgear: RWH
Armor: Glorious Suit In PVM?! Are you smoking crack or something? Wearing useless armor is a luxury we do not have. Appropriate elemental armor is NOT optional. Default Porcellio if just maximizing damage. These may need to be in Orleans, see acc discussion
Weapon: +12 KVM Mace + endow for PVM @_@??? 3x Kingbird Red Twin Edge, or 2x EA enchanted Byeollongum for MVP (it's a little better than the twin edge), OR to really maximize damage, 2x EA enchanted kingbird hurricane fury (but you'll get rocked if you're fighting anything hard)
Shield: Valk Shield
Mant: +9 Immune Backpack
Shoes: Variant
Accessories: Glorious Ring/Moh Those are fine for easy PVM, but where's the fun in easy?! In the challenging MVPs, 1 or both of these should be KBC. I use KBC WDB and Phen WDB, or 2x KBC WDB and Orleans Gown. The +matk from spell enchants on RWC accessory will add damage, actually a fair amount of it, so if you have a 2x spell RWC accessory with KBC in it, there's your accessory.
Should I switch out any of the items below for optimal damage or is this enough to get by?
For PVP/WOE:
Headgear: +12 CEB
Armor: GR Plate You're a genetic, you can't wear plate.
Weapon: +12 KVM Mace
Shield: +12 Cran Immune Shield
Mant: Immune WOE Mant Where is the rest of the set?!
Shoes: WOE Shoes Where is the rest of the set?! These are only good with full set!
Accessories: Glorious Ring/Moh Do you want die? KBCs, man!
I heard that go for spell 2 or spell 3 RWC pendants? Can perform well without these pendants? Yeah, it's okay without them, but you definitely want them. I missed the RWC accessories too. They'll be back, and probably before next RWC.
Skills: I'm still so confused about this part.
Q1) Should I max Hell Plant, Acid Bomb, as well as Demonic Fire or just get some level for one of them while maxing the rest? Max hell plant, AB, and Summon Flora (to maximize hell plant damage). You're not going to be able to fit a WoE build with demonic fire and fire expansion (otherwise you can't get Crazy Weed and Mandy Howl).
Q2) Thorn Wall: The difference between lv 1 and lv 5 is a 4 secs duration? Is Lv 1 good enough or should I max this skill too?
Q3) Thorn Trap: Lv 3 is the pre-requirement for Thorn Wall. Is it worth getting Lv 5?
Q4) Crazy Thorn: Should I max this skill? Yes, if you care about woe, see wiki description, the higher the level, the more ganbantien effects get scattered through AoE
Q5) Sword Mastery: Should I even get this skill? Doe sit improve my dmg in WOE/PVM? No, it's mastery attack, useless.
Q6) Blood Sucker: Should I max this too? no, just need lvl 1 (if not getting rest of tree) or 3 (prereq)
On my WoE gen I got 10 CV + prereqs, 5 mandy + prereqs, Cannon, Boost, Remodel max, and item sling to make people sit with banana bombs.
On my MVP/PVM/SpecPharm gen I got DF3 (maybe going to 5), FE 5 (+ prereq), Bloodsucker 1, cart skills, Spec Pharm 10, and am still debating how to use the last points.
You're also VERY tight on biochem skills. You need FCP, and AB, and summon flora (has huge impact on hell plant damage), and at least lvl 1 homun res, and aid pot 5 (unfortunately - it's the only way to give SP to your homun :-/ Might be able to cut this for more potion research if you have a dieter after you're done leveling it? Or if you AFK level homun, maybe?), leaving you without pot research maxed, and hence pots don't heal you as much as they should, so you pot more slowly and die more easily.
Stats:
Please let me know what my final stats should be. I see some pro Gen have high agi and uses a Sera for nice flee boost. Please let me know what stats I should aim for so I can decide wether to use my free reset now or later.
90-120 base str - 90 to get HBP bonus, 120 if you have megs for meg bonus (high str is also favored if you have hammer), 100 is what I'm getting when I reset my gen.
90-100 base int - lots of people get more than this, but that's stupid. With a 160 atk weapon (ie, RTE), 1 str adds 87% more damage than 1 int to acid bomb damage. Haven't run the numbers on cart cannon, but quick envelope back calcs suggest that if int helps more than str on cart cannon, it's not by much. So just get what you need for hbp bonus.
100 total vit - for status resist, obv.
90-100 base dex - for cast time and backpack bonus, which is huge for AB+CC.
0-41 base luk - for the attack. You think I'm crazy? Run the numbers, 1 str = 1.87 int = 2.8 luk = 4.7 dex (again, assuming RTE - a mjolnir or other thing with high weapon (just weap attack, equip attack doesn't get str bonus) attack makes str better), in terms of AB damage. When 1 str costs 16 status points, and 1 vit costs 10-11, suddenly those luk points at 2/3/4/5 points each look like a bargain!
1 agi.
Sera homun does not add flee. Sera's ability is Painkiller, which gives you massive subtraction type defense so you take 1's from normal attacks from most monsters (assuming correct gear), but kills your aspd. You're thinking of Eira, which fixes attack speed of homun and owner at 189 and flee at 500 - so if you have an eira, any agi you have is completely useless, since your eira gives you all the benefits of agi without wasting stat points.
Homun: Oh god this is like Physic to me. I hate physics 
. I will ask about this later, but if you dont mind could you let me know at what Level after trans should I start focusing on leveling my homun?
You should start leveling your homunculus as alchemist. It should be 99 evolved by the time you're 99 trans, then the first thing you do as genetic should be to change it to homun S. Do not let homun level past 99 without changing to homun S or it's stats will be permanently gimped - once you change to gen, it can level past 99, and even a single kill will do this if it has extra exp. Be careful.
