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Originally Posted by Lune
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See I'm beginning to doubt you're even reading or understanding my posts because you're ignoring or failing to comprehend what I've said. I'm not making any argument about what things are like at 60 with capped stats. OP is extremely unlikely to ever reach that point.
Yes your argument is based on facts, as is mine, but that doesn't make you correct, because the conclusions you are drawing from those facts are all wrong. You're telling some dude who wants to roll an iksar SK to play around with a Greenmist to put all his points into INT because at 60, raid-buffed and raid-geared, he's going to cap his STR and STA, and in that situation INT provides a damn near negligible benefit. Greater INT when leveling only translates to HP IF YOU RUN OUT OF MANA *and* cast the spells, because it's not sustain. Greater HP is going to keep you above the "Oh shit" threshold on a larger portion of fights and potentially preclude you from ever casting inefficient lifetaps in the first place.
You're additionally ignoring the fact that STR is going to help him do more damage 100% of the time while leveling, increasing XP, ending fights more quickly, and saving spells from ever having to be cast, while greater INT has a few fringe benefits in survivability, and you have to cast spells to realize the translation from mana to HP. Furthermore, that you believe Shralok Packs are going to keep an iksar from getting encumbered when stuffed with fine steel and other heavy junk tells me you've never played a nerd race.
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Rip’s screen shot shows his nerd is carrying 200 weight with gear and a fair amount of pp.
Dumping str is great imo as you don’t rely on buffs and it protects against incapacitate type spells (which you’ll have spammed against you in karnors and seb, two of my favy zones, as well as a bunch more).
Getting encumbered is super annoying, which incapacitate, str taps, etc seem to provoke, so for a strict levelling toon I simp str. As i understand if you overcap str it is no problem as it provides a buffer against these spells (can anyone confirm or deny?)