zenrockoutkast wrote...
I have some questions about a CUN build, I figured I didn't need a new thread. I tried to sort of balance cun and dex in my current build, and it's not working out too well. I'm level 12, done with the Circle tower, and base cun adn dex are 36 and 33 respectively. I've got +7 dex and +2 cun from gear, and deft hands only. My problem is that even though my cun score seems a bit underpowered (I'm missing on a lot of traps and chests), my dex score doesn't seem to be making that much of a difference as I'm still getting a good deal of misses. My question is if I keep balancing the two will it make a difference in hit chance, or am I just shooting myself in the foot for no reason? Song of Courage and Duelist are good suggestions, though keeping Leliana in the party means I either have to play with the same four the whole game (Alistair being my tank and Wynne my healer), or find ways to offset their not being in the party. Will they make a huge difference in chance to hit, though, or will it be marginal?
I also have a bit of a problem with Duelist, in that sustainables seem to be untenable for me if I want to use other abilities. Right now all I have going is a ranger talent and I run out of stamina near the end of most battles. My wil score is 25 base +2, and I have Andruil's Blessing on. Most people reccomend ignoring wil, but is that a good idea? It sounds like the reccomendation is to keep Duelist going, which is 30, and if I add that to my ranger skill I have an upkeep of 80, which puts a strain on my other skills, especially considering AoS has a stamina regen penalty. Is there a way to use sustainables and still be able to utilize abilities? Should I be completely ignoring wil as most are suggesting? Also, is supressing fire a worthwhile skill? It has basically the same upkeep as ranger talents so stamina isn't a huge problem here, but when I used it before it didn't seem to be doing much. I though I could basically use that instead of crippling shot, but crippling shot still seems more effective.
One more cun question, I thought being at ~40 and having deft hands would be good enough for most chests, especially only at mid-game. Does this depend on my boosted cun score or my base score?
Balancing dex and cunn will make a difference in terms of attack. You will have a bit more attack rating than a pure Cunning build. The apparent difference in the attack rating because of the presence of a rogue, will be marginal, in your case that is, as you'll have considerable dex by endgame anyway. All this in terms of attack rating, not taking into account the other benefits from Bard Songs that you get. From a damage dealing PoV, keeping out a rogue with SoC only means cutting out on your damage dealing potential. But if you don't want to bring Leliana along, then just don't. But you know the trade-offs.
The efficiency of Archery talents given their mana cost is not really good. It is advisable to use archery talents only when really necessary, at least in the early part of the game, but it's up to you. If you want to use talents in every battle along with multiple sustainables, turned on, you will need a bit more willpower, and constant support from a creation mage through rejuvenate, mass rejuvenation, and spellbloom.
The reason why people ignore willpower is because an optimized archer will mostly autoattack with a high crit chance, and crit almost every shot, which is far better than using talents (in most cases) that have multiple second set-up time and high cost to effectiveness ratio.
The penalties from suppressing fire will stack, while that of crippling shot won't. Looking at the regular mob which don't really need suppressing, these sort of debuffing talents are better used against a boss in my opinion, or not at all.
Lockpicking effectiveness depends on your boosted cunning score. With a modified cunning score of 70, you can pick any chest in the game without any points in the deft hands tree. What the talents in the deft hand tree do is add 10 cunning each, for lockpicking and trap-disarming check. So to say, with Device Mastery and only 30 modified cunning, you can unlock any chest.
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