Celtic Heroes

Hello everyone new to game. Been playing about a week now almost. I've decided to lvl a Druid. Was wandering if anyone would be so kind to link me in the proper direction for the mathematical breakdown on stat weights. Like what increases what by this much if I add one point in let's just say focus. As well any guides that would pertain said information. So see y'all around and thx in advance for any helpful replies!!

Good choice in choosing a Druid

You may have found it already, but there are two good guides here in the Druid forum. The most recent, and probably best for your level, is by a player named Regenlief. Look for his guide. It is quite good for a young Druid.

As for your stats, the breakdown seems to be up in the air. It has been said that one point of Focus equals 5 points of energy. Someone else, however, saw that if you look at all your energy in relation to Focus, it averages to 6.25 or something... So there may be a sliding scale. Next time I re-stat I am planing to chart it. Hopefully I will be able to answer you better then.

As for where to put points, however, it slightly depends on how you want to build your character. Personally, I have generally put 3 points into Focus, and 2 points into Vitality each time I level. I have recently changed that to 4 points Focus, 1 point Vitality, as I am happy with my current health. Strength and Dexterity I have at the default levels.

Have fun.

For build I have more of a support with a little it in vines and lightning. For stats so far I been doing 1 for dex 2 for focus and 2 for vitality. Reason I put in the dex was because someone gave me a magic number of 60 dex helps on the interrupts a bit. How true is that. Since I'm about to hit that 60 number was gonna start with the 3/2 foc/vit.

I checked regens guide out very helpful as a starting player. Especially being able to thumb to it and check where to go for best exp instead of asking a noob question every few lvls. Will be looking forward to you posting the guide u speak of.


As far as the dex is concerned I'm really looking for someone to talk me about respecting it into just focus. I'm thinking may e before update it was good but I really don't feal like it helps at all. I would rather have some more health and focus than maybe like a 5% dodge chance or whatever 60 dex equals out to.

Thx again for the help so far.

Hi Stretch.

First off, I think you are doing yourself a disservice by putting points into Dex. I am on the record (somewhere around here) for saying that I had 30 points in Dex, and found that helped a lot. I no longer feel that way, and you are correct that Update 3 changed a lot.

I now have 5 points in Dex and don't have any issues with the interrupts (I mean... I get interrupted of course, I just don't find it to be a major problem). That being said, I have all my Ancient Statue quest abilities (do those ASAP, as they will help you evade skills) and a few items that add to my evasions.

My take is that if you have 60 Dex, that is 55 points that you don't have in Focus or Vitality. Check out Teaweasel's guide, and scroll down to his chart on how Focus affects skills. (http://www.onethumbmobile.com/celticher ... =48&t=7944). If you had those 55 points in Focus, your heal would shoot up in power. His chart looks at a higher level character, but at any level, Focus will affect your power.

Since you said you are a support build, I will assume that you often train with 1 or 2 other people, in which case you shouldn't be taking too many hits to interrupt anyway.

What world are you on?

Awesome man lots of great advice. Thx for all the info gonna reput the points into focus ASAP. I figured was someone's Druid alt that didn't play since the update. also I've found so far the quest for lightning touch but haven't found the others. Mind pointing me in right direction while I fix some things ingame. Thx again been more than a lot of help tonite clearing some things up for me. Gonna be a better player cause of it I'm sure.

No problem at all. There are a lot of helpful people around here.

There are two skill quests for Druids. One is in the Castle, and the other is found in the Tavern (up the stairs in into one of the rooms). You have the Storm's Touch quest; the other quest is for an area/group heal. For these quests you have to collect pages, cover and bindings, as you probably know.

I was talking about defensive ability quests, however, which are obtained at "Ancient Statues" throughout the zones. These are not class specific. There are three in Lir's, one in Crookback, and one in Shalemont. For each of these quests you will have to collect some objects (gems, clovers, crowns, leaves, or stones).

Clovers you can pick up off the ground in the pasture by the Tavern.
Crowns are found by knocking over three other statues (Northern Pen in Lir's, Behind the Tower on Mage Hill in Shale, and at the 1st island in Stone).
Gems are a bit annoying as you will probably have to slaughter in Crookback to get them (I think you need 5 different gems).
Leaves are dropped from four Dryads (the walking trees) in Lir's.
Stones are dropped by 4 star mobs in Shale.

Statue locations:

Lir's - Near the waterfall next to the Tavern.
Lir's - Near the waterfall by the Castle/Jill the Cow Herder.
Lir's - Beside the windmill behind Highshore village.
Crookback - In Redstone Cavern.
Shalemont - Up the hill at Greygorge, around the corner from the missing party.

These abilities will start to level once you complete the quest. If you are level 55, you will start at 0/550. These abilities allow you the chance to shrug off enemy skills. So if a Connacht Mage casts a Fireball at you, you might withstand it. As you increase the ability, you will withstand/deflect etc. the skills cast on you, which, in turn, will lessen the interrupts that you would otherwise have. Melee attacks are not affected by these skills, however, so a Bloodgove hitting you with a staff will still have a high chance of interrupting you.

Let us know how you like the sudden increase to your Focus. It will be interesting to hear how much your heal goes up from the Focus power alone.

Hello everyone new to game. Been playing about a week now almost. I've decided to lvl a Druid. Was wandering if anyone would be so kind to link me in the proper direction for the mathematical breakdown on stat weights. Like what increases what by this much if I add one point in let's just say focus. As well any guides that would pertain said information. So see y'all around and thx in advance for any helpful replies!!

some people tell you that druids earn
money faster than other classes.

boss fights
this is a way of earning money. bosses give a lot of gold and their drops are valuable to sell as well.
but you need to be about 60 to join in boss fights and a heal above 300 or something.

leveling
because druids have great healing powers, you can easily find a training partner. usually pick rogues warriors or rangers.
mages run out of energy too fast.

stats
we should get a lot of energy.
dont touch: strength dexterity
we need a lot of energy to be able to heal. and we need some hp as well.

Dersu's is the definate go-to source for the info yer looking for.


I will say that a Druid isn't the easiest class to lvl-up. Mostly due to the fact that you oftentimes need to precast an embrace, then cast vines and then lightning and attack, and a Melee class can inadvertently, (or Advertantly ) KS (Kill-Steal) the mob (enemy) from you during that process. But stay at it, some great druids on these forums, and we can all empathize and try to assist you in your level up insanity. The class is highly sought after in later levels and is worth the early heart-ache.

Also I would consider throwing some points into meditate if you don't have any energy regen items yet or aren't going to buy a ton of plat initially to get them. A good meditiate, even 5/6 points really decreases your downtime.

Best of luck,
Tea

Just did some switching around of stats and skill points. I had 10 points in meditate before I did,but what really compelled me to allocate my points in other areas was a guildie nice enough to let me borrow a regen offhand dagger. The dagger has 10 health/focus regen. Meditate at 10 points had a regen rate of either 20 or 22 can't remember sorry. But a meditate at one is 8. So that coupled with dagger is almost is good as a 10 point almost.

As far as stats...I dumped the points in dex over to focus. So now my stats are as followed. 100 vit 185 focus and counting.
My skill points now are as followed;

17/17 touch 14/17 embrace 12/17 lightning strike 9/17 s.vines 4/17 bark and 3/17 abundance.

I have done only one statue quest so far,and luckily it was the one for warding. Really like this build so far. Saving for another lux regen item now. As always thx for the positive feedback. Really helping a young Druid out on his quest to greatness.

As for your stats, the breakdown seems to be up in the air. It has been said that one point of Focus equals 5 points of energy. Someone else, however, saw that if you look at all your energy in relation to Focus, it averages to 6.25 or something... So there may be a sliding scale. Next time I re-stat I am planing to chart it. Hopefully I will be able to answer you better then.

Dersu, just get nekkid - as in unequipp Everything. Your Energy to Focus ratio Will Be 6.25. Simply adding 1 focus at a time, while geared, will give you differing numbers (as in 1 pt may add 5, while another will add 7). But over all Focus: Energy is 6.25; there is no sliding scale. I was the one (as far as I know) who pointed that out to Marco, and have since tested it on all classes of varying (albeit low) levels.


P.S. I stopped trying to figure out how Equipped Weight affects Energy tho lol. OTM's rounding is too confusing!