Builds

This guide gives you a baseline understanding of how common builds work on the shard. These are standard templates; you are not expected to copy them perfectly. Feel free to tweak anything to match your playstyle, preferred PvP style, or the content you do most.

Warrior

Ratings

Category	Rating
PvP	4/5
Weapon Combat	4/5
Vs Mages	4/5
House Fights	4/5
Hunting / PvM	4/5

Stats

Str: 120 (140 with fluxes)

Dex: 90

Int: 65

Why these stats:

High Dex increases your swing speed.

High Str increases your weapon damage.

Skills

100.0 – Assessment

100.0 – Weapon skill (choose one: Blades, Blunt, or Piercing)

100.0 – Healing

100.0 – Hiding

100.0 – Magery

100.0 – Meditation

100.0 – Mystic Lore or Archery

100.0 – Resist Magic

100.0 – Shieldfighting

100.0 – Tactics

Notes

Archery is good to have. It comes in handy in many situations. Most reliable damage source for PvM.

Assessment and Tactics are a must have for any Warrior. It enhances your combat skills immensely, hit chance and damage output.

Blade / Blunt / Piercing is the skill of your choice. Each of these skills have its upsides. You can combine Poisoning skill with piercing type weapons for extra unexpected damage.

Healing and Hiding are necessary.

Magery is one of your most used skills.

Meditation and Mystic Lore are needed to keep your mana maxed and your spells strong. Mystic Lore also benefits the usage of spell scrolls.

Resist Magic and Shieldfighting is a must to protect you from Spells and Combat Damage.

Trader

Ratings

Category	Rating
PvP	2/5
Weapon Combat	0/5
Vs Mages	3/5
House Fights	0/5
Hunting / PvM	1/5

Stats

Str: 120 (140 with fluxes)

Dex: 35

Int: 120

Why these stats:

High Int supports crafting utility, spell usage and crafting quality.

High Str increases carry weight (huge quality-of-life for resource runs).

Skills

100.0 – Arms Lore

100.0 – Alchemy

100.0 – Blacksmithy

100.0 – Mining

100.0 – Carpentry

100.0 – Lumberjacking

100.0 – Tailoring

100.0 – Inscription

100.0 – Magery

100.0 – Bowery

Notes

Arms Lore is a staple for crafters and typically improves crafted quality.

Blacksmithy + Mining go together.

Carpentry + Lumberjacking go together.

Magery + Inscription go together (and Magery helps you escape/defend yourself).

Mage

Ratings

Category	Rating
PvP	4/5
Weapon Combat	0/5
Vs Mages	5/5
House Fights	2/5
Hunting / PvM	4/5

Stats

Str: 110

Dex: 45

Int: 120 (140 with fluxes)

Why these stats:

High Str will help you to stay alive longer.

High Int will let you cast more spells.

Skills

100.0 – Magery

100.0 – Meditation

100.0 – Musicianship

100.0 – Mystic Lore

100.0 – Necromancy

100.0 – Resist Magic

100.0 – Songs of War

100.0 – Hiding

100.0 – Stealth

100.0 – Shieldfighting

Notes

Magery, Meditation, Mystic Lore and Magic Resist are your core skills in this magery build.

Hiding + Stealth are excellent for both farming and PvP positioning.

Musicianship and Songs of War are very useful for farming.

Necromancy is very useful for both PvP and Farming.

Dex Healer

Ratings

Category	Rating
PvP	3/5
Weapon Combat	5/5
Vs Mages	1/5
House Fights	5/5
Hunting / PvM	4/5

Stats

Str: 120 (140 with fluxes)

Dex: 120

Int: 35

Why these stats:

High Str boosts damage.

High Dex speeds up bandage healing and weapon swings.

Skills

100.0 – Assessment

100.0 – Piercing Weapons

100.0 – Healing

100.0 – Hiding

100.0 – Poisoning

100.0 – Resist Magic

100.0 – Shieldfighting

100.0 – Tactics

100.0 – Tinkering

70.0 – Stealth or Magery (for low circle spells)

30.0 – Detection

Notes

Assessment, Tactics, Weapon Skill and Shieldfighting are your core build skills.

Piercing and Poisoning work better together than any other.

Healing and Hiding are necessary if you want to stay alive.

Magery may come in handy sometimes.

Tinkering is included specifically for Golem usage.

Resist Magic will help protect you from spells.

Stealth and Detection are useful in house fighting.

This is a very "in-your-face" build: strong in tight spaces, weaker at long range unless you swap skills around.

Combinations

Besides these standard templates, many other combinations work well, especially once you understand what each skill is doing for your role.

Taming on a mage-style character: If you travel a lot as a hunter/explorer, you may run into rare steeds or useful creatures. Taming becomes valuable naturally as you roam.

Wrestling + Magery: Works very well together. You can polymorph into stronger forms and become a serious threat in close combat.