I just started playing a bit after a long time and had few questions on the 3.0 conversion.

Did most people use the stat respec? Unsure if I should do this as I don't know what systems changed.
Top weapons are crossbow 284, polearms 211, 2HB 197 so thats why the strength/stam heavy
Circle 61 Tog Paladin:
Strength : 45 Reflex : 36
Agility : 36 Charisma : 24
Discipline : 30 Wisdom : 25
Intelligence : 30 Stamina : 35
TDPs : 941

Am I going to be noticeably weak with the new stat contests for anything that I should rebalance for?


With the magic changes I have:
Holy Magic: 234 00% clear (0/34) Attunement: 246 02% clear (0/34)
Arcana: 227 09% clear (0/34) Targeted Magic: 64 76% clear (0/34)
Augmentation: 210 65% clear (0/34) Debilitation: 187 17% clear (0/34)
Utility: 175 47% clear (0/34) Warding: 163 77% clear (0/34)

Which order should I put these new magic skills as I can change them around for awhile it seems?

Does anybody have opinions on these new magic feats and if any are worth purchasing? What are the top spells that people use now?

Thanks

Stat wise, keep everything balanced as you can. Take advantage of your racials and go with whats cheapest, you'll use all of them in the long run.

I didn't move my ranks around, and found I use all the skills equally, at your level you get the most milage from Augmentation anywho. Play around with SPELL STANCE some too, can get some extra milage on spells that way.

Feats: Attunement feats are a MUST, Raw Channelling is key for using cyclics (and ours are handy), the rest are more flavor or personal choice.

Welcome back

Samsaren

>>Friedr: I will be looking into swapping TM and utility had no clue TM was one of the swappable skills.

I don't recall targeted magic being one of the swappable magic skills. I was only able to swap the new magic skills that were initially derived from your primary magic ranks. I chose to move the non-cyclic combat-based skills to the top of my list.

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>I never used TM before because I was hx prime and it trained so slow never wasted a critter spawn.

TM is so easy to train there's no downside to it. I just throw out a quick min mana FST and halt between every other attack (prep or target, attack, cast, attack, etc.) and keep both TM and debilitation locked the entire time.

>Let me know if polearm or 2hb are horrible now. I like smashing things so probably won't change anyway.

Can't speak to 2HB but I love polearm, especially halberds. 2HB could knock things out of the room in test IIRC, but I think they turned that off. It should still stun more often than other weapon types. That's pretty neat.

We have one planned, but like barbarians, its awaiting some combat enhancements. Ours is going to be called Endurance.

Samsaren