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Builds / Re: Attempt at a sword build
« on: October 05, 2023, 05:22:01 pm »To get the confirmation you seek, it's important to mention which difficulty the build is for. What works just OK in Normal - often won't work in Dominating, etc.
On the other note, there are some things in the build you linked which imho should be changed whatever difficulty it'd be:
- Sure Step. The feat slot is just too valuable to spend on something which only helps fighting mutants - which is far less than quarter of all fights - and even in these fights, something which can be dealth with by using armor which protects against acid. Which armor pieces can both be found and crafted, including before doing any much of Depot A in Junkyard (where lots of mutants are). There are more valuable feats to take at level 1 than Sure Step, especially for melee build (which is generally most sensitive about proper choices made. Specifically, better level 1 feats for stats you posted and having a sword user in mind - are:
-- Opportunist (which can work in almost all fights and is a good damage boost),
-- Hit and Run (having maximum mobility for a melee character is one really good idea);
- level 2 feat: Opportunist is great, and if taken at level 1 per above - then level 2 feat can be Interloper, seeing you got 7 agility. It's a plain +27% faster walk speed in Stealth, effectively improving actual ability to sneak around by that much. Also, 15 extra movement points while in stealth (including when re-entering stealth after sprinting away from too big a fight) - is also useful;
- Perception = 4: why not 3? No skills in the build are based on this stat, and you ain't going to have substantially better times finding secrets or detecting traps / hidden enemies in compare to having just 3 points here. And i think there is not a single feat requiring 4 Per, too. Waste of a stat point imho;
- Dexterity = 11 at lvl 10. Why not 12? Extra point in Dex means permanent damage bonus (as it increases Melee skill), permanent melee accuracy bonus, and permanent bonus to all the skills based on Dex. I'd sure take it;
- Psi Empathy feat but 0 psi skills? Makes no sense to me to get health penalty from this feat while not using any psi abilities it allows to learn;
- Biology 55, Electronics 55, Tailoring 60: not sure what you're intending to craft at level 10 with these skills, crafting at this level - which is still about doing Junkyard / Depot A normally - is rarely of much help. These skill points, imho, can be much better spent into some combination of maxed Lockpicking, Hacking, and possibly some points into Persuasion and/or Mercantile;
- Stealth 0: while it's sure one proper choice to go non-stealthy character, and a chalenge in and of itself, i'd say Stealth is most valuable skill exactly for melee builds among all others. Strongly recommend to consider going stealthy character, unless you really know what you're doing;
- strongly recommend Fancy Footwork feat, which your build meets requirements of - because it works against anything (unlike, say, bleeding wounds which won't work against robots and such), and because you take Flurry. Twice the normal amount of movement points is no small amount, and would often be either a life saver or a tool allowing to save consumables.
Good luck!
Yeah psi empathy was a missclick on my part, will tweak the build taking your feedback into consideration. Many thanks! What would you say would be a good level to start investing into crafting skills?