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Builds / Help with battlemage build

« on: August 31, 2021, 06:56:28 am »

Well, I just beat the main storyline of the game for the first time. I did it just on normal difficulty basically playing blind, but now im wanting to do a new playthrough on hard difficulty. Thing is, I really wanted to find an interesting type of build thats very different from what I did the first time around (a sniper build with psychokinesis, temporal manipulation, and smg as sidearm). So anyways, I decided on the Idea of using metal armor with a sword and metathermics, so basically almost like a spellcasting fantasy knight who walked into the wrong setting. The problem is: im finding out im not very good at doing builds for this game. Ive looked up a ton of guides and tried to sorta combine them into the sort of thing that I want, but after hours of doing this all I have is a messy and only half completed build. Im not really asking anyone to finish it for me necessarily, its just im unsure where to go from here and my brain is fried, so I could really use some pointers and advice on how to go about finishing this build. It seems like I probably dont have enough feats to spare to be good enough at both swords and metathermics, but im not sure. One thought I briefly had was to drop flurry and onslaught, then focus more on metathermics as my main damage dealer while only using the sword when I get a free attack out of riposte for it. Another thought I had was to go the opposite direction, and focus hard on sword attacks while only having a couple metathermics abilities to use occasionally for crowd control and stuff. In general it seems like its not possible to have equal parts magic and melee, you have to either choose one over the other to mainly focus on.

https://underrail.info/build/?GQoHAwoDBwYAAADChwAAAAAAAADCh3gAVngAAMKHAEQATysIVV_CjB8uwo3CmcKOAFBFUj3fvw

Im sorry its a bit messy. Right now I was mostly focusing on what feats to take, but I wasnt totally sure how exactly to optimise my base attributes, or how much I really needed to put into each crafting skill.
Thanks for any help in advance.