[b30] Corruptor description

[jenx]

The description for the Corruptor says the main stats are Magic and Willpower, but I can't see any benefit in Willpower and no talent refers to it. Surely it would better be Magic and Cunning, as Dark Ritual and Blood Fury and Soul Rot all relate to critical hits.

WIL doesn't add extra Vim, and seems to have no effect on the class. Perhaps disease on critters is affected by mindpower for saves, and so willpower increases chance of diseasing?

btw, I have maxxed Cunning and Magic and with my lvl 35 Shalore Corruptor am now at 90% spell crit. With the right gear I'll get to 100% - this will be fun!

[Frumple]

Both reavers and corruptors regain vim per kill based on willpower, increasing by 1 per 10 will, iirc. This is why willpower is noted as a prime stat for corruptors, which chew through vim even faster than reavers do. Corruptors could definitely stand to have cunning added to their list of prime stats, though.

[jenx]

That's fairly useless in that case. The keys to keeping vim up are maxxed drain with high spell critical (my 35 shalore corruptor has 102%) and vimsense and the talent that regenerates with vimsense, with blood sacrifice used only occasionally

[Hedrachi]

Maybe WIL could (instead of, or, in addition to) regen vim from killing, make vim regen on a scale of 0.01/turn at WIL 10 to somewhere in the 0.6 to 1.0/turn range at 60+?

[Frumple]

That's fairly useless in that case. The keys to keeping vim up are maxxed drain with high spell critical (my 35 shalore corruptor has 102%) and vimsense and the talent that regenerates with vimsense, with blood sacrifice used only occasionally

You're... rather underestimating the effect of it, especially in addition to the cost recoup on kill that corruptor spells do (for all that the AoE talents are still kinda' buggy about it). My 26th level corruptor doesn't even have blood sac, heh, and doesn't have vim issues. Willpower's at native 20 with racial stats factored in and a boosted 30. I get 4 or so points of vim whenever I kill something. It adds up, quick.

It's especially obvious if you played corruptors before that was implemented. Drain/BS/leech has a really hard time of keeping up with vim usage by their lonesome -- drain helps, but it really isn't enough, and BS is a PitA.

The vimsense booster is a bad way to go, by th'by, unless the description is a truly horrible lier -- it only works when something under vimsense hits you, which is a bad idea for corruptors all around,

[jenx]

That's fairly useless in that case. The keys to keeping vim up are maxxed drain with high spell critical (my 35 shalore corruptor has 102%) and vimsense and the talent that regenerates with vimsense, with blood sacrifice used only occasionally

You're... rather underestimating the effect of it, especially in addition to the cost recoup on kill that corruptor spells do (for all that the AoE talents are still kinda' buggy about it). My 26th level corruptor doesn't even have blood sac, heh, and doesn't have vim issues. Willpower's at native 20 with racial stats factored in and a boosted 30. I get 4 or so points of vim whenever I kill something. It adds up, quick.

It's especially obvious if you played corruptors before that was implemented. Drain/BS/leech has a really hard time of keeping up with vim usage by their lonesome -- drain helps, but it really isn't enough, and BS is a PitA.

The vimsense booster is a bad way to go, by th'by, unless the description is a truly horrible lier -- it only works when something under vimsense hits you, which is a bad idea for corruptors all around,

Maybe then I'm not realizing the effect of it. My lvl 37 corruptor has stats:
STR 52
DEX 26
CON 65
MAG 97
WIL 46
CUN 83

So the WIL is high enough to make a difference perhaps. I've put 1 point in it I think, as it is base 14.

And you're right, I've never played corruptor before b30. They are awesome. At Lvl 38 I find very few battles difficult.

I just had a farportal battle with 4 Elite multihued Wyrms and dozens of little dragons. Finished them all off in no time. My spell crit% is 105% and with blood fury and dark ritual maxed, I'm doing massive damage with blood spray. I added another talent point to the Blood tree, and Blood Spray has 95% chance of infecting. With crit it does 4000+ over 10 turns, and has a range of 11, so it goes everywhere!

I.e.
Spellpower: 149
Crit. Chance 105%
Critical Multiplier: 213%
Blight damage: 41%

I'm just waiting now for Dakhtun's Gauntlets, which will take crit multiplier to 260% or so!

I haven't even unlocked the Wraithform tree at the bottom. sustain cost is too large and it's not necessary.

I just wish my @#$@# profile problems would be fixed, cause then I could post it to the vault. I might try a new profile.

And, I also have a crashing bug reported in BUGS which means I'm not going anywhere further unless DG helps me out!