How do you buff?

[Malaficus Shaikan]

Do you spamm all your buffs when getting on a map?
Put on the right buff's after a defeat?
Put some buff's on and spamm all buff before a battle?
Do you buff based on what you are fighting?

I am trying to get better so i like to hear your way of buffing.

[Tao314zdin]

I use one of the character as buff-bot. This one will get enduring spells + greater enduring spells at mystic rank 2 so all the min/level buffs become 24 h.

After that it depends, might try to stack CL 25 for some round/level to become 24 h, or mb give him a second purpose of healing/offensive_casting.

The round/level buffs I usually keep for bigger fights or if I need to reload (unless as mentioned above I go for CL 25 with the buff bot).

[DarkFenix]

Anything minutes/level or longer gets cast before I get anywhere near combat. Rounds/level either in battle or pre-battle. Then (obviously) try to push everything to the 25 round threshold for 24 hour casts.

[Player#2201]

Originally posted by Tao314zdin:

I use one of the character as buff-bot. This one will get enduring spells + greater enduring spells at mystic rank 2 so all the min/level buffs become 24 h.

After that it depends, might try to stack CL 25 for some round/level to become 24 h, or mb give him a second purpose of healing/offensive_casting.

The round/level buffs I usually keep for bigger fights or if I need to reload (unless as mentioned above I go for CL 25 with the buff bot).

If I may ask, what's your secret for a 1 character buffbot??? I don't play with mods, but I don't think I've seen a single build that consolidates all the necessities besides MAYBE a Wizard (angel mythic).

[Steffan]

Unless I am on the road, I always buff in a new location (all buffs lasting than a minute). ALL kind of buffs (energy, true seeing, death ward, bless weapon on 1-2 characters and etc). Usually I use clerics/oracles/and partially Ember and Camellia as buff bots. Once that expires, I either renew most of the defences or go to rest. It is usually enough to go through 2-3 encounters so a rest is due any way.

P.S. If a fight activates last stand on my main, that's an automatic rest even if it is the first fight for the day.

[DarkFenix]

Originally posted by Player#2201:

Originally posted by Tao314zdin:

I use one of the character as buff-bot. This one will get enduring spells + greater enduring spells at mystic rank 2 so all the min/level buffs become 24 h.

After that it depends, might try to stack CL 25 for some round/level to become 24 h, or mb give him a second purpose of healing/offensive_casting.

The round/level buffs I usually keep for bigger fights or if I need to reload (unless as mentioned above I go for CL 25 with the buff bot).

If I may ask, what's your secret for a 1 character buffbot??? I don't play with mods, but I don't think I've seen a single build that consolidates all the necessities besides MAYBE a Wizard (angel mythic).

There's no particularly practical way to get it all onto a single character. You can do it as cleric/oracle trickster (ie. use the trickster's ability to grab a full wizard spellbook).

If you're not too hung up on getting 24 hour spells I suppose a mystic theurge could do it. A wizard/cleric/mystic theurge would only have a three level delay on its spell progression in both books. Most of the buffs aren't very high level so you'd have a huge selection and good action economy. Your CL just wouldn't ever get very high...

...unless you used your PC and went legend. Wizard 15/cleric 15/mystic theurge 10 would make you CL25 with both. Enough to 24 hour any buff you like.

[Tao314zdin]

Originally posted by Player#2201:

Originally posted by Tao314zdin:

I use one of the character as buff-bot. This one will get enduring spells + greater enduring spells at mystic rank 2 so all the min/level buffs become 24 h.

After that it depends, might try to stack CL 25 for some round/level to become 24 h, or mb give him a second purpose of healing/offensive_casting.

The round/level buffs I usually keep for bigger fights or if I need to reload (unless as mentioned above I go for CL 25 with the buff bot).

If I may ask, what's your secret for a 1 character buffbot??? I don't play with mods, but I don't think I've seen a single build that consolidates all the necessities besides MAYBE a Wizard (angel mythic).

I do not put enemy stats above core, so I do not need all the buffs.

So something basic like cleric + some loremancer levels and it is covered.

Also you can cut part of the buffs with gear, so you can kick out Shield of Faith, Barkskin, attribute buffs etc. from the list.

Finally I was talking about the core of the buffs I use, some situational fluff is always around like death-wards, delay-poison, energy-res, etc-etc, I do not see that as necessary all the time.

[Gregorovitch]

There are three types of buff:

Hours per level: cast on arrival (e.g. Delay Poison (Communal) ).

Minutes per level: cast on first contact with enemy (e.g. Bless)

Rounds per level: cast immediately before an encounter if deemed necessary (e.g. Protection from Evil) (I like to scout out the opposition out to determine this if possible)

I like to organise my buffs on my toolbars in this order for each character. Makes it easy to zip through the required casts.

[Conquista]

as soon i enter a map, i get everything up that last for hours or minutes, minute stuff i rebuff if they run out, stuff that only has a duration of round/cl i apply depending on situation on easier fights i just get haste, on difficult ones i use everything, as soon i get more spell slots or cl25 i run around with permanent haste, just to move quicker around

but i played most of the game already, so there is not much time being wasted for exploration on my side, if you like to take your time than i would recommend buffing minute stuff before iniating combat

[Nippur]

I use a mod for buffs, it's too much time consuming. Right now 60+ buffs.

[Player#2201]

Originally posted by Tao314zdin:

Originally posted by Player#2201:

If I may ask, what's your secret for a 1 character buffbot??? I don't play with mods, but I don't think I've seen a single build that consolidates all the necessities besides MAYBE a Wizard (angel mythic).

I do not put enemy stats above core, so I do not need all the buffs.

So something basic like cleric + some loremancer levels and it is covered.

Also you can cut part of the buffs with gear, so you can kick out Shield of Faith, Barkskin, attribute buffs etc. from the list.

Finally I was talking about the core of the buffs I use, some situational fluff is always around like death-wards, delay-poison, energy-res, etc-etc, I do not see that as necessary all the time.

Ah, I completely forgot loremaster was supposedly fixed. I hate wasting the MC on buffs, especially as legend.

[Raikon]

I basically use cammy for buffing. You can pretty much leave her on auto and she will do ok. Good AC/AB, and then a pet to ride around on at 16, shes good at the buffs. I generally have a skald cover the more arcane varients, like haste, blur, etc. Stick some extending rods on the arcane user for haste, and enduring spells on cammy.