Advice for a build [Jack of blades]

[BigBeardThoRN]

Hello with the release of a certain mod the armor of my favorite rpg villian got released, Jack of blades. I want to do a run with him.

I want to use 1 handed weapon and no shield and use some Magic abbilities.

Below is a video of the Boss fight. I added it in hopes someone can find similair abbilities for Divinity. (And what stats to focus on)

https://youtu.be/vVFA716dDy4 - 2:53 (about where the fight starts)

Massive thanks for anyone reading this!

[gregfromthepeg]

That's a tough one. Your seems to show warfare type of skills. But one hand with a sword is quite weak.

Normally I would say do a dagger and absolutely use the talent ambidextrous. This means you will be a grenade machine esrly then a scroll machine later. Saving an AP every time is huge. I recommend dagger because then you can use scoundrel skills for their cc. Rupture tendons etc. Get torturer along with it to guarantee some of the cc regardless of enemy magic armour.

That video shows him as a powerhouse taking a ton of damage. You don't rrslly want to attempt making a tank without a shield, I would say. Use stench to make yourself a less likely target.

Even for the scoundrel skills, I would still say use mostly INT, as your scoundrel damage will still suck. You just want the CC. INT will help your scrolls do more damage.

This is actually a pretty interesting build idea. Haha. There are so many scrolls and grenades to pick up in the game.

[Pyromus]

Well if you want to go strictly thematic, you'd be stretching out his skills a bit. If you aren't on tactician, or if you have a lot of experience, that shouldn't be an issue though.

Jack summons minions, so some form of summoning likely. Totem spam is useful while not requiring you to invest more than a single point there. Those stone pillars are similar in shape to the impalement ability on geo. His assassin's rush could be played as blitz attack or even just cloak and dagger. The blue energy balls kinda look lightning ish, maybe use a lot of lightning grenades. While the shape is different, the only multi projectile blue thing in the game is ice fan. The big light thing with the multi hits looks like blinding radiance, even if the actual effect is different.

I got nothing for his slice projectile. BUT, if you get either of the sparking swings abilities, you can slash someone and get a fireball projectile to shoot off. A one handed weapon build isn't ideal for this, but we've already established theme coming first. This one could also imitate his blue multi shot attack, but with red/orange.

I realized halfway through that all the spells I listed are pretty easily crafted as scrolls, and the thunderbolt grenades are easy to craft as well. Since you're going with one single handed sword, ambidextrous will let you use any grenades or scrolls for one lest AP cost. Most of the time, that puts it at just 1 AP total to use, which will be very convenient. Using scrolls instead of actually learning the attacks also frees up memory slots for you, and allows you to build for more warfare so the sword can deal the most damage possible.

[BigBeardThoRN]

Really thanks for the advice i wouldnt be able to craft a build since i would get lost in the systems, I am not going for optimal murder machine but mainly a fun experience

[Chaoslink]

No matter how you go about this build, avoid tactician. Play classic or lower. The build looks like it’ll be pretty inefficient and you’d probably just struggle to be useful on tactician.

[Schrader]

You can make this build viable as long as you only play on Classic or lower

[Pyromus]

Originally posted by Chaoslink:

No matter how you go about this build, avoid tactician. Play classic or lower. The build looks like it’ll be pretty inefficient and you’d probably just struggle to be useful on tactician.

Originally posted by God Himself:

You can make this build viable as long as you only play on Classic or lower

Now I have to make it on honor.

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by Pyromus:

Now I have to make it on honor.

Look, if you want more challenge ideas I can come up with far better. Its not that builds like that don't work on tactician, its just that the kind of player that needs help building it probably isn't prepared to handle it on tactician, nor would it be as enjoyable.

[Pyromus]

Originally posted by Chaoslink:

Originally posted by Pyromus:

Now I have to make it on honor.

Look, if you want more challenge ideas I can come up with far better. Its not that builds like that don't work on tactician, its just that the kind of player that needs help building it probably isn't prepared to handle it on tactician, nor would it be as enjoyable.

I would actually LOVE if someone or multiple someones threw a bunch of challenge ideas at me. I've run out of ideas that are both a real challenge, but also interesting enough to actually do.

[Schrader]

Originally posted by Pyromus:

Originally posted by Chaoslink:

Look, if you want more challenge ideas I can come up with far better. Its not that builds like that don't work on tactician, its just that the kind of player that needs help building it probably isn't prepared to handle it on tactician, nor would it be as enjoyable.

I would actually LOVE if someone or multiple someones threw a bunch of challenge ideas at me. I've run out of ideas that are both a real challenge, but also interesting enough to actually do.

No gear run

[LukanGamer]

Originally posted by Pyromus:

I would actually LOVE if someone or multiple someones threw a bunch of challenge ideas at me. I've run out of ideas that are both a real challenge, but also interesting enough to actually do.

Just look for various rpg challenge vids or game ones, Skyrim would be a good place to start and just adapt to this easy.

Birthday Suit it, magic refusal (no scrolls/magic/runes/magic gear/etc...), Opposite leveling (Be a Strong-Str Mage sort of thing), no consumables, focus on main quest only, no weapons, Household gear only allowed aka like Broom+bucket (can use level mod to make them slightly better when needed), 3 party team of all popular weakest builds (aka try debunking hardest builds including 3 man team), etc etc...

[BigBeardThoRN]

Yhea im gonna go classic or lower myself but the prospect of playing as the villian of a beloved game of mine is too great a pull and the fact the majora's mod on the workshop adds his armor makes it perfect!