Witch Hunter Captain - Charmed Life vs Always Prepared. Rapier properties

[Teddy]

Which one do you choose? I used to go with Always Prepared, but that was before I learned of how good xbow is. Now I think that xbow's regular 20 bolts is more than enough and have found merit in 20% increased dodge range of Charmed Life. Been testing it yesterday (Champion) and Charmed Life somewhat trivialized hordes for me - now I can literally dance around a large group of enemies and slash away at them with a rapier.

Speaking of which, what rapier properties do you take? I have crit chance and crit power, but now I believe that crit power does not do much for such a low damage-per-hit weapon. I think I will try to change it to crit chance and power vs. armoured Or power vs. chaos - rapier is fast enough on itself and with Swift Slaying to not really need attack speed, and power vs armoured/chaos might help with Stormvermins and CW's, although I'm not sure to how large a degree.

I already have power vs. infantry and power vs. Chaos on my charm to help me rapier-mow down hordes.

[Eagle_I_am | .tv/eagle_i_am]

1) Best rapier property is when it looks like falchion.

2) Charmed life.

[Googalabon]

Resourceful combatant if you're fine vs horde, if you're struggling vs horde get swift slaying.

This way you can have consistent career abilities into crossbow bolt crit into a horde to restore your ammo.

[Teddy]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Googalabon:

Resourceful combatant if you're fine vs horde, if you're struggling vs horde get swift slaying.

This way you can have consistent career abilities into crossbow bolt crit into a horde to restore your ammo.

Eh, I prefer Swift Slaying. I'm fine without it, but with it I'm actually great against hordes, and can deal a considerable melee damage against bosses too. I make do with armour regen on an occasional active skill use.

[Googalabon]

More power to you my friend, I love seeing my career skill chunk back up after I pop it in a horde though. Worth a shot if you haven't used it yet, but if you're dominating as you are I would only recommend it as a novelty test since you might as well keep on keepin' on.

[Googalabon]

Outside of that, I run a 10% skaven/armor charm. So I go with crit% and either skaven or chaos% on my rapier. This set up allows you to 1 shot storm vermin in the chest with your cross bow on legend (When you tag them). But also helps with horde management. I've been thinking of swapping the skaven to my xbow if I get a red one and trying chaos/armor on the charm with chaos on the rapier for much better horde control.

[Teddy]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Googalabon:

More power to you my friend, I love seeing my career skill chunk back up after I pop it in a horde though. Worth a shot if you haven't used it yet, but if you're dominating as you are I would only recommend it as a novelty test since you might as well keep on keepin' on.

Thanks, I already tried it and failed to notice much of a difference. To each their own.

Ursprungligen skrivet av Googalabon:

Outside of that, I run a 10% skaven/armor charm. So I go with crit% and either skaven or chaos% on my rapier. This set up allows you to 1 shot storm vermin in the chest on legend (When you tag them). But also helps with horde management. I've been thinking of swapping the skaven to my xbow if I get a red one and trying chaos/armor on the charm with chaos on the rapier for much better horde control.

Hm, no power vs. infantry? Don't you think that it'd help you mow down chaos hordes? Or is the difference too negligible? Hm... I guess that having a skaven/armor charm and crit/chaos rapier would help deal with chaos hordes anyway... yeah, that sounds like a good combo.

[Googalabon]

Yes, infantry helps with both skaven and chaos hordes. But honestly the rapier naturally dominates skaven horde so I figured the chaos would help with maulers and the like.

[Ardariel]

Dodge. Combined with your passive it allws you to tank things that no other chars can do consistently. Likke chaos patrol.