If I could have one Adept 3 (level 21-29) what should I get?

[Greel]

I found one tier 3 rare to make an adept 3. As a bruiser, what should I upgrade?Bob and Weave sounds good, but I hear it isn't working very well.Perhaps Fierce Punch as the longer the stun lasts the better?Or Play Dead as this is one spell you don't want to fail...and the only time you are going to use it is when you are in way over your heads...Any thoughts from some experienced bruisers?GreeleyLevel 27 Ratonga BruiserToxxulia

[NecroR]

<DIV>personally I would wait till big update and use it for bob and weave. if you dont wanna wait, use it on play dead. it will have like a 1% chance to fail, which would be very nice.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV>

[narcoleptic_l]

<DIV>Bruising Spirit would be a good candidate if you  plan on tanking (this one I believe is also slated to get "fixed" to increase in effectiveness thru upgrades with the big patch as well)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Bob and Weave</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Play Dead</DIV> <DIV>(put this one as third choice as you will be using the other 2 skills much more often)</DIV>

[Windy]

<DIV>BS isn't broken, it does scale up with upgrades.  It starts off around 1000 AC, and raises about 50 per upgrade level.  An Adept III should be around 1300 AC buffed.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The best abilities to upgrade using rares are the ones that don't have later updates.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Brusing Spirit is one, Fiery Fists is another.  Yeah I know Firey Fists seems kinda ghetto, but each level of upgrade made a very noticable difference in the proc rate, though not much for damage.  An Adpet III Firey Fists would probably proc alot, and it's just free damage.  So far i've seen only 1 other 2 conc buff, which is the almost useless intervene. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Btw, before you jump to defend intervene, I know it's uses, but it disallows any sort of avoidance or mitigation, meaning you always get hit, with 0 armor class.  It's like a ward using your own hp.  Healers who are intervened still get interrupted as normal, it's only the damage that transfers.</DIV>

[Jezekie]

I went for Bob and Weave, it'll have the most usage in my opinion.

[Jezekie]

<blockquote><hr>Windy99 wrote:<DIV>The best abilities to upgrade using rares are the ones that don't have later updates.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Brusing Spirit is one</DIV><hr></blockquote>40 - Heavy Scarring (Holds the bruiser in place while greatly reducing the damage taken), is an upgrade to Bruising Spirit as far as I'm concerned.

[Windy]

<DIV>Is heavy scarring on the same timer as bruising spirit?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>While i'm on that thought, I assume ignore pain and ignore hurt are on the same timer?</DIV>

[Winn]

<DIV>Well, with my Play Dead Adept 3 and at level 33, i fail to Feign about 33% of the time... which is still better than the 50% fail rate of App3 Play Dead.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I don't think you can get 1% fail rate except with Stop Heart, our last feign skill, with a master 3 craftable or some other unattainable for 99.9% of us.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>For my Adept 3s, i went with Play Dead, Swooping Dragon (the extra attack you get at 22/23, i forget) and pouncing tiger, the 10sec recycle timer attack at level29. </DIV>

[Teche]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> narcoleptic_ltd wrote:<BR> <DIV>Bruising Spirit would be a good candidate if you  plan on tanking (this one I believe is also slated to get "fixed" to increase in effectiveness thru upgrades with the big patch as well)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <HR> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>People use BS ?  I tank every night for my normal exp group in places like nek castle, EL, Zek,  and I have never found a use for this spell.  Yes its a huge AC booste but ac aint doing crap for tanking at the moment as far as I can tell / read.. /shrug .. Maybe I will dust it off and give it another try.. <BR>

[Southe]

<DIV>I went with Play Dead adept3 ( love the lower fail rate) and Eye gouge adept3 (cause i love the fact it lowers accuracy) which helps for tanking situations and just a good utility to help your tank if your playin the dps role. Ill prolly upgrade bob and weave to adept3 since the next upgrade is lv40 battle fury which is a bit far from where i am.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>fiery fists seems like a nice option also, if it does help proc rate or dmg increase on a proc, not sure if we get any other skill that takes the place of it down the line.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If i could get my hands on some grapple master I and one hundred hand slap master I id be in heaven...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Krace </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Hjouse</DIV><p>Message Edited by Southern on <span class=date_text>12-31-2004</span> <span class=time_text>05:15 AM</span>

[Rontgen]

As an addendum to this thread - I possess a rare T4 ruthenium cluster and would like to know which lvl 30-39 ability other Bruisers would upgrade given the opportunity? Since I am only lvl 31, it may be quite a while before I obtain any abilities in the upper-30s. Thanks.

[Miyu-Lega]

BTW I'd like to add that Eye Gouge is a wonderful ability and is very noticeable even at app3. The only catch 22 to this of course is the high reuse (1 minuteish) and the fact if you miss, it wont be helping you much <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />.

[benisbor]

<DIV>Get Bob and Weave Adept 3, hands down. The Martial Focus line of arts, to which Bob and Weave belongs, is one of the most powerful effects in the game, and certainly the Bruiser's best friend while tanking.</DIV>

[Jezekie]

<blockquote><hr>Rontgen wrote:As an addendum to this thread - I possess a rare T4 ruthenium cluster and would like to know which lvl 30-39 ability other Bruisers would upgrade given the opportunity? Since I am only lvl 31, it may be quite a while before I obtain any abilities in the upper-30s. Thanks.<hr></blockquote>As opposed to the 20-29 range, there isn't really one skill I'd value higher then the others, so I'd either go for Grapple (more dmg), one hundred hand slap (more dmg), Rousing Cry (more offense/dmg boost to group). Personally I don't use bouncer much, maybe when the big patch rolls out and we get more blocks I'll change to get more mitigation with bouncer. But until then Adept 3 Brawlers stance works the best for me.