Desiderius
Found your egg, Robinett, you sneaky bastard
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Of course, but getting those stats up to 55 eats all your bonus pts. Hobbit Sam can unlock Reflextion at lvl 12 so you've got some time to train it up. Likewise if you wanted Power Strike or Power Cast. Power Strike isn't really needed if you get Sword and DW up (obv don't need DW with two-hander which is the big appeal of going that way) but Reflextion or Power Cast can make up for inherent weaknesses of the class depending if you go primarily melee (Fighter gets Shield, other frontliners get Stealth) or caster (-4 CL) first.Samurai requires 55 dex and spd, mook samurai starts with the same value for these as any other race except felpurr/faerie. The piety part is true, though. Also, weapon weight has a big effect on how many swings you get per attack, so the Giant Sword is much worse than it first appears. If you want to use the giant sword, a Fighter will berserk with it to much better effect.
I love me some Sam aesthetically but the payoffs aren't really there item-wise since there are so many good Swords anyone can use and the Armor is only marginally better than what anyone can wear. Lightning Strike is fine if you know how to trigger it (only triggers if you attacked in melee previous round) but it's another thing that gets nerfed by the way initiative works if you create your own Sam (RPCs always act first after a Move, so if they kill your melee target you can't trigger LS following round). At this pt for me Sam is small party only class (since you get more level-ups to alleviate the stat crunch and don't have the RPC problem). I like to eight-man tho and take my time. I will pick up Tantris is I ever do another vanilla run since he goes to Rift and gets to act first so will train up fast and get plenty of LS.
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