furrikin or merian for celestine combatant?

Gare

Which would be better, assuming tarot as the tert?

It seems their combat would be balance heavy since celestinalism and sacraments are mostly passive and don't have skills that you spam (could be wrong). Tarot would be the thing that would take most of your time.

Are the four intel points that merian get over furrikin going to make a huge difference for damage?

Is the furrikin roll bonus very useful?

I know merian would bash much better.

Thank yous!

Xenthos

The roll bonus is nice, but really, Merian should win this one (just watch out for electricity).  The intelligence is nice, Merian will occasionally have some Domoth blessings (furrikin pretty much never will), and you have a little more charisma too (even if you don't plan to do it a lot, more charisma is always helpful for both influencing and debating, such as in village revolts).  Your damage attacks use equilibrium (and you will need to do that), as do your mana draining (and you will need those too).  You will find that trying to rely completely on Tarot will make you a one-trick pony (people will just start moving out of the room under blackout, so your soulless will never hit).

Marcella

Merian would definitely be better, because they get equilibrium back faster *and* have bonus intelligence over the furrikin. The more tarot you can get out, the more aeon and lust and whatnot you can hit out, which tends to be great for guardian classes.

Llandros

The stats switch out for you. They are based on membership or skills so when those change the stats change as well.

Cyndarin

This has already been answered but I wanted to add something....

 

When the choice is "FURRIKIN or BLAH BLAH" the answer is almost always "Anything but furrikin." It's not a very good race. The good news is Celestine isn't as race dependent as some other guilds, but the eq bonus from merian is huge when landing inquisition. Merian, on the other other hand, and especially caster specialized merians are among the best races in the game.

 

Many in Celest will tell you this is not true and cry about how they are terrible/faelings are OP/whatever, but know this: they are stupid. Ignore them.

 

I predominantly PK and play a Merian in Glomdoring. Amazeballs caster race. It's preference whether you want to go wump for the 7% extra speed or Merian for the 1 extra int and better charisma (I prefer the int for damage and bashing), but it's just a very solid meta race.

 

Now go pwn some n00bz

Karlach

Just plug the hole in your fire resistance. A large amount of damage is fire based, destruction, almost everything Gaudiguch and Knight fire runes all go through your fishy hide like a hot knife through butter.

Make sure you get fire proofings on your robe or coat/cloak, a fire DMP tattoo and keep frost up. It'll make a world of difference.


See you on the battlefield.

Munsia

I disagree that furrikin isn't a good race. It has it's up's and down's, but at least for Mag's its a well rounded int race.

Cyndarin

Furrikin is the definition of mediocrity. If anyone is picking furrikin specifically to PK with, they've been given bad advice. Or just want to tank the crap out of some minorseconds.

 

Guardians need to be Merian, Wump, or Aslaran. A furrikin is just a low rent version of these.

Gare

Marcella said:

The more tarot you can get out, the more aeon and lust and whatnot you can hit out

Which is why I thought furrikin might be better because they get a balance bonus and tarot uses balance.

In a related question, if you go merian (or any city based race), get the stat pack for a certain guild then switch guilds, will your stat pack change to reflect your new guild or do you have to reincarnate?

Thanks all!

Illidaen

Yes, it will change automatically to reflect the stats for that guild associated with your org and race specialty for that city/org that it affects. So, you don't need to reincarnate. It only works for the org the race has specialization stats for.

Munsia

Post Demi, maybe. Not pre demi, though. As I said, it's more of a Mag issue for well rounded leveling as well. 

Shaddus

Whoa, whoa. I did well as Pesukaru. I've never been top tier, but I held my own as a Cantor.

Cyndarin

Don't confuse player skill with race choice!

 

(Cantor also does well against the non top tier combatants because princessfarewell spam)

Maligorn

Furrikin rolling has gotten me out of so many scrapes

but yes, I agree that for Celestine merian > furrikin

Shaddus

Celina said:

Don't confuse player skill with race choice!

 

(Cantor also does well against the non top tier combatants because princessfarewell spam)

True, but I did Pfarewell before it was upgraded, when it didn't bypass quicksilver.