S/S and Spear Pure Int

[LaurenciusX]

This guide is based on your "cookiecutter" builds of 90/90/90 bich/ice/light and heuk/ice/light

Table of Topics
1. Basic Information about build
2. Skills
3. Gear
4. Pvp Strategies
5. What to do with that extra 30 masteries

Topic 1: Basic Information about build
For this particular build you are going to go pure int which simply put, means that every time you level all stat points go to INT this raises your damage with nukes, imbues, and your magical defense
At the current level cap of 90 you will have 6350 HP and 21,908 MP assuming your gear has no blues but for the most part that shouldn't be the case
If you wanna talk 100 cap you'll end up with 8452 HP and 29,546 MP still with no blues
This build is a fast leveler, good damage dealer, and can tank quite a bit with snow shield.

Topic 2: Skills
Now, on to your skills.
If your planning on using S/S then your skills should be 90 bicheon, ice, and lightning and for a spear user 90 heuk, ice, and lightning.
For Bicheon you should definitely take the combos for some debuffing your opponent, Castle Wall and Iron Wall Shield so that u can tank physical damage once your snow runs out, the knockdowns and the stabs to kill others, and the passive for more Blocking Ratio.
The Smashing series is optional.
For Heuksal you should take Fanning Spear since it gives you the ability to tank magical damage once your snow runs out, also get Soul Departs spear for stunning opponents, Ghost Spear for AoE and knockbacks and the passive for a boost to your HP.
The skill for dull and the combos are optional but not necessary
Now, this goes for both types of nukers
Ice is your lifeline
With ice take, Frost guard for defense, get the AoE nukes from Snow Storm (2nd and 4th books), snow shield maxed to tank anything and everything, and the passive for more physical defense
Imbue and the skills that frostbite and freeze are optional, the imbue could be useful for fighting Euros are not immmune
On to lightning
With lightning basically every skill is good
The imbue for damage, piercing force for more damage, wind walk for moving faster and teleporting away from or chasing others, lion shouts are good for finishing off mobs or killing low levels in PvP, Concentration ups your parry ratio which reduces the enemies chance of hitting you as high as they normally would, the nukes will do more damage than the ice so these are your primary damage dealers, and the passive for more parry ratio

Topic 3: Gear
This depends on you, if you dont PvP much at lower levels go with garms since you'll only be fighting mobs, if you do take protector or armor, once u can get full 8th DG, assuming you farmed, then you can switch to garms since Frost Guard gives a nice +55 phys defense boost at level 68. At the cap you should wear pimped garms with blues and +s for PvP, jobbing, etc. Garms also help with your snow since it tanks 53% of your damage but takes more from your MP
Your Weapon obviously is either shield and sword or a spear preferably good mag atk/reinforce followed by crit and AR as for shields a good BR is what your looking for preferably have your weapon/shield at +3 if possible higher also try to find armor with +s and blues like STR/INT since it only helps.

Topic 4: PvP Strategies
Now for PVP
Well to start off assess the person your fighting, if they are lower level than you a nuke could kill them. Now if they are around your level than throw on snow and:
For a S/S if capped use the combo to get some debuffs on then knockdown till they fall, once they are down stab them to death and if they rise get a light nuke ready and hope they die, if not keep repeating, if they make it through snow, dont stop kd, forget about combos and nukes just keep them off you for 1 min and you have snow ready again at this point you should use Ironwall Shield to tank
For a spear nuker, try stunning then knock them back and nuke, a good nuke or crit during a stun could win it for you, and same thing if snow runs out keep knockbacking to avoid dying and use Fanning Spear to tank while your snow recharges
In Group PvP dont KD if you are S/S just nuke and combos, and as for spear go ahead and stun as well as KB.

Topic 5: What to do with that extra 30 masteries
This is up to you completely
Force for Plvling others
Fire for some magical defense and immunity
Or you could plan ahead and not waste them to avoid deleveling once the 100 cap comes.