Our playstyles are a bit different but that's a lot of great info!
I'm finding that I'm doing just fine now without ANY mining on my character.
Exactly what I wanted to know when I came to the forum just now. If I'm not going to need to spend 20 minutes looking for a spot without mining then I'll do without it, Inscription it is.
- 100 Fishing
- 120 Magery
- 100 Eval
- 100 Med
- 100 Lockpick
- 100 Carto
- 100 Inscription
100 fishing, locked. I just ran a 100 skill fisher and a 120 skill fisher for 3 hours in fel to see if the 120 gave me more MIBs, result: both got 11 MIBs/hr and similar other loot. That's a short test but good enough for me to see that the difference isn't huge, both had similar luck levels. I don't have the high seas expansion yet on the 100 fisher and I am now certain I won't get it because you only get 4 types of fish and your pack is much cleaner. If you try this test keep in mind that 100 is max on a non-high seas account and 120 is on high seas so if your 100 fisher DOES have the high seas expansion he may not keep up with your 120, I don't know for sure but I suspect that might be a mechanic.
120 Magery, locked. One of the skills was going to get the extra 20 points anyway and with inscription you need as high of magery as you can get for the best chance at special properties on spell books and scrapper's compendiums. No fizzle is always good too!
100 Med, locked. I'm not a fan of meditation or focus on a casting PvM character since gear can keep you going longer than most monsters can drain you, and I carry pots just in case. That being said with inscription I want med since I want to spend less time not actually making something.
Soulstones: If I need more fight I have a soulstone rdy to swap out the an non-essential skill for that encounter. Locked and loaded, fishing+carto+lp can be on your character all the way to level 5 which is good enough for me. Thanks for the feedback and ideas!
if it's not your main shard you probably don't have stones
Correct sir, well actually they do have stones but they leave them behind when I shard transfer them. I build characters for other shards on my main shard so that I don't have to struggle too much to build a good suit and work all their skills first. It's not cheap to transfer, 40M or so right now, but hitting the ground running on a new shard is worth it to me.