Preferred Weapons for TEC Refiner/Statter and TEC Synthesist? + Misc Questions

I'm trying out how many characters I'm going to have and what their builds are going to be and here's what I have so far. I have a few questions.

Attacker Mercenary (Two Handed Sword)
Defender Mercenary (One Handed Sword + Shield)
LUK Mage (Farmer, Refiner, Tamer) (Magic Device/Staff + Shield)
Main Character (Two Handed Sword)
TEC (Refiner, Statter)
TEC (Synthesist)

1. do your own "accompany" characters get the same stat boost that mercenaries do?

2. for mercenaries if you had to choose, would a close up or a distance mercenary generally be more useful? I feel like the 30% damage taken when close to a boss is more useful

3. is there a preferred class for a TEC refiner/statter?

4. is there a preferred class for a TEC synthesist?

5. would it be more useful to split the TEC refiner/statter into 2 characters? and would it be more useful to split the TEC synthesist into 2 characters? (item synthesist and equipment synthesist) My thought is refiner/statter share enough skill points that it's worth having on one character. And item synthesis and equipment synthesis share enough skill points that you should keep them on one character

6. is there a preferred class/weapon for body armor blacksmith? I would assume tank with shield, either one handed sword, staff, or bowgun

 

1. Yes, they work the same
2. Depending on the use, for killing mobs I prefer long ranged mercenaries, for boss purpose close range mercenaries last longer
3. Any class that you feel like you can level it up to the cap. I usually go with either a tank or an archer
4. As long as you reach 255 tec, you don't have to level anymore so it doesn't really matter
5. I used to have separate statter/refiner and syntesists. But I reset that statted to make a dps char. Then I'm planning to make an synthesist/statter/refiner/armor crafter/tank. A Tank could use the vit and minimum amount of skills to make it works. We now have enough Stat points to get 2 Stat capped and I have good tank gears so it's like killing 4 birds with one stone. The skills needed for tanking is only p. Def and guardian, then you're good.

6. Yes, as I mentioned previously

One thing to note, You need to give up on one of the occupation and get the tanking skills first, I kinda screwed on that part and left with only few skill points after using up most of the sp on production/refiner skills

 

Right, I forgot that synthesis doesn't require level cap, just 255 TEC.

Though DEX does increase difficulty for blacksmith and synthesist right?

 

Why would you need dex for syntesis when the difficulty is already enough? though you does need DEX for some cases when doing crafting BS, but other than that it isnt really necessary to put DEX.

Now i need to hijack this thread. I have one char than being used for statting, refine and syntesist. What would be the easiest weapon to use with this char? I happen to use staff finale but i find it hard to play since the HP is pretty low due to limited stat and skills

 

I mean, you can always use more difficulty no? Until you've leveled up your synthesis or blacksmith proficiency to max

EDIT: does difficulty affect refining, statting, and synthesis?

 

I think you guys forgot about upcoming tier 4 blacksmith and synthesis skills.

 

meaning? I'm not really planning for those right now, just trying to make sense of how things are working right now

 

for a tec statter/refiner i think tec vit is great as you can tank and also make armors with that char
but for faster lvling dex is good as one can abuse cf with buffs to get decent dmg

 

in korea, it is called TEC smith. We make mononofu or archer parameters cuz these two class need DEX stat. We usually make TEC smith not only refiner or statter, but also dps. Maybe their damage is not better than normal dps parameters, but it is good to level up alone if level cap becomes higher.

 

My tech>vit bs/armor crafter/statter/synthesist is also a bowgun tank, and its very easy to level her from lvl 150 to 198 just camping at venena since tank is always needed there

 

what about 178 to 184?
can't really lvl at venena there

 

In korea, there's nobody going venena

 

We usually hunt altoblepas, carbuncle or mithurna lynx

 

i saved the mq after venena just for that. You just need to lvl 178 to 181/182. If no mq is left available, try for masskill lynx. Not sure if there's people still lvling there. Tank should be easy to get pt if there are. Finstern and Seele of the appropriate level should be ok too. Or Ornlarf Ulti. There might be more people there. Close to Venena too making it easy to migrate.

 

Yep, and tank is also kinda needed at carbuncle to spam flinch, stun, and tumble so it can't shoot its bullets, which makes the run very easy

 

Exactly. But there's no pt lvling in there in korea

 

1. I think is same as mercenary.
2. Best mercenary in my opinion is THS for attacking and barehanded for defence.
3 & 4. I combined those 2 into 1 character. I find finale and cf to be best for me as both need minimal skill points to be good. My own use cf as i needed the dex for 4 lock at the time.
5. Refer to 3 and 4.
6. Armor bs need max vit. Any tank build should suffice.

 

Just hope the global server becomes crowded