Best BD Race - Phoenix Freeshard

Looks like the top BDs are Kobold. Some Troll.

Guessing Troll is better for HP and Kobold for cast speed and damage output?

Which would you recommend and how would you allocate the starting points?

Mon 11 Feb 2019 11:36 PM by Dariussdars

Tragen wrote: ↑
Mon 11 Feb 2019 11:14 PM
Looks like the top BDs are Kobold. Some Troll.

Guessing Troll is better for HP and Kobold for cast speed and damage output?

Which would you recommend and how would you allocate the starting points?

No idea why anyone would make a troll caster. Added hp of a troll over a kobold is neglible. The much higher dex, and much smaller target of a kobold>a few extra hps.

Mon 11 Feb 2019 11:53 PM by Patron

And more str so u can carry more stuff... As a farmclass its good

Tue 12 Feb 2019 12:14 AM by Quik

As a suppression spec I don't care much about dex since my main spell is an instacast lifetap but I do care about my healther since I will end up tanking at times for my pets.

Hence for me trolls are superior.

Tue 12 Feb 2019 1:42 AM by Dariussdars

Quik wrote: ↑
Tue 12 Feb 2019 12:14 AM
As a suppression spec I don't care much about dex since my main spell is an instacast lifetap but I do care about my healther since I will end up tanking at times for my pets.

Hence for me trolls are superior.

Are you strictly going to be doing pve? I am a kobold, and haven't once gotten encumbered with a full pack pveing. If you want to do any RVR at all, troll would be the absolute worst choice.

Tue 12 Feb 2019 6:36 AM by stridberg

Every point in con gives you roughly 3 hp.
This makes trolls have roughly 60 hitpoints more than kobolds.
Kobolds have 35 more dexterity than trolls.
This should make templated and buffed kobolds cast their 2.6 baseline nuke roughly 0.16 seconds faster than their troll counterparts.
That's the equivalent of a free augdex7, which would cost 20 RA points.
This makes trolls outstandingly bad bonedancers. Usually choice of race doesn't have this high impact on final numbers.

Kobolds have 5% energy and 5% crush resistance.
Crush is, from my observation, barely existent on albion and hibernia right now.
Valkyn has only useful resistances, and gets that additional 5% SI bonus on top.

Choose between kobold and valkyn by your preference of aesthetics. Troll bonedancer is the only class/race combination in this game I would strictly say no to, +40 strength is just too much of a dead stat.

Tue 12 Feb 2019 7:27 AM by Zansobar

stridberg wrote: ↑
Tue 12 Feb 2019 6:36 AM
Every point in con gives you roughly 3 hp.
This makes trolls have roughly 60 hitpoints more than kobolds.
Kobolds have 35 more dexterity than trolls.
This should make templated and buffed kobolds cast their 2.6 baseline nuke roughly 0.16 seconds faster than their troll counterparts.
That's the equivalent of a free augdex7, which would cost 20 RA points.
This makes trolls outstandingly bad bonedancers. Usually choice of race doesn't have this high impact on final numbers.

Kobolds have 5% energy and 5% crush resistance.
Crush is, from my observation, barely existent on albion and hibernia right now.
Valkyn has only useful resistances, and gets that additional 5% SI bonus on top.

Choose between kobold and valkyn by your preference of aesthetics. Troll bonedancer is the only class/race combination in this game I would strictly say no to, +40 strength is just too much of a dead stat.

It's also far easier to target a Troll from a distance than target a Kobold at a distance...I chose Kobold for asethetics as opposed to the Valkyn which has the best stats via the more useable resists.

Tue 12 Feb 2019 8:53 AM by Koljar

stridberg wrote: ↑
Tue 12 Feb 2019 6:36 AM
Troll bonedancer is the only class/race combination in this game I would strictly say no to, +40 strength is just too much of a dead stat.

Uuuuh firbolg animist? Half ogre cabalist/theu? I've seen both...

Tue 12 Feb 2019 8:56 AM by Druth

If you want BD for PvE farm, go troll.
For Solo RvR... whatever, maybe troll for more hp's.

For general RvR go kobold. Size matters reversely when it comes to RvR.

Tue 12 Feb 2019 9:46 AM by dudis

Trolls have literally the worst stat of any race in any realm for a caster.

The extra HP would cover roughly half a DOT tick or a quarter of a melee swing at best. The 35 or 40 less dex than a kobold/valkyn aswell as the larger size will be really noticeable though.

If you are rolling a new char and are serious about making it a farming toon, just make a cave shaman (and not a troll, damnit).