(!!NOOB WARNING!!) Reaver question

I finally made my first reaver as lv 50. and I hope to do RVR with it. but I have no idea which stats and skills should be filled with crafting.

I guess I have to fill the stats with str, con, dex, qui & piety and the skills with flex, shield & SR.

Is there anyone can advise me the spellcraft guideline for reaver in rvr?
and Is the acuity worth for Reaver?

Wed 3 Apr 2019 8:01 AM by Dindelion

Acuity is useful because it gives you piety.
You were right you need to get STR CON DEX QUI PIETY (or generally +acuity on items) and HITS
Skills wise you want everything : flex, shield, soul, parry
And obviously all resists

Start with SIDI Chest, SI quest necklace. Use RoGs for jewelry and crafted armor / weapon / shield.

Reaver is one of the hardest to temp on Alb I think, as you can see there are a lot of stuff to get. If you want to fill everything you need to aim for 65-70+ utility RoGs, and I'm talking about real utility (the single line one). Also don't bother with +power if you don't have very high utility RoGs, although that would be the dream temp.

If it's too expensive and you don't want to farm, you'll have to sacrifice something. That will depend on your playstyle I guess, if you plan to play mainly in 8man I would sacrifice +Parry I guess.

Wed 3 Apr 2019 2:26 PM by hellcon

Of course the goal with every character is to have a perfect maxed out template.
However, Reavers are unique in that a massive portion of their group value comes from leviathan proc, slam, the non-CC breaking debuff & TWF

With that in mind, the early goal should be survivability and maximizing proc throughput.

Use a 3.0 whip and have a swap-able 2.8speed small/medium shield (oracle shield is great, since quality does not impact hit rate or block rate).
Max qui,con,hits,and resists. With leftover space:, get dex, then shield, then parry, then str, then flex, then pie, then sr.

As you get money, make sure to add ablative/heal procs to all of your crafted gear.
Then slowly work your way into better feather gear and rogs & finally recraft/template to support that gear.

With a very cheap setup you can be very effective as a reaver; not solo ready, but certainly very valuable for a group.

That said, at the minimum you should have these two pieces: SIDI Chest, SI quest necklace. They both provide a lot of durability & the necklace makes getting your resists capped that much easier (the quest can be soloed by a reaver).

Wed 3 Apr 2019 5:39 PM by SaintRon

Reaver is wtf scary with rr's and a great template.

Watched one decimate a small group. I'd like to think it took him some work to get there lol.

Wed 3 Apr 2019 5:39 PM by Cruella

hellcon wrote: ↑
Wed 3 Apr 2019 2:26 PM
Use a 3.0 whip and have a swap-able 2.8speed small/medium shield (oracle shield is great, since quality does not impact hit rate or block rate).
Max qui,con,hits,and resists.

Why swap whips? And whats the full name of the shield pls

Thu 4 Apr 2019 1:29 PM by moe_Jiller

https://forum.playphoenix.online/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5898

Templating Guide

Thu 4 Apr 2019 2:17 PM by Elva

Cruella wrote: ↑
Wed 3 Apr 2019 5:39 PM
hellcon wrote: ↑
Wed 3 Apr 2019 2:26 PM
Use a 3.0 whip and have a swap-able 2.8speed small/medium shield (oracle shield is great, since quality does not impact hit rate or block rate).
Max qui,con,hits,and resists.

Why swap whips? And whats the full name of the shield pls

You misread, you swap shields. The small 2.8 shield because you can hit faster after a stun, and the medium shield when more than 1 opponent attacks you.

Fri 5 Apr 2019 7:05 AM by Puandro

Elva wrote: ↑
Thu 4 Apr 2019 2:17 PM
Cruella wrote: ↑
Wed 3 Apr 2019 5:39 PM
hellcon wrote: ↑
Wed 3 Apr 2019 2:26 PM
Use a 3.0 whip and have a swap-able 2.8speed small/medium shield (oracle shield is great, since quality does not impact hit rate or block rate).
Max qui,con,hits,and resists.

Why swap whips? And whats the full name of the shield pls

You misread, you swap shields. The small 2.8 shield because you can hit faster after a stun, and the medium shield when more than 1 opponent attacks you.

Dragon small shield is 2.5 speed and large is 3.0 btw.

Sat 6 Apr 2019 2:45 AM by hellcon

Puandro wrote: ↑
Fri 5 Apr 2019 7:05 AM
Dragon small shield is 2.5 speed and large is 3.0 btw.

WOW! That is actually amazing [not sarcasm], thank you for sharing