Talk:Mystic Knight/@comment-24.1.185.50-20130821052953/@comment-202.156.11.10-20130822191538

hi there,

i started this game on hard mode as an assassin and the extra hp at the beginning made a lot of difference between getting a retry screen from an ogre's dropkick and me saying 'tis just a bruise'.

So, if you do ever start on hard mode, builds do matter in order to get the smoothest playthrough possible.

Outside of hard mode, min-maxing is not necessary at all and you probably won't suck 'across the board' if you keep your equipment as powerful as it can be.

Endgame BBI gear ( level 3 weapons and armor ) are so powerful that specific builds don't really matter anymore. A gold rarified Devil's bane ( strongest sword in terms of physical attack in the game at the moment ) has a whooping 1848 strength. Even if you built a sorcerer, you cand just jump into fighter and still be able to casually swing this around with + 2k strength and slaughter most bosses with ease. Not even taking into account the possible damage with other augmentations and item buffs.

same goes for armor, especially in normal mode.Though Hard mode still gets you killed occasionally even in top tier gear but that doesn't happen often if you keep your wits about you.

in specific cases, levelling builds do matter.

but generally, in the end, they don't.

so just go out there and try maxing out all vocations and grabbing their useful augments while at it. Most importantly, don't forge to have fun !

hope this helped

cheers