Marauder
| Marauder
| |
|---|---|
| Metaclass | Rogue |
| Locked | Yes |
| Starting Life | 100 |
| Life Rating | +0 |
| Stat Modifiers | |
| Strength | +4 |
| Dexterity | +4 |
| Constitution | 0 |
| Magic | 0 |
| Willpower | 0 |
| Cunning | +1 |
Contents
Description
The wilds of Maj'Eyal are not a safe place. Untamed beasts and wandering dragons may seem a great threat, but the true perils walk on two legs. Thieves and brigands, assassins and opportunistic adventurers, even mad wizards and magic-hating zealots all carry danger to those who venture beyond the safety of city walls.
Amidst this chaos wanders one class of rogue that has learned to take by force rather than subterfuge. With refined techniques, agile feats and brawn-backed blades the Marauder seeks out his targets and removes them by the most direct methods. He uses dual weapons backed by advanced combat training to become highly effective in battle, and he is unafraid to use the dirtiest tactics when the odds are against him.
Their most important stats are: Strength, Dexterity and Cunning
Starting Equipment
- Iron Dagger
- Iron Dagger
- Rough Leather Armor
Starting Talents
Talent Categories
- Techniques
- Dual Weapons (1.2 mastery)
- Dual Techniques (1.2 mastery)
- Battle Tactics (1.2 mastery, locked)
- Field Control (1.3 mastery)
- Combat Techniques (1.3 mastery)
- Combat Veteran (1.0 mastery, locked)
- Combat Training (1.3 mastery)
- Mobility (1.3 mastery)
- Thuggery (1.3 mastery)
- Conditioning (1.3 mastery)
- Cunning
- Poisons (0.9 mastery) (unlockable)
- Dirty Fighting (1.3 mastery)
- Survival (1.3 mastery)
- Tactical (1.2 mastery, locked)
Strategy
The Marauder is a highly mobile Rogue subclass, adept in dual-weapon physical combat. The primary difference compared to a Rogue is the substitution of some mobility and combat-augmentation trees in place of traps and stealth.
The class seems to be designed with the goal of going Str/Dex/Cun and using one sword-type weapon and one dagger. However, they only have one tree that requires Strength (Technique/Thuggery), so skipping Strength and fighting with two daggers (building Dex/Cun) may work better. They even start with two daggers, not with a sword and dagger like Temporal Wardens do.
They also have a talent that gives armor hardiness while wearing light armor, but since you're not using Stealth, it seems silly not to wear heavy armor in the first place.
A straight stab-'em build using Dex, Cun, Dagger Mastery, Dual Weapons and Dual Techniques skills makes the early game fairly simple. At level 10, you can decide which direction you want to go when you spend your first category point.
Classes
| Classes | |||||||||||
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| Warrior | Rogue | Mage | Afflicted | Defiler | Celestial | Wilder | Chronomancer | Psionic | Adventurer | Tinker | Demented |
| Bulwark | Rogue | Alchemist | Cursed | Reaver | Anorithil | Summoner | Paradox Mage | Mindslayer | Adventurer | Sawbutcher | Writhing One |
| Berserker | Shadowblade | Archmage | Doomed | Corruptor | Sun Paladin | Wyrmic | Temporal Warden | Solipsist | Wanderer | Gunslinger | Cultist of Entropy |
| Archer | Marauder | Necromancer | Doombringer | Stone Warden | Possessor | Psyshot | |||||
| Arcane Blade | Skirmisher | Demonologist | Oozemancer | Annihilator | |||||||
| Brawler | |||||||||||
