MP recovery or Barrel? (Brawler)

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thread starter Fyren Jul 09 2009 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

I've been avoiding thinking about which one to get, and left to the end. But now im closing in on level 70 and Im not sure which one to get, any advice?

Rugrats 07/12/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Soren27 said: "MP Recovery, Barrel isn't extremely useful. Once you get Energy Drain, MP Recovery will help a lot." Uhh, no? Oak Barrel is extremely useful. And besides, if you are going energy build in 3rd job then at 100+ mp recovery will be maxed. Energy guide to 3rd job is the way to go. Transformation is only limited to one good skill, shockwave. And it really isn't that powerful.

Fyren 07/12/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

It seems like everyone either get either skill at 1 or 10, would it be benificiall to have it at like 6 and 5 or something?

ldydestani 07/12/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

In my opinion oak barrel needs to be maxed to be useful. Even maxed it still has a fail rate but it saved me from dying so many times on my way to windraiders. I think if you're going to train at windraiders, it's almost essential unless you have some other means of getting there like family tele. I'm 101, no points in MP recovery, and I barely use mp pots. Energy blast and energy drain don't require MP so with all those maxed, I only use mp pots during the short time in between energy bubbles.

astrokid 07/12/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Use mp recovery and recover hp with drain.

sleepie 07/13/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Rugrats said: " Uhh, no? Oak Barrel is extremely useful. And besides, if you are going energy build in 3rd job then at 100+ mp recovery will be maxed. Energy guide to 3rd job is the way to go. Transformation is only limited to one good skill, shockwave. And it really isn't that powerful." what the heck are you talking about? shockwave does 700% damage! it attacks up to 6 monsters and does 20k+ damage, when maxed out. from the way your talking about it, you must be pretty weak than

xWheezerx 07/13/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

I went for MP recovery and it made my training a lot less pot intensive. Oak barrel is useless since you have invincibility with cork anyway.

BOONEYBOMBER 07/13/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Max MP Recovery less mp pots to use and with 3rd job skill Energy Drain you get your hp back and why you want barrel is useless if you want invincible use Corkscrew Blow.

frei468 Jul 13 2009 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

sleepie said: " what the heck are you talking about? shockwave does 700% damage! it attacks up to 6 monsters and does 20k+ damage, when maxed out. from the way your talking about it, you must be pretty weak than" I hear shockwave can't pass sloped terrain. Even the slightest bump will stop it from moving forward. Pure numbers, it may be strong, but besides probably himes, I don't see a high level place that you would be using shockwave much at. I could be wrong as I don't have a marauder or buccaneer.

sleepie 07/13/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

frei468 said: " I hear shockwave can't pass sloped terrain. Even the slightest bump will stop it from moving forward. Pure numbers, it may be strong, but besides probably himes, I don't see a high level place that you would be using shockwave much at. I could be wrong as I don't have a marauder or buccaneer." there are alot of places that you can really use it at. Like newties, skeles and alot of the new maps that are out there are pretty straight

KnowNThief 07/13/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

this is what i did and it helps me out. maxed MP recory and i macroed it with my knuckle boost so i lose a bit of HP yea but once drain kicks in i recovery what was lost right away anyway. in the early lvl u dont have too much HP but stil using that instead of a pot saves money and keeps the fight going. IMO making it out was better the oak barrel cuz i hardly even need it. sure it can keep me to raiders quicky but i use HP pots more then MP pots noe anyway. i probably us 1 MP pot outta every 6HP pots now

tamahomexd 07/13/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

mp recovery becomes useless at bosses especially ones that can 1/1 your HP and MP [pap, pianus, etc.] but its still useful for training and mp recovery and energy drain is just awesome together still if u plan to reach a higher Lv: Pots>MP recovery, why? because ginger roots and ginger ales are simply to awesome oak barrel is KINDA useful for avoiding damage sometimes, the 10% chance of it failing when its maxed though, makes it crappy? but its useful when u want to gamble your HP [aka walking to lower ascent and u see a bigfoot along the way, CHANGE CHs, dont barrel and die like me] its useful for placing keys on doors in PPQ but PPQ is like the crappiest exp in the game so ignoring that.... maybe your trying to get to hall of mastery? use oak barrel and those crimsonwood golems wont touch u [sometimes] walking to skeles or newties? oak barrel might save those pots u take from those wyrms [priest's door beats all though] both skills have their negatives and positives so the choice is pretty much up to u, if only we could use 2nd job skill points for our 3rd or 4th

penguins635 07/13/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Max both. Shockwave sucks. You''d probably want to max barrel first though, because very MP Recovery isnt useful until around 100+.

Dispersion 07/13/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Up to you, really. I maxed Barrel, and it's rather useful at Typhons for changing channels, and yet with hindsight I regret not choosing MP Recovery. With Drain, I estimate that I would be using far less pots than I do now.

ShredtheThread Jul 13 2009 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Max barrel in 2nd job and leave SW on 11 and max MP recovery in 3rd. EDIT: Mp recovery won't be to much use until you have like 5k+ hp.

Noveryn 07/13/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

if u get mp recovery u'll save alot of mesos cuz u wont b buyin alot of mp pots but if u get barrel u'll save mesos cuz u wont get hit. so if ur not funded it'll be better to get half recovery half barrel