More like SHAMmerdins, amirite?

Janet the Java wrote: 2 years ago

Necrarch wrote: 2 years ago

No

Conviction ? It helps a lot with FoH, as far as I remember, and if you are above

Über Mephisto's, you cancel his, so only need to reach 175 res instead of 300 (except that your merc will die, but well... merc's life).

No

Conviction. I don't really know why, except it barely makes a difference to FoH in my experience, maybe only the lightning damage? And I know some use it for smiters but I don't think it's standard/necessary for them either?

Correct,

Conviction only amplifies the lightning part of FoH. If you go some place with demons/undead, there's hardly any point to it because the

Bolts are what annihilates those en masse and those don't gain from

Conviction. Personally, I never used it on my S1 FoHdin either.

As for smiters using it..that's just wrong imo. Someone somewhere once said it'd be a good idea to skill into it to override meph's

Conviction but the only thing that really does is save you from it while sacrificing your merc and/or party. Put the same points into

Salvation instead and you're actually useful to everyone around in that situation. (Yeah, yeah, you'll need like 10 more res yourself to pull even but mweh..)

I am too used to my Avenger buddy who (definitely) uses

Conviction a lot, I guess.

Thanks for the info.

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Salvation and a Kira's on hand will do just fine, and saves you alot of points to invest elsewhere.