Building SRO Character

First of all, managing your sp when under farmed in Silk Road. Similar to having masteries tied up in heal with the addition of having to reduce your sp consumption by having lower level buffs and / or fewer overall skills. As buffs go most people consider defense to be less important then offense.

So you can leave out all defense skills.Fire shield is a useless skill, until you actually have accessories that have high enough status reduce, so don’t worry about it till you have the accessories. Any low level buff that isn’t a % will have little to no effect once you are high level in Silk Road Gold.

For example the magic defense buff taken to level 30 will be useless when you are level 60+, however the physical damage increase buff and passive will grow with you because they are a % increase.The only class that can function with only 1 tree is Nuker.For leveling purposes all you need is lightning. Most people before update chose to level fire and lightning, leaving there weapon skills once they got nukes.

With the Snow shield update I think ice / light will be the new build if you are low on SP. For Int characters weapon skills are only needed for pvp.You can be under-farmed and level just as fast as a fully farmed Silk Road Gold player if you choose the right skills.

You will however, suffer in PVP.If you choose not to farm, yet want all the skills you shouldn’t carry a large gap. When I farmed with a 9gap at 52 then went to a 0 gap my average damage went up about 1000 damage per skill. From hitting 2.7k hits to 3.5-4k hits. This means that if you carry lets say a gap larger then 4 you will seriously reduce your damage output which will make you weaker in PVP and slower in killing mobs.

Common Builds

Pure Strength (farmed) max weapon, fire, light, with 60 masteries left over.

This build benefits from the physical increase buffs from fire as well as the magic defense. This is especially important since pure STR characters have low magic defense and low damage output. Fire imbue is commonly used because it does the most damage, however it is a near negligible difference in my opinion when compared to light imbue. Maxed light gives magic increase buff that when combined with fire makes this build the strongest hitting for an STR. Ice is secondary because Pure STR characters already have high physical defense and lots of Silk Road Gold. This HP is usually all the defense needed to prevent death.