THM Question.

Just started playing again, recently got my THM to 20 and my CONJ is almost 20. I plan on playing THM as my main.

Now first question is, should I keep the CONJ and THM neck and neck in rank as I rank them up? seeing as they both have beneficial spells, Or can I leave the conj at 20 and just focus on the THM?

Second question, all I can find for posts on point alotment are fairly old ones, are peoples opinions still the same with stacking VIT and roughly 90 PIE being the main focus with some into MND? or with the damage increase does more INT come in to play now?

Any help is appreciated, cant seem to find a current answer unless im just blind.

Thanks.

If you're in a hurry to join end game content that requires a rank 50 class, just get THM to rank 50.

If you have a static party, you probably just want to stick with one job to keep pace with everyone else.

If you're not in a hurry, you may as well rank both at the same time to make it more convenient to get leves.

Use wands and a shield to get your shield rank to 50.

VIT is important for HP (especially if you're soloing)

MND is important for MP (especially if you're soloing)

PIE is important for DoT damage (but this doesn't really matter until end-game if you're doing a DoT-centric DPS mage)

INT is marginally important for nukes. Kinda depends on if you're fighting mobs that are not that close to your level (usuall party grinding and leve mobs) or much higher than your level (bosses and NMs). This should be easy enough for you to test yourself. Vary the amounts of INT you have and see if it makes a difference on the enemies you usually fight.

Since they changed MP cost, I now maintain equal amounts of of vit/mnd/pie

Here is why:

Vit is obvious with HP/def

Mnd managed MP pool and Healing (I also use conj in conjuntion with THM (50 thm, and just hit 39 on CON)

Pie Reduces chances of your magic attacks being resisted (spell accuracy) and Increases your chance of resisting magic attacks of others, as well as modifies DoTs.....DoTs are the most damage to MP used in the game

I find equal value in all 3, thus I added points to them equally.

And to answer your question about leveling con/thm equally or not, I say not. I got both to 20 them focused on thm (planned to have my thm as main also). Then I went back nd leveled on my conj in between raiding NMs and leveling my craft.

Thanks for the input.

Get CON to 32 for Sleep (you will need this for dungeons).