Rhyddin, (spelt it right!)

Ive never been a fan of dexxers, I think its too relient on luck, and, unless your something like garrick (who arms, disarms shield and weps endlessly whilst chugging pots, eating apples and applying poison etc) then its relatively brainless...

with wrestling, you still lose your "set up" disarm macro when you start casting a spell. no specials can be held, not even wrestling ones, but your right, at least you dont need tactics. for me, tank mages are now so heavily nerfed that it just will not work. You could go nox mage. drop fencing for healing? so you wont be able to disarm but youll be a healing nox mage?

Or take wrestling and just be a pure? maybe get inscription in there? can you perform a ninjitsu death strike with wrestling skill? if so go with ninja? and use the old deathstrike explo e bolt combo?

what ya think?

Deathstrike now requires Hiding & Stealth to get above 15-18 dmg.

However, a tracked enemy, with 120 Ninja & 100 Hiding/Stealth gives about 60 dmg! So its still hardcore!

Rhyddin...jus' stick with your template mate, and poison the hell out of people!

Get a decent poison buff having fencing though - makes my newbified dagger sort of useful (lvl 5 nox) which is why I've stuck with fencing on the template... at least I can still use the poison special without tactics.

I don't really need another pure battle mage - I've got one with inscription, wrestling and some focus.

I strongly suspect I'm too lazy to retrain the character - so I'll probably leave it as-is

Was just piddling about on TC pub 45 and I think it might still be possible to do a tank-mage, but you have to get really old-skool (think Hally-Mages of yore)...

Magery 110
Eval 110
Med 100
Swords/Archery 110
Anatomy 90
Tactics 100
Resist/Focus to make up the rest

Str 90
Dex 45
Int 90

... unless you've stat-scrolled it, then up Int to 100 and dex to 50 for instance.

It's very attack focused but you should do decent weapon damage with whatever weapon you're using, you'll get access to all the special moves and still have a 110 passive dodge bonus for spellcasting.

I like the sound of that one. go with swords and use the axes. ornate axe ftw! crushing blow followed by explo f strike.

What you mean old school? Thats my Tank-Davion template. I'm not that old

lolz - it's basically the same as the old hally/mage template from pre-pub 16... so it IS kinda old