thank you very much back to the drawing board

ok as a new Samurai what should the stats be?

Str?
Dex?
Int?

I'm unsure what I should be working towards as stats go.

Also is it possible to get more spells in your Bushido book and if so how?

Thanks!

Samurai stats:
Dex: 125
The other two: less I have 35 int (enough to do specials) with the rest in str.

Swing speed is everything.

My template:
115 swords
115 bushido
115 parry
110 tactics
100 anatomy
100 healing
65 chivalry

It isn't creative, but it works and it saves a lot of gold on the 120 scrolls I never bought.

Why do you have 65 Chivalry? What does that do for you? - I faintly recall that its was a Paladin skill?

Also I read on other sites that Samurai should have high STR and INT. But youy say go with max Dex?

I'm currently at:
100 Parry
100 Sword
100 Healing)
100 Anatamy
100 Tactics
100 Bushido
100 Spell Resist

59 STR
16 Dex
45 Int

Any advice would be helpful!

Thanks!

The simple explanation: Higher dex=higher swing speed=faster killing

Swinging faster is a bigger improvement to damage output than hitting harder.

There is an exeption to the need for maximum dex in a samurai, and that is if you plan on using one of the few weapons that always swing at maximum speed no matter what your stamina is (which is determined by your dexterity), such as wind's edge (mace weapon) or soul seeker. If you have a lot of damage increase items, a soul seeker is a very good weapon to have for all non undead hunting occasions. And you have swords, which makes it a good weapon for you to get.

Chivalry is a paladin skill, but there are a few skills that are great to have for all warrior types. Consecrate weapon enables your weapon to hit your opponent's weakest resistance, such as you could be fighting arctic ogre lords (high cold resistance) and kill them quickly with your 100% cold soul seeker just by casting consecrate weapon. Then you would be hitting the ogre lord's fire resistance. Enemy of one is also a very good skill (but you really need higher levels of chivalry to cast it reliably) which increases your damage output by 50% against one sort of monster. But be wary! Other sorts of monsters would do double damage against you!

65 is the bare minumum of chivalry (in my opinion, other people will say you need more) to cast enemy of one, even though it isn't 100%, it's still satisfactory for my use.

I only have 35 intelligence because I drain enough mana with my soul seeker or my 50% mana leech ornate axe to let me continually use my special moves against any opponent who has mana.

So with all things considered, I have 125 dex (+25 from items to get to 150), 80 strength and 35 intelligence. If I get a better stat scroll, then I'll put more points into strength, but I haven't found one yet.

The reason you have high dex on a swordman/archer is because you want to swing a sword or shoot an arrow as fast as you can. Also having dex over 140 it takes only 4 sec to heal. The reason for chiv being at 65 is while...do really don't need anymore. CW, DF, SJ, and EofO is really the only skills that 1 really needs. Unless you to be able to cast Holy Light and Dispell Evil. Then you need at least 105.

Yes you need high Str but not high int. My samurai stats are STR 101, Dex 150, INT 40. I need to 100 in str for the damage bonus and I need 150 dex to swing faster and to heal faster.

With the low Int (40) do you find that you are running out of Mana, though? My samurai/pally/swords has 48 Int, and is constantly running out of mana in the middle of a fight. I use the soul seeker, primarily, since I don't have the funds for a high-end ornate atm, but how do you run the Mana gauntlet?

Well having 7 MR and 36 (needin 9 more) LMC really helps a lots. With PvM I use the soul seeker and with SSI that is has, the high dex, and the amount of damage I do keeps my mana all most full. I honor everything I can. Lets say I am in the painted caves.. I honor the trogs. and cast lighting strike on every hit and CW, EofO, and DF is my stamania gets low. When I kill the trog, I gain back some health, stamina, and mana based on the final level of Perfection I have achieved. So with your samurai always honor first. If I a PvP, have an axe with 40 mana leech. The more damage you do the mana chance of mana leech % you have. I think that is right...

These are some great posts/advise.

I too was going to ask how do you stop from running out of mana. I only recently learned how to "Honor" mobs and have noticed some special moves do gain me mana and health.

Can someone give another example like Merc has about how to go about using skills and not abbreviate the skill names as I'm a noob.

So should I spend my 225 stat points as follows

STR 90
DEX 100
INT 35

- Thanks again everyone!

Due to trying to train dex and str ive lost 20ish points by snooping pack horses and then mining. Ive also raised my Chivalry to 35 so now my new stats are:

90 - anatomy
100 - parry
89 - healing (How high does healing have to be to ressurect someone?)
95 - swords
100 - tatics
100- bushido
86 - spell resist

So what should I do besides raise Chivalry and what do I lower/raise?

Sorry for all the questions.