Teldurn

If I can take back my thread for a moment... What sorts of items should I be aiming to get for my chanter?

Update: Since I only have about an hour or so free each night to play, it's taken me a bit of time to play this new, revised build. That said, though I'm still level 4 (again, hehe) I discovered how great this chanter build can be. At Anslog's Compass, I beat up some guls and noticed their bodies were nice and clumped together. So I put my party behind them and then with the Fine Arbalest found on a corpse nearby, I (as the chanter) hit one of the xaurips in the northeast camp, aggroing the whole camp. I then ran back to where my party waited. Meanwhile, "Come, Come" started plinking away at the chasers. By the time I got to behind the gul corpses, I had 3 phrases sung. I turned around and waited less than half a second for the xaurip priest to get within range and let loose with a "White Worms." HOLY CRAP! All 6 xaurips went down in one magnificent moment. Suddenly, I'm in love with this character. And to think, "Dragon Thrased" is supposed to be so much greater. I can't wait! :D Thank you so much for the advice, Boeroer. Unfortunately for me, I can only play with headphones on. RIP my eardrums, haha!

Awesome. That's exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for. Thank you! For the record, I had taken Ancient Memory but not any of the others. I had gib effects on because I've always loved the IE games' pink mist effect, but with something like "White Worms" I can see why it would be better having that off. So how's this instead: MIG 18 CON 10 DEX 4 PER 16 INT 20 (including +1 Old Vailia) RES 10 What I'm hearing from your reply is that I can basically forget about contributing via weapon attacks and just focus on being a chanting machine. That works for me. Thank you!

Preface: I'm still pretty new to this game. As a huge fan of support characters in general and bards in particular, I figured playing a chanter would fit that bill for me closely enough that I wouldn't notice a difference. I was wrong, and the longer I play, the more apparent that is becoming. At this point I realize I'm probably doing something wrong. I had read around the forums for a bit and saw chanters could dump Dex for practically no penalty. So going with what the game was suggesting, I made this: I feel like after 4 levels I should have seen some sort of improvement in my output but it just doesn't seem to be what I was expecting. I figure I must have built the character incorrectly. As a tank, she seems to be sticky (frequently seems to steal aggro off of Eder, even though I let him engage first) - but with that health and endurance doesn't seem to be able to stay alive long. As an aoe, "Come, Come Soft Winds of Death" only seems to be doing about 2 damage if I read the combat log correctly - which at level 4 just seems absolutely paltry; and as a damage dealer, her attacks are soooo sloooow - even when equipped with a "fast" hatchet - that damage output is pathetic. Her only real source of damage seems to be the phantom summon. And if I switch to The Disappointer (enchanted with Accurate 1), damage becomes notably better but I can't do anything aside from get one shot off and then wait an eon for the next shot. Meanwhile, the enemies have closed the distance and she's getting hit and hurt and the reloading animation isn't ending fast enough to get a heal/potion/Gaun's Pledge/etc. off in time. How do I fix this (or, what am I doing wrong)? Am I simply expecting too much from the class, trying to be good at too many things at once? I feel like I should be a more productive party member by level 4, y'know? For the record, the velocity of her losing health seems to have noticeably improved after recruiting Durance, but now I need to camp regularly to get his heals back.

This week, I came back to this game after a year and a half break. I want to have a go as a chanter, and the idea of a gunslinger seemed very interesting. How would this build change if you considered that I'm going to play on normal and with a full party?