The Keep:Warrior Guide

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Stat Allocation:

Contrary to what you might think, the Warrior's most useful stat is not Strength or Constitution but intelligence. This has to do with how benefits from these different stats scale in relation to your skills.

Constitution is a weak stat because most of the damage you will take is from bosses, against which Constitution does nothing. The Warrior best handles boss battles by killing them quickly as opposed to surviving; you'll take far less damage in a boss battle that lasts two days than one that lasts two weeks.

Strength is very useful up to a point (between 100 and 150), but gets hit hard by diminishing returns after that. This is because over 95% of the Warrior's damage will come from Brutal Smash, which is only slightly stronger at 200 strength than at 150.

Since adequate Strength levels can easily be reached with equipment alone (this is even more true when the Perfect Day buff is factored in), Intelligence should be the main focus of your stat allocation. Not only does intelligence give you significantly more total mana (hence max total damage with Brutal Smash), but greatly increases your mana generation from tasks.

I recommend allocating 100% of your stats points to Intelligence.

Equipment:

Equipment follows a similar logic as stats for the Warrior. The only difference is that here you'll want to focus on Strength as well as Intelligence. It makes sense to get your Strength from equipment rather than stats because classes get a 1.5% buff from wearing their own equipment. Hence, if you have the Golden Sword, you'll get 27 Strength rather than 18.

Early on, you'll want to focus on Strength items since, as mentioned above, Constitution is currently useless in boss battles. Once your Strength reaches the 50s, you'll be able to start doing some serious damage with Brutal Smash. Next you'll buy the armor and shields, not so much for the Constitution but rather so you can unlock the special items that can contribute to Strength and Intelligence.

Your ideal gear set up upon reaching level 30 or so would be Golden Sword, Nameless Helm, and an armor and shield combo that provides maximum Strength and/or Intelligence.

Like the other classes, your optimal final gear includes mostly Legendary items. That would be, Nameless Helm, Shaft of the Dragon and Noble Tunic. Your shield slot should include Strength, Intelligence or both.

Skills:

Unfortunately the Warrior's skill balance is a bit skewed. His constitution boosting skills offer only a minor boost to a stat that isn't particularly useful, and Valorous Presence's boost to Strength is so minor that it's difficult to envision a situation in which extra mana for Brutal Small wouldn't be more useful.

In the vast majority of situations, you'll want to use Defensive Stance and Intimidating Gaze only when you have close to full mana and you're not planning on starting a boss fight soon. This will slightly reduce the damage you take from tasks.

Brutal Smash is where the Warrior really shines. Even with modest Strength, Brutal Smash deals 30-40 damage per use even before factoring in a small chance for a Critical Hit. Once you reach 100 mana, many bosses can be taken down in one day.

Boss Fights:

Boss fights are actually quite simple: use Brutal Smash as many times as possible.

Beyond that, most of the strategy comes in the preparation. Making sure you have full -- or close to full -- mana before a boss fight starts will drastically speed up the process. You can alternate collection quests with boss fights to give yourself a chance to recharge your mana.