Sram/Strength/1

Introduction
The Strength Sram is a rather popular build, for good reason. It is often considered the most tactical of the classes to play, and a Strength build gives you access to nearly all of the Sram's spells, as well as a large number of different weapons to complement those spells. However, there are drawbacks – Srams tend to be more fragile then most other classes, requiring careful thought and planning in combat.

First spells
The three level one spells for the Sram are Tricky Trap, Location, and Deviousness. Putting points into Location Will add only area-range That is nearly useless. Tricky Trap fares little better – as a size 0 trap (it only affects the square it is casted on), it is next to impossible to reliably get enemies to trigger it. Luckily, after the effort of forcing an enemy onto a single square, you will be rewarded with.... terrible damage. While it will be useful as a beginner Sram to learn how to tactically place traps, it is equally as good for that task at level one as it would be if you wasted points increasing it. If you do put points into Tricky Trap, you will regret it by level twenty-one, if not sooner. The third level one spell is Deviousness, which is notable as the only ranged earth spell in the Sram arsenal. Unfortunately, it suffers from poor damage, as well as rendering you visible when casted. While ranged Strength Srams are extremely potent, those ranged Srams use bows, not Deviousness. If you put points into any of the starting three spells, you will regret it, and you will regret it soon.

Early leveling (1-40)
From level one to at least level twenty, every characteristic point should be spent in strength (criticism: please note that the advised daggers have agi requirements. you will need to compensate with equipment or scroll it). After that, some Srams become more of a strength/agility hybrid by boosting agility. Some will choose to remain primarily strength, while scrolling agility to at least 50 (which can be done fairly cheaply - the total cost should be under 350kk). Generally speaking, raising vitality with points from leveling is a waste of points once you reach higher levels, and is not reccomended.

Obviously, a Young Adventurer Set will help a great deal in the first few levels. However, if that is out of your price range, mixing affordable pieces of the gobball and adventurer sets can have good results. Once you are level ten, try to obtain a decent pair of Gobboots and a Bouze le Clerc's ring, as the added life will help your fragile Sram greatly.

Early leveling can be done in the tutorial on the weak arachnee, or by fighting single low-level monsters around Astrub and Amakna. Until you reach level nine, level Gobballs with 3 MP (so lvl 3 or 6) will be the best source of XP. As you level a bit, you will get access to a few new spells. At level three, Deceitful Attack becomes available, but as it is a fire-based spell, should not be leveled with a Strength build. At level six, you will receive Mistake. While Mistake looks promising, it has several shortfalls, and is an air spell. It also should not be leveled with a Strength build.

At this point, you are several levels in and hopefully have yet to spend any spell points. The early spells are fairly unhelpful to a Sram, but there are several coming up which are very nice. At level nine, Tricky Blow becomes available. This is one of the bread and butter spells of a low-level Sram, and should immediately be raised to (but not above) level three. Level three Tricky Blow only requires 3 AP, and has a knockback range of 3 squares. This will allow you to 'juggle' monsters with 4 MP, by attacking them, using Tricky Blow, and then walking away. Provided that you do it properly, the monster will always be chasing you, and never able to hit you. Unfortunately, this only works on monsters with melee attacks (not ranged), and it don't work with 5 MP+ monsters, but it will work on any single gobballs.

At level 13, you need to get Powerful Smithy Daggers. They are very cheap daggers but they can be very useful, because daggers take only 3AP, you can attack with the daggers then use tricky blow, the walk away. With these daggers you can easily beat Lousy Pig Knight (lvl 30) alone. Then at lvl 20 you can use Small Sylvan Daggers.

After Tricky Blow, the most important spells are Invisibility and Mass Trap. Mass Trap is especially important – it does nice damage over a large area. Unfortunately, it requires 5 AP. The advantages over Tricky Trap make it worthwhile. Invisibility works as advertised – it makes you invisible, and also increases your MP by 1. Raising both Mass Trap and Invisibility to level 5 is highly recommended.

Poisoned Trap can also be useful since it is not restricted to line cast, and it does high neutral damage for 3AP at level 5. Lower levels of the spell are not reliable though.

Mid leveling (40-80)
After the two large traps (Mass and poison) you don't get an attack spell until Lethal attack much later. You will depend a lot on your equipment for a while.

At level 40 I suggest getting Elorie Entuwan's Cruel Daggers for their high damage. With a Dagger Skill level 5 and some points in Strength, you could do 90-110 damage twice a turn. That's huge ! However the -1MP can be annoying, so use your Invisibility to get back to 3MP, or find some nice +1MP boots later.

Around level 49, you can switch to some Damage to traps equipment or Critical hit equipment, or keep with Strength with the Treechnid Set.

Try to find groups with at least one high level monster to get the most XP, and also the fight will be faster since you can deal huge damage to a single monster with your daggers. Your traps are getting less and less efficient with monsters having more HP.

Beyond that, you should have enough of an understanding of your character to develop it yourself. However, certain spells will be useful, and certain spells will not.

Choice of spells
Double: This creates a summon which looks like your character (although the difference is easily determined) with no attacks or spell effects (note that a double of a character in prespic gear will NOT reflect damage). It will attempt to approach an enemy. With it's high agility, it's helpful to hold your enemies and to set off traps and you can use it as a good meatshield. It has very situational usage but putting spell points into it is not reccomended until you are a high level. This spell does not disrupt invisibility But it's only good in PVP battles.

Invisibility of Others: This spell can be rather useful to raise to a decent level for PvP, but only if you know the people you are fighting with and can strategize with them. Trying to use this spell with people you barely know fighting monsters is a waste of your time and spell points.

Poisoned Trap: The problem with poisoned trap is that it must be at level 5 to be effective. Either do not use it, or raise it to level 5. However, poison ignores shields, making poisoned trap quite useful for PvP.Poisoned trap Also uses 3AP,No linear range and haves same size as mass trap,Poison last's 3 turns so it's pretty powerful against many and single monster(s).

Chakra Concentration: Chakra Concentration is a very nice self-buff. Each level of the spell raises the maximum boost to Strength by 20, but the lower limit is always 2. This can make for frustratingly low Chakra rolls from a level 5 skill. It is advised to level this to 4 and use it for several days before deciding to level it to 5.

Paralyzing Trap: Often useful, this creates a trap which drains MP from anyone caught in the effect. Note that this MP draining effect will take place at the beginning of a character's turn, so someone tripping a paralyzing trap will be able to use his remaining MP, and will not be affected by the trap until the beginning of his next turn. The MP loss from paralyzing trap is dodgable. If you intend to make regular use of this spell, level 3 is a minimum. Level 5 will increase the duration of the MP loss effect from 2 turns to 3, as well as giving more range. The low casting range of this trap, even at high levels, means that it works best when combined with +range equipment.

Trap of Silence: This size-2 trap causes all characters caught in the effect radius to lose AP immedietely when it is tripped. Note that this AP loss is dodgable. If you intend to use this spell, leveling it to 4 is reccomended. The difference between level 4 and level 5 is negligable (8 AP lost instead of 7), so level 5 would rarely be worthwhile.

Unsummoning Trap: This trap is terrible and should not be used. Putting points into this spell would be a complete waste.By myself i use against sacriers to avoid attaraction,i cast it front of me so they just pull's me 1 square.

Fear: One of the characteristic spells of a higher-level sram, Fear is by far the best melee knockback spell in the game. For just 2 AP, each level increases the knockback by one (from one square at level 1, to five squares at level 5). Raising this spell to at least level 4 is a necessity, and level 5 is highly reccomended.

Con: Aside from the gimmick of kama-stealing, this spell has no redeeming value for a strength sram. Do not waste points raising it.

Equipment
Weapon-wise, a strength sram will mainly use daggers or bows. Daggers have the advantage of only requiring 3 AP per attack, and attacks not disrupting your invisibility. This is a major advantage in PvP. Bows lack the stealth of daggers, as they do disrupt your invisibility, but they can do excellent damage, and Tricky Blow or Fear are effective spells to keep your enemies at range. Whichever weapon you choose, investing in the appropriate weapon skill is highly recommended.

A suggestion of neutral damage daggers :

A suggestion of Neutral Damage bows :

I prefer to use daggers until lvl 60.

=Add it up= Charateristics: lvl 1-20    all points to strength lvl 20-40   either agility or strength, its your choice, both are useful.

Spells: lvl 9       Tricky Blow to lvl 5. help's lvling alot lvl 17      Invisibility to lvl 4 (helps a LOT) lvl 21      Mass Trap to lvl 5 lvl 31      Poisoned Trap to lvl 5 (recommended, but not reliable on other lvls, than 5) lvl 36      Chakra concentration to lvl 4, lvl 5 if u find it useful lvl 60      Fear to lvl 5 is totally recommended lvl 90      Lethal Attack to lvl 5 (what a surprise :P) lvl 100     Lethal Trap To lvl 1 Or 5(Linear,No boostable range And Line of sight.)

Scrolls: Vitality    Pays of forever and totally recommended if u have too much cash Agility     Recommended for total strength Sram to scroll this to 50 (at least)

Equipment: Level        Dagger                                            Damage 20       Small Sylvan Daggers                                   6-10 23       Sylvan Daggers                                         7-11 25       Great Sylvan Daggers                                   8-12 27       Powerful Sylvan Daggers                                9-13 29       Bashers                                                10-14 40       Elorie Entuwan's Cruel Daggers (-1MP)                  16-20 80       Ortimus Contrari's bloody blades(+1Mp -1ap,Critic rate)11-18 Fix whit AP equipment