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The video provides an in-depth guide on starting and effectively playing the Bandit class in a game, highlighting its unique attributes and strategic advantages. Sam, the narrator, outlines the Bandit's strengths, including its arcane, dexterity, vigor, mind, endurance, and strength stats, and emphasizes the effective use of the Great Knife and its blood loss buildup. Additionally, he highlights the Bandit's dodging capabilities, which are advantageous in boss fights.
The versatility of the Bandit class is further explored through the use of the short bow as a secondary weapon, specifically its fast barrage skill, which is useful in a variety of combat scenarios. The video advises early game strategies such as crafting or purchasing arrows and allocating health over magic flasks.
An important segment explains a method to quickly gain 70,000 runes early in the game. The process involves navigating from the stranded graveyard to the Church of Marika, using a teleportation device, and strategically farming runes from a dragon near Fort Pharaoh. Key advice includes avoiding direct combat with the dragon and making a save point for safety. Overall, the video provides a comprehensive starter guide that combines effective combat techniques with efficient rune farming strategies.
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In this segment of the video, Sam provides a starter class guide on the Bandit build. He highlights the Bandit’s unique dodging animation, which is especially effective in boss fights, and discusses a critical blood-loss attack that inflicts significant damage. Sam also points out the Bandit’s versatile starting gear, including a good ranged weapon. Emphasis is placed on the Bandit’s key attributes: arcane, dexterity, vigor, mind, endurance, and strength. He then explains how to use the Great Knife with its Quick Step skill, stressing the importance of combining quick steps with dodges to cover distance and deliver thrust attacks. Additionally, the Great Knife has a passive blood loss buildup effect driven by the arcane stat, making it highly effective against enemies, especially bosses, when the blood loss damage procs.
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In this part of the video, the speaker discusses strategies for effectively using the short bow as a secondary weapon in a battle, specifically mentioning a dragon encounter that caused 13,300 damage when blood loss was triggered. The short bow’s barrage skill is highlighted for its quick succession shots with minimal FP cost, making it useful for starting or slowing down a fight. Crafting arrows or buying them early on is advised. The speaker then elaborates on allocating flasks for the bandit class, favoring health over magic, and demonstrates a fight with the Tree Sentinel, showcasing the effective use of the short bow to whittle down the enemy’s health before engaging in melee combat. The flexibility of the bandit class in switching between ranged and melee, and the capability to trigger critical hits, is emphasized as a key advantage. Additionally, the video explains a quick method to gain 70,000 runes early in the game: starting from the stranded graveyard, moving to the graveyard ruins, resting at a camp to acquire a horse, and then traveling to the first Church of Marika to use a portal for fast rune accumulation, potentially leveling up to 34 swiftly.
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In this part of the video, the narrator provides a detailed guide on how to obtain 70k runes in the game. Starting from the church of America, you ride your horse down to Fort Pharaoh. After reaching a specific area with a teleportation device near a pond, you use it to get transported across the map. From there, you cross a bridge with a dragon, avoiding combat if desired, and head towards a large tree with a hidden lift behind it. This lift takes you to the upper levels where a dragon can be farmed for the runes. The narrator emphasizes the importance of not engaging the dragon directly and making a save point before initiating the encounter.