So essentially what you have detailed out is an alchy dexxor build. With swords, your most effective weapon will be the katana -- and you will need to have it deadly poisoned to get the best bang for your buck. You can also carry a halberd for big one-hits but these are not as effective because they have no poison or special moves.
You're right, I missed that - it's what I get for replying to these things from my phone.
I probably wouldn't listen to this advise if I were you @Griz. There is not a reason for a pvp dexxor to have less than 90 magery ever and in most cases, GM magery is what you want. All this talk about casting poison is pointless because without eval your poison spell will get resisted 90% of the time regardless if they have magic reflection up or not. Don't cast poison on others as a dexxor -- waste of time and mana.I would drop magery to 76%.
With 76% Magery there will be a 95% chance to cast a level 5 spell. The only level 5 spell a dexxer needs is Magic Reflection or maybe paralyze for a dangerous moment. With 35 INT you can cast 2 times level 5 without waiting for mana. You can enter Wind Dungeon/Town with 76% Magery (i think 72% or 75% Magery is needed to enter Wind).
With this skill you got a chance to cast a level 6 spell at 60%. There are four spells in circle 6 a dexer needs: Dispell (to kill other players EVs), Reveal, Mark (maybe) and Invisibility. But i would use scrolls to cast invis to get a 100% chance to succeed. If you got hiding on your char, there will be no need for Invis scrolls.
There is a 25% chance to cast a level 7 spell with 76% magery skill. But you need 40 mana to cast Gate Travel. You can cast Bless before and wait or meditate, but you will ony get 0.2 mana points per second when wearing non-meddable armor. You Bless spell will wear off before getting enought mana to cast Gate Travel.
The next question is, what armor do you like to wear? With non-meddable it's hard to get enough mana back at time.
What about Poisoning? There is only one reason to have GM Poisoning: 40% chance to inflict poison instead 20% with a blade.
If you like to battle mages a lower poison level is better then deadly or greater because of the delays.
Level 1 poison got a 2 sec. delay between hits. Level 3 got a 4 sec. delay. What is better to fizzle a mages spell? Lower time or higher damage?
I think you will get it.
Poisoning is a level 3 spell. You will only need 9 mana points to cast poisoning. With 30-40% poisoning you will cast level 2 poison spells.
Start you battle with a poison spell and pot macros, throw in a weakening spell and one tile away from your enemy switch to a poisoned blade and start hitting. With 35% poisoning both, spell and blade, will inflict level 2 poisoning with a 3 sec. tick. This can bring a mage out of sync totally.
Btw: it doesn't work if he got magic reflection up.
Nah those special effects occur automatically by chance. Its basically the 2H weapons in Swords/Maces/Fencing that does it. The only exception is staves in macing -- wooden weapons are exempt from the special move for some reason.