Treasure Hunter Build - Need help!

[Arthen]

Hello all my fellow Treasure Hunters =)

I am currently building a treasure hunting character and need some advice as I have only ever done low level chests before.

Currently, this is my skills of choice:
1) Lockpicking
2) Cartography
3) Musicianship
4) Provocation
5) Magery
6) Meditation
7) ???

I have one slot left for another skill, can any experienced Treasure Hunters out there help me in choosing my skills and what I can expect as far as completeing level 3-5 maps?

I wanted to take up Archery or Fencing (To play a swashbuckler rogue type of T-Hunter) but my Dex would be low with this build that I am not sure how well it would work.

Suggestions?

[trusoria]

I'm interested in the answer too.

What about "Remove Trap" Skill? Is it needed for a treasure hunter to remove any traps from chests in dungeons? are there any ways around it?

What is the best treasure hunter template?

Thank you

[venox]

hiding, resist or eval or something else
i have hiding.

[Arthen]

I was thinking hiding as well. Is it that effective for a T-Hunter? Do you just hide right away upon digging up a chest to lose aggro of monsters right away and plan your attack? Or how exactly do you use it effectively?

[venox]

i mainly use this char for general pvm.
where i use hiding around corners etc all the time.

it can supply a good get away, i can hide and let mobs kill each other while i attend to something else for a minute etc etc.

and if it gets to heavy i can usually run for a bit and hide to stop them from targetting.

i just find it useful so i can be more relaxed when i pvm and i dont always have to watch the screen.

[Deadiam]

I was thinking hiding as well. Is it that effective for a T-Hunter? Do you just hide right away upon digging up a chest to lose aggro of monsters right away and plan your attack? Or how exactly do you use it effectively?

The spawns do not attack for a good 5 seconds, heck you can run off screen before they aggro you to be honest. I went hiding but I am seriously thinking about going resist beings I hardly ever hide, and if I do the spell is much more effective for me.

[JBURNS]

I went resist for less dmg from pkers and monsters I use invisibility when I need to hide.

[ChewY]

Eval int ofcourse.
When your doing a spawn, i find it much eaiser with eval. Cause of blasting the dieing mobs.
I would anytime perfer eval over hiding/resist at t-hunting.
But for a bard, only farming money in destard etc. hiding is a must i would say.