Vampire The Masquerade Builds

Masquerade
Having a little free time to myself this week, I recently reinstalled V:tM Redemption and and replaying it. Currently just finished the 1st encounter with Lucretia, though I am getting a little bored of my character.
I am surprised at the effectiveness of Potence + Feral Claws early on. Mecurio went down surprisingly fast (always had a lot of problems with him in the past). Think it is because vampires don't really resist aggravated damage that much compared to normal weapons. I had Wilhelm solo the early part, so Christof and Serena didn't really play much of a role.
He currently has 70 manipulation, and maxed out potence, feral claws, fireball, theft of vitae, blood healing, call lightning and ice prison (though not in that order). Not quite as effective as I envisioned him though, society of leopold gave me a bit of problems because I wasn't willing to to use theft of vitae on the humans.
Thus, I am wondering what sort of builds you have tried out before and would like to share, as well as your experiences with them? Also, how did you spec Serena? I don't use the pause button at all because of its inconvenience, if you need to take that into consideration.
Thanks all and fire away.
  • Builds for Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption. Think it is because vampires don't really resist aggravated damage that much compared to normal weapons. I had Wilhelm solo the early part, so Christof and Serena didn't really play much of a role. He currently has 70 manipulation, and maxed out potence, feral claws, fireball, theft of vitae.
  • Build you most combat twinked vampire. Just taking lots of contacts makes it very easy to keep tabs on your target so you can always be setup for the shot in time. Use different types of ammo depending on the target. Explosive rounds for head shots, armor piercing for soak critters, silver for werewolves, etc.

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Roahin: A liar for claiming there was no optimized build. Even qualifying it with 'first playthrough' leaves the implication that there isn't one. As though an optimized playthrough exists independent for subsequent builds (somehow) but is immaterial for the first.