frodex

Here is what I am using:

BARD:

STA 4/4/4/8
WIS 4/4/6/8/1
INT 4/4/7/8/1

EOF Tree:

Strike 3, Blade 4, Verlien 5, Discante 5, Clara 5, Daro 5, Degradate
Shroud 5, Bria's 5, CoB 5, Tomb's 5, Luck
Griv 2, Wail 3, Res 5, Group Res 5, Sacrifice 5, Confront Fear

The final ablility in the INT line doubles the 6 minute self buff we get from HOs and it is nice. I am hoping to test out a haste/dps rare HO to see how much of a nice increase that would be.

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battledrummer

I know people have posted their eventual aa line up but what about considering the fact that with respec cards you can reset all 100 aa when ROK comes out

I was thinking of going Bard aa (70) dirge (30) from the 100 as soon as ROK comes out.

1 starter
STA 4-4-4-8 (20)
WIS 4-6-4-8-1 (24)
AGI 4-4-4-8 (20)
INT 4-1

for levelling as I think that this might give the most dps and soloing capabilty over all when levelling to 80

Then going straight down luck line to get LUCK (although really not sure this is going to be as effective as the example it gives is altering a %age chance to proc and general feel is they are removing abilities with a %age chance to proc oe will no longer update them)

I am hoping by the time I am 70 i will have atleast another 11 aa so should have completed the degradate line again, and then complete the last points into the control fear line

frodex

I've played with the AGI line a bit down to the posion and honestly I don't think its worth it all in the end. Its a posion proc since we don't get posions but I think the points could be spent better elsewhere.

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Kungao

tbh i doubt it, by the time ya reach the cap again and pass the bd lvl of gear (will happen soon enough most likely when they start nerfing stuff again) ya will only have the agi line do any decent increases in dps (personal dps that is) to look forward too cant say i am to impressed by the end ability of int (the HO boost) or any of the things in the int line besides 4-1, strength automatically drops cause it becomes useless as ya dont need it anymore only leaving ya with agi

frodex

The HO line offerers increases to Swindler's luck and bravado's Dance. Not sure what the weapon skill hard cap is but i was breaking 550+ pierce/slash with RB and SL.

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Lint

The skill cap is around 455 I believe (and I'm sure someone will be along to correct/confirm soon).

We will have to see come RoK whether the INT line is worth it, but depending what gear is around and assuming I can pick up similar magnitude +skills I don't think that with 4/1 in INT and swindlers people will be too far away from the cap, and as every other scout gets +skills on their stances they should be way over it without needing extra from boon. The DPS mods will be the interesting one and how gear affects that and whether people will already be into the diminishing returns part of the curve making more DPS mods useless.

As has already been mentioned if the aoes are gimp bladedance isn't going to be needed so that leaves Agi and the poison proc. I guess at the start of T8 raiding experience going STR or INT will probably be the way forward until people pick up the gear/aoes get nerfed then a respec into poison for self buffage could be on the cards.

Noona

Atm Im testing this KOS setup:

starter(1)
STR (4-4-6-8-2) - my leader want me to have BD and im not MT group dirge (that's why not 8 parry)
WIS (4-4-6-8-2)
INT (4-4-5-8)

Want to have weap skills raised + DPS to the max. Looks like this way scout DPS group is making much more DPS than with Fortissimo. But im gonna test it in t8 raid zones, cause in t7 weap skills doesn't matter anymore.


greetz,
Noona

Vacilli

KoS Setup:

Str: 4/4/8/6/2
Wis: 4/4/7/8/2
Int: 4/4/4/8

EoF:
Degredations: Maxed out +1 for end line ability
Luck: 20 points +1 for LoTD
Life and Death: 7 points into this line atm

I have been using this build since Rok came out and I like it a lot, I am now lvl 78 and have had no issues soloing. I am in the MT grp for raids and this build seems to benefit us well. Reading through the other posts has opened up my eyes to the AGI line, I may have to respec and check it out. I used the STA line for a while and am really not a huge fan, I prefer to stick with DW'ing as I have not found a huge selection of quality round shields.

battledrummer

you Do realise that all of the people on this Forum who are using STA line are not using shield, believe me the 10% DA when dual wielding increases dps by say 200, I know mine jumped from 900 to 1100 when I first respecced to STA, I am now regularly posting 1400 ZW parses and have never used a shield

Dirge of Death

I assumed Wis: 4-4-6-8-2 and Sta: 4-4-4-8 were a given at this point, they boost a groups dps by the most. Where you go from there can depend on alot of things from groups gear, to raid leaders wishes, to personal preference, but I would never drop those points from those two lines.

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