Kungao

With the addition of 20 extra aa to the kos tree (presuming it stays the same)

what would be the best build to go as a raiding dirge

chefren

If these rumours turn out to be true, I would resist the temptation to take Bump and try out the int line first.

frodex

I'm 4/1 in INT atm and it is nice having a +skills boost almost always up, however popping another 3 points into RB doesn't increase the skills that much. I thought about this last night myself and considered going down the INT line to the Combat Skills/DPS increaser and poping 8 points into that. Not sure what each end line increase per point but I am guessing 1-2%. Althought with ROK coming out Dirges could pop points back into Bladedance for new encounters until they are learned and not suffer DPS wise. Few thoughts but who knows, I know in the EOF tree I will be placing those points into faster reses if possible.

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Chemist

(KOS) I presume it will be STR/WIS and down the stam line for double attack, and int for RB if possible, that is why we are learning encounters for ROK.

(EOF) would probably be LotD, Degradate, and confront fear. Should be possible to get all 3 end abilities here with the current numbers

Kall

It depends how well the new version of Boon and Riana's scale. Boon was looking at a possible M2 choice and if it actually scales worth a fuck in T8 enhancing might not really be necessary. If the DPS soft cap doesn't get expanded to 125 or 150, then enhancing Riana's might be a waste also considering you'd probably expect the Frenzy 8-9's this tier to turn into Frenzy 12-15's.

So then you're left with Bump/8 Poison and some variant of Turnstrike/half INT or Turnstrike/Rhythm Blade/3 in Poison as the other solid options.

It's really too early to tell which is going to be the best route becuase there's not enough information out yet.

For EoF, 5 Wail of the Dead, 5 EoA, 5 EaDD, 5 Oration, 1 Confront Fear along with your existing lines will most likely be the best option unless something changes in this tree drastically.

Juuls

Hoping it Stays the same Was loving my STR 4,1 STA 4,4,4,8 WIS 4,4,6,8,1 setup Before had to go back to bladedance, still Dualwielding
with 10% dbl Attack and the DKTM was nice for me and scout group be nice to have it and bladedance

Dirge of Death

At least for the start of the expansion I would definitely take Bladedance again.

Assuming 70 points in each line...

Starter: 1
Wis: 4-4-6-8-2
Str: 4-4-8-6-2
Sta: 4-4-5-8

Luck: 5 Shroud-5 Bria's-5 Crypts-5 CoB- 1 Luck of the Dirge
L&D: 5 Wail-5 EoA-5 EaDD-5 Oration-1 Confront Fear
Deg: 4 Garsin's- 5 Shrieking Stab-5 Verlien's-3 Discante-5 Clara's-5 Daro's-1 Degradate

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RogueFrequency

Agreed with Topanga, and after the encounters are nerfed and easy as hell,

Starter: 1
Agi: 4-4-4-8
Sta: 4-4-4-8
Wis: 4-4-6-8-2
Int: 4-1

OR

Starter: 1
Sta: 4-4-4-8
Wis: 4-4-6-8-2
Int: 5-4-8-8


As for Dirge tree (after encounter nerfage):

Luck:
Stealth - 5
Bria's - 5
CoB - 5
Tomb's - 5
LoD - 1

Life and Death:
Grievance - 1 (last point, had to put it somewhere)
Wail - 5
Elergy at DD - 5
Elergy of A - 5
Oration - 5
Confront Fear - 1

Control:
Jael's - 5
Lanet's - 5
Garsin's FM - 1
Wail of Horror - 5
Mag Note - 1

Degradations:
Verlien's - 5
Clara's - 5

This is assuming we still have 2 other dirges with Degradation.

Ajeco

I'll have 2 KoS setups:

BD, DKtM and Fortissimo

Poison, DKtM, Fortissimo, Rythm blade

I'll just go home and switch AAs whenever needed with the lamp thingamajig.

farfr0msane

I heard we weren't getting any additional AA (or AP for the purists) in RoK. Where did you get this info? And I hope you're correct!