The SK General Raiding Thread.

[Blackphoenix]

also forgot to ask, having trouble where to put my last 13 points in Crusader Lines. i already have STR-48821 STA-448 and INT-448. thinking either 448 in agi or 448 in wiz? agi has the autoattack which is nice but not alot of multiple mobs fights in rok, on the other hand wiz with the increase to slash and disruption sounds appealing. any ideas guys?

[Jikko]

i personally put the last of my points into maxing out lego smite and getting divine aura, so i run STR-68802 STA-44872 INT-48800

[Deule]

Ok your gonna want to remove the bloodbath barbute from your list since it is inq/temp only. As far as gear to add I would say:

2h Wep:
\aITEM -697348581 -1092999436:Supple Dogwood Staff\/a
\aITEM 1007202618 -1226740783:Doombringer Pendulum\/a

[TheKhronos]

does no sk use the wis line? idk about you, but that fear immune and 2% have come in handy many times. plus the HoT buff and combat buff.. i find myself more useful to a raid with wis line then jacking my haste or aoe attack to raise my dps a few hundred points. raise raid dps over my own ftw... but i guess im a failer of a sk for not being a greedy dps whore of a player.

sta 4-4-8-8-1 wis 4-4-8-8-1 int 4-5-8
this is spec i use to OT/MT rok raids. any haste i need ill pull from groups in raid or items.

[SKAR]

I've got some points in Wisdom line just for the additional group skill mods. I'm sure it helps even moreso now with the increased resist rates.

Honestly I think the fear immunity is worthless... can always get by without it. The base spell damage mod in WIS line looks like it could be good, but I dont see dropping any of the other aa's to pick it up.

STR-4-4-8-6-2
STA-4-4-8
WIS-4-4-5
INT-4-4-8

[TheKhronos]

ever tanked into bottom of seb where half the mobs fear the tank? or raid mobs when MT is feared along with healers, when sk can throw a blessing and intercede on to save them... but youre right, its a worthless spell if it only saves the raid once in a blue moon. it has to be used every single battle to matter. i have to say, that extra dps sure as hell saved the mt, right?

i just think helping the raid over my own dps is more progressive for our force. too many sk focus only on dps. if you only do dps, then why would higher end raids want sk if they could just pull a harder hitting dps in. they wouldnt. plus i still MT, so survival spec ftw. id like to see some dps specced sk do what i do as a mt :P

[SKAR]

I still do my fair share of MT'ing. I honestly don't understand the whole "must have a guardian" thing. We have some serious survivability now.

I still MT over our guardian on certain circumstances. When needed resists of mine seriously outweight our guardians, or for shit like the foursome +frogs in PR for example. Guardian cant stand a lick compared to SK AE aggro - specially with the epic or if decided to go AE ATK.

But I take DPS lines because I like the added flexibility. I don't want to tank 100% of the time. I like to dps, pull aggro off the 3-way hate dumped guardian, then let loose a FD while chuckling.

Fear immunity would definately be a nice little luxury, but I wouldn't trade my AA's for it.

[TheKhronos]

i hear ya. well said. i guess as a guild leader i sometimes only trust my own tanking to save our force, so im on stand by at all times if im on OT. guards are great, but theres not much they can do we cant with the right set up. plus alot of guards come with that "im better then you" fuckhead attitude, while most sk that have made it this far in raiding are humbled... imo
i do wish the immunity came in handy more often, and ive tried to spec out of it... but damn, every time is respec i end up in some fucking fear area and regret it right away lol. and when im dps speced i blow ass... guess ive only tanked for so long i worry about taunts, stuns, debuffs and heals before dps.
either way, play how you enjoy the game best

[Drool]

Now if the end WIS ability granted Fear Immunity to the Group, I think a whole lot of SKs would feel differently. As it is, WIS line is a must have for 2nd Mirror spec at worst. And immunity definitely relieves headaches vs Venril or Druusk for example.

2% is better than the orig. 1% SOE had planned for us.

[TheKhronos]

Agi 4-4-4-8 Sta 4-4-6-8-1 Wis 4-4-8-7-1

tanking better then i ever have. never lose aggro unless blurred or mem wiped. and raid wide dps has not hurt at all.

so many ways to play. wish there was more sk MT