Shadowknight Veteran's AA Information - NEW GUYS PLEASE READ - Page 3

evilastro · 12-11-2008, 11:05 AM

I party with the guild mystic daily :P hes a beast who can solo heal Kor'sha and Ravenscale. Since getting the 2nd shard set ive ditched this ability since I am well over the mitigation soft cap, but it served me well when I wasn't as well equipped.

Vinladia · 12-11-2008, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Darkwarrior

Yeah I just ran a test with the siphon strike: grim strike and unholy arms: grim strike it does show the same on ACT in a minute fight as what I posted u can see it was used twice during that encounter so u can estimate what the actually damage of Unholy arms buff does...however I ran another test with Valor in battle...valor in battle effects both Siphons trike: grim strike and unholy arms: grim strike

not sure if this was intentional or not...but guessing how both abilities are tied to the same proc spell or termination spell it kinda makes sense... but whatever the matter u benefit from 2 abilities with that one aa enhancement.

Potenial nice find there Darkwarrior! Glad stuff like this is coming up.

My question is this. What do you lose to gain this? Will this gain be more dps/tanking then whatever it is you drop?

Harm Touch dmg?
Shield Effectiveness?
Taunt Amount?

Vinladia · 12-11-2008, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by evilastro

I party with the guild mystic daily :P hes a beast who can solo heal Kor'sha and Ravenscale. Since getting the 2nd shard set ive ditched this ability since I am well over the mitigation soft cap, but it served me well when I wasn't as well equipped.

I would loose armor on every slot of gear BUT my boots by replacing with the Void Knight's armor. I am getting it for the appearance =/

Slippery · 12-11-2008, 11:28 AM

The comment about the shamans dog dieing in raids, if it is a fight where the dog just dies a lot have them park the dog far away. You still get the buff. I used to do it all the time on Maestro, a fight where the dog usually got raped. Dog parked on run back, throw Siphon Armament on it, still there at end of fight.

Maeginia · 12-11-2008, 11:40 AM

/Cheer for Vin.

<3 <3 <3 to my favorite Skz-nooblet

(Grimling, if you read this...sorry!!!)

Darkwarrior · 12-11-2008, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Vinladia

Potenial nice find there Darkwarrior! Glad stuff like this is coming up.

My question is this. What do you lose to gain this? Will this gain be more dps/tanking then whatever it is you drop?

Harm Touch dmg?
Shield Effectiveness?
Taunt Amount?

The gain from this is just to help with dps tanking...I'm sure an sk can do all hate gains with the lack of dps gain and still hold or pull aggro the same as a dps tanking sk I would think.

This is my TSO setup it's a balance between Offensive and Defensive i figured I can gain the best of both worlds...not needing the extra hate since I gain all the offensive abilities..and still have the full defensive capabilities from the new aa. I call it my pyramid spec haha kinda looks like a pyramid and a pyramid is balanced on all sides lol.

Vinladia · 12-11-2008, 01:31 PM

Ick... Pariah's Strike. Sorry just really hate this line in our Shadow Tree.

Vinladia · 12-11-2008, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Darkwarrior

The gain from this is just to help with dps tanking...I'm sure an sk can do all hate gains with the lack of dps gain and still hold or pull aggro the same as a dps tanking sk I would think.

This is my TSO setup it's a balance between Offensive and Defensive i figured I can gain the best of both worlds...not needing the extra hate since I gain all the offensive abilities..and still have the full defensive capabilities from the new aa. I call it my pyramid spec haha kinda looks like a pyramid and a pyramid is balanced on all sides lol.

I like your spec overall Darkwarrior, it will work well I am sure of it.

With the visual, hopefully people will see where we both are going yet differ.

I would take Defensive stance increase over Pariah's Strike in the Fighter Tree. (Like I posted in the orginial, I am able to keep a 4-5k parse in Defensive stance tanking, I really don't need to tank in Offensive to keep agro)

I would take Sneering Assault.

I would put 4/5 in Gallantry.

Because of Sneering Assault and Gallentry, I would not be able to take the Malice dmg increaser.

evilastro · 12-12-2008, 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Vinladia

I would loose armor on every slot of gear BUT my boots by replacing with the Void Knight's armor. I am getting it for the appearance =/

I dont think you realise how much boost the + Mitigation set stuff gives =/ The Zealot set gives slightly more mitigation than VP set with the +7 bonus and void knight has way more.

The Zealot set alone raises legendary gear to 600+ mitigation, and fabled items not part of the set (for me my head and wrist) to 700+ mitigation. + Mitigation is not a %.

Draigos · 12-12-2008, 11:24 AM

I wondering if anyones weighed the pros and cons of the ground vs zealot sets. Both set due seem to have a drop vs the rok gears mit. Which has me wearing of purchasing any of it to replace some of my fabled Rok pieces. does the +mitt bonus more then make up for the - to base mit on the pieces. I know i may not have worded it properly but i hope you get the jist of what i'm trying to ask.