Lord_Yuudai

Was wondering if anyone had some info they could impart with me... I've been thinking of putting AAs into the AoE attack..But I'd lose about 500ish HP from my 4% HP from the Sta line..

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And thanks for the info

raistlin8989

some things to definitely change:
1. get knight's stance in tso tree. 25% increase to your myth's autoattack damage is significant
2. drop 2 points out of mortal embrace in sk tree and put them into something more useful. with the end-ability on strength, unholy voracity, and 3 points in mortal embrace, you are near minimum recast for your fd.
3. get all 5 points out of siphon armament, if you really have to scramble for that extra bit of mit by taking it off of others, get better gear, your mit should be fine with t2/t3 gear for most stuff, and if its not, get a templar. put those 5 points into doom rays
4. i tank in offensive unless i'm MT'ing in a raid, as such i put aas into my offensive stance rather than my defensive stance on the fighter tree in tso tab.
5. DA vs AoE frontal auto-attack should be the question, not whether you lose 500 hp, 500 hp is nothing really if you can significantly increase your dps when fighting multiple mobs at the same time with trample. personally i prefer trample to DA, but if i know i'm going to need a possible extra save (shaman is missing for the night) will get DA spec

Note: the only reason i have two aas in Siphon Strength is to have enough decay aas to get Pools of Blood

below is my normal spec, in mirror i have a spec for DA.

Druuna

drop gallantry in the tso tree, its a big gigantic waste of 5 points, drop your points in the crusader str line, go like 4-8-8-2-1 or 6-8-8-0-1, if you are raid tanking anyway, you should have a dirge / coercer for hate gain, they put you over the cap as is.

xpencinx

I already posted a thread on this. Go back to the SK main page and check mine out. The real question for you is are you tanking in group or raid instances? Also are you a raid OT? This will change your ideal spec imo DA is a waste of time in groups. If you're relying on 2 invulns to tank then you should just pull less or brush up on zone knowledge. I have both specs mirrored and use DA spec for low dps fights like Penta adds. Hope this helps.

keldo

1. Shadow stance enhancements aren't worth it, don't bother with either of them. Go Rescue or Swing attack upgrade. Switch Gallantry to Malice or HT upgrade. Definitely listen to raistlin8989's advice on Knight's Stance.

2. raistlin8989 has a good SK tree, but don't put any points in HT lifetap bullshit or siphon strength upgrades. Use those points instead to max out Voracious Soul and get either siphon armament (use on shaman dog) or the mit debuff reuse. Could also consider shifting 5 points from Cleave upgrade to those. Other than that use his setup.

3. Crusader tree looks fine, as Druuna suggested you don't need hate gain in many situations. If you are mostly an instance tank, however, you might wanna stick em there for imperfect groups in one of your mirror specs. DA vs AE auto is situational, you should have both with one mirrored.

raistlin8989

ah never thought being capped with dirge and coercer, we recently just filled up the raid force with another coercer (for OT) and dirge for every group, so dropping gallantry

boli

Don't bother enhancing your taunts imho... seriously you're having trouble with agro?

Druuna

pipe down you!

can't believe I missed the points in D stance, drop those, yet another waste of points, better spent in either rescue or swinging strike, I have swinging strike because I don't need rescue really...

Darkwarrior

If you are a raider you'll do more DPS in this spec. Not many raid encounters involved aoe fights or aoe heavy raid zones. I can only think of 2..maybe 4 or 5 encounters that are heavy aoes. If it's for group instances the Aoe auto attack is better.

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boli

I have messed around with an SK, know their AAs and whlie I do play a pally as my main I think I can safely say "points put in increasing taunts by 25% are a waste. At least how current mechanics work... sure you will be able to increase you're curent HATE by higher with that... but honestly you won't need it and will offer more to the group/raid by increassing a dps skill instead.