Swashbuckler AA line, What did you choose?

Krontak · 05-25-2007, 03:21 PM

I've seen the KoS debates but to be honest I really haven't seen too many on this....

Me personally, I went down the reach line. I just hate having to waste the points in the swathe and whatnot 'cause really, how much more radius do you need when everything is around you.

From there I kinda spread things out. I think I maxed out the mit debuffs and dps debuffs and 1 or 2 somewhere else.

I'm thinking about doing a respec as I'm not so sure how much I'm gaining from the reach and how much I'm loosing in other areas I could be putting my points in. I'd be curious to see how others are going about spreading the points around. I'll admit, I'm about on par with your average bear and don't realize the obvious when its in my face!

Snark · 05-25-2007, 03:31 PM

I just don't see the overall benefit in 5% poison increase trigger for dumping points into mostly worthless pre-requisites.

I haven't heard anybody going for the far-right line (i can't even remember the name) for the resistability buff/debuff or whatever. I think the description is too ambiguous.

Evalin · 05-25-2007, 04:31 PM

I went down Style and Reach lines.

Runaf · 05-25-2007, 11:05 PM

Sytle / Reach here also. Check out this thread for some pros and cons.

http://eq2flames.com/showthread.php?t=4583

Helspeth · 05-26-2007, 01:05 PM

I had Reach/style for a couples months now but I had lots of soloing issues.

I respected to Potency(poisons)/Style a couple days ago and life is MUCH easier, and I saw an increase in my dps, poisons proc a lot more, 5% more doesn't seem much but it's like soloing with LOTD, and in raid I'm in the MT gorup so LOTD+Temp+Potency+sometimes Ancestry = nice..... lol

Backin · 05-27-2007, 12:36 PM

Enhance: Guile - 4
Enhance - Offensive Poisons - 5
Enhance - Turgur Poison - 5
Enhance - Mental Breach - 5
Enhance - Whirl of Blaces - 4
Potency - 1

Enhance - Dazzling Steel - 5
Enhance - Plunder 3
Enhance - Inspiriation 5
Enhance - En Garde - 5

Enhance - Arctic Blast - 3
Enhance - Hurricane - 5

I haven't respecced in a while but this is how my current setup is. I plan on testing a few things out before I say what I am gonna stick with.

Miranni · 05-28-2007, 02:14 PM

i went down the far right line for the debuffs, since I consider that more important than a little more personal dps, and some of the additional debuffs are actually quite nice.. I agree the wording for the last effect in that line is unclear, I am not sure it is working the way I would think it is supposed to. I guess I need to run some tests & see what I can come up with. it would be more worthwhile to put the points for the last effect into something else if it is not increasing resistibility of the raid against the mob's spells (which is how i'm reading it).

Hope that's clear I'm a little bit sleep deprived. Suggestions for test situations would be cool.