Schizofrenic

I'm lvl 48(ish) and have 50 points in AA so far. I have disabled combat xp gain and gone back to do grey quests for more AA.

As a healer for friends, I find that I am working out of their quest journal much more than my own, so I have a book full of grays, low AA, and levels that have outstripped my abilities. (Powerleveling must really really suck!)

So, in order to quest more efficiently, I am going to have to solo. I have 50 AAs. Where can I put the first 50 to help me solo? Keep in mind that NONE of my gear is above MasterCrafted. I don't have all the buttons, bells, whistles and fancy drops from all the instances. Just me and my heals and a really shitty fighting style.

Thanks for the advice.

Eminaria

Get the Melee crits from the Warden tree, and go down the STR line under Druid and you should be able to melee anything to death... get the SoW upgrade for faster travel, and start adding some into the agi line next for better heals as you get more aa's. Then get the Litany of Combat from the TSO priest aa line for even better meleeing.

You wont be an amazing healer with those specs, but you'll be a decent one and you'll mow down stuff... get a good slow 2h as a weapon.

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Schizofrenic

Thank you very much for that advice. That is just what I was looking for.

Question though... "slow 2h"? why? What has slow got to do with it?

edit: got the RIGHT smiley this time... clicked too fast on the original... either that, or I'm just senile. Both are possible.

WC-Larry

Slower delay weapons hit much harder and do more dps for us if you have our weapon skills buff on yourself.

Eminaria

Hmmm, what's with the Smiley?

And as WC-Larry said, slower 2h weapons will do more damage, as with the AA's I suggested you'll have high DA and Meleecrits, so you'll be critting alot, and the way crit works makes them more effective with a high damage slow weapon than a faster lower damage one.

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Schizofrenic

Ah, thank you both. Makes sense.

I have dumped all the points into the line that ends with "Force of Nature", and whatever was left over is in SoW and Snares... When I get more I will look the other lines (AGI, STR, etc.)

One other thing, when I maxxed out the line, I was given three melee CAs that take the place of the Spell CAs on the timer... what is the point to duplicating these abilities? Both cost power, and the new ones from the AA line do LESS damage than the Ad3s I had scribed...

I guess it's true, I must be senile, otherwise this would make sense, too!

(<---- right smiley this time!)

Albtraum

The "new" spells are Combat Arts vise Spells. Melee Crits work with auto attack and CAs. Spell crit is for spells.

And if you did the end line, you should have at least 75% melee crit.

If I were you, I'd take the points out of movement and put them into STR for the double attack.

Ixer

*Edit* Alb beat me to it.

Skully

I am lvl 17 and slightly confused (what's new?).

Having read on numerous occasions that our auto attack is our main damage dealer (melee) I was wondering would it not be better then to forget about the melee route and instead go down those lines (presumably str and int) which would increase the auto attack damage as well as the damage done by our damage spells?

My inexperience is no doubt showing by asking this but I would be grateful for a (not too harsh) explanation as to why the melee route is better.

Cheers.

WC-Larry

Got to get the melee crit first.
The most important basic stat as a melee priest is melee crit which affects both auto attack and combat arts. Going down the CA line is really just a necessary evil to get the melee crit.