PVP AA advice

[Balrok]

<DIV>subject says it all.  I want to be careful, as once you put points into a tree... they cannot be reset and spent on the other tree (which blows).  Also, I won't be grouping much.. I want a build that supports a solo pvp'er.  =)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>For pvp, which tree should I focus on first?  Only about 10 aa to spend atm and only lvl 17, so keep that in mind.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks,</DIV>

[Cocytus]

<P>honestly focus on str till you have enough AA's to go 4/4/4/8/8 on wisdom. After that, go str 4/4/5/8.</P> <P> </P> <P>For the swashbuckler tree....not much matters other than taking the inspiration focus, and taking reach.</P>

[Goreshade]

While I agree with Cocytus' advice in principle, you don't really need the last 8 points in Coule to switch to wisdom, since most of the DPS from Wisdom comes from double attack proc.  IIRC, some number crunchers have stated that given a quality one-hander, Wisdom 4/4/4/5? equals dual-wielding damage, and then beings to exceed it after that.  The accuracy from Coule is very nice (I like it because it lets me be in my defensive stance with no penalty to accuracy), but it's not mandatory. <div></div>

[Cocytus]

<P>Actually, the reason you wanna wait till you can put 8 in both Unencumbrance AND Coule is more because of the defense part of Coule.</P> <P> </P> <P>And there's no point in taking the wisdom line if you don't max unencumbrance <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></P>

[Cocytus]

<P>Oh, I just happened to think...these two specs are indeed the best for PVP, but it can go one of a few ways.</P> <P> </P> <P>If you want to be strong against casters, go for str 4/5/4/8/8 wis 4/4/4/8. If you want to be strong against melees, go str 4/4/5/8, wis 4/4/4/8/8.</P> <P> </P> <P>I personally have other methods than AAs of dealing with casters so I'd recommend taking the strong against melees one.</P> <P> </P> <P>And yeah...I did actually pick my AAs for PVP despite Leithe being on a PVE server...sort of an RP thing. It just so happens that it's among the best dps specs <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></P>