Level 20 bonus skill

[DSArmagedd]

<DIV>I'm having a hard time picking between my level 20 bonus skills, and I'm looking for some input.  The choices are:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Elisi's Wounding Gash:  Adept II backstab that can be used from the flank as well as from the rear (this looks nice to me, as sometimes it's hard to get directly behind a mob when tanks like to shove them into walls <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> )</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Tani's Circular Flurry: Circular Strike with slashing DoT.  I use Circular Strike often as the opening move (after ambush) in groups to land poisons on as many as possible.  Does the slashing DoT stack with poison?  Is it good damage?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Locke's Shameful Kick:  Gouge with interupt.  This one doesn't look all that great to me.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Nestral's Relentless Advance:  Rash Advance with a longer duration.  What is the duration?  i currently don't use rash advance all that often due to the short ammount of time it lasts.  It's hard to refresh in my group as I often duo with my brother (or group with him + healer) and we chain HO's</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Any advice would be extremely helpful.</DIV>

[Akurei Sens]

<DIV>technically I'd say the AE attack, as that's the last skill of those 4 to be upgraded before 30</DIV>

[Dtrick]

<DIV>I picked Locke's Shameful Kick and did not regret it at all.  You will get the upgrade for gouge at level 30 and it makes the kick obsolete.  However, I was never able to find anything better than app3 gouge, so the kick was a nice jump in damage.  And if you are just hitting 20, you will get 9 levels out of it.</DIV>

[Kegofbud]

<DIV>I took Elisi's Wounding Gash and it's not bad. The problem is that it's on the same timer with Hidden Shiv. So, the onyl time I use it is when I can't get directly behind a mob.</DIV>

[Korelen]

I went with Nestral's Relentless Advance, but I forget what the duration is. I will have to look it up when I get home from work this evening.

[DSArmagedd]

I'm glad to see the replies!Two questions still remain:Does anyone have information on Nestral's?Akurei Senshi, does the DoT from Tani's stack with poison?Thank you.

[Korelen]

You want to use Rash when you are attacking mobs that are a higher con than yourself, especially reds. Your hit rate will increase a lot. I use this line of spells in Runnyeye a lot, since a lot of the mobs we slaughter are red to me the deeper we go in the zone.

[Ratt]

I picked the AOE dot afaik poison stacks as the dot hits multiple enemies at any rate, backstab one gets replace too soon (with shiv which is a nice little number) the rash adv one I don't use often enough to warrant it IMHO (but thats just me if you use RA a lot you might want to consider picking that one).The gouge + interupt could be good but I don't like it but thats just me I like the concept of getting Dot's, I pick the sneak attack replacement (I am annoyed that it uses distracting blade timer not sneak attack as the dot cons lower that DB does) and both dots stack from what I can see. The AoE Dot is quite good as it does a moderate amount of dmg for a few proc's but then it doesn't give us huge agro like most AOE things do so its good.

[Akurei Sens]

<DIV>as he stated, yes they stack, which "can" be some brutal AE dmg for a scout if you use a frontloaded poison</DIV>