The Hunter's (Stamina) Line

[ChildofHate]

<p>Has anyone messed with this at all?  I've been using Wurmslayer (primary) and Vyemm's Fang (offhand) for quite sometime.  I've pretty much run my aa's like most others down the str and int lines.  I am sick of dealing with my stealth being broken when using intoxication and i am missing out on using the Poison Combination ability since i have WS in my primary.  Just wondered if anyone messed with the spear line at all and what their thoughts were on it.</p><p>I may respec tonight and try it out for S&G's.  Though i dont believe i will do the entire line.  The end ability to parry everything for a whole 6 seconds seems like a waste.  Usually by the time you realize you need to parry everything, you're dead and waiting on a rez or pressing revive.  The boost to HP doesn't seem that beneficial either.  The other skills though look promising and since i wont be sinking points into the whole line, i will able to add to the INT line as well.</p><p>Anywho, thanks for your constructive feedback.</p>

[HellRaiserXX]

I havent messed with it, but just from looking at it I imagine it is going to help with group mob DPS a good amount.  The big thing from the INT line is the spell crits really.  I honestly dont care much for the other abilities, debuffs are nice, but the spell crit is what Im after.

[ChildofHate]

<cite>HellRaiserXX wrote:</cite><blockquote>I havent messed with it, but just from looking at it I imagine it is going to help with group mob DPS a good amount.  The big thing from the INT line is the spell crits really.  I honestly dont care much for the other abilities, debuffs are nice, but the spell crit is what Im after.</blockquote> I find this fact amazing as well.  Our INT line gives us spell crit, which obviously is meant to affect our poison procs, etc... and yet the Devs are nerfing how spell crit adornments affect our poisons.  that just stinks of hypocracy.  Nerfing an adornment which does the exact same thing as our aa ability.  That is just f`ing [mentally handicapped / learning disabled / educationally challenged].

[Graton]

<cite>ChildofHate wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Has anyone messed with this at all?  I've been using Wurmslayer (primary) and Vyemm's Fang (offhand) for quite sometime.  I've pretty much run my aa's like most others down the str and int lines.  I am sick of dealing with my stealth being broken when using intoxication and i am missing out on using the Poison Combination ability since i have WS in my primary.  Just wondered if anyone messed with the spear line at all and what their thoughts were on it.</p><p>I may respec tonight and try it out for S&G's.  Though i dont believe i will do the entire line.  The end ability to parry everything for a whole 6 seconds seems like a waste.  Usually by the time you realize you need to parry everything, you're dead and waiting on a rez or pressing revive.  The boost to HP doesn't seem that beneficial either.  The other skills though look promising and since i wont be sinking points into the whole line, i will able to add to the INT line as well.</p><p>Anywho, thanks for your constructive feedback.</p></blockquote> your dps will go down significantly. there was a post some time ago from an assassin that insisted str / sta was superior to str / int. several comparisons of deathtoll parses made it clear this was not the case. feel free to try it but you're treading on ground that's already been covered str / int is the most dps we can get out of the kos lines. keep in mind the int line affects malignant mark are single greatest ca. the lost dmg from this not critting at 63% is going to be enormous. as for the spell adornment nerf i'm not sure why everyone is so up in arms. was the extra 25 dmg on the first tick of hemo plus 4 thereafter really that big a deal to you? sure i used that adornment to but they said we're getting it unattuned so we can sell it back. i think it's a silly nerf because it's such a minor thing but i dont understand why people are so mad about it.

[ChildofHate]

<cite>Graton wrote:</cite><blockquote>your dps will go down significantly. there was a post some time ago from an assassin that insisted str / sta was superior to str / int. several comparisons of deathtoll parses made it clear this was not the case. feel free to try it but you're treading on ground that's already been covered str / int is the most dps we can get out of the kos lines. keep in mind the int line affects malignant mark are single greatest ca. the lost dmg from this not critting at 63% is going to be enormous. </blockquote>That's why i posted and asked.  I did a cursory search and found nothing.  So i figured i would find out if anyone else had tried it.

[Graton]

<cite>ChildofHate wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Graton wrote:</cite><blockquote>your dps will go down significantly. there was a post some time ago from an assassin that insisted str / sta was superior to str / int. several comparisons of deathtoll parses made it clear this was not the case. feel free to try it but you're treading on ground that's already been covered str / int is the most dps we can get out of the kos lines. keep in mind the int line affects malignant mark are single greatest ca. the lost dmg from this not critting at 63% is going to be enormous. </blockquote>That's why i posted and asked.  I did a cursory search and found nothing.  So i figured i would find out if anyone else had tried it.</blockquote> i'm sure the post is still here but it would likely be hard to find. it was definately well after kos came out but well before eof. i'll poke around a bit.

[Dmntd1]

<p>The STA line imo is for a PVP assasin, the extra HPs (7300 solo) and the 6 secs of parry are very usefull in pvp.</p><p>For a raiding assasin the STR/INT combo is the only way to go. </p>

[Shinnar]

If that AOE strike would have recast 30 secs and that percentage to AOE would be 3 % per point, i would go with INT, STA... But it is not , so i have to go str, int <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Hadanelith]

<p>If you chose STA / INT, you may be onto something... IF you raid KoS almost exclusively.</p><p>Reasons Why:</p><ol><li>INT line still helps the Wurmy do more damage (spell crits = proc crits)</li><li>STA line will give you an extra AoE that you can actually use WITHOUT Stealth</li><li>Many, MANY KoS encounters are 3-mob or more, which means more AOE attacks = more DPS</li><li>STA line also gives a chance to auto-attack mobs in AE if you choose to activate that buff.</li><li>Extra AoE + AOE auto = more Wurmy procs doing damage.</li></ol><p>So, it's not an altogether bad approach to KoS. You'd have to parse it out to really check though.</p><p>-Hadanelith Raswrolski of Kithicor</p>