ugh ive been trying forever to find a spec

[Cow Slayer]

<p>hi ive been trying for like the past month or 2 trying to find the best dps spec if someone could pls help me give me some ideas or something for a crazy dps spec thatd be kewl it dosent need to be able to tank good or anything else just dps if u can thnx would really appretiate it atm im going 4/4/6/8/1 wis /4/6/8 int and 4/3 stam but its not working to good for dps i dont think so any help would be nice thnx</p><p>Onia 70 sk </p><p>butcherblock</p><p>knights of the shattering</p>

[Dead Knight]

You shouldn't have rolled an SK if you don't want to tank. As for a nice DPS spec, just get spell crits and spell haste. Someone should make an AA points guide, every second post is about AAs >_>

[Lord Hackenslash]

well if you want dps then skip the last 2 parts of wisdom and basically do 448 in int and 2 other trees of your choice. i like wisdom also and personally stamina. i would suggest 448 stamina or strength for your third tree depending on whether you have better weapons (str) or better casting ability (stam) the reason for this is if you cast alot you miss out on swings with str but the stam crits help make that up a bit.

[Dead Knight]

448 STR is useless, if you're only going to go that far into the line, grab an Illu instead. 448 STA pretty much sucks too since melee crits are weak. Only 20-30% of our DPS is melee. The cast time from the end line in STR is by far the biggest DPS increaser, I don't see any DPS in WIS, but I've never tried WIS and parsed it - so I don't know.

[Beldin_]

<p>KoS :448 INT, STR until end abilty. </p><p>EoF : 5 in Tap Veins, 5 in Deathmarch, 5 in enhancing disease-debuff of your group taunt.</p><p>Hmm.. think thats the most important.</p>

[Kaishod]

<p>As far as AAs go, I have the STR line INT 488, and STA 41(just for the AoE knockdown)and do pretty well...  though trying out STR48871 and INT488... </p><p>looking at your gear, its nice all of the fabled, but whats up with your jewelry? Its just master crafted stuff.  There are alot of upgrades I would work on there to get your stats up.  Could easily raise yoru STR and INT by another 30-50 points with just Legendary gear.  How do your spells look?  Masters?  AdeptIII, or just AdeptI?  From the looks of what you spent on your jewelry, guessing not enough put into your spells either.  Not knocking it, just an observation.</p><p>You're also losing alot of dmg output down the wis line, even though the numbers down that line look appealing, With STR end line the 10% decrease in spell times helps alot.  If you din't want to go down the STR line for whatever reason, then I think you're gonna lose out on alot of DPS.  Just my opinion.</p>

[Kaishod]

<cite>Shalla@Valor wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>KoS :448 INT, STR until end abilty. </p><p>EoF : 5 in Tap Veins, 5 in Deathmarch, 5 in enhancing disease-debuff of your group taunt.</p><p>Hmm.. think thats the most important.</p></blockquote>Definitely the 5 in both of the Sacrilege, 5 in Twisted Aura as well

[Hugsnkissums]

<cite>Shalla@Valor wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>KoS :448 INT, STR until end abilty. </p><p>EoF : 5 in Tap Veins, 5 in Deathmarch, 5 in enhancing disease-debuff of your group taunt.</p><p>Hmm.. think thats the most important.</p></blockquote>^^^ this worked good for me too. That end ability is like a haste effect for your spells so very very good for us. I've tried out a few different AA trees (WIS, STA, and INT) and by far the STR tree was the best choice as far as DPS is concerned, that is of course after I went 4-4-8 INT.

[Dead Knight]

<cite>Shalla@Valor wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>KoS :448 INT, STR until end abilty. </p><p>EoF : 5 in Tap Veins, 5 in Deathmarch, 5 in enhancing disease-debuff of your group taunt.</p><p>Hmm.. think thats the most important.</p></blockquote>You forgot 5 in the proc % rate. That would give more DPS than anything else in the EoF tree.

[Solathan]

I am currently Int 4/4/8, Sta 4/4/8, and AGI 4/4/8.  I instantly noticed my dps doubling over the Full wis/Int 4/4/8 I was before.  It is nice on occasions to have trample activate with a 2 handed sword.  Also I use Hammer ground a lot.  Very fun little AoE stun.

[Dead Knight]

You'd get more DPS if you dumped AGI and tossed the points into STR.

[Nej]

Pff no way Ripzz ! AGI 4.4.8 STA 4.4.8 INT 5.4.8 Int for spell dmg/pwr/spell crit Sta for melee crit since were able to spit out a lot of dps with the normal buffs from raids Agi to make more use of ur melee crit, so u have a chance to make a melee crit on 4 targets aoe. --- i dont know about u ripzz but im able to do around 2k-3k auto dmg on a crit and 1k-1.5k normal with the normal buff from a fury wich im allways in group with. when i left STR for this spec my dps went up by 400-600dps on solo mobs and 400-800dps on grouped mobs. Beside if u go STR u get attack speed but its not worth anything without melee crits. and if u want attack and crits u have to give up some if not the whole INT tree and that is really 70% of ur dps or something up around that.

[Dead Knight]

Coming from an SK that parses 2K ZW+. Melee crits are a waste of points, as are AGI. Melee is only 20-30% of your DPS. The rest is spells and procs. Spell haste and spell crits are the way to go. All you need to do is respec and compare your parses from before and after. Nobody picks STR for melee haste, they pick it for the end ability. I don't understand your logic about losing the INT tree, all you need is 448 in INT, and after 448 INT and full STR you still have 9 AAs left to spend in the KoS tree.