Erudite SK?

[TheSpin]

<p>EruditeInnates:Clear Mind - Out of combat power regen (P)Falling Grace - Feather Fall toggleable buff (A)Choices:Scholarly Pursuit - +5% sage success chance (P)Chemist - 5 alchemy (P)Homeward Bound - 10 min reduction in recast of city recall spells (P)Intellectual Feasting - 25% food duration (P)Ward of Glyphs - ward, 5 min recast (A)Magical Protection - magic resist (P)Intellect of the Sage - 5 int (P)Erud's Teachings - 2 spell crit chance + 5 disruption skill (P)Arc of Lightning - ae magic attack encounter dd, 2 min recast (A)Casting Fury - 5% casting time reduction, 2% max power (P)</p><p>I think an Erudite SK might be an interesting and effective twist now that the racials have changed with RoK.  Anyone else see the potential or am I insane?</p>

[Delphyne]

5% casting time reduction sounds really nice, is that a perminant?  The rest seems ok too.

[TheSpin]

<p>Yes, the 5% casting is permanent.</p><p>There are definate drawbacks because a lot of races get +defense or +parry type skills, but none of those races get anything to help with spell casting as a melee class.  The other races have a melee based option that includes things like +crit to melee, and then a spell based option which includes +crit to spells, but because shadowknights are a melee class they automatically get the melee option rather than the spell one.</p><p>The Ward isn't huge from what I hear, but it doesn't need to be huge to help out.  Even if it just absorbed one attack it would be something.</p>

[Delphyne]

The way i see it, SK's are offensive tanks (or are supposed to be) so anything to help us hold agro or do more damage is a plus.I am a dark elf shadowknight and am looking forward to putting my healers to work when i cast <span class="postbody">Fury of Innoruuk, hell, but at least i'll hold agro <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />Unless you plan on tanking the hardest hitting stuff in the game, alittle less avoidance isnt going to do crap, a good shield is all you really need.I normally find myself playing the offtank role quite a bit, i tank in offensive stance all the time, unless there are really hard hitting mobs/epics involved (of course)Adds from contested mayong or adds from avatar fights i all fight in offensive stance tho.But yea 5% extra casting speed isnt much , but would be nice if you spec full STR line making a total of 15% perminant faster casting speedSTR 4 6 8 4 2AGI 4 4 7STA 4 4 7INT 4 4 8would probly be a superb spec for a erudite SK.. or something along those lines.  Oh yea and get yourself a ring of the four winds for +5% recast reduction!</span>

[CaptainLag]

<p>I loved playing my SK on the original EQ and I felt like rolling up my first alt.  I like the Erudite SK since I rarely see that race/class combo on Nagafen.  Would anyone that plays as an SK mind posting some advice on SK PvP for T2 and T3?  I read a lot of post saying that int 4/4/8 is a must, so would that be the best bet to start with my AA early on or something else?  I prefer the 2-hander, is it viable to use regularly or mostly situational?</p><p>Thanks in advance for any responses.</p>