Stance Mastery or Gladiator's Revenge?

[Fenrir]

<p>So, I'm maxed out on my warrior tree and here's my present build:</p><p>STR 4, 4, 8</p><p>STA 4, 4, 8</p><p>AGI 4, 4, 8</p><p>WIS 4, 4, 8, 5</p><p>I went WIS for two reasons:</p><p>A) Belly Smash is a fantastic debuff in a group environment.  Sure you can't use it in a raid, but, for typical dungeon crawling and instance thrashing, you love MIT Debuffs.  And,</p><p>B) I was working toward my Stance Master.  If I can go Offensive and use my Hunker with NO penalties, I am all about that!</p><p>But, here's the problem...  I'll need to pull 3 points out of the other columns to get that Stance Mastery.  *cringes*</p><p>Now I could go 4, 4, 7 in STR, STA and AGI buying me those three points. But, I'm kind of loathe to do that.</p><p>Now, everybodies talking about the 4th ability in the STA line- Gladiator's Revenge.  It looks good, being able to riposte 8% of your incoming attacks...  especially if it sets off your Buckler Reversal.</p><p> I raid once a week and I'm MA for that group.  Presently, I'm running with the Festering Flesh Buckler and Silver Sword of Rage.   I know the Silver Sword has a crappy delay on and I'm working toward getting my Soulfire Gladius...  Short of trying the RoK Instances for a weapon out of there.</p><p>So, what do you guys think?  Get those 3 points for my Stance Mastery?  Or forget about WIS altogether and load up on Gladiator Revenge?</p><p>Thanks in adavnce!</p><p>Cheers!</p>

[Bramwe]

Why do you need all the AE abilities in RoK?  I realize in EoF it was nice but really what is the benefit in RoK?  I would take them out of Agility.

[Fenrir]

<cite>Bramwell@Guk wrote:</cite><blockquote>Why do you need all the AE abilities in RoK?  I realize in EoF it was nice but really what is the benefit in RoK?  I would take them out of Agility.</blockquote><p>Well.</p><p>My raid party is still working through KoS...  so, we will be going to EoF soon.</p><p>I've yet to experience RoK raid zones or instances, only the quests lines- of which I tend to get more than one mob as I'm duoing with a talented Mystic.  So, would I face multiple mob encounters in RoK?  If I do...  then, yeah, I still kind of want the AE action.</p><p>Side note....  I admit that with all the faction neutralling in RoK...  having an indescriminate AE that goes off 40% of the time can be dangerous and I've gotten myself into more than a couple of scrapes because of it.  <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/499fd50bc713bfcdf2ab5a23c00c2d62.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></p>

[Wilin]

I'd pull the 3 points out of AGI if you want to stick with wis for stance mastery.

[Daalilama]

For pvp, stance mastery is a good choice for pve/raiding its nice to have but not needed