New SK here, returning player

[Bludnut]

Hail!I've been gone some time (well over a year and a half) and honestly never got far with my prior attempts to play the SK class.What drew me back was the Sarnak race, so the order of the day was a Sarnak SK (I've never gotten over my DE SK from EQ). It's a blast playing the game as it is now and TD is a very cool starting area so far.Anyway, the point of this thread is some advice in the way of Achievement and Racial Traditions. After a number of searches thru the EQ2 forums and on the web I was only able to find limited information on the practical usage of Sarnak racial traditions (which are the best for which class and which are either broken or just a waste).1) At 10 I went with "Break Will" as I figured the 2% reduction in resists would really pay off, was this a poor choice?2) Regarding Achievement, what are your choices? Any information as to the best course of action is helpful. I plan to solo most all of my career if that makes a difference.Thank you!

[Gestalt79]

<cite>Bludnut wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Hail!I've been gone some time (well over a year and a half) and honestly never got far with my prior attempts to play the SK class.What drew me back was the Sarnak race, so the order of the day was a Sarnak SK (I've never gotten over my DE SK from EQ). It's a blast playing the game as it is now and TD is a very cool starting area so far.</p><p><span style="color: #cc0033;">I started a Sarnak SK as well, very fun.  TD is a great starting zone and you should try to complete most/all the quests for the great items.  Most all are no-trade, but even if you don't need a particular quests reward, many have multiple quests with increasingly better rewards.</span>Anyway, the point of this thread is some advice in the way of Achievement and Racial Traditions. After a number of searches thru the EQ2 forums and on the web I was only able to find limited information on the practical usage of Sarnak racial traditions (which are the best for which class and which are either broken or just a waste).1) At 10 I went with "Break Will" as I figured the 2% reduction in resists would really pay off, was this a poor choice?</p><p><span style="color: #cc0033;">Break Will looks to be a good choice, my guy is only 20 right now and don't have, but will by 30/40 probably.  I like the Fire Breathing, great for multi mob fights (works on multiple solo mobs as well).  Also grabbed the 25% reduction in fall.  My main is a bruiser, so used to jumping from high up and not worrying, deadly with alts.  Plus our starting city has many jump points.  I'll probably also get the 2% crit and +5 crushing.  Many of the others aren't much use to an SK imo.</span>2) Regarding Achievement, what are your choices? Any information as to the best coarse of action is helpful. I plan to solo most all of my career if that makes a difference.</p><p><span style="color: #cc0033;">This information you may have seen already from your previous forum reads, but what I'd do is Crusader Int Line at least 4/4/8, that will give you 68% spell crits.  I'm at 4/4/7 now, and I love it.  After that, I'll probably head down the SK Reaver line.  Basically adding lifetaps to many of our spells which never hurts.  Reaver, the end ability, gives you 2% life back for every damage spell you land on your opponent, at the cost of 1% every 6 seconds (correct me if I'm wrong, having never used it).</span></p></blockquote><blockquote><span style="color: #cc0033;">After that, not sure where I'm going with AA.  Good luck and hope this helps a little.</span> <p>Thank you!</p></blockquote>

[Bludnut]

Thanks for the info Ulrik!I am seeing a lot of advice about locking my combat exp @ 10 to maximize my AA gained while questing. Any further thought on this?

[Gestalt79]

<p>It's not for everyone, but I locked about 60-70% of my SK's time from 10-20.  That's why he has 16aa already.  He ran out of quests in starting area and even took a tour of the common lands for exploration and named AA exp.</p><p>Basically, if you want to lock it nd leave it for good, there are enough quests to do so...but that takes a looong time in multiple zones of same lvl range.  I just did it now because it's still very quick leveling early on and getting 68% spell crits with a young character seemed worth it.</p>