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VSRayv

04-11-2008, 10:08 AM

Hi all, I'm now Lvl 27 Shadowknight & this how i've planned my AA's. I am soloing at the moment with the occasional groupage. Any pointers on how i'm doing my AA's & Adept 3 upgrades would be great.This is how i started from 0 AA's & plan to go in this order IntelligenceLegionnaire's Intelligence - 4Legionnaire's Smite - 4Legionnaire's Wrath - 8 Reaver Infernal Blessing - 5Unholy Weapon - 5Leech Touch - 5Consume Vitae - 5Tap Veins - 5Reaver - 1Decay (4) - For nowGraven Embrace - 5StrengthAvenger's Strength - 4Swift Attack - 4Avengers Relentlessness - 4Avenging Invigoration - 1(go back max out Avengers Strength, Swift Attack & Avengers Relentlessness)StaminaSentry's Stamina - 4Hammer Ground - 4Fervor of Faith - 4Sentry's Bulwart - 4 Divine Aura - 1(go back max Sentry's Stamina, Fervor of Faith & Sentry's Bulwart) Decay - (Continued)Decree - 5Doom Judgement - 5Despoiling Mists - 5Draw Strength - 5Pools of Blood - 1Adept 3'sIf i can find the rares i intend to Adept 3 the following. Blessings Spell Range Unless Master 2 is availableDecree line with DebuffUnholy Weapon Line FD Spell LineI've been harvesting everything & sold all the stuff i don't need to make some money have have bought some MC Armor & a shield & 1 HS. Thanks in advance

Tolil

04-11-2008, 11:59 AM

Not at my EQ2 computer so working from memory, but your numbers for the Crusader AAs look way off for a pre lvl 70 build. Dont forget you need to allow 2 points for each end ability and you need to spend 20(??) in the tree before the end ability becomes avaliable.Thats my major concern after glancing at it, but like I said - Im working from memory and could be completly wrong <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Latpow

04-11-2008, 11:59 AM

1) Intelligence line - check2) At low levels (hell, even at 70+) Infernal Blessing is just too much of a mana hog to be used all the time or it just slows you down. I respec'd out of it. Either way, Unholy Weapon at 5 is great... usually makes up most of your DPS but Sta line is more useful over all imo. Hammer Ground is a great ability. I personally went Sta second until I max'd melee crits. 3) Most low lvl weapons are going to be 2.5 Delay tops, so you really don't get much out of haste yet. After I got Reaver, I went back to str and went 4 - 1... then left it alone. 4) I also put 5 points into the Death March recast AA... though I personally don't think it's that huge. It's rare you actually get to cast it back to back, unless in a good group pulling non stop. 5) Graven Embrace - I don't know about everyone else but I really don't use FD enough to justify 5 points in Graven Embrace. Good "oh Sh$$" ability... but if you need to use it every 2 min and half, something's wrong or you're farming shinies =p 6) Pools of Blood - great ability: check. Don't underestimate debuffs, we actually have the strongest Wis Debuff in the game. Much rather debuff Wis for more self + group DPS than the crappy +sta buff on your Str debuff. Summary - Early game go for max DPS, if you can afford Mastercrafted (or are smart enough to harvest early so you can sell rares to afford it) then you can tank anything in the game easy until your late 60s. Focus on stuff like Spell Crits, Melee Crits, Hammer Ground, Unholy Weapon, Debuffs, etc. Though I agree that Reaver is worth getting relatively early (not top priority).

Beldin_

04-11-2008, 12:25 PM

<cite>VSRayven wrote:</cite><blockquote> Reaver Infernal Blessing - 5Unholy Weapon - 5Leech Touch - 5Consume Vitae - 5Tap Veins - 5Reaver - 1</blockquote>I would takt 5 in Coil instead Consume Vitae and only 3 in Leech Touch. However you may respec later if you have enough points for all 3 endskills <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" width="15" height="15" />Also Coil is always worth an upgrade, the spell looks not that spectacular, but its bread and butter and at the end of the day does a good part of our damage <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

VSRayv

04-11-2008, 01:04 PM

Thanks all for the great advice, i've tweaked it a bit based on the advice given Intelligence Legionnaire's Intelligence - 4Legionnaire's Smite - 4Legionnaire's Wrath - 8 Reaver Infernal Blessing - 5Unholy Weapon - 5Leech Touch - 3Coil - 5Tap Veins - 5Reaver - 1Decay (4) - For nowGraven Embrace - 5StaminaSentry's Stamina - 5Hammer Ground - 5Fervor of Faith - 5Sentry's Bulwart - 5 Divine Aura - 1(go back max Sentry's Stamina, Fervor of Faith & Sentry's Bulwart)StrengthAvenger's Strength - 6Swift Attack - 7Avengers Relentlessness - 7 Avenging Invigoration - 1(go back max out Avengers Strength, Swift Attack & Avengers Relentlessness)Decay - (Continued)Decree - 5Doom Judgement - 5Despoiling Mists - 5Cleave - 5 (Think this is WIS Debuff)Pools of Blood - 1 Just one other question should i go for Decay line before STR Line ?

silentwolf

04-14-2008, 01:09 PM

Here is a suggestion you may want to look at. Once you get 21 points immeadiatly respec and complete the reaver line and then go back and redo either spell crits or melee crits.I perfer the melee crits because I'm a ShadowKnight not a ShadowCaster. luv the ground pound