AA Help with new mystic

[Befallen_Valgav]

<p>Hello</p><p>I recently started playing my son's old mystic....level 74 with 91 aa...I have no clue how to play them. Im learning. My issue right now is what to do with the AA's ...Im tryin to do  a melee spec. But I need help on what to do where.</p><p>Ill keep lookin in teh forums..but any help would be greatly appreciated</p>

[graewulf]

<p>In the Mystic AA's, you want to MAX out the Weapon Mastery line. These will give you Combat arts to use, instead of damage spells, and the end ability gives a nice combat boost too. Next, go down the AGI line, in the Shaman AA's. I did 4-4-8-8-2. This will max out your melee crit abilities (and max heal crit). For the rest, I went down the Ancestry line (Mystic AA's) to maximize buffs (and one of them adds a proc to our bearform...max that one out) and the STR line (Shaman AA's) to make the pet useful. Hope this helps! <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /></p>

[Teaen Arcarius]

<p><cite>graewulf wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>In the Mystic AA's, you want to MAX out the Weapon Mastery line. These will give you Combat arts to use, instead of damage spells, and the end ability gives a nice combat boost too. Next, go down the AGI line, in the Shaman AA's. I did 4-4-8-8-2. This will max out your melee crit abilities (and max heal crit). For the rest, I went down the Ancestry line (Mystic AA's) to maximize buffs (and one of them adds a proc to our bearform...max that one out) and the STR line (Shaman AA's) to make the pet useful. Hope this helps! <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>Here is a somewhat related question.  For a brand new mystic leveling up from level 1 doing mostly solo, wouldn't it make more sense to get the melee crit AA in the AGI line <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">before</span></strong> going down the Weapon Mastery line? </p><p>I thought that the main advantage of turning your spells into Combat Arts was that melee crits work on Combat Arts, not spells. If you get the CAs first without having melee crits, won't the CAs just do the same damage as the spells?</p><p>For solo, just trying to figure out how to maximize dps as soon as possible.</p><p>Thanks for any tips.</p>

[graewulf]

<p>You're going to be meleeing when you solo. Getting your combat arts first makes it easier. There is next to no casting time for them (so you won't be interrupted, unlike slower casting spells) and by putting the points into them, you are upgrading their quality for free (unlike spells). Also, the combat art version of our 'group AE' spell, is actually a true AE and affects all targets in range. Great if you happen to get adds (or want to pull them anyway <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" />&nbsp<img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />. The melee crit you get in the AGI line is just the icing on the cake.</p>