Skill upgrade

[-UGG-Andy]

<DIV>I was fortunate enough to find a piece of ruthenium in the very first thing i mined in Zek,and im told it can be used to upgrade skills,whats best to upgrade?I'd prefer something im going to use for a long time...</DIV>

[Velor]

<DIV>If I were you, I'd use it on either Striking Cobra (39), Quiet Purity (37) or Biting Mantis (39), in that order too.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>All 3 of those arts can be upgraded with your ruthenium and all 3 are viable to use even at level 50. They are the last upgraded arts in those particular attack lines.</DIV>

[Gaige]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Velorek wrote:<BR> <DIV>If I were you, I'd use it on either Striking Cobra (39), Quiet Purity (37) or Biting Mantis (39), in that order too.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>All 3 of those arts can be upgraded with your ruthenium and all 3 are viable to use even at level 50. They are the last upgraded arts in those particular attack lines.</DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>I'd get Quiet Purity myself.  Its always up, its a group offensive buff, you can use it on pulls to generate hate.</P> <P>Striking Cobra master is pretty common, and usually isn't too expensive, and its a lower damage attack (in the 120s I think) and Biting Mantis is an okay damage doer, but meh I dunno I use QP all the time.<BR></P>

[Velor]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Gage-Mikel wrote:<BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Velorek wrote:<BR> <DIV>If I were you, I'd use it on either Striking Cobra (39), Quiet Purity (37) or Biting Mantis (39), in that order too.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>All 3 of those arts can be upgraded with your ruthenium and all 3 are viable to use even at level 50. They are the last upgraded arts in those particular attack lines.</DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>I'd get Quiet Purity myself.  Its always up, its a group offensive buff, you can use it on pulls to generate hate.</P> <P>Striking Cobra master is pretty common, and usually isn't too expensive, and its a lower damage attack (in the 120s I think) and Biting Mantis is an okay damage doer, but meh I dunno I use QP all the time.<BR></P> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE>I wouldn't necessarily disagree with you there. As you said, QP is up all the time so there's alot of merit to prioritizing it first. I only have Adept 1 of it though so I don't know how much of an increase the Adept 3 version gives. <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I actually have a Striking Cobra Master 1 but I got lucky with it. A couple of months ago when I was around 35 or so, I saw someone on the broker selling it for 50g so I jumped all over it. I think I had around 2p saved up by then but since I knew that even at level 50, I would still be able to use it, I felt like it was a bargain price. To this day, I still have yet to ever see it for sale again too. The biggest drawback to Striking Cobra though is that it has a long recast time so most of the time, you will only get one or two chances per fight to use it.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Again, either way is fine probably but those are really the only 3 arts I would even consider using your ruthenium on as they are the only ones that you will still really be able to use at level 50.</DIV>

[Kharza Xorlarr]

Vel can you post the skill informatin for Striking Cobra Master 1? I've been contemplating picking it up since it is pretty common on Mistmoore.Thanks,Kharza 38 Monk Mistmoore

[Velor]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Kharza Xorlarrin wrote:<BR>Vel can you post the skill informatin for Striking Cobra Master 1? I've been contemplating picking it up since it is pretty common on Mistmoore.<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Kharza 38 Monk Mistmoore<BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>You got it. Taken directly from in-game:</P> <P>Striking Cobra (Master 1)</P> <UL> <LI>Inflict 179-299 melee damage on target</LI> <LI>Interrupts target</LI> <LI>Decrease Damage Per Second of target by 5%<BR></LI></UL> <DIV> </DIV>

[-UGG-Andy]

<DIV>Thanks for the advice everyone,think i'll go with Cage's advice as soon as i find an alchemist to do it,no hurry yet though,as im only lvl33 at the moment.:smileytongue:</DIV>

[Velor]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> -UGG-Andy wrote:<BR> <DIV>Thanks for the advice everyone,think i'll go with Cage's advice as soon as i find an alchemist to do it,no hurry yet though,as im only lvl33 at the moment.:smileytongue:</DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE>Do us a favor please and post the spell data in the description of the Adept 3 after you do. I'm curious to see the increase.<BR>

[Salodor]

<DIV>Level 42 atm and Quiet Purity Adept 1 is:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>9% DPS increase</DIV> <DIV>9 to skills</DIV> <DIV>237-335 Mental Resist</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Adept 3 is:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>9% DPS increase</DIV> <DIV>10 to Skills</DIV> <DIV>242-341 Mental Resist</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Not a huge upgrade but might be better in higher levels, who knows =p</DIV>

[Wiou]

ick.

[Gaige]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Wiou wrote:<BR>ick.<BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV>Now you see why I say adeptIII/master is hardly ever worth it over adept 1.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>When considering cost to what you get, I'm quite content with almost all adept 1s.</DIV>

[Salodor]

Ya I tend to let the casters/healers have the Adept 3 stuff.  Had an opal laying around so said what the hell and had it made.

[Velor]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Salodor wrote:<BR> <DIV>Level 42 atm and Quiet Purity Adept 1 is:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>9% DPS increase</DIV> <DIV>9 to skills</DIV> <DIV>237-335 Mental Resist</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Adept 3 is:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>9% DPS increase</DIV> <DIV>10 to Skills</DIV> <DIV>242-341 Mental Resist</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Not a huge upgrade but might be better in higher levels, who knows =p</DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Do me a favor please and keep an eye on how the Adept 3 version improves itself as you continue to level. I just noticed that at level 50, my Adept 1 is also 9% DPS increase (same as yours at 42) but mine gives 10 to skills and 259-366 Mental Resist. Thus, it does appear that our numbers do scale up, albeit not by very much. </P> <P>Thanks.</P>