Some spell advice needed

[froz]

<div>Ok, i just it 24 and have some questions:</div><div> </div><div>1. One of my master choices is Tainted carcass.  Is this a wise choice?  If i dont cselect this will i always get a shard for the pet spell at lvl 26?</div><div> </div><div>2. Tainted Sacrament.  Cam you please explain this? can you have more than one pet?</div><div> </div><div>3. What level do you get Set recal point?</div><div> </div><div>4. What lvl do you get Shadow Shroud?  Is it any good if you fancy stealthing a few missions?</div><div> </div><div>5. How do you respec?</div><div> </div><div>Thanks very much</div>

[AcidEt]

1. It depends.  If you plan to use your summon a lot, then it might be.  I think it procs a little higher and does more damage/hate generation per hit while active.2. Sacrament line is your temporary summon.  You summon 1 undead for 30 seconds.  This is a lot more useful than it might sound, mine at lvl53 hits almost as hard as I do in melee.  I upgrade mine to adept III asap.3. not a level requirement, there's a quest in CL, starting NPC is up near the blackshield assassins.4. Shadow Shroud? never heard of it.5. You don't, unless you have the veteran reward that allows you one /respec.Complete ability listing here: http://eq2players.station.sony.com/en/classes/index.vm?classId=9hope this helps.<div></div>

[Peace]

<div></div><span><blockquote><div>frozzy wrote:Ok, i just it 24 and have some questions:</div><div> </div><div><hr size="2" width="100%"><b>1. One of my master choices is Tainted carcass.  Is this a wise choice?  If i dont cselect this will i always get a shard for the pet spell at lvl 26?</b><font color="#cc99ff">Not having the master II version of this will not mean your character will never get tainted essences.  In fact, as far as I understand it, the proc rate on getting an essence from a mob does not change at all with the quality of the spell - it's a 2% chance to generate an essence across all qualities.</font><font color="#cc99ff"></font><font color="#cc99ff"></font><font color="#cc99ff">As far as this being a 'wise choice', how do you play your SK?  Do you play mostly in groups as MT, or do you spend most of your time soloing?</font><font color="#cc99ff"></font><font color="#cc99ff">Your choices (if I'm not mistaken) are:</font><font color="#cc99ff"></font><ul><li><font color="#cc99ff">Tainted Caress (damage shield w/ hate gen, essence summon)</font></li><li><font color="#cc99ff">Grim Coil (Disease DoT)</font></li><li><font color="#cc99ff">Grim Harbinger (self-buff Lifetap proc)</font></li><li><font color="#cc99ff">Decree of Decay (AoE Taunt, Disease MIT Debuff)</font></li></ul><font color="#cc99ff">Personally, I think Decree of Decay is by far the most useful of the choices - this is what I chose at this tier, and when the upgrade to this (Blasphemy at level 50) was a Master II option at level 54, I chose it again.</font><hr size="2" width="100%"><b>2. Tainted Sacrament.  Can you please explain this? Can you have more than one pet?</b><font color="#cc99ff">Your Caress line of spells generates Tainted Essences into your inventory while you are fighting mobs.  You can use your Sacrament line of spells to summon an undead skeleton to fight for you - this uses up one Tainted Essence per summon.  You can only have one skeleton out at a time, and it will only attack the enemy you have targeted when you summon it.  Your skeleton is not 'Assisting' you - if you switch targets and attack something else, it will continue to attack the mob you summoned it on.  Your pet will fight for you for a maximum duration of 30 seconds.  Be aware that if either your skeleton or its target dies, your pet will disappear (it will not target another enemy and keep fighting).</font><hr size="2" width="100%"><font color="#cc99ff"></font><b>3. What level do you get Set Recal Point?</b><font color="#cc99ff">This is not an ability you gain by leveling, it is earned by completing a quest in the Commonlands called "The Tie That Binds."</font><font color="#cc99ff"></font></div><div><hr size="2" width="100%"> </div><div><b>4. What lvl do you get Shadow Shroud?  Is it any good if you fancy stealthing a few missions?</b></div><div> </div><div><font color="#cc99ff">I'm not sure if I'm correct, but I'm assuming you are referring to the Dark Elf Racial Trait you can choose that allows you to become invisible for 3 minutes at a time on a 30 minute reuse timer.  If this is what you are referring to, know that this is not a Shadowknight-specific skill - you can choose to learn this skill only  because of your race (Dark Elf, though Iksar get an identical choice called Camoflage or something).  With that out of the way, I can say from personal experience that yes, this is a very handy skill to have.  I use it fairly often and it cuts back on my usage of Chameleon Totems (items which do the same thing a set number of times, but each cast from a totem can last up to 20 minutes instead of 3).  Also, the description of this skill is wrong - you used to only be able to stay invisible while standing still, but SoE has since changed this skill so you can run around as much as you want and stay invisible, just like with a Totem.  They have not (to my knowledge) updated the skill description.</font><hr size="2" width="100%"><b>5. How do you respec?</b></div><div><font color="#cc99ff">The /respec command can be used to undo every specialized choice you made while leveling your character (like choosing a different Master II choice at the various tiers, and choosing what Racial Traits you want, like Shadow Shroud).  The only way a character typically has the ability to use a /respec is if SoE makes a siginificant change to the game mechanics and decides that players should have the chance to 'reroll' or 'respec' their characters to function better with these new dynamics in mind.</font><font color="#cc99ff"></font><font color="#cc99ff"></font><font color="#cc99ff">The other option that will allow you to /respec is an in-game item called a Reforming Stone.  This allows one /respec per character, usable by activating (and destroying) the item.  This item is ONLY attainable by having an EQ2 account open and active for a certain length of time, through a program called Veteran Rewards.</font><font color="#cc99ff"></font><font color="#cc99ff"></font><font color="#cc99ff"><span>Details </span></font><font color="#cc99ff">regarding both the /respec command and the Veteran Rewards program can be found elsewhere on the forums.  I hope my response answers your basic question, though.</font><hr size="2" width="100%"></div><div><b>Thanks very much.</b><font color="#cc99ff"></font><font color="#cc99ff">You're welcome, and good luck!</font>  <span>:smileywink:</span></div></blockquote></span><div></div>