[Caethre]

OOC.

Personally, of the KOS AP skills lines, in the current post-EOF world of Norrath, I would say that the INT line was probably our strongest line of all, especially for casual playstyle players. The two key skills in that line are:

- Damage Crits for spells. These are not important if you are intending to be a raiding player, but for DPS-oriented Templars, are something you will not want to be without. If you crit, it adds 30% to the damage of a damage spell. [Side Note: For some classes, it has more of an effect than this, because the minimum that a spell-crit cast can do is the maximum damage of the spell without a crit + 1, but for Templar, the max damage of any of our damage spells is always less than the minimum damage + 30%, so this does not actually make a difference to any Templar damage spells.]

- Spell casting time reduction (Facile Grace). With 8 ranks in this, you gain a 12.5% reduction from the base casting times of all of your spells. This means that a spell that takes 2.0 seconds to cast before, will then take 1.75 seconds to cast. For damage spells, this equates to a 100/87.5 = 14.3% increase in DPS, but since it also affects debuffs and heals and every other spell, it is much better than just that. Personally, I consider this actually more important than spell damage crits.

This is why Templar Felishanna has 4-4-8-8 on the INT line.

Felishanna.