eggy said:Nocs,
My paladin is 50shield 39slash 46chants through autotrain.
I levelled with crush and shield maxed (no chants) all the way to 48, which was fun I can tell you! You then need to use a SINGLE respec stone on crush and put it into chants/slash. Full respec stones wipe the autotrain, so I'm afraid it's single you need. I think singles only drop in Sidi, but maybe off the Grand Summoner too. You can do the first few keylords with a group, so might be worth your while.
You could have extra fun, and simply max shield all the way to 48, leaving everything else blank. It's amazing the amount of groups that don't even notice if all you can do is block. Just put yourself an incredibly glowy slashy weapon in your RH slot, and people assume
Awesome spec by the way, I love it.
Any kind of respec does exactly the same. Whether it's a single line, or full respec, from a stone, or free. If you auto-trained a line, you'll keep the points. If you didn't, you won't.eggy said:You then need to use a SINGLE respec stone on crush and put it into chants/slash. Full respec stones wipe the autotrain, so I'm afraid it's single you need.
Only from Sidi. The summoners drop RA stones. But yes, a good, ToA'd group can probably empty Sidi nowadays.eggy said:I think singles only drop in Sidi, but maybe off the Grand Summoner too. You can do the first few keylords with a group, so might be worth your while.
In pure group RvR, 50 shield, 1 parry is a reasonable choice, but this is nothing to do with the reasons you gave - it's purely down to Parry being useless if your 'opponents' aren't hitting you.Rigga Mortice said:Ditto here. My intention was have 2 forms of damage, crush n slash. On slash weak opponents, riposte->befuddler mixed with a dose of slam->backslash; on crush weak opponents, spam brutalize.
The game checks are done in the order: evade->parry->block->hit/miss... so by decreasing the chance to parry first, the overall block percentage would increase per swing the opponent took. so parry:1 shield:50 gives the ideal, its just rather fortuitous it fits with the nice stopping points of 39 slash and 46 chants with 0 points left over Judging by your chars name, I figure your working was something similar
Or you could do the other option. Spec crush til 40, use the free respec at lvl 40 to go to 0 crush, then attempt to lvl 40-48 w/o any weapon skill except sheild.eggy said:You could have extra fun, and simply max shield all the way to 48, leaving everything else blank. It's amazing the amount of groups that don't even notice if all you can do is block. Just put yourself an incredibly glowy slashy weapon in your RH slot, and people assume
Awesome spec by the way, I love it.
Asha said:Or you could do the other option. Spec crush til 40, use the free respec at lvl 40 to go to 0 crush, then attempt to lvl 40-48 w/o any weapon skill except sheild.