Skald RA's

[Zeppelin]

Hi,
can anyone suggest what RA's I should be taking first as a skald.

 

[insomnia]

Get UP or Purge first, then you could take whatever you want, suggested MoP 2

 

[Jeron]

My RA's:

First Aid 2
Ignore Pain
Purge
Aug Dex II
Aug Str II
MoPain II
Longwind
Toughness
Aug Con I
AoM I
MoParry II
Aug Acuity I


First three are the important ones imo, rest you can pick as you see fit depending on your play style. (MCL is rather useless on a skald now since they reduced the power usage of the shouts)

 

[Silenzio]

no funny ra's sigh

 

[Solid]

Get:

FA1 (3)
FA2 (6)
IP (14)
Purge (10)
Aug Dex 1 (1)
Aug Dex 2 (3)
MoPain 1 (1)
MoPain2 (3)
AoM 1 (1)
Long Wind 1 (1)
Aug Con 1 (1)
Toughness 1 (1)
Aug Str 1 (1)
Toughness 2 (3)
Aug Acuity 1 (1)


That will require RR6L0

I suggest taking those RA's in that order

If you get past RR6L0 then buy AoM2, Aug Str 2, Aug Con 2, Aug Acuity 2, MCL

 

[old.Zuljin]

where is your MoParry ?

 

[Jeron]

Sol, those RA's look remarkably familiar

I'l say it again, MCL is completely useless for a skald now the DD power usage has been addressed

 

[Solid]

Great minds Jeron, I just did a reply, didnt really read what you wrote (you never write anything important usually )

Anyway imo even at RR6 Skalds will suck and often get wtfpwned by RR3/RR4 Pure Tanks all the time, also get wtfpwned by RR3/4 Champs and Paladins.

BTW I dont agree with most folsk saying 50 Weap 43 BS is the best spec, kinda pointless makign a Skald if you dont invest in your Battlesongs line.

43 gets you speed 5, best mez, best snare.
You are left with a 5.8dps Add, level 25 and 34 DD's, not exactly an insipiring melodic friend now

I would go 44 Weapon/46 Battlesongs/17 Parry

 

[Jeron]

Bah Sol, for once you disapoint me

50 Sword 43 Songs 2 Parry is TEH group RvR spec imo

Your suggested spec would only perform better in duels

In group RvR, the DDs are only really useful as interupts, and speed should be run at all times rather than switching to dmg add. I would much prefer that extra weaponskill, and the attack speed debuff on Ragnarok is quite underated

 

[Artemls]

Get Long Wind first imo.

 

[vukstinaitor]

I would get:

Long Wind 1
First Aid 2
Ignore Pain
Purge
Aug Con 3
Avoid Pain 2

That would require rr 6L2 tho.

In my opinion passives doesnt make any big difference in a group situation.

 

[osrim]

Lw1,
IP,
Purge,
Aug con 3,
AP 2,
AF 2

For win.

 

[Solid]

Jeron but 50 Weap 43 Songs = all the sacrifices you make for pickign Hybrid is for Speed 5?

So essentially only reason to pick skald is for Speed 5? kinda sad the class defining characteristic is Taxi bot (and remember its an insults to Taxi's calling a Skald a Taxi, cos at elast a Taxi hurts when it hits you).

 

[Damon_D]

Hehe solid but the point is..all the other " tool's " are broken..our mezz last's 3 sec's, our dd's hit for the same dmg as a trown stick, our dmg add has crappy range and misses pulses...only thing the skald has of use is ..tada..speed. 50 weapon 43 bs is the way to go atm...maybe someday...next year or when ever we might get some luve in our BS line higher BS might be viable..but atm..nope

 

[aveh]

<insert whine about skald-RA being useless and skalds being rogered (without any lube) because apparently we dont need IP and Purge as much as real tanks so we have to pay double for it>

<oh, and remember the Thanes too, our brothers-in-being-rogered>