Tuthmes said:Whats the best spec for a skald these days?
Is it the straight forward 50sword, rest <euhm> battlesongs?
Zoia said:.....but clicked parry a couple of times too much and had to take 46, 44, 17.
Never thought it was worth a respec stone to fix it.
Hush Calo, don't scare him away by telling him you specced the sameCalo said:I had also 44hammer 46bs rest parry.
Worked like a charm.
Chosen said:Hush Calo, don't scare him away by telling him you specced the same
One of the best, you get it at such a low level, and the small end costs help GREATLY when solo! Never had a problem with end in a solo fight if fully rested because of that style! Its a life saviour!xenia- said:Dunno if its the best anytime, but it is really good - very very low end usage (more an issue solo than in grp I find) and decent GR, similar to other taunts.
Nobody said to go lower than 43 BS (red speed), also it doesn't matter if 1 of the DDs gets resisted more than the other, it still interrupts! Mez will be lvl42 anyway no matter spec.Chosen said:Well, you miss out the best speed etc, and 35bs for a skald is too low. Youll get resisted alot=) And getting the only single mezz we got resisted, is a no no for us skalds in a solo fight=)
You haven't seen my defence then, I parry the pole armsmen!xenia- said:Same spec as Zoia here also, 44 hammer, 46 BS, 17 parry - tested more or less every other spec (as Im sure most skalds have) - basically red da is cool for solo or grp when speedwarped and gives you 2 red DDs (lvl43, 44), 44 hammer is just for followup to rearstyle, and parry the leftovers really (Skald defense still sucks no matter what people try to tell you but its better than nothing and if you dont put some poitns into parry you cant really whine about defense either ).
Sword, axe are viable too but both solo and grouped you cant beat the utility of the hammer snares imo.
Dr_Evil said:Nobody said to go lower than 43 BS (red speed), also it doesn't matter if 1 of the DDs gets resisted more than the other, it still interrupts! Mez will be lvl42 anyway no matter spec.
Chosen said:Hehe, sorry, I read it wrong. Thought it said a diffrence between 35 BS and 44 BS
If youre playing youre skald skillfully, then the best damage add is good to have. And with 44 hammer, you get a good behind snare style(That you can use after having mezzed youre enemy), and a good followup "Sledgehammer", that does a good deal of damage.Tuthmes said:Yeah mebbe should formulated it differently, ie. is the 46dmg add worth spec'ing for. Can't get 46battlesongs and 50weapon :| and i dunno how huge the dmg diff is between 44weapon and 50. Bin looking at the style of axe/hammah/sword and all 3 seem good. Stylewise, axe seems better for solo'ing and hammer got a snare on backstyle and sword got ragnarok. Then again i dunno if its so important to have snare styles when you got perma end.
Anyways i think i made up my mind and will be goin for 44hammer, 46bs, rest parry. Prolly gonne play in group with it more then solo.
I ran out to check how much difference 6 more in hammer would be, just for you!Tuthmes said:Yeah mebbe should formulated it differently, ie. is the 46dmg add worth spec'ing for. Can't get 46battlesongs and 50weapon :| and i dunno how huge the dmg diff is between 44weapon and 50. Bin looking at the style of axe/hammah/sword and all 3 seem good. Stylewise, axe seems better for solo'ing and hammer got a snare on backstyle and sword got ragnarok. Then again i dunno if its so important to have snare styles when you got perma end.
Anyways i think i made up my mind and will be goin for 44hammer, 46bs, rest parry. Prolly gonne play in group with it more then solo.
Tuthmes said:Thx for the test Zioa! And yeah think all 3 nfd alliance groups (yup thats 24 rvr players) that have rerolled to avalon are making a tank group.
Funny though, even how small the differance there might be between spec's, it still gives food for thought...
xenia- said:I dont really think skalds are that bad atm - its just that alot of other classes got quite abit of loving lately. You could however argue that e.g. the addition of celerity charges was stealth love for a 2h class with midgard basedmg bonus, solo at least.
VNboards is filled with whine also and I suppose it is justified to some extent since we were promised love a year ago or so. Main issue is probably how skalds are classified as a music class while many think they are tanks
Anyways if we ever receive some love I hope its groupfocused - being swapped for a serious dps class in grp is the worst danger to the class imo - solo is a different ballgame and alot of the people whining seem to forget that if you wanna solo you need a bot, you need hastecharges, you need celerity charges, you need spec af, you need SoM, you need mezz bt, you need purge, you need ip2, you need fa2 etc. etc. etc. - just like any other serious soloers are doing.
Apart from that its all about playstyle too, kite ftw dont stand toe to toe with a class that rips you a new one in 15 secs and so on
Ehm, 49 hammer compared to 44 hammer is like no diffrence And you wont even get the last style, since that goes at 50 hammer.genitsaros said:best spec for a twoll skald is 49hammer 44bs rest parry
hits like a truck and has the last red dd
but dmg add is yellow not big difernce from red...