Hi all,
I had a fun night. Logged on did a fast Obelisk run with my SK. Was a great group and we tore through it in about 30 mins. I then did my first Freethinkers raid. Only had a few tidbits from various sources about what to expect, so it was pretty interesting. Figured out the entrance/throw the bone mobs after a few tests and a bitta discussion...then did our first try at Zylphax the Shredder. Took a few tries (and wipes) to get a decent system going...and got him down to 41%..then 30% on our last 2 tries. By the end we were jousting well, but still have a bit of testing to do regarding his port/fear etc.. We called it after most of us hit 10% gear, but it was a great initial foray, I'm pretty confident we can drop him next time. Was a learning run more than anything, so 1 step at a time. It took a few attemps just getting people used to jousting that fast (4 seconds to joust out).
Stu...reaver is a great line and a lot of SKs are going with it. I wanted my SK to concentrate on survivability and where I think he would have problems (Spike dammage). In the cusader line he is full STA with DA final...maxed in the STA stat and health % etc. The rest (which could be better allocated possibly in the INT spell crits)...is in full WIS stats and full AGI stats...very marginal gains in avoidance and resists....but more "up-front" dammage reduction than proc/crit heals "regain health after loss".
Since I'm very heavy in STA..and also STA/AGI/WIS gear...my DPS is low for an SK, so to help aggro management I'm all the way down the Hate line & with the Syphon. Maxed in Caress..(with master 1 it's giving ~116 hate every hit if I remmber right, maxed Sheild bash and Deathmarch timer reduction). Very nice line. To further aggro and survivability I'm sraight down the decay line (nice aggro boost from the disease debuff points...maxed, and reduced timer FD)....and am full up on the mititagtion sypher as well.
I also went with Brell for the mitigation buffs (+10% blessing +resists 10 mins...and the +3500 mitigation for 15 secs).
This works very well for me, I compare with the other raiding SKs on our server fairly often. Until a couple weeks ago my HP was the second highest on the server for SKs (but my mitigation was a couple hundred above). We recently had a transfer to the server of another higher HP SK though, but I'm not sure what he's specc'd for at the sec. I know in offensive gear my HP go up a nice amount as well.
Raid buffed I'm usually around 13.5 or 14Kish with a couple temp buffs (though I can boost it by another 600ish for a touger fight). Mitigation is around 5700 buffed currently (with a few easy upgrades/adorns still to add...soon I hope, which should add about 300ish). I'm aiming to get back to 6K+, post EoF gave me a big hit), and avoid is around 56%-57% at the sec usually.
With a multi-mob encounter like Gnillaw or Gnorbl...slap on the blessing +10% mit...get an Urchin +1200 mit...cast despoil ~+2000 mit (some resist)..cast the Miracle +3500 mit..get a Mystic buff + sacrilige then deathmarch...and you end up sitting at around 12000+ mitigation and 15000 to 16000HP for 15 secs off the pull, then drop to around 9300 for another 10 to 15 secs...with despoil still up for another 30ish afterwards (1 min 12 sec duration) and the blessing still up for the entire fight. With Divine Aura on soaking up the smaller hits simultaneously...you are a real Juggernaut (and Deathmarch proccing like mad on those encounters).
Anyway, I'll shut up now...:)
Edited, Jan 4th 2007 1:31pm by CHIMPNOODLE