Hey all, I posted this on SOE's forum with no luck. I'll try here.
I've recently started an Illusionist and was wondering if it's common practice to keep your defense and melee skills leveled up. I know every little bit helps but I don't want to be worrying about rising my defense if it's really not going to make a big difference in higher levels. I ask this because in EQ1 (the dreaded EQ1 commparrison, sorry) I would spend hours just raising my Clerics defense and 1 hand crushing level and I hated it.
Basically just curious if anybody does worry about their defense and melee skills and if so do you seem to see it make a difference compared to other players/alts that do not have their defense up to par? I'm assuming in later levles your weapon is pretty much never used. I'm willing to sacrifice time, effort, and deaths (I'm a very causal gamer, that's why I say sacrifice) if it will really make a difference.
Thanks