Originally Posted by
Aganii
How much shield use and dodge training do you have? Personally I found spell block excessive with 3x shield and/or spells. You will already have a bonus to block DS against bolts with a shield, however, medium shields only recieve a modest boost opposed to tower shields. This might be offset by the DS you would gain from learning shield swiftness if you have alot of Dodge training. If you find that bolts are ripping you apart when you are not blocking them then keep spell block until your base DS grows.
Agree with the comment on spell block. It becomes redundant and a waste of points.
I also would look hard at surge and your enhancives. If you're not using much for strength enhancives, 5 ranks has some strong benefits, (faster recovery, more strength, etc), but the alternative is no ranks of surge and a handful of pretty readily attainable enhancives. I've done that with Kerl, and just maintain a single rank of surge at 2 points.
If you're using a shield, you should consider trample. I keep preaching trample, because it's pretty awesome. With trample mastery it's particularly pricey, but being able to knock down 5 foes in one 5 second maneuver is pretty nice, and because you can 3x in shield use, your success chances are higher than most other knockdowns. Also worth noting that giantkin get a bonus on trample, possibly all shield maneuvers but I'm not sure, since the only one I use is trample. Roblar and I tested it out and he was getting as much bonus as I was (human) and he was using a medium shield.
Focus kind of depends on what you are using for equipment and spells. I find that a mere +2TD isn't enough to make a difference, but +10TD starts to mean something. Unfortunately, it falls victim to cost benefit analysis for me. I think I have just 1 rank in it, because that first rank is pretty much a gimmie.
Good luck.
Last edited by Archigeek; 05-16-2017 at 01:50 PM.
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