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Originally Posted by fischsemmel
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Analogy time!
"Waiter, I'm torn between the cheese n' mushroom sirloin and the steak and seafood meals. What do you recommend?"
"Well sir, I really think you're just trying to decide what is best. You should eat what you want. And if your friends here don't approve of your choice in food, you should eat here alone or you should find new friends."
It's a good thing you don't work for tips, Lishrac.
Note the use of the English language employed by the OP:
He wants advice on something very specific, and he even calls attention to a piece of advice that he would MOST appreciate getting. Nowhere did he ask for anyone to tell him to do what he wants to or whether he should find new friends who approve of his choice of entree. In fact, it would be a pretty safe assumption that what he wants is advice on the underlined things above! Whoa buddy!!
OP: your dark elf SK will be able to solo or tank in groups with your friends. Not surprisingly, it will not be AS effective at squeezing the most out of a complete heal or hitting as hard solo, that is unless you have a hell of a lot of PP. However, the difference, while noticable, will not be game-breaking.
Regarding the xp penalty difference? I felt my ogre SK was pretty painful to level by the time he hit 20, even though he had it a bit easier on the xp than your troll. I was mostly solo or duoing with an ogre shaman, and I had spent probably 20k twinking my SK. My bard's xp bar feels to move quite a bit quicker when I kill individual mobs.
I would expect that the extra 28% on that penalty would really, really be painful at 50+, even for someone who makes it to 50 without noticing it.
Since you say that you want to reroll so that you can keep around the same level as your friends with the limited playtime you have, however, I think I would advise AGAINST starting over. Go look at your /played, man. How many hours have you put into your SK already? Think about how long it would take you starting from scratch on a dark elf SK in order to make up for losing that time spent on your troll. How are you going to catch up to your friends with the dark elf AND then keep up with them if you are already having trouble keeping up with them?
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To your giant wall of text that you felt the need to leave me to read I ask but one question. Who did I quote? And assuming I quoted somebody could you not also assume that I am talking to them and not the OP?
Somebody find me a screeny of the jump to conclusions mat! I'm feeling lazy.
To OP: Since I don't want to derail your thread I would say keep your current SK and give a smaller SK a try and see how you like it. If you end up not liking it very much you always have your current character to fall back on. The only thing you lose is a little leveling time. Btw, I have a guildy that is an iksar SK which I believe without looking at the Wiki has the same xp penalty as your troll SK and he just reached level 48 recently. He's one level away from some very useful spells. He says yes that the xp does get painful later on especially during hell levels but he can do so much with that character. Regen goes a long way.