50's SK Gear Advice

[DeathsSilkyMist]

Originally Posted by Danth [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

On that part I agree with him. If a guild invites me I'm going to play my own character, and if they ask me to play someone else's I'll tell them to get lost. Don't invite me if you don't want me to be---me.

Shadow Knight is by no means hopeless anyway. Less than optimal at the very end doesn't mean wholly incapable. Through most of the game it's good. It'll pull or tank for the lower-tier and some of the middle-tier raids just fine. Runs out of gas as a boss tank around Vindicator, but can continue pulling all the way to the end-game. High-end pulling is more about proving oneself to a guild's established pull team and most guilds stick with what they know or are used to more out of inertia than necessity.

Of course, none of this matters to an already-overgeared solo leveler.

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If a shadow knight thinks disease cloud is all he has to cast in groups, he's probably not very good. That's just serviceable enough to level with and get into a guild that'll hassle him to play something else.

Danth

Oh don't get me wrong, I have raided with my SK before when he was my main, and I have seen some great SK mains with BiS gear. They certainly have a spot in the raid if a guild is willing to use them (which isn't that often sadly).

The reason why I advise against it is because Samoht is specifically trying to bend the conversation in the direction of "Build your character for end game raiding AoW all the time!". Honestly my response to that is "If you are really trying to build a hardcore raiding character, don't do it on an SK in the first place".

His viewpoint just doesn't make sense. If you are a hardcore raider, you probably won't roll an SK for raiding. But if you have an SK, Samoht wants everyone to try and make them the best raid SK possible? It just doesn't add up. Obviously if someone's goal in life is to make the best SK raider on P99, go for it! Some people have done it, and they have awesome characters. But that isn't what most people do, and people should know that SKs are the worst raiding class in the game sadly.