Newbie SK

[Duckwalk]

Recently leveled an erudite sk to 60.

I wouldn’t go ogre or troll. Being giant is a pita for early game str / stam quality of life. With set of SS/“pre-raid” equipment your basically able to cap stam with standard buffs.

BE gloves seem nice but the boots were far less efficient than just casting fear when the long cast time/high chance to take dmg and regen it up or be forced to lifetap it back is taken into account.

SKs don’t have a ton of ways to regen hp. Lifetaps are horrible until 55+ and vampiric embrace will only minimally offset hp loss. Either way you’re going to find yourself sitting regening hp/mana. In my experience hp was the limiting factor.

Get a good 2hnder and switch to it at 30. I recommend reaver, the number of mobs you can’t hit is countable on one hand and most likely stuff you won’t be fighting 3O+ anyways. The damage increase is noticeable and far outweighed meager tanking bonuses. But keep a shield around to swap in for bash. Slam abs FSI are overrated. I didn’t miss them once.

If I was to re-roll I’d probably go iksar. Racial regen, ac bonus, robe fashion, greenmist accessibility (mainly for the proc), normal size far out weight slam, FSI, and early game stat bonuses.