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Originally Posted by mattydef
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You can't chain cast DC either. Weaving DC and SV may possibly end up beating out spamming blind with the occasional stun though, but even so, it'll never make a difference in a group/raid scenario unless the SK/Paladin are literally fighting for agro against each other for some odd reason.
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I (60 SK) did exactly that trial some years ago with a 60 paladin. He mostly used flash of light mixed in with stun when it was up; I was using a mixture of disease cloud, clinging darkness, and the occasional AC debuff. Our result was we kept ping-ponging the target monster back and forth between us until we got bored and decided our normal threat generation was effectively equal. I didn't use heart flutter or asystole, two notoriously high-threat spells. I intend to give them a trial some day, but thus far I've never got around to it.
Years of experience tells me that on either class the occasional fizzle streak is the most common reason someone else might get whacked on an engage, followed by an inopportune bash or once in awhile someone might go overboard because he wants to rip aggro on purpose for fun.
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Edit: My memory is that piercing was belatedly given to paladins because some folks used to complain to Verant that it made no sense for the paladin class not to have that skill since some of the paladins of our own real and quasi-real history used various types of spears.
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