Erudite SK, Various Questions

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I think I'll definitely drop those 5 points for AGI. You incur a penalty for having less than 75, do you not (Is that only agility, or do all stats have some kind of penalty like that)? With the responses so far, I'm thinking of putting the rest as either 10str/5sta or 5str/10sta. Does that sound reasonable? I know STR gear is pretty easy to find, but what about STA gear? My uneducated guess is that it should be just as easy to get as strength-stuff.

I don't really plan on doing a whole bunch of extreme raiding with this character. At least, that's only what I intend. I was thinking something simpler, like just basic grouping and maybe, maybe, some lower-end raid material... if I enjoy it enough. Never really been the Raid type, to be honest. Plus I might drink too much to be part of a well-coordinated force <.<

I did make a scratch EruSK, to see if I could get off of Odus without a hitch. The guards aren't a problem. I can get about to where the teleport pads for Erudin Palace and the docks are.. but then some sort of a caster (or Deepwater Knight? His name starts with a V) catches me every single time.. and nukes me. Even when I reach the teleport pad to head to the dock.. somehow his spell still reaches me and I get one-shotted. I don't want to wait until SK invis to leave, but at the same time I don't want to -have- to get someone to port or invis me out. If thats how its gotta be though, then I guess I'll have no choice.

Another quick question: Do useful SKs pretty much exclusively use 2H Slashing weapons? I hear a lot of talk about how 2HS is the way to go, any particular reason for that or do the 2HS choices just rock way more than the others? As well, at any point (and for any reason) should I attempt to use a shield for bashing, or should I just skip over that and focus on 2HS?