Iksar Shadow Knight Starting Stat Points - PvP

[DonJuan835]

Coming back to the game after 10 years, and I have decided to try the hardest road, an Iksar Shadow Knight.

I am insanely OCD about my starting points, and I am trying to decide what is best. On the wiki, it says 10str/10int. After that, it says Realistic/Modern statistic allocation: 20sta.

I have read some of the forum posts, but they don't specifically mention Iksar or PvP.

I am curious, is the 20sta the correct option for an Iksar on a PvP server? Any help is appreciated, thanks!

[Lytt]

there is not cap to hit points, that is why for PVP, stamina is recommended.

[Colgate]

20 sta for roughly 110 more hp at level 60, however stamina isn't very hard to cap anyway

20 dex for slightly higher proc rate and higher hit rate in PvP

20 int for more mana

i would go dex or int

[SamwiseRed]

Cha

[Gustoo]

In live eq the way to go was stamina.

Maybe dex here since Colgate knows his stuff. I never heard that stamina was easy to cap before tho.

Go ogre and put all points to wisdom?

[Gylen]

however stamina isn't very hard to cap anyway

wat?

[Kergan]

Depends if you plan on having shaman buffs up most of the time or not.

[Colgate]

int is the min/max stat

stamina is much easier to cap than everything except for strength

[SamwiseRed]

Really it depends on the "to hit" coding that supposedly takes into consideration AGI. Something along the lines of if your DEX > their AGI you have a better chance to hit. Otherwise if their AGI > your dex you miss more often. I'd have to see the exact formula and do some math but it could be very well worth investing points into. DEX/INT/STA would be a safer bet though as the AGI thing could go away if found to be unclassic or broken. Before Luclin, the general rule was INT/WIS for hybrids(SK/PAL) because of mana pool. Of course back then people were dumb but I still think mana > all on a hybrid.

[Colgate]

primal will max str/dex/agi anyway

[B4EQWASCOOL]

Remaking all my characters. Maxing Dex.

[Qtip]

Go stamina for the hp.

[Jazzy]

Beastagor top sk on svr probably the best to ask

[Gustoo]

To hit code should be easy to see by parsing some melee strings with various stats

[DRAGONBAIT]

the thing with agi is that it adds to the avoidance part of the ac stat, tho u dont see that. never heard the dex > agi thing before, what i heard is that ac has 2 stats on it wich we dont see, dmg mitigation and dmg avoidance, agi adds ac but all the points go into the avoidance part. There was some old post from somene back on live who tested everything with lots of numbers etc.

[Kergan]

If I were making an iksar SK I'd have all points into INT, it's the only stat you can't cap. But I'd also be rolling around in groups with buffs and have access to primals and things eventually. If I had no aspirations of being decent geared I'd consider STA.

[iruinedyourday]

I went dex max for melee and int/wis for caster for max mana.. I could see how I should have gone sta for casters but on all my casters Ive never capped my int/wis

[Swish]

I went dex max for melee and int/wis for caster for max mana.. I could see how I should have gone sta for casters but on all my casters Ive never capped my int/wis

Not really. HP per stamina point on a cloth caster is generally not worth bothering with, I've never done it at least even on a necro :/

Shamans tho, definitely.

[Colgate]

If I were making an iksar SK I'd have all points into INT, it's the only stat you can't cap. But I'd also be rolling around in groups with buffs and have access to primals and things eventually. If I had no aspirations of being decent geared I'd consider STA.

yea this about hits the nail on the head

[daasgoot]

for pvp i recommend putting all starting stats into resists.

YW