advise gearing my sk

[kaev]

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

No, do not do this. Spread your money around to buy ARMOR with stats like HP, mana, stam, and MR. Do not funnel all of your money into a single item, much less a weapon. You're an SK. You're an SK without haste. Your DPS is going to suck either way. You'd be much better served pumping up your HPs and tanking stats and being a great TANK instead of a low quality DPSer.

This is NOT good advice for a lowbie hybrid tank, Danth's advice was much better. You won't always be grouped, you need a decent weapon to kill stuff solo. Also, just as important, under L40 or so your damage output can be decent relative to other classes (excluding epic rogue twinks, of course.) Don't fall into the trap of imagining that all of your agro will come from spells. Agro + AC + HP are the three crucial tanking stats, melee agro is not meaningless to hybrid tanks.

* get a decent bang-for-the-buck weapon
* cover yourself in cheap armor (banded/bronze)
* replace individual armor pieces with decent bang-for-the-buck pieces as you can afford to (including initial gearing)
* save for haste once you've got fine plate or better in every slot

The 5ac/55hp rings are great to start. As a troll your mana pool will be more of a mana puddle, so watch for gear that gives you +int or +mana without sacrificing AC or HP and learn the most efficient use of your spells to boost agro. Any cheap Blood Ember pieces you see are great, the high AC on them will be very helpful.