Sk questions

[Brut]

Disease Cloud costs 10mana.
What do you need the 2k for? Only reason is to spam lifetaps to solo some low 50s mob at 60, which, again other classes could do way better. SK is a group tank, int doesn't really matter since you get aggro from very low mana consumption spells.

Also I gots most of my points in dex, since as said, str and sta aren't hard to cap, and agi hardly matters. Int just isn't a big deal for SK. Paladins, yes, since they get actual buffs worth casting and group heals and HoT, but an SK primarily casts a low mana cost FD and low mana cost aggro spells. There just isn't a point where you feel like 2-3 more lifetap casts would've done something big.