Is Bind Wound worth learning for a Shadowknight?

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

That works too. But you get my point. If you can throw 10k+ at an alt, it shouldn't be too hard for you to farm another 10k, and it is definitely worth it. SKs have a harder time self healing when low level life tap targets are not present in the zone, or the area you are camping. Having a regen item and bind wound will speed up your recovery process significantly, which means more kills per hour.

Iksar BP gives you 3000HP/Hour. That is 1-3 additional full HP bars per hour, depending on your level.

Bind Wound at 100 skill gives you 40 HP per bind wound. That is 400HP per 10 binds. If you do 100 Binds per hour, that is another 4000HP/Hour.

That is a total of 6000-7000HP/Hour at least. For context, a Fungi Tunic is 9000HP/Hour. So for 1/5 of the price of a Fungi, you get 2/3 of a Fungi Tunic. This strategy does require you to go down below 50% more often, so you can bind, but it is certainly doable if you know how to handle the mobs you are fighting.

Well, I definitely plan to save any bandages I get early on and use them to jumpstart Bind Wound. And since I have Slam I can skip a 1-hander and shield probably and just live on 2-handers. That's money saved right there.

If I just go for SCHW, 2 Velium Fire Wedding Rings, a couple of starter 2h weapons (Deathbringer's Rod and Green Jade Halberd) and some various low-mid range Str/Sta plate, that's about 5k at most, and I can definitely afford that.

But Innothule Swamp is not going to work out for me. Nearly everything here is KoS and I only want to be killing Decaying Skeletons. I won't be able to transfer anything here either.

I need to find a way to get to Neriak on this character.