SK Race Choice

[DeathsSilkyMist]

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

I don't have experience of 50+ iksar vs non iksar SK, but I do have that experience for iksar vs non iksar warrior for those levels. I'm not sure why, perhaps it is the native regen, or perhaps the scale bonus dramatically reducing incoming dps, but the recovery time on the iksar felt much more favourable than that of the half elf / halfling.

Based on that (but again with no first hand experience) I'm not convinced iksar would have dramatically more downtime. My troll SK only tends to lean on his BE stuff when already low on mana. Perhaps that is a gameplay 'error' on my part.

For sure, Iksars have HP regen. They will be faster at recovery than a Human, Dark Elf, etc. The regen is what you were feeling, not the AC bonus.

But without Blood Ember you are going to be meditating quite a bit more. You should use your Blood Ember stuff as much as possible, since mana is the bottleneck on Shadowknights. If you are in an area where mobs run at 20% health, for example, every 10 glove clicks is saving you 3 minutes of meditation time at level 60, more if you are lower level (less mana regen). You will be snaring every mob in this scenario.

Being a Troll gives you the best of both worlds, with no real downside.

The only reason to pick Iksar over Troll is if you just really dislike the way Trolls look. That is a perfectly fine reason. You should like your character, but you are picking the worse choice between the two Regen races. Unfortunately Greenmist just doesn't fit well with P99's 2 procs per minute cap. You're maybe getting 90-120 extra HP if you proc Epic and Greenmist while Epic is still ticking compared to re-procing Epic. However, the lower DPS from Greenmist is probably going to end up getting you hit 1 or 2 more times, which will cancel out that extra HP for the most part. If you proc both and they don't overlap, procing Epic a second time would have been better.