Why i hate Defense

[Felexitus]

Does anybody else have the problem that whenever you plan a defense/x build you dont have nearly all the skill points you want.
the mastery has so many good skills i can never decide. thats why i hardly play defense builds

[Lillis]

Lol, yes, I know exactly what you're talking about. All of the skills in Defense mastery is so darn good! Adrenaline plus it's upgrades, Rally plus upgrades, I even like Battle Awareness maxed (not just it's upgrades), and why should I settle for just one of the proc'ing Shield attacks? No way...
I'm actually thinking of building a Defense-only character, although I'm pretty sure he'll suffer from low HP's as well as the increase in stats from a second mastery.

[Dreamer]

Try playing a warden... All the passive spear abilities, buffs, etc on top of defense. It's nuts. I'm having such a hard time deciding where to put points, every level I'm like "Damn I need that skill too."

[The Rock-man]

I feel the pain to, melle tree need about 20 sp more on advage to max than casters .

[Felexitus]

Originally Posted by Dreamer

Try playing a warden... All the passive spear abilities, buffs, etc on top of defense. It's nuts. I'm having such a hard time deciding where to put points, every level I'm like "Damn I need that skill too."

i did.....and immediately discarded it as impossible for me

[Lanced]

What funny about your problem is if you count up the skills, Defense doesn't have many possible points to invest. There's only 160 pts you can spend on skills (+32 on the mastery). Most of the skills stop at 6 or 8 levels.

Nature leads the way with 210 pts in skills alone
Earth 205
Storm 197
Spirit 195 (55 just in the Lich tree).
Rogue 183
Hunting 170
Warfare 161

[Felexitus]

stupid high quality stuff all around. making cuts is much easier in every other mastery

[FcukChick]

hee hee how bout playin defence but not using shield then u can limit urself from investing points in shield tree

[Tarseus]

Originally Posted by FcukChick

hee hee how bout playin defence but not using shield then u can limit urself from investing points in shield tree

Exactly!

I'm playing a Dual-wield conqueror....so no need for shields.

But do I continue maxing the dual-wield tree, or focus on defence?!AHHHHHH

[kuchel]

My first char was a Conqueror... and I swear the shear frustation of not having all the skill points I want lead me to opt for Warefare/Rogue.

Now I have so many skill points that I don't know what to do with them . I pretty much maxed out all my essential Assassin skills by level 54 and now whatever I put in is just for extra icing on the cake.

And the Defense mastery alone would barely be satisfied by level 54 (not including the second mastery) !!! It's a shame, I feel you all, but what can be done? I'd probably whinge even more if some of the Defense skills were nerfed just because all of them were too useful.