Knight specs

[Jaycub]

Whats the best spec for knight group play wise? Seems like they have a lot of options in t3.

http://waronlinebuilder.org/#career=kot ... :;0:0:0:0:

This one I was thinking might be best at rr 40, but I haven't actually tested focused mending. Does it work with all forms of healing direct/HoT etc... on this server?

would be running stay focused, heal debuff, and resists aura. OYG seems to just be fluff dmg and toughness aura is inefficient due to not stacking with the plethora of toughness buffs/debuffs (I could be wrong).


There is also double crit build

http://waronlinebuilder.org/#career=kot ... ;;0:0:0:0:

but I really think that focused mending is the best knight tactic if it actually works on all healing, and the heal debuff aura is also really good.

The only problem I see with running these 2 tactic builds is that you lose your KD, but that can be off loaded onto an IB or other class.

As for the 3rd tactic I assume just running runefang for the free crit reduction and extra bit of DPS is best? it can also be of use guarding your shield rush against sever blessing.

[Penril]

At rr40 i would go like this: http://waronlinebuilder.org/#career=kot ... 2:;0:0:0:0:

Keep enemies snared while your team blows them up (+20% crit).

[Jaycub]

I forgot about that snare tactic, that seems pretty good. Does that hit your target + 3 people or only 3 total?

[Jail]

This is the spec i run

http://waronlinebuilder.org/#career=kot ... 084:3087:0:

[Jaycub]

It seems like every build starts with dirty tricks then you get either

slice through + encouraged aim
slice through + KD
Healdebuff aura + focused mending

Does the 10% crit and aoe snare outweigh the usefullness of the 15% extra healing and 30ft aoe 25% outgoing healdebuff? Aura choices probably also come into play here, the str aura tied to the 10% crit is probably one of the weakest auras the knight has because of buff stacking, stay focused is pretty meh too. You also have to give up the toughness or resists aura for the healdebuff depending on your party comp. Slice through also takes up a tactic slot as well.

Spoiler:

tfw the 13 point knight abilities are garbo

[Tesq]

Why you have an IB if he dont aoe snare? also not take both KD and neither stag i dont know how to fell about it, it's true that mdps can KD..
The 15% heal more feel hot.
Don't increase 3rd path and go for first one and have low res aura but trade it for crit tactic i dont know how to feel about it either.
regen aura si better than the chosen coutner part cos i also regen ap, so you basicaly can spec def auras but also regen ap to partys, and boost heals fo 15%, allow to take 2 wp instead 1 wp+rune

[Jaycub]

IB should have KD unless they are 2h and not speced for cavein. Brothood IB has a better AoE snare and I think most IB's spec that?

Resistance aura does seem to be one of our better auras, but unless you are running in a party with bw I don't think you will get much out of the debuff, and AM/RP both have resistance buffs around ~200 which are probably their best buffs, since no one is going to want the power buff. Most times I think RP end up just giving everyone ini/wp.

[Tesq]

it's not for the debuff, you never debuff elemental under the 38% most of times, it's to reduces your group damage the more you can from bomb partys. Magus debuff aoe the damage that sorc does so in this case destru bomb with 1 mgus is way better than order one. (magus spiritual debuff = to auras buff value as base stat). Order have sm to make their bomb skills cd faster instead
And IB will spec anyway heal debuff and aoe snare and most likely parry buff for oathfriend.

So i think that take a snare tactic on kobs is not performing, unless you play 2x kobs which inn that case grant you everything.

[Gerv]

Once I finally get to lvl 31 I will run the spec that penril suggest, the aoe snare is too good not to use. It hits just 3 people total.

[magter3001]

I forgot about that snare tactic, that seems pretty good. Does that hit your target + 3 people or only 3 total?

It hits your target as well as three people for a total of 4 snares. Also, if your target parry's or block's the snare, the other 3 targets still can get snared. At least that is how it was last time I ran the snare build. Dunno if the bug was fixed or not.