My expectations about new AA Survivability in combat with Epic (Guardian)Mitigation + Avoidance + Stoneskin = (Shadowknight)Lifetap + "Life Pact" Hate Control (Guardian)Many snap aggro and so on = (Shadowknight)Boost of taunt + Upgrade of "Death March" DPS (Guardian)Guardian with STA line = (Shadowknight)Boost of DPS of spells and CAs of SK + Improvement of "Harm Touch" Etc Permanent pet Improvement of "Contagion" Stance for 2 handed weapon
I'm totally for having the two new sub-class endlines be +50% spell double attack with +50 focus (DPS) and the other be a hate mod of 25% with +25 to aggression. Aside from that, Innoruuk's Caress line should be modified in the "Hate" Shadowknight tree, in order to give it growth from a proc that target locks an enemy on the Shadowknight (4 seconds in PvE, 2 in PvP). The first point out of three could be 2.5 procs/minute, the second 5 procs/minute, and the third 7.5 procs/minute, if it wouldn't be done on a 5 point basis grading from 1-5 procs/minute. Also, the agility line for the Shadowknight should be used to modify their pets. The endline ability should turn their pet into a triple-up that has a duration of 30 minutes and a reuse of 45 minutes. AAs in the line should modify the pet's abilities, one bubble to deal with granting it a reactive heal like we have, another to increase its spell critical hit chance and DPS (+5 of each per point), and another to give it a proc that forces a 4 second target (2 seconds in PvP). Darkc's "What do Raiding SKs need?" thread is superb, as is Tiberuis' "Dev Question - Are You Going To Fix The SK Class?" topic.
