aerial wrote:If you want damage, just put 66 points into spirit tree (assuming you get 31% ed from maxed shamanic trance).
That is 2046%, after that it is capped, so more points is wasted.
No downside, pure ewd, and use another stance (crane stance will give you 600-700ed, 20% dodge, and costs 0 points).
I'm currently trying this approach and wondering: is it worth putting many points in Spirit Walk?
I'm thinking (probably wrong lol) that the cooldown on SW will be at 0
wherever we put the points in the Spirit Tree, so the only reason to put more in SW is for the stance radius.
With just 1 pt in SW and +skills it says "extra 20 yds stance radius" but it's not easy to see how big that is in terms of screen size. I tried testing using a few skills on other classes and I
think the vertical height of the screen is about 14 yards maybe??? if that's true then an EXTRA 20 yds is... loads more than we need, way off-screen?
EDIT: ignore the bit in the spoiler, Jampula cleared this up in the post below (thanks).
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Other things that makes it hard to understand are that Wolf Stance doesn't seem to say what its own radius is.
And - it says it has a synergy with SW but it doesn't say what that is (there's text below that says "1.5% CB per base level" but... that doesn't seem to happen, when I put points in SW CB stays at 11% on Wolf Stance and on char screen stats). So I think the CB is per base level of Wolf Stance itself, so the exact synergy with SW... unknown.
So this is a bit of a guess, but is there a case for putting the Spirit tree points as:
smax Shamanic Trance
1pt Spirit Walk
Max some of the summons (maybe not the bloodlust one if using another source on switch?) to get to 66 points
EDIT: I know aerial said the summons are not useful for his barb which kills too fast for them to make a difference, but mine isn't that great yet so he would probably benefit from some helpers/shields.