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Kalin,
wrong all around. DRK received decent buffs recently, and situation is a bit different.
Phantasmal Blade has fantastic uses breaking up a pull or when puller gets 2-3 and you want to paralyze one of mobs. You need to make sure your group doesnt assist you immediately though and waits until your call.
You can use wrack-ruin combo, but basically, for some reason, once you go through incite-inflame, you got aggro lock so good, that you can skip using anything but the melee atk for rest of the fight. I tested it and pulled off incite-inflame first 2-3 rounds, and after that removed my hands from keyboard. Ranger 2 levels below me couldn't pull the aggro, and i told her to go nuts on the mob. So in grouping situations incite-inflame > wrack-ruin for aggro.
Shield of Fear is not so useful at level 1 of ability, but at level 2 it raises ur blocking by 15%, that is significant. Also, it is a bridge to our most powerful defensive finisher - +100/125/150 AC per level of DC on the mob.
Ksill you are mentioning is called Scythe of Death, and it has been fixed to life leech 100% hp back by Avair just a few days ago, and most of the community seems to feel that it is in a balanced state.
+8dext wont grant you any block whatsoever, it is strength that grants blocking now. But even disregarding that, +8str will not grant you even .1% blocking.
All in all, once you reach DC5, and pull off a defensive chain on the mob, you gain +15% blocking and +900 AC. that is a LOT of mitigation.
Hope this helps.... I just do not want such a negative post such as yours be the last one on a stickied thread.
Thanks
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