skill lvling

For tanking, you need to max:
Flesh Ream
True Form
Shape Shifting Intensity
Beast Kings Inspiration
Beastial Rage (1 lvl only, and you need the chi to tank)
Roar
(Roar can be a life saver in case multiple mobs are aggroed. But its no fleshream, i.e. its easily loses aggro. Your party should be smart enough to know that when they see you roar, they should immediately goto assist attack and kill mobs one by one as you are flesh reaming them).

Alacrity of the Beast
(Dont need to max, lvl7 fits nicely with most monsters and bosses castings).

For added damage you need to max:
Poison Fang (its a cheaper and faster alternative to titans).
Axe Hammer Mastery.
Strength of titans.

For grinding in tigerform, try to max
Devour (useful while grinding)
Sunder (once you're 59+, this skill becomes top priority while grinding)
Feral Regeneration (really cuts down the meditation time).

For grinding in human form, try to max
Mighty swing
Penetrate armour
Slam
beastial onslaught

Additional useful skills you may want to level (when you have spare sp and coins)
Surf Impact (helps slow the mobs that run away from you)
Blood Bath (not really needed, unless you plan on PvPing a lot, now that fleshream doesn't miss. For PvE +acc equipment will work just as good).
frighten (reduces enemy attacks and speed)

You wont be able to max all these skills until higher levels (70+).
Till then, choose a path and level the skills needed for that path.

Garotte helps a lot in the pre-60 lvls when you can fight in humanoid form efficently (like without charms or constant cleric buffs). I have it maxed.

Post lvl 60, I found myself having to change my style, fighting exlusively in tiger form. The reason is because things started hitting very hard with magical attacks and Mighty Swing would stun 50% of time but even when it did, the mobs would have time to get a second magic attack off as well. So if it didn't stun, I would get hit twice with magic.

Needless to say this led to slow lvling and frustration.

But when I got Alacrity of the Beast to lvl 7, things started to change. 95% of the time mobs did'nt get a single magic attack off because I cancelled both attacks. And if I happened to hit a critcal, they did'nt even have a chance to start the last magic attack.

With the 60% more phy def, 20% more life (yah I have lvl 2 and will until Demon), and not getting hit with magic often, I found that tiger form is the way to fight post 60.

Also use ur Spark eruption at all times (like when ever you have a spark). When you get to lvl 59, you will get Advanced Spark Eruption, which I use all the time: 300% weapon dmg, 2 second invincibility (makes it easy to resist the mobs magic and first melee attack), 10% of ur life bar back, and lasts for 12 seconds. IMO this is my favorite and most used skill save for Alacrity.

Wait actually Invoke the Spirit is my favorite. All damage is reduced by 90% and 50% speed reduction for 20 secs, 2 sparks. I call that skill "my Superman" lol.

Gogg - Heavens Tear wrote: »

but why use Devour? don't you need that chi for Sunder?
tell meh!

Why? 50% reduced pdef thats why....b:chuckle. Just helps kill the mobs that much faster.

Prior to lvl59 (pre-sunder) devour was the skill I always followed alclarity with.

After lvl59 and when against magical mobs, yes you will need to sunder often, so might not use devour as much. But when against pure physical mobs you might not need to sunder as often and can use devour to help kill faster.

I normally open with alclarity (activate beastial rage while running to target), devour and then normal attacks.

im lvl 13 and im wondering how to activate my feral regenerating.b:cry

wow y would some one post in this necro