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What you should do is acquire the skill and try it out for a while. If you don't like it, you can always refund the skill point for it and try something else. That's what I do when I want to try new skills. I acquire them, try them out on the town dummy, try them out in the field, then save them or undo them and try another.
I am building up strength and focus, because I also have a lot of poison and element effects. I will also be maxing out master of the elements.
I was planning on doing this as well. My issue is that I have to get to level 42 before I can compare.
The farther you level dagger the more daggers you get and it cuts down on the gap you get. It would seem.
It would be crazy to not have both. Regardless the Strength / Focus investment, those Daggers with all 3 Tiers make an excellent Debuff against foes. Venom Hail at 1, 5 or 10 points is still good. In fact, given that there's only 132 Skill Points to invest then there's no need to max everything. Some Skills are viable at lower Ranks.
Yes :)
Shottie outlander is a close combat char. Due to the limited range of shotties in general and rapid fire, even at rank 10+. However s/he lacks the 25% free DR of engi and barb. No shield hence no blocking doesnt help either.
Hail solves alot of your glass-cannon problems, you dont have to get right in the face of that nasty <insert hard-hitter here>, you can snipe from a safe distance, if you dont wanne get close & personal.
And it's much more reliable when it comes to 3d terrain, e.g, hits uphill no matter what.
Cursed daggers, the dmg pales compared to hail, the debuf doesnt really help that much, you're dead anyways, and why would you want to debuf in the first place. There're 3 outcomes..
a) critters are dead due to hail
b) critters are blinded and hence dead (shotgun mastery)
c) you're dead, debuffed or not, at least on NG++/vet onward
The weakness from Cursed Daggers is significant, but only if they haven't already been blinded.
It's decent at Rank 10 with 65% although 90% Chance of Blindness at Rank 15 is difficult to match by other means.
'High' is relative. For the most part bosses have 70% blind resist, sounds high, but compared to i.e 90% stun, it's quite low.
The key is 'Rapid Fire'. It's so rapid that they are blinded within seconds. In fact shottie outlanders are the best boss killers, no other build comes close. They only struggle against multiple bosses, like 3 sisters
As it happens, bosses have 90% blind resist and 92% against stun, so maxing out the shotgun mastery is a good move if you intend to use it.
Why not both?
They are two different skill type.
- Cursed Daggers's main effect are debuff enemies dmg, knockback enemies, at each Tier of Cursed Daggers you can gain more "buff" for you for each enemies take hit by your Cursed Daggers.
- Venomous Hail deal massive Poison dmg (can crit).
I did decide to do both. At first I did not want to do both because I had tier one glaive throw for area attack and I did not want those points wasted. I dont know better, early game mistake, but I have decide to max both cures daggers and venomous hail and just deal with the wasted points in Glaive throw.