Imperial Javelineers, which tree to go down?

[Andante]

Anyone here have played around with maxed imperial Javs? I'm debating between going max middle tree or top tree. I wonder if the daze works on heroes, I already grabbed shield bash but dunno how good the increased frequency going middle is. Also 4 points for 15% increased shield bash damage and bleed chance seems like a waste.

Anyone know how good the daze is if you go all top tree?

[lxy3498]

My imperial javelinner is now lv 16 and I have bought unit training plan 5 times changing up and down the upper line. Yes the final point of the middle upper line does increase the shield bashing SIGNIFICANTLY, but I wonder how good it is practically: in battle, pressing v only half of the javelineers go upfront and fight, the rest half just wait there and wander around. The longer range of shield bash help little in changing the fighting frequency. The 4 point for 15% increase shield bash increases the damage from 1100 to around 1300 and you can also get bleeding which is around 250 per second. Would be very good if the bleeding can stack up but they can't.

I went to top tree, it can daze unit but not sure about heros. And the way it dazes unit is less obvious than the daze caused by hero, but anyway the javelineers daze can break the enemy unit attack. What I means is when you see the enemy unit is about to attack, your javelinner attack at that exact moment will cancel the enemy unit attack and make the clock running from the beginning. In unit training map, it is more obvious -- the top tree javelinner can kill a whole melee troop with little loss, but using the middle upper line javelinner you see at lease one of the javelineer would have a red health bar after the fight. This is caused by the melee unit attacks are constantly interrupted by javelinners so less damage are inflicted in total.
In reality , I changed back to middle line again, since the skin is awesome. LOL