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Changes in the General Tree:

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Once you hit 70, if you haven’t already been, you’ll be spending a huge amount of time grinding in Kheshetta. While I’m sure this zone is annoyingly competitive on a PVE server, on a PVP server it’s all about who can defend their grinding spot from other groups. While often this deteriorates into whichever guild has more bored 80’s, it can be quite fun when real leveling groups go at it. I’d recommend one final pre-80 respec to avoid redundant mana regeneration feats as well as improving survival and burst.

Presence of Mind should now be our priority in the General tree because it makes our Jolt instant. Thanks to Plague for helping me realize this. I’ll agree this is even more worthwhile post SF nerf when large AoE pulls could actually be dangerous in grinding gropus and in PVP (especially laggy raid PVP) this can’t be overlooked. I’ll happily sacrifice some raw DPS at 70 to have Presence of mind.

So back to Saintly Warrior. Up until now you’ve been using aoc gold Storm Crown primarily as a mana battery. Although it gives a modest DPS increase, I find its damage basically irrelevant- Storm Field just works great on its own. So essentially you’re spending 14pts to get better mana efficiency and a tiny bit of damage (yes, and some group utility, giving others SC, but the DPS is even lower and nobody at 50+ has mana issues anyway). I’m suggesting speccing out of Storm Crown and into Saintly Warrior, which will give you even better mana return, more durability from Spirit Armor, and, most importantly amazing Stamina Regen. All the while giving you access to some great feats for upping your DPS far beyond what SC offers.

Also, thanks to Saintly Warrior and Ether Flow, I regen mana even faster than with Storm Crown (not like Mana was ever a problem with SC), but even if I die and rez with little mana or health I can quickly heal back up and buff without needing to rest or pop a pot (very helpful if your AoE group is fighting over and area/spawn point so you can get back in the action very quickly).

The Changes in Lightning Tree:

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Levels 56-60: Finish Exemplar and get Vengeance of the Gods. Then I’d fill up Lightning Arc. If you’re in a rush to get SC back, you can skip this talent.

Levels 71-75: If you’re on a PVP server and don’t want to respec grab Empowered Cobra Stare and Presence of Mind

If you’re one a PVE server I’d either pick up presence of mind or just buff Storm crown.

Or throw 4-pts into Grounding Charge for some rooting. You shouldn’t be using Charged Bolt from long range much in AoE groups, so I don’t mind the root effect at this point.

Levels 61-65: Time for Thunder. Growing Storm for 5.

With Saintly Warrior I can sprint noticeably longer when I have a MoB or two beating on me (similarly I can start sprinting sooner if I’ve exhausted by stamina pool). I can easily out heal 1 MoB and the extra stamina I get from hits lets me run into multiple areas and collect bigger packs. I can stay just ahead of the pack to make sure SF and HoTs are refreshed, so when they arrive to beat on me I can active block and watch them fall.

***LEVEL 70 RESPEC FOR PVP + GRINDING***

Levels 66-70: Look whos back, it’s Storm Crown.

Increase DPS with Exemplar and Vengeance of the Gods

And what I love about Saintly Warrior over SC is going even deeper into the general tree helps my DPS far more than going deeper into Thunder. For 8 more points (have to put two points in general) I get Exemplar and Vengeance of the Gods, probably two of the most worthwhile feats deep in any of our trees.

Changes in the Thunder Tree:

Levels 76-79: Home Stretch. PVP server make sure you have 3/3 Empowered Cobra Stare and get 5/5 Presence of Mind. On a PVE server it’s up to you as there’s nothing much you don’t already have as a tri-spec. Finish up any Strom Crown Feats, put points in Presence of Mind if you haven’t, or try out a very mediocre Totem or Cyclone . Grind it out!

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Ether Absorption and Coalesce Ether are replaced by Pillar Lightning(2pts just to get deeper into tree), Brutal Lightning Strikes, and Inner Charge. The mana feats are redundant and unnecessary thanks to Storm Crown, Ether Flow, and Saintly Warrior. You really wont use LS for PVE (although, with the SF Nerf, maybe we will) but you will for PVP, especially thanks to Inner Change.

Empowered Cobra Stare. A must have if you’re going to PVP and age of conan gold really our only CC in a grinding build. Just get enough points into the Thunder tree to fully talent this feat.

I’d just increase Storm Throne and Regalia. There’s really not a lot of option for 4 points.

Basically a lot of people complain that questing starts to run dry at 50 and leveling becomes quite painful. Personally I didn’t experience this because I was introduced to a wonderful instance called the Cannibal Caves quite early. My recommendation to any ToS would be to try and find a buddy and hit this zone in your early 50’s and stay well into the mid 50’s (easily soloable for a ToS at 53, 52 if you’re careful). For those that don’t know the Cannibal Caves is a private instanced zone in the Eglophian Mountains, with level 53-54 Mobs in some nice tight packs who respawn quite quickly- ideal for AoE leveling.

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Levels 76-79

Levels 71-75

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Level 50: At level 50 your lightning tree should stay exactly the same with one exception- I would take Rousing Shock over Blood Mana, thanks to Ether Flow and Saintly Warrior mana regen is already beyond what you need. Stuns become a critical part of group PVP and our ability to neutralize them should not be overlooked. On a PVP server being able to force another AoE group out of the area really makes or breaks your exp per hour. Also, now that you’re 50, put your extra point into Titanic Storm is a must to increase the number of targets hit by SF.

Levels 51-55: Fill out Set’s Brutalitiy and then you’ll need to dump age of conan gold 2 points in general to reach Exemplar. I’m now going to recommend Far Reaching Spirit over Spirit Aegis, because later on Presence of Mind is a great feat for making your jolt an instant cast and Far Reaching Spirit is the prereq. After that start to fill up Exemplar.

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Spell Power of the Serpent Ring is another option if you feel like you’re getting targeted a lot by other casters, but considering Titanic Storm is pretty much a requirement to use Storm Field, the only place to pull points from is Exemplar and VotG- and I’d rather have the General Tree feats.

I noticed something back in the early 50’s from grouping with my brother, who’s a PoM and specs heavy into the general tree early. Basically it’s a little feat called Saintly Warrior and IMO it’s a lot more useful on it’s own than what I originally expected, and it leads to some great feats that, IMO, far outway the more popular alternaive, Storm Crown.

Here’s how I would respec and move from 50+

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