I thought i would post some of the knowledge i have collected about the shade. One of the major discussions are what weapon to use.
Weapons:
Go with Bronto Vet Lance, Sigd, Improved Tango Dirks, Compressed Blades, Kid, Tanto, Eye-Gouger, silver tail dagger(used a ql 13 silver tail dagger until i was lvl 40ish).... or what ever piercing weapon you can find...
Well Nippy John Stiletto is the way to go (if you got 10000000000000mill to spare
)
But if you dont i suggest you choose the road of ITD(Improved Tango Dirk) and CB(Compressed Blade). Its a sweet combination indeed. Most engiees can Improve your Tango Dirks, the CB on the other hand is
easy to get since its mission rollable
. You could go with two ITD's for that extra damage, but then u loose your backstab ability ( it requires sneack attack on the weapon ). I tried going with two CB's and it worked
out quite nice aswell.
I used Bronto Vet Lance or Eye Gouger with an ITD until i found a CB.
I have talked this over with several highlvl shades and read forums posts about it, and this combination is highly recommended.
Sigd's are not worth trying out, if you dont feel like beeing a gimp that is
Lets face it shades are all about a massive amout of damage in a short amount of time, and without your backstab ability and specials u loose ALOT of damage. So one ITD and one weapon with sneack attack is the way to go imo.
Perks:
I havent tried changing my perk points around, i go with Totemic Reights, Piercing Mastery and Acrobat. Dont use more then 3 until you have perkpoint to spare (at around lvl 203 hehe). With these 3 perklines you get massive damage bonuses, high directdamage specials, lifetaps and evades.
But its not my job to tell you what to choose only tell you what i have done so far (only lvl 80 atm)
The only perkline that is a must is Piercing Mastery, since all your weapons require this skill and and there is a perk special at almost every point.
After that i think i would go with Sublime Report and Shade Touch perklines .(maxing everything but Shade Touch out will give you a grand total of 25 perk specials).
Spirits:
Wont go in to these except there is acouple of spirits that is a natural choice. Head (with + to all nanoskills) and all others that gives a +bonus to damage and evades.
I have alot of sprits with lvl 73 req and down to lvl 1 req hehe, so if you have a baby shade feel free to ask for spirits.
Feel free to post what ever questions you might have and i'll see if i can answer them.
**edit** links
Official Shade forum here you will find all info you need about the shade prof.
The Shade home the url that mini posted below, some really good info there
Xhero lvl 143 shade a.k.a Stillhaa
