Concentration and Balance?

[NinetyNineTails]

What sort of investment is good to make in Concentration and Balance? Is there a point at which, for either skill, you're better off just not investing at all, if you can't make a breakpoint (like for AC)? Is there a point at which, particularly for Balance, you just don't need more?

I'm working on a 16 brd / 2 brb / 2 rog build, and, trying to work in trapmonkey skills, skill points are naturally a limiting factor. So I'm trying to figure out how much I can get away with shaving points off Concentration and Balance.

The design intent includes combat healing (Empower Healing, etc), so I don't feel I can just dump Concentration and declare that I don't need it because I don't cast in combat.

[karl_k0ch]

I asked a similar question for the balance part in the "Specialists" forums recently, and I got some answers I can share with you:

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=314730

Also, for some general comments on healing (if you dont mind), there a also some valuable comments in another thread: http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=315322 (But then, having a FVS in your Sig, you might not need this kind of advice...)

[phalaeo]

You can always fit in Balance as an aside on your Boots- I found that it was a lot harder to fit in a Conc. item on my Multi Bard.

I was also failing Hjeal scroll a LOT- actually had to LR, cause I was failing so often. And I LR'ed just to put those points back into Concentration- an expensive mistake.

So- if you are planning to be able to throw Heal and Rez scrolls mid-combat, you might want to invest more into Concentration.

If you plan on constantly Raging, however, you may want to throw a bit more into Balance. Reason being, if you're Raging, you can't scroll yourself anyways, so you're not going to want to spend a lot of time on your ass getting beat on.

[NinetyNineTails]

That link was really good, thanks, Karl. Good info there.