By the love of Myrkul. Make deathward like elemental defenses!! 40 min AFK in a quest

[TheAlicornSage]

DDO obviously force specialization. For eg, in P&P, with spell focus, great spell focus and epic spell focus, a specialized school gets +3 on save DC. On DDO, the difference between specialized school to non specialized school is much bigger. Like +30 DC with gear + ED + Trees.

So? That matters why? I get by without it just fine thank you.

[Certon]

Don't be ridiculous. You can solo with a pale master easily, even against enemies immune to negative energy.

See this here? THIS IS WHAT I'm talking about. A pale master who only uses negative energy is a specialist that is ignoring 80% of his or her potential arsenal.

[TheAlicornSage]

See this here? THIS IS WHAT I'm talking about. A pale master who only uses negative energy is a specialist that is ignoring 80% of his or her potential arsenal.

A pale master can specialize in neg energy, but doesn't need to. I have the shroud and the pet, and a little of neg energy boosting, but I also have points in EK and use a couple bastard swords. I have Archmage specialized in abjuration for the SLAs, but otherwise just took the extra SP and metamagic cost reduction.

I kill things with pet, blade, and about a dozen commonly used attack spells, plus cc spells. The sl 9 firecloud spell (I forget the name) for example is awesome, and the drow SLA darkfire is amazing too in some cases and ensures I have a hard hitting spell when "out" of SP.

Truth be told, killing things with neg energy is kinda rare.