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Description
The Shadow Knight is considered by
many as the opposite to a Paladin, while in some ways this is true, on Norrath
they aren't the traditional evil Black Knight to the Good White Knight. The
races that are capable of producing Shadow Knights are not all innately evil,
even Gnomes are known to become them and the Humans have a great many. In a
similar fashion to a Paladin, Shadow Knights have to be dedicated to their
deity, whether this dedication is because of a desire to serve or to gain in
power and wealth is debatable. What is true for certain is none of the deities
Shadow Knights follow could be thought of as good and will usually be classed as
evil.
Shadow Knights have many of the
skills and undertake similar training to that of a Warrior, complemented with an
impressive spell casting ability in Necromantic magic. They are one of most
respected and feared professions and as individuals are formidable opponents,
even inexperienced Shadow Knights have completed tough and painful tasks,
proving their worth enough to be trained. The Iksar especially give difficult
tasks to their young apprentices, many of whom will never make it beyond their
apprentice status. They are taught to fight without fear or mercy and not to
question their masters, at least not until they can defeat them and give
commands of their own.
Shadow Knights have no qualms about
their method of defeating an opponent, including leaching their health and
strength to enhance their own. Among the dark spells available to them, Shadow
Knights can cause an enemy to run in fear and then slow their movement, catching
up and striking them repeatedly where their armour is most vulnerable. This
isn't to say Shadow Knights avoid direct combat as they are very powerful
duellists, often using weapons of a cruel and damaging shape (and resulting
effect). They are among the most dangerous enemies that an adventurer could
encounter and as an ally need to be respected and dealt with carefully, Shadow
Knights have a reputation for being quick to anger and easy to annoy and not
always making their distaste known until it maybe fatal for the party
responsible.
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Shadow Knight Races
Dark Elf, Erudite, Gnome, Human,
Iksar, Ogre, Troll |
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Stats
Shadow Knights are more Warrior than
they are spell caster, and because of this need to be strong enough to do heavy
damage and tough enough to take a lot. Strength is important but
stamina is often more so, the ability to do damage is only secondary as
Shadow Knights are often first to be called upon to stand between the enemy and
the rest of the party.
The spell casting ability of a
Shadow Knight relies on intelligence, it determines their mana pool and
as such how long their spell casting can continue before they need to rest to
regain mana. Because Shadow Knights are often doing the fighting in combat they
won't have time to sit and meditate, a high intelligence can prevent them
running out of mana during encounters, or at least allow them a little longer
before running dry.
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Tips
1. Raise your strength and
stamina whenever opportunity allows, giving preference to stamina when it
applies..
2. For both a combat and spell
casting class Shadow Knights have some very effective spells, don't neglect them
and keep your intelligence reasonably high.
3. Your pet isn't
particularly effective in combat but when things are looking bad can usually
keep your opponent occupied long enough for you to escape.
4. Shadow Knights have the
ability to feign death when they reach a high enough level, this is a valuable
spell and can be used for distracting monsters to split up groups or to lose
their attention in combat.
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Screenshots
With thanks to Sierhelt (Dark Elf),
Tylamort (Dark Elf), Hadees (Human), Taki (Human) and Ghoule (Troll) of the Karana server
for being the Shadow Knight screenshot models! |
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Sites
Casters Realm -
http://eq.crgaming.com/menu/shadowknight.asp
Lots of Shadow Knight information
including an epic walkthrough, spell list and skill descriptions and details on
Alternate Advancement abilities.
EvilGamer.net -
http://www.evilgamer.net
A Shadow Knight community forum.
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Comments |
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1 comments listed at this time, if you would
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USER NAME: Oryl 2
June 2006
COMMENT:
Neither of the above links to shadowknight.org and shadow-knight.org work
anymore...
Most of the SKO crowd has migrated over to
www.evilgamer.net
Kormus from S-KO also posts regularly at EGN, but I'm not sure where S-K0 went.
COMMENT MADE ON PAGE:
Shadow Knight Class Page
RESPONSE:
Thanks for the update! Appropriate links removed and updated. |
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