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Hi,

I have a question about skill distribution. I'm lvl 99, and my skills are as follows:

25 Strafe
30 Arrow Rain
10 Inferno
18 Puppet
5 Mortal Blow
0 Hawk
0 Thrust

I plan on training at Typhons until lvl 120. I'm only on maybe 5 hours a week, so it would be impossible for me to get a steady party going at Newties and to find a channel in a short period of time to make the most of my time on when I do train. So I think Typhons give the best exp.

At Typhons, the only skils I use are Arrow Rain, Puppet and Inferno (for luring).

How much is strafe used in 4th job? Since I'm not using it at all right now, I'm planning on leaving it at lvl 25, since it will be replaced by hurricane.

I plan on maxing inferno as well. My final skill build is planning to look something like:

30 AR
30 Inferno
20 Puppet
25 Strafe
0 Thrust
21+ Hawk
10+ Mortal Blow

Which adds up to 136. If I recall correctly, I have 151 points at my disposal for 3rd job. Would it be better to have 29 Hawk and 17 Mortal Blow or 20 Mortal Blow and 26 Hawk?
Also, what is the activation difference between 17 Mortal Blow and 20 Mortal Blow? I've heard that the activation changed to 90% or something for lvl 20, but what are the increases in between?

Advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance!

the first thing i did when i hit 4th job was take strafe off my keyboard. does that answer that question? lol. keyspace is at a premium, if you can't find space for SE, DB, MW, pheonix, hurr, conc, and hamstring, just get rid of strafe. 7 new active skills in 4th vs. 1 now obsolete skill from 3rd.

26 hawk has literally zero bonus over 25, so 20MB / 25hawk / 1 thrust would be fine. in my opinion, anything past 15mb is completely fine, and you will be using hawk well into your 15X's. and, MB's increases are now +3% activation per level, instead of the old +2% per level.