Depthswalker hunting

Caled

I'm finding it difficult to get into playing Caled. Old char, too-familiar faction RP, too familiar character RP to another char in IRE - whatever the reasons I'm looking at using my retirement credits on something completely different instead. Maybe an evil(ish) char, something I've done little of in IRE.

I've read a fair bit saying that DW are essentially ordinary at hunting. Neither good nor bad. Can con spec, and use terminus research to soft-spec for hunting etc. The info is scattered through a lot of posts, and over a couple of years too, so I've some questions to clarify, please.

Questions:

1. Scythe bashing attacks - scale to strength? Well or just a little bit?
2. Assuming most level 1 defensive artefacts, and terminus specced for hunting, is it feasible to put a bit of race/specialisation into strength?
3. What are they like group bashing?
4. Someone commented that they're often targeted first in group pvp - is this true and why?

I'm still considering knights, but DW seem like a lot of fun, with a lot of different things to try in PVP, and I always like strong utility classes.

Antonius

1. They should scale with strength for bashing, that was a classlead change a few rounds ago. I don't know how well it scales, though. The PvP strength scaling isn't fantastic, but that doesn't mean anything about PvE scaling.

2. Feasible, probably. May not really be worth it, though, depending on how well it scales with strength. Constitution is probably going to be the better choice right now.

3. They don't really have anything great that contributes to group bashing that isn't just their middle of the road damage, so... average, I guess?

4. Depthswalker is a candidate for being targetted as a high priority, but it really depends on the specific groups involved. They have lots of group utility (including room hinder), high damage potential, and aeon.