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Imo they should have tweaked the Speed and Perception benefit/stats a bit. The current system is punishing to Scoundrel characters, especially Hybrid Scoundrel like Shadowblade.

Honestly i forgo more Perception in favor of Speed(I use perception pots/spells/gear as buffs for exploring though). Seriously, having more AP recovery and a lot more movement helps a ton in making my rogue and shadowblade mobile to backstab and CC target after target. I feel Speed is a must especially for Scoundrel Class characters, it seems many just dump points into Dex and some into Perception which i feel is limiting the potential of that class.

As a Rogue, balancing Dexterity, Perception, Speed is manageable. But as a Shadowblade it is a nightmare, in addition to the 3 stats, you have Intelligence which is just crazy. Shadowblade a.k.a Hybrid Scoundrels have the most diluted/spread out stat point distribution among all builds and your higher tier spells/skill really suffer for that.