Combat build critique

[Treesh]

I thought I'd be relying on Gouge more as I won't have access to Cheap Shot,

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I thought I'd be using Sprint to close with casters/hunters (no stealth is going to hurt...), chase down fleeing foes or escape myself.&nbsp;
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You get both cheap shot and stealth even if you don't put talent points into the improved versions. If the talent says "Improved", that means you'll be able to train that skill regardless of if you spent talent points in it or not.

LR was originally my first choice, but It doesn't help with casters or moves like overpower (so I've heard!).[right][snapback]75459[/snapback][/right]

It doesn't help with spell casters and overpower (warrior skill), but you will have many other ways to shut down spell casters when you deal with them (you'll run into more melee and ranged attacks than spells most of the time) and overpower only comes into effect when you are PvPing against a person playing a warrior.

Poisons can be used with any melee weapon? Even maces? All the info I've seen about poison hints to use with daggers only. But if that's not the case, I might just try that quest around level 20![right][snapback]75459[/snapback][/right]

You see so much about poison and daggers because the quicker you can get the poison to get onto your enemy, the better off you are. If you have a slow weapon and the poison doesn't go off on the first swing, you have to wait for yet another swing to try to poison again. If you have a quick weapon, the times between swings is shorter so you're more likely to actually get your poison to affect your enemy.