Hello im trying out knuckleblades and if you have a good build for it please share.
I pretty much used knucks on both my ranger and my rogue their entire lives.
Keep vit twice ur lvl (eg: lvl 100 = 200 vit) then keep dex and str equal, untill u can get 300 str with bonus adds, then pound everything into dex..
I revived my rogue when he was lvl 89, kind of retiring my ranger because last update skills made a rogue much more enjoyable over my ranger. Rogues at 165 now, and been put aside for a dps Druid. Got Druid to 100 in under 3 weeks (remarkable time concidering i work 2 jobs and have a family).
Skills i used were, max fast reflex, max ripost,max shadow, (crap, idr the others, I'm in a Druid mind frame, lol).
However, a friend convinced me to do some comparing, and eventually discovered to my disliking, a dagger really is better than knucks. Dagger kills 5-10 seconds quicker over all. I have both dagger, and hand to hand maxed, so the ability wasnt the issue. And several times, i tested it using no skill hits at all, pure brute force knucks vs dagger fight. Again, dagger won hands down by 5-10 seconds.
I must say tho, more often than not, when i do play the rogue, i still use knuck over dagger. The speed with knucks is just too irrestible. On knucks, its wham wham wham, on dagger, its wham pause wham pause wham.
Not to mention, u get to see "u interrupted such and such skill" more often than with a dagger.