Trickster / Arcane Archer Active Skill Distribution

Mainly looking at Aracana, Stealth and Mechanics I guess. Don't think I need to worry about anything else as I can have other party members do those things. In POE1 I'm easily getting away with a 5 in stealth.. (with gear boosting it to 8)… I can sneak / steal / scout around quite easily. No idea if that's sufficient for POE2. Mechanics obviously need to be the highest. Have no idea how much skill boosting gear there is in the game for mechanics. Arcana is the one I have no idea about. How

Haha, you sly old fox. 😄 I'd argue that Arterial Strike + AoE is nicer. At least in party play. I can see where a prone could be the better option than raw dmg in a solo playthrough. Still it doesn't justify 5 PLs in my opinion. Also: classic edge case. How many rogues will multiclass with wizard, pick Spirit Lance and then discover that Sap does prone? How many rogues will max out INT for WotEP? I'll give you that: if I would make a CC-based rogue/something with a rod+blast I