Buying any sort of Trickster gear now will hurt your wallet badly. Everyone wants it and are willing to pay that extra, overpriced, tag.

I agree with Hellion. While going the Evasion route would have been nice if they had a higher base evasion rate but alas that's not the case so 33 for the aim and go rest STR for max damage out put. The idea would be to kill before getting hit.

And yeah, def and evasion scroll works wonders.

OK, here are the skills for levels 60 - 95

L60 Detoxify increase poison resistance

L60 Harsh Blow *** magical damage, obtains 2 souls

L75 Soul Trap the 3rd soul using skill, same bonus damage rate as the others
***Can freeze the opponent for a period of time***

L87 Styptic reduces bleeding damage

L95 Conflagration increase the effect time of fire damage

L95 Consume increase the enemy's SP usage

*** having used this skill now, I do not see any evidence that it is a magic attack, although the ninja graphics that go with the dual swords on this one are impressive. Unfortunately, the graphics slow down the casting of the next skill. Ugh...... This skill obtains 2 souls per use, so worth the slow casting time IMO.

And now, the Prestige level skills........

For both:
L100 Master Scheme cast next skill without consuming souls

L101 Force Slash damage, chance to knock back enemy

For Spectre (Dual Swords)
L100 Soul Slash obtains souls

L100 Lethal Assault 100% chance next skill will crit after casting

L100 Resilience decrease damage taken from all DoT spells

L100 Diminish reduce effect of all curses for 20 seconds

For Reaper (Claws)
L100 Cruel Claw inflict rotten damage for 12 seconds, uses souls

L100 Amazing Concentration skip cooldown of next skill

L100 Binding Blow pulls target enemy to your location, immobilizing both

L100 Sneak Attack moves behind enemy and attacks (possible stun)

L100 Exhaustion increase an enemy's poison, bleeding, disease, rotten, and fire damage

I don't see an AoE skill in these, although the Reaper's Binding Blow may work at a distance - if so, would be great for those pesky mage and archers in PvP.

Soul Trap and Harsh Blow are AOE.

I have been using both of these skills, and they are one on one skills. Not sure what data you have to suggest otherwise.

Soul trap is a skill that freezes everything that has been slowed down. I have seen it used in snake parties, and as expected all the mobs were frozen in place.

I am pretty sure harsh blow is AOE but haven't seen it in action.

Since tricksters can't attack more than 1 mob at a time, I have only seen Soul Trap work on one mob at a time. The skill only targets the mob you are attacking, so if it freezes multiple mobs, it would be a surprise. Harsh blow also only targets 1 mob. It's biggest value, given the slow cast time of the skill, is that it collects 2 souls from the mob. No skill we use as a trickster has a target ring to place as we cast the skill like the AoEs of other characters, so I don't believe that these skills are truly AoEs.

************************************************** ***

After partying in Dragon's Tomb, Soul Trap can be an AoE, but it is very flawed. The trickster needs either a mage or fighter to slow multiple mobs before it can cast Soul Trap to freeze them, and has to steal a soul to be able to cast it. You have absolutely no control over aiming it - your best bet is to be in the middle of the mage's or fighter's blast circle and cross your fingers. Also, the skill doesn't have a great success rate when cast.