Iss Enchanter

Is this class a good one to play as your principal character?

I do and I love it but the servers are being saturated with them.

It worth keeping steal essence over cripling attack? :x

I can't imagine why you would want to keep steal essence when awakened. Iss Enchanter becomes a melee class. The skill crippling attack reduces your targets physical and magical defense by 30% in PvE and 40% in PvP. Also Iss Enchanter can almost continually spam Healing Melody (chain heal) on themselves / friendly target.

i kept steal essence.
i'm continuously considering losing it though.
it does minimal damage.
it casts slowly.
and it's expensive.

but it's nice to have a 900 range instant reuse attack.
get those swamp assassins out of those trees.

If i do not learn Shadow blade, will I keep burning chop + Great Fury?

Crippling Attack is a necessary skill. In PvE, you will kill mobs so much faster (and believe me, mobs rarely resist it). In PvP, it's just broken. -40%PDEF/MDEF with a low cooldown and a high base landrate. You'll be smashing serious face.

There is no reason to keep Steal Essence, you stop being a nuker class and get warrior stats, so it ends up being subpar all-around.

Also, you cannot keep Great Fury. It's lost either way. I had Great Fury as well, was sad to see it go but that's just how it is.