Pure Str/Fire questions

[Kelborn]

I have a pure str/fire character, who uses a glaive. I am just wondering a few things:

Which skills should I focus on maxing out, in the Hekusal and Fire force skill trees? =/

I heard that it's a good idea to max out the ghost spear, soul spear and flying dragon (hekusal), as well as the passive. Agreed, or is there a better way to go about achieving a truly worthy char once the higher lvls are reached?

[Freedom-Fighta]

Ghost spear, soul spear, Heuskal spear, and then flying dragon, the passive is a no brainer. Im personally opting to take Flying Dragon later in my character's life so that i can level quickly.

For fire im keeping it 10 levels behind my heuskal (which is at my level) and im taking the imbue to its max (book 3 level 8, will be book 4 level 4 after SP farming at cap), Flame Body to its max (book 3 level 2, will be book 3 lvl 3 after SP farm at cap), MAgic Protection book 1 to its max (~913 SP), passive is a no brainer, once again.

I was planning on farming SP for ice as a submastery at cap, but im beginning to think that 60 mastery and 20k SP isnt worth it for +84 phys AC.

[Kelborn]

Well, thank you very much. You've certainly helped me find my bearings a little. So in your opinion, passive isn't worth it? xD!

[Freedom-Fighta]

Yeah ice is not going in my build -- early ill take 12 lightning with lvl 1 grasswalk and lvl 2 piercing force and then take the passive and Concentration series once ive farmed at cap and then continue to max lightning out at 60 with max piercing force and grasswalks with the passive and concentration skills.

That puts me at 80/80/60 = 220 if next cap raise is to 80, 90/90/60=240 if its 90... and leaves me room to expand later should i choose to do so.