about the heuksal and ice thingy.. id normally advise you
to take heuksal over ice, since most ppl are immune to
ice on high level and the def is similar to the hp bonus
you get with heuks. however, the new coming ice skills
promise to be outstanding in defense. there was a movie
where a pure int was tanking 5 pure str and survived.
so in my opinion you should take ice over heuksal now,
if you want to be sword shield int.
if i would make an int now i would probably take spear
over sword (looking at the new coming ice buff) but thats
just my personal taste
just note that it may take ages for the new skills to be
implemented, but it takes ages to level to the cap as well.