[Davy]

I prefer to skill up my combo skills - when I need to kill an enemy, it's done.
With my regular attack skills, I usually keep one dot on them - less damage, more rep.

The way reputation works is: the amount of damage combined with the level required to use that skill. For instance, if you killed a Cadet with Bladestorm, you will get 3 rep. If you kill at cadet with Sweep, you will get 0.