[mSH] New Player. Looking for Guidance.

[prettybirb]

Hi there,

I've just begun playing this past week with a few friends who were reminiscing about AoR, only for us to find out this amazing project exists. I've done a lot of forum searching but haven't really found what I am after. I was curious if anyone had some basic run-down of Melee Squig Herders?

I'm curious about a few things:
Stat priority (I loosely understand the conversion mechanic for stats, but unsure what stats are intrinsically more important to stack ie. weapon skill vs ballistic -> str)
Renown Point usage (do I just stack stats for conversion or pursue other things?)
Mastery spending (Do I just dump everything into the Squig tree?)

From what I can tell, mSH is all about a disrupting playstyle. Bounce in on a healer or priority target, burst and go for a kill, bounce away. Peel for squishies etc. Is there anything else that I *should* be doing to maximize my efficiency as an angry meatball?