I agree with Sakka, although I can only bring up an opinion based on specualtion and the various movies of high-leveled characters, copycat seems to be the hermit's main upgrade to damage, also from the same videos, avenger works with copycat, so why not upgrade avenger by maxing copycat, then get avenger...
It's times like these where being a grammar nut can be painful >.<i didnt exactly mean dat u r anoob if u dont get da skillz write...its just bad not to do it dat way. and I was just exaggerating. Well, if u r gonna try something better to do it correctly instead of screwing it up eh?
If you didn't exactly mean it that way, don't exactly write it that way :P
Anyways, choosing skills a different way than everybody else doesn't mean you didn't get them right (not write, write is a verb :P ) , if there was a right way and a wrong way to choose skills, then it would be a test, not a game.
That doesn't mean you can't screw it up, but screwing it up would be like giving your thief more int than luk, or not maxing critical blow at all on an archer, choosing avenger before copycat is not screwing up, it's just a different path...
If I got a hermit, and I got avenger before Copycat, it would just mean that I would train differently or use my skills differently...
To screw something up would be to do something worthy of restarting that character, would you restart a lv 75 hermit just for maxing avenger first?...
bleh... I don't really mean to argue or anything... i'm just adding what I know/think about maxing one skill before another...
... although saying "U MUST MAX SHADOW PARTNER CAUSE IF U DONT U R A NOOB." is bound to get some feedback :P