DDOCast 554 - Past Life Prioritization: Racial Lives

[pjstechie]

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Nimvind joins us this week to take a look at the first preview of Update 42 including some quests and loot! Then we continue our Past LIfe Prioritization series by talking about Racial Lives

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[FuzzyDuck81]

My first rule for racial past lives would be to worry less about being the most optimal class/race combo each time & instead pick a class or handful of classes that you enjoy playing for the whole spread from 1 to 20 rather than the "it comes together at level 15" or "it's a slog from 15 to 20" types of builds - personally I love running mastermaker artificer in heroic (cheap AoE healing from level 1 & a machine gun!) so would use that for a lot of them.

Definitely agree with doing the "worst" races (relative to your chosen class/classes) first, that way as you unlock more racial APs you can use them on relevant abilities giving a huge jump in power at low levels - eg. for an artificer, gnome racial things are amazing (colour spray on an INT class is phenomenal) so that'd be one of the last ones I do while if I was running warlock I'd probably go drow as one of the last so as soon as I hit level 3 I could have darkfire (does 50% of the damage of stricken from soul eater with half the cooldown time) in addition to whatever other tree I was focussed in.

Oh, another positive for drow beyond shuriken expertise: faerie fire - temporary displacement dispel making trueseeing unnecessary for dealing with some mobs for the whole group & it also destroys breakables :)