What's your favourite build?

[Chaoscheerio]

At this point after the eternity that I've played DDO and the countless lives I've done on my main character; I got to wondering what my favourite build was out of everything I've done.

So that leads me to asking for the others out there that have totally *been there, done that*, what's your favourite? Have you ever made a build so completely out there that it just happened to work?

I'm not sure I can pick a certain favourite but personally; back in the day the most fun I ever had was playing a pure dex rogue acrobat all the way to 30. I still think I'm the only person I've run into that ever played it and dear lord I absolutely adored having to tumble in and out of enemies to keep the "knockdown on vorpal" and other buffs up!

So go on, tell me your faves!

[arminius]

My favorite build to play is also one that nobody else plays, because a lot of what is great about it is suppressed too much above Reaper 2.

It is a Ranger 12/Barbarian 6/Bard 2, TWF Tempest, plays in Fatesinger, and uses Skaldic Rage as a substitution for Barbarian Rage, which allows spell casting and healing to stay up.

Tempest + barbarian + the bard levels + Fatesinger = the damage numbers literally fill the screen from top to bottom and side to side, and even the heaviest bosses drop like a brick.

On Elite and Reaper 1 and 2 it is jaw dropping, above that the best things about the build seem to be killed by Reaper damage reduction, etc, because the damage is the combination of a ton of smaller damages that all individually get suppressed, I think. So if you're a player for whom life begins at Reaper 5, this is definitely not for you. I don't ever end up playing in mid-high Reaper on even my strongest characters, so it works great and is very fun for me.

[Deslen]

Straight 20 fighter, dual khopesh kensai spec. Secondary tree stalwart defender.

Dual wielding tank/dps combo. Tons of fun =)

[zyp]

My favorite builds have always been staff-wielding melees; Pure rogue TA probably tops the list but I enjoy monks and multis too.

[Logicman69]

My current favorites are:

Pure Aasmir Fighter: One of the biggest issues with fighter is the lack of self-healing. Sure, they hit hard.. but you need someone watching your back. Aasmir solves this with a Lay On Hand ability and a good boost in healing amp. Add in some UMD so you can raise your party and self buff through scrolls when needed, and you have a more self sufficient fighter. Go Bond of the Fallen for a boost in DPS with a built in vulnerability on hit.

Pale Master: This is a new one for me, but I am having a blast (pun intended). With the rework of the necrotic spells, PMs got a big bump in damage. Necrotic Blast can hit for 2500 points of damage and up, and its a multi-hit like a meteor swarm.. but since its a SLA, it only cost 6sp to cast. Oh, and you have Greater Death Aura to basically keep you healed the entire time. The downside.. constructs are the bane of your existence. Bring a good construct beater with you in quests, switch to that when you need to DPS them down.

[droid327]

Inqui. Was arti before but inqui is basically arti 2.0


The downside.. constructs are the bane of your existence. Brin

Maybe Rust should scale on Neg spell power like Poison does, rather than Repair. Repair is purely for self heals... PMs are the ones that need anti construct options, and Decon would be a good one if you didn't need an entire second element JUST for that one spell.

Plus rust is decay, that still seems pretty Negative

[SirValentine]

Maybe Rust should scale on Neg spell power like Poison does...

Poison doesn't scale on Negative; it's an independent type of spell power. The only passing relation is itemization. When they introduced Poison spell power, rather than creating lots of separate new Poison items, they made legacy Negative items all cover Poison as well. But they're still two separate things; the items are just providing both.

[Logicman69]

Inqui. Was arti before but inqui is basically arti 2.0



Maybe Rust should scale on Neg spell power like Poison does, rather than Repair. Repair is purely for self heals... PMs are the ones that need anti construct options, and Decon would be a good one if you didn't need an entire second element JUST for that one spell.

Plus rust is decay, that still seems pretty Negative

I don't mind having a weakness. It definitely adds more of a balance to the class. Living things die quickly by my hand.. but unliving things like constructs are a different matter. If you think about it, it makes sense from a lore stand point.

[FuzzyDuck81]

My frenzied bearzerker is my baby :) 15 druid/5 barb, wisdom based wildhunt shifter with racial & heroic completionist, tier 5 frenzied berserker, tier 4 each in nature's defender & falconry.

[Theolin]

Fun one was a arti/cleric, way long ago, before the enhancement pass, back when you you had a list and not the fancy graphic one we have now. somewhere around 2012ish ....

both had force damage bonus for Blade Barrier fun & used arti pots for healing while xbow/rune arm damage ..
you could throw pots and fire rune arm at bosses ... was fun, esp when you could be outside of the stun range in TOD

just for fun ... the link (https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/394075-The-Improved-Crazy-Cleric?highlight=) or the link (https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/354607-The-Crazy-Cleric-13-6-1-CL-Art-Ftr?highlight=)

[shores11]

I'm not sure I can pick a certain favourite but personally; back in the day the most fun I ever had was playing a pure dex rogue acrobat all the way to 30. I still think I'm the only person I've run into that ever played it and dear lord I absolutely adored having to tumble in and out of enemies to keep the "knockdown on vorpal" and other buffs up!

I have played an Acrobat Rogue for 10 plus years now and love playing it. But I have a few characters (5 in total) that I love to play and they stay pretty static in those classes.

Wizard - Illusionist: Pure level 20/10 human that plays well all the way to R10. He has DCs in illusion at 120 plus and enchantment at 110 plus.

Paladin - Vanguard: Pure level 20/10 aasimar and is built for high level melee DPS and good PRR/AC. This character gets my stress relief when I need to beat down enemies.

Rogue - Acrobat: Pure level 20/10 halfling. It's just a very fun class to play.

Ranger - Stalker/Arcane: Pure level 20/10 wood elf (longbow user) and is also something fun I like to play.

Cleric - Healer: Pure level 20/10 I keep to help guild/friends when healing is needed but is also an 80 plus turn undead dice cleric.

[axel15810]

Some mix of support and DPS.

So healer/DPS, CC/DPS, buffer/DPS, etc.

I get bored just playing a straight up DPS fighter or DPS sorc, for example. Or just a straight healbot. Always want to play a character that is flexible and can competently do multiple roles and has some kind of support element.

I also like playing roles like healer that are in demand, so that it's easy to get a group.

[Dnarth]

My favorite build is [redacted] now nerf this! :cool:

[SpartanKiller13]

First time I played a DC Wizard. I had a blast, and my first experience with reliable DC's/instakills was eye-opening.

DG Pale Master/Archmage, using double PK-SLA's and Circle/Wail for AoE. Catapulted my Reaper progression from like R3 to R6-8 lol.

There's something wild about sprinting around popping enemy mobs with a button-push each. I remember running R1 WGU in a full party of 6 (some underlevel, for the record) and having ~186/216 kills. There's some challenge with figuring out what spells to use on what mobs (like stoning deathwarded mobs) and a bunch of work pumping DC's but wow, it feels really good once you hit the point where you can just decide to kill a mob or hold a pack.

And of course comfortable R5 self-heals, viable R8 self-heals, and passable R10 self-heals via PM helped a lot lol. With Meld as a panic button & Affirmation near-constantly up I survived basically anything that wasn't a oneshot.

[SpittingCobra]

The DO-ALL build!

It does all! It does Melee. It does Magic. It does Ranged.

Am I bored of shooting things? Switch to a sword and go to the frontline!

Am I tired of the extra effort melee requires to kill things?

Switch back to ranged and let someone else fill that role.

Am I tired of ranged and melee and want some flashy effects while easily wiping out mobs?

Time to switch to magic.


The build gets it all, and does it all too! I don't want to say what it is though. I don't want to see my favorite build get nerfed ever. So I won't even give a hint or a nod if anyone guesses it correctly.


Asking for favorite builds is like asking for top secrets.

What where we talking about again???

[Nathan76500]

Highest Capped Frezied Berzerker Barb Half Orc Racial Feats maxed...It does deals the DPS, my methods are to to attack fast with THE MOST DPS possible!!!!, I got three Cleaves going with strikethrough & doublestrike, to try to wreck shop in mobs as a Pure Barb Tank.!..I know Pure Barbs get labeled as dull sometimes...BUT max your Attack speed, possibly use tumble...which really makes a dffference and trash Mobs.

*Still working on scaling HitPoints
(so is everyone)
*Gear farm

Etc etc....

[J1NG]

My favorite builds are all the ones that needs to put on Cosmetics to complete the look. :)

The Devs can't nerf cosmetics because there's nothing to nerf after all. Short of nerfing their own pockets from lack of Mirror sales then. :p

J1NG

[Chaoscheerio]

My favorite builds are all the ones that needs to put on Cosmetics to complete the look. :)

The Devs can't nerf cosmetics because there's nothing to nerf after all. Short of nerfing their own pockets from lack of Mirror sales then. :p

J1NG

If you're not playing with cosmetic gear you aren't embracing real MMO culture imo. I too, have made builds entirely centered around cosmetics *cough cough Amaterasu wolf build cough cough*

[dennisck2]

I don't want to say what it is though. I don't want to see my favorite build get nerfed ever. So I won't even give a hint or a nod if anyone guesses it correctly.


Asking for favorite builds is like asking for top secrets.



Lol hilarious! But jokes aside, a lot of people do feel this way. And the current stuff going on is why.

To the OP, I don't multiclass a lot, but right now I'm really enjoying the 5 cleric/4 Druid/ 11 Barb bear melee build. It's just a blast to play! Plus, you got to be a bear!

Edit: I miss the old school Monster build. It was such a blast to play.

[IlmerSilverhilt]

Support Bard is most fun for me! Can turn the freshest adventurer into a killing machine!

Ive done my endgame pure PDK bard build 2 times now, as spellsinger mostly, but what Im really trying to do is get max AP for spellsinger capstone and warchanter T5s +6% dmg for all!
It uses For Cormyr for nasty boss dmg, and the healing is great. The CC is very effective with lots of ways to immobilize and add helplessness dmg to the party. You have all the social skills, so can even cc with those too. Add buffs to party and debuffs to enemies, this is my favorite build over the years!

[kmoustakas]

At this point after the eternity that I've played DDO and the countless lives I've done on my main character; I got to wondering what my favourite build was out of everything I've done.

So that leads me to asking for the others out there that have totally *been there, done that*, what's your favourite? Have you ever made a build so completely out there that it just happened to work?

I'm not sure I can pick a certain favourite but personally; back in the day the most fun I ever had was playing a pure dex rogue acrobat all the way to 30. I still think I'm the only person I've run into that ever played it and dear lord I absolutely adored having to tumble in and out of enemies to keep the "knockdown on vorpal" and other buffs up!

So go on, tell me your faves!

For the longest time artificer was my favourite. I went all the way to get druid past lives to improve my pet, found out which warforged hirelings were the strongest so they would get randomly healed by the defender... then I played a barbarian in hardcore and I was like 'ooooh'.

But by far my favourite build is the buff bard. Inspire everyone with spellsong and watch them be amazing and since I'm more a casual player I wouldn't do that much myself anyway. In my current iteration, I run around with an inferno sniper enjoying all the extra fire vulnerability alchemists and sorcs would provide but I am thinking with the changes incoming I'll have to switch again.

[Xgya]

Beyond all things, my love for DDO came from my love of the PnP Artificer class.

DDO's version is a bit further away, but I became enamored with the caster Arti lifestyle.
It's not a powerful style by any means, but versatile, and Tactical Detonation has to be my favorite spell in the game (except when it's used against me XD)

[carsonfball]

So that leads me to asking for the others out there that have totally *been there, done that*, what's your favourite? Have you ever made a build so completely out there that it just happened to work?

Tiefling Fiend Pact Warlock
TS with splash into ES to get cone shape
Tiefling tree to bypass fire immunity/healing

Spell list is mostly buffs, exceptions being Evard's, Mass Charm, and Mass Hold for CC

Basically just CC everything then cone blast at will using Ash/Improved Scorch when necessary
Hurl orange bosses through hell

[ycheese123]

Warforged Artificer is really fun to solo with, if you want to take your time, explore, do traps, find secret doors etc.

Aasimar Tempest Ranger is a well-rounded and self sufficient build I enjoyed a lot. Dex based with Scimitars.

Warforged Eldritch Knight is really sweet too.

[Hawkwier]

To channel Fr. Jack Hackett...

Oi luv moi BARB!

And for good measure...

Gurlz! Drink! Drink!

[Saekee]

assassin with splashes, not pure, since the sneak speed feels too slow otherwise.

Definitely 1 barb, then probably 1 cleric for Vol and easier access to twist of Confront Any Foe.

I actually take the capstone of Vistani. If I had the universal point tree enhancement bonus, it would be easier on my outcomes.

[DirkTyrant]

assassinating rogues, pale masters, necro turning clerics, throwers