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[unbongwah]

Was toying with the idea of an arcane archer that uses a bow for some CC and for something to do while not healing in easier content or breaks between tough battles. Silver flame fvs would get wisdom to longbow damage and the DC of the various CC abilities correct? I don't think staying pure fvs would be necessary with the build as the capstone for silver flame is a shield spell and they get magic missile protection from nightshield. Two fighter and one wizard level would give 3 extra feats and let me keep wings. Would you have enough feats for a decent arcane archer and still enough for heals with that split? I know very little about what's necessary to make a good archer, so advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

First question: do you have a DEX tome? Remember that you still need base DEX 19 for Improved Precise Shot and DEX 21 for Combat Archery feats, so it's not like you can dump-stat DEX even with Knowledge of Battle.

Second question: do you have monk? Even if not making a FvS monkcher like this build, FvS 17 / monk 2 / wiz or ftr 1 would have the same number of feats (albeit not necessarily the same feats) plus Evasion. You can either go the centered route to use stances or wear light armor for more PRR.

Finally: do you want to use FvS offensive spells as well? If so, then FvS 18 / monk or ftr 2 is worth considering so you can have Implosion; although squeezing in all the ranged + caster DPS feats you need is extra-challenging. OTOH if you just want heals+archery, that's actually easier to pull off. FvS 18 might still be worth considering just for Mass Heal; honestly I haven't been playing much DDO lately, I've no idea is MH is relevant again or not.

EDIT: quick build outline.

HE FvS Archer
17/2/1 Favored Soul/Monk/Fighter
Lawful Neutral Half-Elf


Level Order

1. Favored Soul    6. Favored Soul   11. Favored Soul   16. Favored Soul
2. Favored Soul    7. Favored Soul   12. Favored Soul   17. Favored Soul
3. Monk            8. Favored Soul   13. Favored Soul   18. Favored Soul
4. Monk            9. Favored Soul   14. Favored Soul   19. Favored Soul
5. Favored Soul   10. Favored Soul   15. Fighter        20. Favored Soul


Stats
               36pt     Tome     Level Up
               ----     ----     --------
Strength         8       +6       4: WIS
Dexterity       15       +6       8: WIS
Constitution    16       +6      12: WIS
Intelligence    10       +6      16: WIS
Wisdom          18       +6      20: WIS
Charisma         8       +6      24: WIS
                                 28: WIS

Feats

 1        : Point Blank Shot
 3        : Rapid Shot
 3 Monk   : Zen Archery
 4 Monk   : Precision
 6        : Precise Shot
 9        : Manyshot
12        : Improved Critical: Ranged
15        : Quicken Spell
15 Fighter: Improved Precise Shot
18        : Spell Focus: Enchantment OR Empower Healing Spell
21 Epic   : Overwhelming Critical
24 Epic   : Combat Archery
26 Destiny: Pierce Damage Reduction: Silver OR Epic Spell Power: Positive
27 Epic   : Epic Damage Reduction OR Empower Healing Spell
28 Destiny: Doubleshot
29 Destiny: Embodiment of Law OR Deific Warding OR Fount of Life
30 Epic   : Completionist OR Empower Healing Spell
30 Legend : Scion of: Feywild OR Plane of Earth

 1 HalfElf: Half-Elf Dilettante: Rogue

 2 FavSoul: Knowledge of Battle
 9 FavSoul: Stout of Heart

 7 FavSoul: Energy Absorption: Electricity
12 FavSoul: Energy Absorption: Fire
18 FavSoul: Energy Absorption: Cold

 1 Deity  : Follower of: Silver Flame
 8 Deity  : Silver Flame Exorcism


Enhancements (80 AP)

Elf-Arcane Archer (41 AP)
Arcane Archer, Morphic Arrows, Metalline Arrows, Aligned Arrows, Shadow Arrows, Mystical Archer
Conjure Arrows, True Strike I, Corrosive Arrows
Force Arrows II, Elemental Damage
Terror Arrows, Soul Magic, Elemental Damage, Wisdom
Banishing Arrows, Paralyzing Arrows, Smiting Arrows, Elemental Damage, Wisdom
Moonbow, Arrow of Slaying, Final Strike, Improved Elemental Arrows, Runebow

Half-Elf (14 AP)
Versatile Nature, Human Wisdom, Human Damage Boost
Diplomatic Immunity, Improved Dilettante: Rogue
Improved Recovery, Improved Dilettante: Rogue
Arcane Archer

War Soul (11 AP)
Smite Foe, Resilience of Battle, Sanctuary
Righteous Weapons, Sacred Touch III
Wall of Steel III

Shintao (8 AP)
Bastion of Purity
Ki Shout, Exemplar II
Iron Skin III

Kensei (6 AP)
Kensei Focus: Archery
Extra Action Boost I, Haste Boost III

[pappo]

I am finishing my second Paladin life as a Human. I tried the "Steel Shrine" build https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...t=steel+shrine , this time, and it was a lot of fun.
So I have a bank full of really good heavy picks (Deathnips for heroic) and nice Epic picks up to TF. I also have nice bastard swords from the first life, including Epic First Blood. I don't have any good named shields, but I could farm for some on lvl 30 paladin before I ETR.

I wanted to try a pure paladin and the Vanguard stunning, with a shield sounds like fun.

Can anyone show me a build using a Vanguard Paladin? I saw the Sacred Vanguard and Ubongwa (esp) Kundarak Paladin which is looking promising.

Also, I have maxed out all the Destines to 6,000,000 and wanted recommendations on what to take as an Epic PL from one of those destinies.

Thank you

[Zafaron]

First question: do you have a DEX tome? Remember that you still need base DEX 19 for Improved Precise Shot and DEX 21 for Combat Archery feats, so it's not like you can dump-stat DEX even with Knowledge of Battle.

Second question: do you have monk? Even if not making a FvS monkcher like this build, FvS 17 / monk 2 / wiz or ftr 1 would have the same number of feats (albeit not necessarily the same feats) plus Evasion. You can either go the centered route to use stances or wear light armor for more PRR.

Finally: do you want to use FvS offensive spells as well? If so, then FvS 18 / monk or ftr 2 is worth considering so you can have Implosion; although squeezing in all the ranged + caster DPS feats you need is extra-challenging. OTOH if you just want heals+archery, that's actually easier to pull off. FvS 18 might still be worth considering just for Mass Heal; honestly I haven't been playing much DDO lately, I've no idea is MH is relevant again or not.

EDIT: quick build outline.

HE FvS Archer
17/2/1 Favored Soul/Monk/Fighter
Lawful Neutral Half-Elf


Level Order

1. Favored Soul    6. Favored Soul   11. Favored Soul   16. Favored Soul
2. Favored Soul    7. Favored Soul   12. Favored Soul   17. Favored Soul
3. Monk            8. Favored Soul   13. Favored Soul   18. Favored Soul
4. Monk            9. Favored Soul   14. Favored Soul   19. Favored Soul
5. Favored Soul   10. Favored Soul   15. Fighter        20. Favored Soul


Stats
               36pt     Tome     Level Up
               ----     ----     --------
Strength         8       +6       4: WIS
Dexterity       15       +6       8: WIS
Constitution    16       +6      12: WIS
Intelligence    10       +6      16: WIS
Wisdom          18       +6      20: WIS
Charisma         8       +6      24: WIS
                                 28: WIS

Feats

 1        : Point Blank Shot
 3        : Rapid Shot
 3 Monk   : Zen Archery
 4 Monk   : Precision
 6        : Precise Shot
 9        : Manyshot
12        : Improved Critical: Ranged
15        : Quicken Spell
15 Fighter: Improved Precise Shot
18        : Spell Focus: Enchantment OR Empower Healing Spell
21 Epic   : Overwhelming Critical
24 Epic   : Combat Archery
26 Destiny: Pierce Damage Reduction: Silver OR Epic Spell Power: Positive
27 Epic   : Epic Damage Reduction OR Empower Healing Spell
28 Destiny: Doubleshot
29 Destiny: Embodiment of Law OR Deific Warding OR Fount of Life
30 Epic   : Completionist OR Empower Healing Spell
30 Legend : Scion of: Feywild OR Plane of Earth

 1 HalfElf: Half-Elf Dilettante: Rogue

 2 FavSoul: Knowledge of Battle
 9 FavSoul: Stout of Heart

 7 FavSoul: Energy Absorption: Electricity
12 FavSoul: Energy Absorption: Fire
18 FavSoul: Energy Absorption: Cold

 1 Deity  : Follower of: Silver Flame
 8 Deity  : Silver Flame Exorcism


Enhancements (80 AP)

Elf-Arcane Archer (41 AP)
Arcane Archer, Morphic Arrows, Metalline Arrows, Aligned Arrows, Shadow Arrows, Mystical Archer
Conjure Arrows, True Strike I, Corrosive Arrows
Force Arrows II, Elemental Damage
Terror Arrows, Soul Magic, Elemental Damage, Wisdom
Banishing Arrows, Paralyzing Arrows, Smiting Arrows, Elemental Damage, Wisdom
Moonbow, Arrow of Slaying, Final Strike, Improved Elemental Arrows, Runebow

Half-Elf (14 AP)
Versatile Nature, Human Wisdom, Human Damage Boost
Diplomatic Immunity, Improved Dilettante: Rogue
Improved Recovery, Improved Dilettante: Rogue
Arcane Archer

War Soul (11 AP)
Smite Foe, Resilience of Battle, Sanctuary
Righteous Weapons, Sacred Touch III
Wall of Steel III

Shintao (8 AP)
Bastion of Purity
Ki Shout, Exemplar II
Iron Skin III

Kensei (6 AP)
Kensei Focus: Archery
Extra Action Boost I, Haste Boost III

Thanks much for this. It's fairly similar to what I had in mind, although I was thinking heavy armor instead of the monk armor with evasion. You pointed out some things that I hadn't considered with the haste boost and such. I think I'm going to give this one a try with my next TR. I wasn't really planning on using offensive casting, more healing with arrows to pass the time and help with CC. I have played a few healers recently and mass heal is still too slow to be useful in most situations so I won't really miss not having it.

[wasu544]

i am gonna tr soon and i was gonna start my ranger lifes need help with a build that uses repeaters have a bunch just sitting around
itll be 36 points with a 4con 3 int 3dex 2 wis tomes and vip

[panshiko]

I used to have a character that was like an unarmed clonk but used fvs instead of cleric levels. The result for casting was, I had more manna although less options, which was better for me. I appreciated the agility of the monk, do not like the slow and plodding heavy armor. I understand hybrids are tricky but would like to be halfway decent at melee and grab stunning fist, but willing to try other kinds of melee. I have a character with some fvs and wizard past lives and some tomes I used to use for these kinds of builds. I'm looking at the fvs/monk/fighter on this page, do you think that would suit this playstyle? Or something else? thanks.

[Ultinoob]

i am gonna tr soon and i was gonna start my ranger lifes need help with a build that uses repeaters have a bunch just sitting around
itll be 36 points with a 4con 3 int 3dex 2 wis tomes and vip

Here is something a bit like a 12/6/2 Fighter/ranger/Art i have been contemplating. The idea is to use sniper shot and mercifull shot from deepwood and the ones from kensei. I have only tried the kensei part which is very effective when a mob gets less than 1/3 HP. This is the first time i try to make a build for somebody so please be gentle

If you want to you can change the enhancements and go for more AC from stalwart defender and +10% faster run speed. Anyways here goes.

New Build
9/8/3 Ranger/Fighter/Artificer
Lawful Good Gnome


Level Order

1. Artificer . . . 6. Ranger. . . . .11. Fighter. . . . 16. Fighter
2. Ranger . . . . .7. Ranger . . . . 12. Fighter . . . .17. Artificer
3. Ranger . . . . .8. Artificer . . .13. Fighter. . . . 18. Ranger
4. Ranger . . . . .9. Fighter . . . .14. Fighter. . . . 19. Ranger
5. Ranger . . . . 10. Fighter . . . .15. Fighter. . . . 20. Ranger


Stats
. . . . . . . .36pt . . Tome . . Level Up
. . . . . . . .---- . . ----. . .--------
Strength. . . . .6. . . . . . . . 4: INT
Dexterity . . . 16. . . .+3. . . .8: INT
Constitution. . 16. . . . . . . .12: INT
Intelligence. . 20. . . . . . . .16: INT
Wisdom. . . . . .8. . . . . . . .20: INT
Charisma. . . . .8. . . . . . . .24: INT
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28: INT

Skills
. . . . . A .R .R .R .R .R .R .A. F .F. F .F. F .F. F .F. A .R .R .R
. . . . . 1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7 .8. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
. . . . .------------------------------------------------------------
Concent . 4 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 .6 .4 .1 .23
Disable . 4 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1. 1 .1. 1 .1. 1 .1. 1 .1. 1 .1 .1 .1 .23
Search. . 4 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1. 1 .1. 1 .1. 1 .1. 1 .1. 1 .1 .1 .1 .23
Spot. . . 4 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1. 1 .1. 1 .1. 1 .1. 1 .1. 1 .1 .1 .1 .23
Jump. . . 2 .3 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1. 1 .1. 1 .1. 1 .1. 1 .1. 1 .1 .1 .1 .23
Open Lo . 4 . . 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 2 . . ½ .½. ½ .½. ½ .½. 1 .1. 1. 2. 3. 22
UMD . . . 4 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . .½ .15½
Haggle. . 4 . . ½. ½. ½. ½. ½. 1 .½. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
. . . . .------------------------------------------------------------
. . . . .32 10 11 11 11 11 11 10 .8. 8 .8. 8 .8. 8 .8. 9 11 13 13 13
. . . . .36 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 .8. 8 .8. 8 .8. 8 .8. 9 11 13 13 13


Feats



.1. . . . : Point Blank Shot
.3. . . . : Precision
.6. . . . : Weapon Focus: Ranged
.9. . . . : Improved Critical: Ranged
.9 Fighter: Dodge
10 Fighter: Mobility
12. . . . : Improved Precise Shot
12 Fighter: Weapon Specialization: Ranged
14 Fighter: Shot on the Run
15. . . . : Insightful Reflexes
16 Fighter: Greater Weapon Focus: Ranged
18. . . . : Toughness
21 Epic . : Overwhelming Critical
24 Epic . : Heavy Armor Combatant
26 Destiny: Holy Strike
27 Epic . : Toughness
28 Destiny: Doubleshot
29 Destiny: Embodiment of Law
30 Epic . : Epic Damage Reduction
30 Legend : Scion of: Arborea

.2 Ranger : Favored Enemy: Undead
.6 Ranger : Favored Enemy: Construct


Enhancements (79 of 80 AP)

Kensei (39 AP)

• Kensei Focus: Crossbows, Spiritual Bond, Strike with No Thought
  1. Extra Action Boost III, Weapon Group Specialization, Exotic Weapon Mastery, Attack Boost III
  2. Weapon Group Specialization, Ascetic Training: Conditioning III
  3. Critical Mastery III, Weapon Group Specialization, Shattering Shot III
  4. Weapon Group Specialization, Liquid Courage, Strike at the Heart
  5. A Good Death: Range, Weapon Master, One with the Blade, Deadly Shot, Keen Edge

Deepwood Stalker (24 AP)

• Far Shot, Sneak Attack, Sniper Shot
  1. Favored Defense III, Increased Empathy III
  2. Empathic Healing II
  3. Thrill of the Hunt III, Favored Hunter III, Aimed Shot
  4. Killer I, Merciful Shot

Harper Agent (14 AP)

• Agent of Good I
  1. Harper Enchantment, Strategic Combat
  2. Versatile Adept II, Know the Angles III
  3. Know Your Foe: Giant, Strategic Combat

Vistani Knife Fighter (2 AP)

• Knife Expertise
  1. Undead Hunter

Edit: Made a few mistakes. dont take favE undead as a feat at level 2. you get it from enhancements. Also instead of the second toughness take weapon focus thrown to get 2 more ranged power.

[wasu544]

i appreciate it thats looks pretty sweet now i just gotta figure between fighter or rogue lvs

[Raiztlin75]

As the title states im looking for a vistani knife fighter undead hunter would prefer to use Aasimar but almost any race is available except for half elf, gnome deep gnome and and scourge aasimar i have 7 past lives plus 6 tomes my past lives are 1 bard 1 barb 2 pally 1cleric 1fighter and cant think of my last one right now sorry its a wall of text doing this from my cell phone

[Jhaeran]

I really enjoyed my dwarven throw your weight around swashbuckler, self buffing hand axer.

Also liked the acid build arcane archer

Simple to play, just a few situational hotkeys but still very synergistic.

Any similar recommendations? Not against an existing build, haven't been around since update 33.

[Wanker]

Looking to see if it would be possible to build a solo (or small group) Rogue to run on low level Reapers. I'm thinking Human or Half-elf for race. Maybe assassin, with visanti knife fighter and harper that could be either INT or DEX based? I have completionist (heroic and epic). Open to pure Rogue or splashing fighter or something like that if it will help.

Thank you for any thoughts!

I was thinking of something like this, but am wondering how viable this would be in low-skull Reaper quests?
https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...=1#post6038293

Thank you again!

[Tyrius_Paladin]

I know some of you will probably eye-roll at this...but I pulled a Celestia in an EE CitW, and wondering, since it seems based off light damage, is there a Bard build or Bard/Cleric build that would allow me to become amazing at undead content?

I was thinking Swashbuckling Bard, having the good spells (Displacement, GH, FoM, etc) with either a Cleric splash for Turn Undead (boosted to provide 6d6 light damage) and build it around light damage to boost Celestia or about rolling in Vistani for a dagger mainhand/celestia offhand, but that maybe a bit too much to chew on.

36 point, swash w/ buckler (I am uneducated about orbs, but if they can assist with light power, it wouldn't be ruled out)

[unbongwah]

I pulled a Celestia in an EE CitW, and wondering, since it seems based off light damage, is there a Bard build or Bard/Cleric build that would allow me to become amazing at undead content?

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...5-Fix-Celestia

Both Swashbuckling and Righteous Weapons (Vulkoor Warpriest) change Celestia's light property, which ruins one of the best aspects of that weapon (i.e., breaking almost every form of DR including untyped). The other effects (Sunburst etc.) will still work fine; and I think Fiery Detonation will work with PSWF (i.e., proc on 19 or 20). Otherwise, Swashbuckling with Celestia looks like every other Swashbuckler build which takes Imp Crit Piercing.

Vistani for a dagger mainhand/celestia offhand

IIUC, Vistani requires daggers in both hands to benefit from its major TWF bonuses: specifically Vendetta, Double Daggers (+20% offhand proc), and the capstone (+5% attack speed). So you'd be sacrificing a lot of DPS with this combo.

FWIW, I don't think Tempest bonuses break Celestia, so a ranger using dual Celestias (or Celestia + something else if you only have one) would work fine, AFAIK.

[Tyrius_Paladin]

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...5-Fix-Celestia

Both Swashbuckling and Righteous Weapons (Vulkoor Warpriest) change Celestia's light property, which ruins one of the best aspects of that weapon (i.e., breaking almost every form of DR including untyped). The other effects (Sunburst etc.) will still work fine; and I think Fiery Detonation will work with PSWF (i.e., proc on 19 or 20). Otherwise, Swashbuckling with Celestia looks like every other Swashbuckler build which takes Imp Crit Piercing.

IIUC, Vistani requires daggers in both hands to benefit from its major TWF bonuses: specifically Vendetta, Double Daggers (+20% offhand proc), and the capstone (+5% attack speed). So you'd be sacrificing a lot of DPS with this combo.

FWIW, I don't think Tempest bonuses break Celestia, so a ranger using dual Celestias (or Celestia + something else if you only have one) would work fine, AFAIK.

Jeeze, I just can't win.
OK, how about just a high DPS Bard then. Spells/Songs, 36-pt etc?

[unbongwah]

OK, how about just a high DPS Bard then. Spells/Songs, 36-pt etc?

Any of the classic builds still work fine. Nothing's been buffed since U31 made handaxe or light pick Swashbuckler / Kensei more powerful. Unless you want a Scourge build using light maces, that is...

[Raiztlin75]

As the title states im looking for a vistani knife fighter undead hunter would prefer to use Aasimar but almost any race is available except for half elf, gnome deep gnome and and scourge aasimar i have 7 past lives plus 6 tomes my past lives are 1 bard 1 barb 2 pally 1cleric 1fighter and cant think of my last one right now sorry its a wall of text doing this from my cell phone

still looking for something to tr into

[unbongwah]

i am gonna tr soon and i was gonna start my ranger lifes need help with a build that uses repeaters have a bunch just sitting around
itll be 36 points with a 4con 3 int 3dex 2 wis tomes and vip

Sorry, missed this post earlier.

This build would work fine for a rgr PL (arty 6 / ftr 6 / rgr 8); although since rgr provides two of the listed feats for free (Rapid Shot & Precise Shot), you might want to adopt a different leveling order. Maybe arty 1-2 / ftr 1-6 / rgr 1-4 / arty 3-6 / rgr 5-8 -> HTR? Use tier-5 Kensei when you reach level 12, then respec into tier-5 BE at lvl 16.

[Veltn]

Im looking for a S&B build I'm going to tr soon idk how to make build properly so i was looking for help i have no tomes or epic destiny my current character is a 12 fig 6 rgr 2 rog with 2 in epic, I'm willing to look into multiclassing as well

[shino23]

Hello first post here!
I'm looking for some help with the build for my next tr.

I'm returning from a 4 year stop and I have not yet fully get mastery with the new enhancement trees.

The character have 3 monk past life and will have 1 fighter pl too and
have all +3 tomes

I saw an old video of a build from Reiign that I wwould have loved trying
https://youtu.be/-VBb04E0kUQ here is the video

I wanted to try something similar but I am also interested in trying the halfling race
So going for all wis dex build still focusing in unarmed combat. Also because I have no access to PDK iconic.
But i m also open to other race.
Is there something viable?

Thank you in advance!

[mohamedrrr189]

It has to be a 32pt build.

I'd need a high DPS build and would love if it is STR based, but it doesn't have to be STR.

I have access to everything in the game and got Supreme tomes +6 .

Iconic races: I will take an Iconic race and I have LR+1.

Thank you.

[C-Dog]

Im looking for a S&B build...

It has to be a 32pt build.

I'd need a high DPS build and would love if it is STR based...

@ both - None of these builds are very "custom", in that there are no unusual requirements. You should find what you need here: https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...=1#post5759353

Hello first post here! ...

I saw an old video of a build from Reiign that I wwould have loved trying
https://youtu.be/-VBb04E0kUQ here is the video...

That's not the most informative video (says a lot about what it can do, not how it was done). But you can see the Tree layout, and he flashes briefly thru Feats @ about the 4:10 mark - pause the vid and make some notes, between that all it should be re-creatable without too much guesswork.