Another 18/1/1. But this one is called God.

[Aaxeyu]

Link to the thread on the EU forums http://community.codemasters.com/for...68&postcount=1

This is my take on rangers, and it looks pretty good too me.

Name: XXXXX Almighty
Class: Ranger 18 / monk 1 / rogue 1
Race: Human
Allignment: Lawful Neutral.

Starting Stats:
Str 16
Dex 16
Con 12
Int 8
Wis 15
Cha 8

Ending Stats:
Str 32 (16 base + 5 level + 6 item + 3 tome + 2 rams )
Dex 28 (16 base + 3 tome + 6 item + 2 ranger enhancement +1 enhancement)
Con 20 (12 base + 2 tome + 6 item)
Int 10 (8 base + 2 tome)
Wis 28 (15 base +3 tome + 6 item +2 shroud weapon +1 enhancement +1 DT armor)
Cha 10 (8 base + 2 tome)


Final AC Breakdown:
10 Base
9 dex
9 wisdom
6 armor
2 chaosgarde
5 deflection
1 Dodge
3 Chattering Ring
4 insight
1 Ritual
4 tempest shield bonus
3 Favored
(2 defensive fighting)
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57 (59) - unbuffed
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5 barkskin
1 haste
2 recitation
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65 (67) - self buffed
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6 aura
4 bard song
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75 (77) with party buffs

Can also boost for 4 more.

Enhancements

Enhancement: Rogue Haste Boost I
Enhancement: Ranger Sprint Boost I
Enhancement: Human Adaptability I: Dexterity
Enhancement: Human Adaptability II: Wisdom
Enhancement: Human Improved Recovery III
Enhancement: Human Versatility III
Enhancement: Ranger Favored Attack II
Enhancement: Ranger Favored Damage IV
Enhancement: Ranger Favored Defense III
Enhancement: Ranger Favored Resistance II
Enhancement: Ranger Tempest III
Enhancement: Rogue Sneak Attack Training I
Enhancement: Ranger Devotion IV
Enhancement: Ranger Dexterity II
Enhancement: Rogue Improved Trap Sense I
Enhancement: Racial Toughness II

Feats:
1.Dodge
1 (human).Mobility
2 (Monk). Power attack
3.Khopesh
6.Spring attack
9.Oversized two weapon fighting
12.Improved critical piercing
15.Empower healing
18.Toughness


Saves Unbuffed
Fortitude: 26 (11 Ranger + 2 monk + 5 con + 5 res +1 ritual +2 vs favored)
Reflex: 32 (11 Ranger + 2 monk +2 rogue + 9 dex + 5 res +1 ritual +2 vs favored ( +2 vs traps))
Will: 25 (6 Ranger + 2 monk + 9 wis +5 res + 1 ritual +2 vs favored)


Saves Self Buffed
Fortitude: 32 ( + 4 GH +2 reci)
Reflex: 39( + 4 GH + 1 haste +2 reci)
Will: 31 ( + 4 GH +2 reci)


Hit Points
6 Rogue
8 Monk
144 Ranger
100con
20 heroic durability
10 draconic vitality
44 toughness
30 greater false life
45 shroud item
20 Toughness enhancement
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427 hp

Skill Points:

Max concentration, balance, jump, umd and put points spare points in tumble.

If you want intimi, don't put the spare points in tumble and drop some points from jump and balance and put it in intimidate.

UMD:
23 ranks
+6 shroud item
+3 cha item
+4 boost
+5 seven fingered gloves
+4 gh
+2 head
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47

Items

Weapon: Mineral II Khopesh, Insight
Offhand: Mineral II Khopesh, 2 wisdom
Head: Minos
Goggles: Tharnes
Armor: Dragontouched outfit with +5 res, +1 wisdom and Destruction/radience guard
Bracers: Chaosgarde
Gloves: 10 hp, +6 wisdom, +5 cha skills, 150 sp, conc opp.
Ring: chattering ring
Ring: greater false life
Boots: +6 dex
Belt: +6 str
Cloak: 35 hp, +5 prot, heavy fort, wizardy VI, +1 cha skills
Necklace: +6 con
Trinket: Bloodstone


If you are lucky enough to the titan belt you can use that and tumbleweed to free up the boots slot and gain +2 tohit.


What's special with this build?
Good dps, high selfbuffed AC without PA so can be in DPS mode all the time.
Great selfhealing with CSW for 120+ hp without having to swap to scrolls.

Strengths .v. Weaknesses
+Good dps (~400 dps, Fighters have ~500)
+High ac
+High saves
+High umd
+Decent hp
+Very good selfhealing
+Great versatility
+Evasion


-Low damage compared to fighter builds

[Aspenor]

Just pointing out a typo:
(nevermind I found the additional +1 charisma skill on another item)
Tempest shield bonus to AC caps at +3, not +4.

You also might want to clarify that the HV boost isn't permanent to UMD.

as far as UMD goes, thats a LOT of swapping items to use UMD. I'm going to assume you only will use it for ress's since you'd have to swap out for 7 fingered gloves AND a charisma cloak to get your UMD as high as you posted. You don't have a charisma item, Head of Good Fortune, nor the gloves on your gear list, so that's starting out at -14 already (although 33 UMD is respectable).

May I ask why you have Wizardry VI twice? One GS item has 150 SP on it, and another has Wiz 6. I don't think your gloves can have ALL those effects on them at once.

[icculus]

This is my take on rangers, and it looks pretty good too me.

The last time you started with a similar comment, 20odd pages later you were still wrong...

[Aspenor]

The last time you started with a similar comment, 20odd pages later you were still wrong...

it's a good build, I'm just having a little confusion with his GS items.

[Borror0]

If I get this right, it's a weaker version of the Exploiter and thus is called 'God'? Someone else sees a problem here?

[Borror0]

it's a good build, I'm just having a little confusion with his GS items.

Sickness' problem has never been that he posts horrible builds. His builds are certainly playable...

[Aspenor]

If I get this right, it's a weaker version of the Exploiter and thus is called 'God'? Someone else sees a problem here?

Well i was trying to ignore the grandiose build title. It's a little preposterous.

[Borror0]

Well i was trying to ignore the grandiose build title. It's a little preposterous.

Well, since Sickness posts builds so that we can stroke his ego, I feel compelled to remind him there is a better version of the build that was posted long before he posted his. In fact, it's quite likely inspired himself from Exploiter to build this build.

Sadly for him, there won't be any ego stroking since he made the build worse rather than better. Ironic for a self-titled god.

[MrCow]

Great selfhealing with CSW for 120+ hp without having to swap to scrolls.

Might you show the math on this? As far as I can see you only have 130% divine healing (100% base * 30% human recovery III) and nothing to increase the potency of wands/potions.

[Aspenor]

Well, since Sickness posts builds so that we can stroke his ego, I feel compelled to remind him there is a better version of the build that was posted long before he posted his. In fact, it's quite likely inspired himself from Exploiter to build this build.

Sadly for him, there won't be any ego stroking since he made the build worse rather than better. Ironic for a self-titled god.

True enough. Einarmal's build is clearly superior.

[Aspenor]

Might you show the math on this? As far as I can see you only have 130% divine healing (100% base * 30% human recovery III) and nothing to increase the potency of wands/potions.

Empower healing....

on a ranger build.

I get the point, but I'm not thinking he has as many spell points as he thinks.

[MrCow]

Empower healing....

Heh, its so rare that I see rangers heal from SP that I completely missed that.

[Lawst]

Here are his Gloves if you were wondering how he did it...

[Aaxeyu]

Tempest shield bonus to AC caps at +3, not +4.

No, it caps at +4.

Ranger Tempest III
Benefit: Your skill with two weapons is unequaled - your training has turned you into a whirling tempest of steel, granting a 10% competence bonus to dual wield attack speed, a +4 shield bonus to armor class when two weapon fighting, your penalty to hit has been reduced by 2, and you gain additional attacks when two weapon fighting.

You also might want to clarify that the HV boost isn't permanent to UMD.

as far as UMD goes, thats a LOT of swapping items to use UMD. I'm going to assume you only will use it for ress's since you'd have to swap out for 7 fingered gloves AND a charisma cloak to get your UMD as high as you posted. You don't have a charisma item, Head of Good Fortune, nor the gloves on your gear list, so that's starting out at -14 already (although 33 UMD is respectable).

Yes, but in what situations do you need that high UMD really?
Healscroll is only 40, and my CSWs will be almost as good.

You can use the boost when you need to ressurect or teleport etc.
I would figure that most people understands this.

May I ask why you have Wizardry VI twice? One GS item has 150 SP on it, and another has Wiz 6. I don't think your gloves can have ALL those effects on them at once.

I only have Wizardry VI once.
There is nothing wrong with those GS item.

[Aspenor]

No, it caps at +4.




Yes, but in what situations do you need that high UMD really?
Healscroll is only 40, and my CSWs will be almost as good.

You can use the boost when you need to ressurect or teleport etc.
I would figure that most people understands this.



I only have Wizardry VI once.
There is nothing wrong with those GS item.

Ah, well don't get your panties in a twist. So I was wrong about your GS items, oh well. I am aware you don't NEED a UMD that high, and that Heal scrolls are DC 40. I'm just saying that you're posting in a manner that makes your abilities seem greater than they really are.

[Lawst]

And here is his Cloak ... my cookie cutter build has 604 sp with a similar set up and wisdom is sitting at a 24 so he should have the sp, with scrolls to back himself up in between fights.. not that I think this build is superior or inferior. It's just another "Cookie"... lol

[Aspenor]

And here is his Cloak ... my cookie cutter build has 604 sp with a similar set up and wisdom is sitting at a 24 so he should have the sp, with scrolls to back himself up in between fights.. not that I think this build is superior or inferior. It's just another "Cookie"... lol

Yum....cookies. What kind?

[Aaxeyu]

If I get this right, it's a weaker version of the Exploiter and thus is called 'God'? Someone else sees a problem here?

Well i was trying to ignore the grandiose build title. It's a little preposterous.

Hehe, don't take it so seriously. There was a spree of named builds on the EU forums, I had to beat The Rambo, and God was the only name I could think of ^^
Click the link and read the introduction I wrote for the EU forums and you might realise that it's just for fun.

It's humor

Well, since Sickness posts builds so that we can stroke his ego, I feel compelled to remind him there is a better version of the build that was posted long before he posted his. In fact, it's quite likely inspired himself from Exploiter to build this build.

Sadly for him, there won't be any ego stroking since he made the build worse rather than better. Ironic for a self-titled god.

I post builds here because I'm bored.

I actually disagree, I prefer the healing spec and no wasted points in int to get CE.
But 'm sure you have an argument to why the exploiter is a better build?

[Borror0]

Might you show the math on this? As far as I can see you only have 130% divine healing

He has Empower Healing and Ranger Devotion IV too.

Minimum:
24*1.4*1.5*1.3=65.5

Average:
31.5*1.4*1.5*1.3=86.0

Maximum:
39.0*1.4*1.5*1.3=106.0

Obviously, he failed his math on that one when he said "CSW for 120+ hp".

[Aaxeyu]

Ah, well don't get your panties in a twist. So I was wrong about your GS items, oh well. I am aware you don't NEED a UMD that high, and that Heal scrolls are DC 40. I'm just saying that you're posting in a manner that makes your abilities seem greater than they really are.

Well, I am posting after the standard that have been set on the EU forums.
I think everyone there understand that you need to swap items and that boost is not permanent.
It migth be different on these forum though... but what do I know?