Lvl 16 Fighter ONLY Great Crossbow User

[Myxalplyx]

Here is another of my supposedly 'gimp' builds that I did just because I could. It is a lvl 16 halfling fighter that ONLY uses Great Crossbows......Period! People would always diss the great due to it's low dps and low fire rate and plainly said it sucks. My son who played a lot had a +1 Wounding of Puncturing Great Crossbow that he was going to vendor trash. I was so excited to see it that I told him I build a toon that ONLY used Great Crossbows if he gave it to me. So he did and I kept my promise. He laughed at me and cracked jokes until we did a few quests together on elite in Vale. His only builds with his duel wielding Tier 3 Greensteels had trouble keeping up with a lil Wounding Puncturing action and Slayer bolts. After losing a couple of times, he was convinced but he'll never make one. Not his play style!

Here is Xbows (Level 16 Halfling Fighter pure Great Crossbow User).




Nothing give me more pleasure than to have a higher kill count than quick killing sorcerer/wizards, blade barrier using clerics and high dps green steel wielding monster builds. I use a simple formula since I do not have DPS. Cheap uber weaps and slayer bolts. I buy up slayer bolts like a cleric buys heal scrolls. The focus is to aim for a mob WAY in the back of a large group of mobs and shoot through as many of them as possible with a disruptor/slayer, smiter/slayer, banishing/slayer, etc combination. It works great to see a few mobs drop from a single shot. He has all the typical ranger feats makes out (Greater range specialization, Greater Ranged focus), Improved precise shot, Improved critical range, Power critical and Shot on the Run.

Feat breakdown:
Fighter Critical Accuracy IV
Fighter Great Crossbow Specialization II
Fighter Flanking Mastery III
Halfling Dex II
Halfling Cunning IV
Halfling Guild IV
Fighter Jump I
Fighter Strength II
Racial Toughness I
Fighter Toughness II

Very fun to play but this play style is not for everyone. I play far in the background, running and strafing a LOT. Good thing that I hardly ever die. Why not pick a heavy repeater? Because that makes sense! People already have done this. My weaps were cheap and I'd fly through my expensive slayer bolt addition. That's a no-no! Plus it feels better to kill a lot with a slow, single shot shooting weapon and see some people be like ????????????

My favorite bow is obviously the lightning green steel. To see it go off in the distance, killing a mob is funny. I thought I saw lightning strike more than one mob once with the Improved precise but I may have been hoping to see that more than it actually happening. I dunno! You get to see many a pretty numbers with the Green steel Good/Shock/Goodburst*Crit*/Shocking Burst*crit*/Force Damage/Bane Bolts combination. Bane bolts are dirt cheap and I clean and keep tons of them on me. Bah...I am talking to much

Nope..I do not recommend this build to anyone. You need patience at the lower levels. I am wondering what how he'll be at level 20. Will post some raid/quest pics below.

[sigtrent]

Congrats on a cool and unique character!

[Visty]

if you onstly kill via slayerbolst, you could use a hvy xbow too, saves a feat

[UnderwearModel]

Or you were I believe.

Please keep the greater slayer bolt stuff secret. I buy all of those also on AH. I have quite a hoard of them

[Myxalplyx]

Kill Counts?

Some Gianthold Tor Action:




Madstone on Elite:



Tomb of Blighted Necro action on elite:




Some Elite Reaver (Fail LOL):



Hounding around....



Running with the Devils...



To Shrouding....





Way to many pics! Won't post anymore. The point is to have fun with whatever build you make. Do not let people discourage you....just do it.

Also, I apologize ahead of time for not keeping the slayer bolt thing 'secret'. Most people don't care anyways. Speaking of bolts, I didn't realize that silver/cold iron weaps bypassed dr with some mobs. The newb that I am! Looks like I'll be stocking up on Cold Iron/Silver bolts in another quiver to be used with the Green Steel. Red mobs...here I come. Then I'll technically have a Lightning/Mineral Green steel right? Hehe!

[Talon_Moonshadow]

Mine just made 13 I think.
I've almost deleted him several times, but he just keeps killing things.

First it was the change that made GCBs do more damage and crits
Then it was the cheap Uber ones I got of the AH.
And then someone had to come along and give me a W/P one for free!

Now we have Kensei coming and I could be making a greensteel one in the near future.

If only he'd actually prove he was actually gimped I might delete him, but he just keeps getting high kill counts. lol.

If I do delete him, I'd have to consider a rgr build that used GCBs on occasion though.
The crit range makes Smiters, Banishers, and Puncterers work very well.
I know rapiers work better, but how many people can afford those?!

[Myxalplyx]

Sup Talon! Glad to see you posting.


Question (At work now): I just purchased another thin quiver earlier to stock 1000 silvers, adamantine and cold iron bolts to be used with my Lightning Green steel. Using these bolts, would it affectively make it a Lightning/Mineral Green Steel in spirit?

[Talon_Moonshadow]

Sup Talon! Glad to see you posting.


Question (At work now): I just purchased another thin quiver earlier to stock 1000 silvers, adamantine and cold iron bolts to be used with my Lightning Green steel. Using these bolts, would it affectively make it a Lightning/Mineral Green Steel in spirit?

Well....it does allow you red damage against Pit Fiend, Dq, (flensers/reavers?), Iron Golems....some WF....etc.

My main has a triple positive bow and I use those arrows with great success.

(I can post from the ship...although slowly...darn limited bandwidth....but can't play right now.. )

[gfunk]

lol, Nice Work!. I have a alt on Khyber so I'm going to watch out for you.. I'd love to see this build in action! I think its fantastic to see builds where people put good use to the weapons/playstyles that seem to be underpowered.

I would love to see some more "thrower" builds for example, and it drives me nuts that there are some very cool weapons in the game that seem to have limited use (like the twinblade, bereavement, razorend, coronation, phosphor, lacerator which are some of my particular favorites.. though there are also several named throwers and other weapons that would be cool to find an excuse to use)