Awesomobot Four Thousand - Arcane Ranger

[EinarMal]

The main goal of this build is having very good TWF DPS, Evasion, Self Healing, and Displacement and other handy spell buffs (that you can cast quickened in combat).

This build is actually pretty interesting compared to the Ranger class. You end up with higher top end DPS, roughly the same self healing, and a lot more useful spells like self cast displacement.

The negatives compared to Ranger are no AC (using displacement instead) and more reliance on shorter duration buffs like divine power clickies.

(Gear and tome listed is for optimal planning purposes and other than the +2 dex tome for GTWF are not required)

Awesomobot Four Thousand
(Warforged Neutral Wizard 7/Rogue 7/Ranger 6)

Stats:
Str 17 (40=17 +5 Levels +3 Tome +6 Item +3 Ex. +2 Rage +2 Rams +2 Pot)
Dex 15 (26=15 +3 Tome +2 Enh. +6 Item)
Con 15 (30=15 +3 Tome +1 Enh. +6 Item +3 Ex. +2 Rage)
Int 10 (18=10 +2 Tome +6 Item)
Wis 6 (14=6 +2 Tome +6 Item)
Cha 10 (18=10 +2 Tome +6 Item)

Level Progression:
1-Rogue
2 thru 4-Wizard
5-Rogue
6 thru 7-Wizard
8 thru 13-Ranger
14-Rogue
15 thru 16-Wizard
17 thru 20-Rogue

Slots:
Head: Wis +6
Goggles: Tharne's Goggles (+5 Sneak Attack)
Neck: DQ Torq/Cartouche
Armor: DT Docent(Deathblock,Int +6,Greater Potency VII)
Bracers: Tharne's Bracers (Dex +6, -20% Threat)
Gloves: Supreme Tyrant of Wizardry VI (Cha Skills +6, 300sp)
Cloak: Mineral II (45 hp, +5 Prot, Heavy Fort, Stoneskin x2)
Belt: FB Belt: GFL, +6 Con, +2 Damage
Trinket: Bloodstone (Seeker +6)
Boots: Boots of the Innocent
Ring 1: Warchanter Ring (+6 Cha, + 1 Ex. Str, + 2 Ex. Con)
Ring 2: FB ring (+6 Str, + 1 Ex. Con, + 2 Ex. Str)
Main Hand: Mineral II Khopesh (Holy, Acid Burst, Acid Blast)
Off Hand: Mineral II Khopesh (Holy, Acid Burst, Acid Blast)

Skills:
UMD
Disable Device
Search
Concentration
Open Lock
Balance
Jump

Feats:
1-Dodge
2-(WB)Quicken
3-Power Attack
5-(RB)Evasion
6-Toughness
7-(WB)Maximize
8-(FE)Undead
9-Mobility
12-Spring Attack
12-(FE)Evil Outsiders
15-Khopesh
18-GTWF

HP:
118(Levels) +20(Heroic) +10(Draconic) +30(GFL) +200(Con) +45(Cloak) +22(Tough) +40(Enh.)=485

SP:
295(7Wiz) +64(Int) +25(6Rng) +30(Wis) +300(GS) +50(EOS)=764

Enhancements:
Warforged Toughness IV
Warforged Power Attack III
Warforged Healer's Friend II
Warforged Con I
Warforged Inscribed Armor I
Warforged Construct Thinking I
Wizard Force Manipulation III
Wizard Energy of the Scholar II
Wizard Lineage of Force II
Wizard Wand and Scroll Mastery II
Wizard Lineage of Deadly Force I
Rogue Haste Boost III
Rogue Sneak Attack Training III
Rogue Dex II
Rogue Subtle Backstabbing II
Rogue Sneak Attack Accuracy II
Rogue Improved Trap Sense I
Ranger Tempest I
Ranger Favored Damage II
Ranger Sprint Boost II
Ranger Favored Attack I
Ranger Favored Resistance I

Spells:
1-Ram's Might, Jump, Shield, Repair Light, Exp. Retreat, Magic Missile, Ray of Enfeeblement
2-Blur, False Life, Resist Energy, Repair Moderate
3-Displacement, Haste, Rage
4-Repair Critical, Various…

To Hit:
BAB (Divine Power) 20
Str 15
Weapon 5
Bard Song 8
Haste 1
Backstabbing 7
TWF -4
Power Attack -8
+44

Damage:
Weapon 5
Base Damage 6.5
Str 15
PA 8
Sneak 31
Rams 2
FE 6
Belt 2
Song 8
+83.5

Saves (Fort/Reflex/Will):
Base: 9/12/9
Attributes: 10/8/2
Resistance: 5/5/5
Greater Hero: 4/4/4
Total: 28/29/20

UMD
23(Ranks) +4(Cha) +4(GH) +6(GS) +3(Cartouche)=40

Healing: (Repair Critical +Quicken +Maximize =60 sp)
+98 (Repair scrolls out of combat)

I calculate this out to be about 90-93% of the damage of a Rogue 13/Ranger 6 type build. You have as a trade off to that build the increased spell casting, including in combat quickened 100 point repairs and displacement on demand.

[spifflove]

Props for thinking outside the box.

[kingfisher]

nice!

[Kalanth]

What!? 4000!?

[Spisey]

I feel cheated! I do not see 4000 of anything in your build!

Looks fun though keep us posted on end game results!

[EinarMal]

What!? 4000!?

Yes because 5000 is just ridiculous

[EinarMal]

I feel cheated! I do not see 4000 of anything in your build!

Looks fun though keep us posted on end game results!

Yeah it was a stupid south park reference, from when Cartman was pretending to be a robot.

It was just Awesomo Four Thousand but I had to add the bot because the name was taken

[Tanka]

If it isn't over 9000, I don't want to hear about it.

[Spisey]

Yeah it was a stupid south park reference, from when Cartman was pretending to be a robot.

It was just Awesomo Four Thousand but I had to add the bot because the name was taken

This ???

[EinarMal]

This ???

Yep that's me! Adam Sandler movies for everyone!

[Thrudh]

This biggest drawback with this build is that you're going to have to be using Divine Power clickables ALL THE TIME... That will be really annoying... You won't be able to hit anything without Divine Power on with a -8 to hit from WF PA III.

I calculate this out to be about 90-93% of the damage of a Rogue 13/Ranger 6 type build.

That doesn't seem very realistic, but I didn't do the numbers...

I'm surprised you don't have firewall listed in your 4th level spells and no fire enhancements (you can get up to 30% at wiz level 7)... The main reason I'd want to go 7th level wizard in a melee multi-class is to stand in my own firewalls while swinging...

Still, a very interesting idea...

[Riggs]

I had thought of a 7 wiz, 12 ranger, 1 rogue build kinda similar.

Lose the sneak damage, but gain more tempest, barks and more favored enemy bonuses.

Would be fun either way.

[EinarMal]

This biggest drawback with this build is that you're going to have to be using Divine Power clickables ALL THE TIME... That will be really annoying... You won't be able to hit anything without Divine Power on with a -8 to hit from WF PA III.

That doesn't seem very realistic, but I didn't do the numbers...

I'm surprised you don't have firewall listed in your 4th level spells and no fire enhancements (you can get up to 30% at wiz level 7)... The main reason I'd want to go 7th level wizard in a melee multi-class is to stand in my own firewalls while swinging...

Still, a very interesting idea...

Well damage wise the difference between Rogue 13 vs Rogue 7 is something like

My build: +83.5
13/6 =83.5 + 13.5 = 97 (16%)

There are other factors depending on builds obviously that is worse case, a lot of Rogues are dex based, or don't use Khopesh etc...and it depends on race are they Drow, Human, Halfling etc...

Yeah I don't really plan on using firewall mainly because of so much fire immunity at high levels. Plus if I have aggro I am doing way less damage.

Divine power is pretty much mandatory for all these battle wizard builds unfortunately although with 14 BAB it isn't quite as bad.

[Riggs]

Well damage wise the difference between Rogue 13 vs Rogue 7 is something like

My build: +83.5
13/6 =83.5 + 13.5 = 97 (16%)

There are other factors depending on builds obviously that is worse case, a lot of Rogues are dex based, or don't use Khopesh etc...

Yeah I don't really plan on using firewall mainly because of so much fire immunity at high levels. Plus if I have aggro I am doing way less damage.

Divine power is pretty much mandatory for all these battle wizard builds unfortunately although with 13 BAB it isn't quite as bad.

The good thing about a wiz though is that if you run a quest with undead and ghosts, swapping in firewall would be easy....but that would only matter for some mid level quests anyway. Or if your soloing and have agro anyway, so more damage on non-immune monsters will add up.

[EinarMal]

The good thing about a wiz though is that if you run a quest with undead and ghosts, swapping in firewall would be easy....but that would only matter for some mid level quests anyway. Or if your soloing and have agro anyway, so more damage on non-immune monsters will add up.

Yeah it's true for soloing some quests you could definitely do that, in groups the lost enhancement points would actually hurt the build I think as I would never actually use it in most cases.

[kingfisher]

This biggest drawback with this build is that you're going to have to be using Divine Power clickables ALL THE TIME... That will be really annoying... You won't be able to hit anything without Divine Power on with a -8 to hit from WF PA III.

i am leveling a wf 12wiz/6ranger/2monk (lovin it btw!) atm and i have been collecting 5x dp goggle clickies for a while so its easy to keep it up. at least until i craft goggles or get tharnes.

also, the firewall does not work well with SA damage, so that might be a reason to leave it out.

[EinarMal]

i am leveling a wf 12wiz/6ranger/2monk (lovin it btw!) atm and i have been collecting 5x dp goggle clickies for a while so its easy to keep it up. at least until i craft goggles or get tharnes.

also, the firewall does not work well with SA damage, so that might be a reason to leave it out.

I actually initially had this build as 12 Wiz/Rogue 7/Fighter 1, then I did some calculations and decided that repair critical would be good enough for self healing and switched it for more DPS. It was a significant DPS difference about 25% less with the initial build.

[Thrudh]

I had thought of a 7 wiz, 12 ranger, 1 rogue build kinda similar.

Lose the sneak damage, but gain more tempest, barks and more favored enemy bonuses.

Would be fun either way.

This one I'm doing (he's 11/5 ranger/wizard right now). I can confirm that it's loads of fun and very viable... Give me Firewall (I should be able to get 100 point ticks or so)and a rogue level, and he will really rock

[Thrudh]

Divine power is pretty much mandatory for all these battle wizard builds unfortunately although with 13 BAB it isn't quite as bad.

Well my 11/5 ranger/wizard doesn't use Divine Power at all. I don't think it's the battle wizard build, but the WF PA III that's killing your to-hit...

[Thrudh]

Yeah it's true for soloing some quests you could definitely do that, in groups the lost enhancement points would actually hurt the build I think as I would never actually use it in most cases.

This kind of build is made for soloing or low-manning... This is not a build that just sits at cap and runs Shroud over and over... This is the kind of build that hits the Vale quests for pie pieces (plenty of places to use firewall in those quests), does Monestary loot runs (firewalls the scorps, etc.), tanks Sorjek without needing a pure wizard in the group...

Plus scorching ray could be interesting... You get two at level 7...

Man, I can't wait for the level cap to go up... My ranger/wizard uses all his spells for buffing... Should be interesting to do a little offensive casting as well...