Whats Your Solo Build ?

[Kumorijin]

Whats the build you like to solo with ?

Also, what are some good Healing amp builds other than the "Solar Phoenix" ?



Goal: looking for different play styles of the solo-able builds out there.

[stormarcher]

healing amp: This

[Kumorijin]

can human cleric 12 w/ radiant servant / monk 7 really be that effective? the way i see it, i would just be gimping myself if i went anything under 17 cleric, then i might as well just go with the classic clonk right?

in addition could there be a self sufficiant dps build that could have some rogue skills other than the exploiter. and could it match the exploiter's dps?

[SINIBYTE]

WF Sorc

Self-buffing, Self-healing, AOE, Nuker.

[D-molisher]

1: Troubadix human cha / max perform bard ( 32 pointer ).
2: Bruized ( lee ) TR2 monk.
Both are funn soloing chars. I got a capped exploiter but pure bard / monk is more suiting my play style.

P.s. http://ddo.mmodb.com/guides/creating-a-human-bard-2.php
I changed my bard a little, to what i needed - but basicly that build.

[LunaCee]

Err... 12/7/1 Cleric/Monk/Splash of Choice can be *very* self sufficient. It can't be a raid healer because it just doesn't have the SP for that, but it can certainly be a spot healer that can get itself back out of trouble.

Make it a human radiant servant and use fire stance for +STR with sentinel's monk bracers and it gets nutty.

140 base (CL 12+2 radiant bonus) * 1.4 (Cleric Life Magic IV) * 1.75 (Enhanced Empower Healing) * 1.8 (Heal amp total from 1.2 Human * 1.2 Monk * 1.25 Jidz bracer) = 617 non-crit Heals on self.

Toss in some additional heal amp beyond that and Torc + Con Op... should be just short of immortal when played right. Let alone what crazy numbers you'd get with critical heals.

As for which class to splash? Fighter, Wizard, Rogue would be my top three picks. Depends on whether you want a bonus martial feat, bonus meta-magic, or want to pick up a lot of skill points along with UMD.

The entire name of the game with such a build is endurance. Yes your DPS is lower than a DPS specialized character, but your self sufficiency is many times higher.

[unbongwah]

Also, what are some good Healing amp builds other than the "Solar Phoenix" ?

Self-pimpage: my Tempest Phoenix. Less self-healing amp, lower burst DPS, & lower saves than Solar; but higher AC, good trap skills, and only requires a +1 INT tome, so a bit easier for the resource-challenged to pull off.

[Phidius]

My absolute hands-down-favorite soloer is Gemstone (link in my sig).

[Raoull]

@LunaCee: Is M7 important to that build? It doesn't seem like wholeness of body is that necessary considering the Radiant server healing. I'm thinking of such a build, but going with CHA to get DM II and then splashing Pal 2 for crazy saves. So I was thinking more of a C12/M6/P2 split.

Also, @Kumorijin.... for solo purposes, C17 doesn't seem so important. Those high lvl spells are important for groups, but they are mainly mass buffs and mass heals. If you only look at the spells that matter for solo play, the list is much shorter.

I think for a soloer, C15 seems about as high as you need to go, since that is where BB maxes out. Those last 3 lvls may not be worth it just for that... but I'm not really experienced in such things.

[sigtrent]

There are tons of variants on the "phoenix" builds. All you really need is Monk 3, Human, and healing amp gear and presto, Phoenix action (free unlimited self healing).

I have a Paladin 15/Monk 3/Fighter 2 I call the Phoenix Champion. Its one of my favorites and he solo's well. Not good enough for epic solo and I haven't tried too many elite's solo. He's fairly indestructible when geared out properly and DPS is good and quite versatile.

I do most of my soloing at lower levels where a number of strategies work well. At higher level its much harder and requires a more specialized build. All the suggestions so far are good ones.

[fluffi]

12/6/2 Wiz/Ftr/Rog - wf THF
self healing, displace, haste, rage. 34str (boosted to 40 with titan), 520hp unbuffed. Very soloable esp with evasion and full trapping. FW used when needed, rest just melee and self heal.

[Kumorijin]

i'm hearing monk 20 is tons better for soloing and self sufficiancy now that the rings got better. thing is/for me whats the difference between the builds' effectiveness?

this is how i see it: please correct me if i'm wrong

1. str based light path: decent dps, poor ac but heals well
2. dex based light path: poor dps, good ac and heals well

3. str based dark path: good dps, poor ac and almost no healing
4. dex based dark path: decent dps, good ac and no healing

so, for a solo-er like myself i'd probably be looking more at 1 & 4 right?

[Warwolf42]

WF Wiz18/Rog2, there's a bunch of good builds out there, mine's a variant of this one.

Gwlech's 28pt build http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=218205 if you have 32 pts bump con to 18

Edit: mangled Gwlech's name

[Thelmallen]

Bladetuner, battle bard.

[Phidius]

Err... 12/7/1 Cleric/Monk/Splash of Choice can be *very* self sufficient. It can't be a raid healer because it just doesn't have the SP for that, but it can certainly be a spot healer that can get itself back out of trouble.
...

Technically, it's just a few Major pots short of a full healer - what it's missing is the mana-efficient Mass Heal.

It's not built for raid healing, but it can do it in a pinch - which is more than what a full-blown melee can do.

[TPICKRELL]

i'm hearing monk 20 is tons better for soloing and self sufficiancy now that the rings got better. thing is/for me whats the difference between the builds' effectiveness?

this is how i see it: please correct me if i'm wrong

1. str based light path: decent dps, poor ac but heals well
2. dex based light path: poor dps, good ac and heals well

3. str based dark path: good dps, poor ac and almost no healing
4. dex based dark path: decent dps, good ac and no healing

so, for a solo-er like myself i'd probably be looking more at 1 & 4 right?

I find any decently speced and equipped positive path monk to be a solid solo build.

If your definition of SOLO can be extended to use a hireling cleric for spot healing (or caster if WF) then a dark path monk is also very solo friendly. It still gets wholeness of body and the ToD means that you can kill a lot of end bosses that would give a light path monk some serious pain.

[Tobril]

Tobril – 15/3/2 Paladin/Monk/Thief

Similar to sigtrents build, except I wanted higher UMD and open locks.

Can solo Reaver and DQ, am prepping to do VoD atm.

Will post the build someday when I stop being lazy.

http://my.ddo.com/character/sarlona/tobril/

[Kumorijin]

i've seen several builds w/ only 15 or 16 levels of cleric, one saying thats all you need to max out blade burrier. but would only 15/16 levels of cleric be enough to have an effective BB that would get thru all those DC's?

[Tobril]

i've seen several builds w/ only 15 or 16 levels of cleric, one saying thats all you need to max out blade burrier. but would only 15/16 levels of cleric be enough to have an effective BB that would get thru all those DC's?

Damage yes, presuming maxing dice at 15 is implemented properly in DDO.

DC won’t be as high as it could be using heighten.

[Kumorijin]

could a WF Tempest Rng18/mnk1/rog1 or WF KotC pal18/monk2 solo well? and which one might be more easy botton than the other and why?