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    Community Member Belief's Avatar
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    Default HELP! Returning Player - Pure Rogue (INT)

    I'm returning after a lengthy Hiatus, and I lost my HDD w/ all of my planned lives/builds *CRY*

    Now I have a level 9(10.9 banked) pure rogue (Int Based) and I have NO idea where I'm going
    with the build. I could have sworn he was meant to be an assassination rogue, but here I am
    logging in and I have a row of badass repeaters lol I specifically remember farming up x2 polycurse
    daggers, and some other stuff for this life, I'll have to go look in my bank.

    Anyway I was hoping someone could take a look at my character and give me some advice on where to go.

    I "think" the idea was to go repeaters until Assassination was optimal then switch over... but I don't honestly know. I do have a holy/positive greensteel repeater? so maybe it's better to just stick it out as a repeater build? I'm definitely open to suggestions, I thought assassinate would be fun though my fighter and artificer were both repeater builds (and I F'ING LOVED IT) but I think this life was supposed to be "something different" anyway any help you badass DDO Monster Theorycrafters can help out with would be spectacular. Thanks ahead of time for any help you all might be able to bestow.

    Half-Elf
    Levels: 9 of Rogue (I have level 10 already completed, with 90% of 10 banked)
    Past Lives: x1 Fighter x1 Artificer
    Feats:
    - Half-Elf Dilettante Artificer
    - Point Blank Shot
    - Rapid Reload
    - Toughness

    Stats (NAKED)
    STR: 16 - MOD +3
    DEX: 16 - MOD +3
    CON: 17 - MOD +3
    INT: 25 - MOD +7
    WIS: 10 - MOD +0
    CHA: 10 - MOD +0
    BAB +6
    HP: 127
    FORT +6
    REFLEX +9
    WILL +3

    Notable Skills:
    Balance: 10
    Bluff: 12
    Diplomacy: 14
    Disable Device: 23
    Hide: 17
    Jump: 12
    Move Silently: 17
    Open Lock: 15
    Search: 24
    Spot: 25
    Tumble: 12
    UMD: 17

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    One of the nice things about the U19 Enhancement overhaul is that the PrEs are no longer mutually exclusive. In your case, it is definitely possible to mix Assassin (TWF) with Mechanic (repeaters), particularly if going INT-based. The main limiting factor is feat shortage, particularly if staying pure rogue for capstone. Stats can also be challenging, since ideally you hit DEX 21 for Improved Sneak Atk in epic levels. Have a look at my Mechassin thread for a couple of examples.
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    Quote Originally Posted by unbongwah View Post
    One of the nice things about the U19 Enhancement overhaul is that the PrEs are no longer mutually exclusive. In your case, it is definitely possible to mix Assassin (TWF) with Mechanic (repeaters), particularly if going INT-based. The main limiting factor is feat shortage, particularly if staying pure rogue for capstone. Stats can also be challenging, since ideally you hit DEX 21 for Improved Sneak Atk in epic levels. Have a look at my Mechassin thread for a couple of examples.
    Wow that build would be very convenient considering where I'm at right now @ 9.

    I'm not sure how I feel about splitting focus though. I like the idea of just swapping to melee to assassinate and switching back to ranged, but I just don't know if it'd be worth as opposed to just focusing entirely on ranged or entirely on melee/assassinate?

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    One suggestion in that thread is to skip the TWF feats entirely, switch to a single 1H weapon for Assassinate, then switch back to repeaters. The main reason I don't like that approach is you have to spend 32 APs into Assassin to get an ability you use at most once every 15(?) seconds. [Don't remember how long the Assassinate CD is and the wiki doesn't say.] Granted, you gain other perks like extra SA and Killer from Assassin tree, so it's not like those APs are wasted. But you also give up the +10% Doubleshot from T5 Mechanic, which I would've thought was more useful to a repeater build.

    As I said, the main limitation is the feats, since ideally you have:

    Ranged: Rapid Reload, PBS, Prec Shot, Rapid Shot, IC:Ranged, IPS, Combat Archery
    Melee: TWF x3, IC:Pierce
    Both: Precision, Imp Sneak Atk

    Presuming pure rogue, that's 13 feats on a build which gets at most 11 (1 human + 7 heroic + 3 epic). So, yeah, compromises need to be made, depending on your priorities.
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