Noyellowbar 2.0 - a Tempestadin

[MasterJarek]

Why spending skill points in search?

[Dragbon]

So I am going to make my next life one of these but since I hate range and Robots I am going to go with the 15/5 split and make it a human. But first I need some help with the feats.

1 Khopesh
1 Power Attack
3 ???
6 Quicken
9 Empower Healing
12 Improved Crit Slashing
15 ITWF
18 GTWF
21 Overwhelming Crit
24 ???
26 PTWF
27 Epic Damage Reduction
28 Epic Positive

Not sure if the feats should be Cleave and Great Cleave versus Weapon Focus and Precision.
With the cleave and great cleave it means lay waste and momentum swing become possibilities in LD but not sure if its worth it.

[Eth]

Why spending skill points in search?

Because you need it to find doors nowadays.
With some gear swaps I can find the hidden doors in EE Haunted Halls, EE ToEE, which is usually where I want it to be.

I put points into search on all my toons, no matter what the actual build is.

It's not a must by any means.

[Eth]

So I am going to make my next life one of these but since I hate range and Robots I am going to go with the 15/5 split and make it a human. But first I need some help with the feats.

1 Khopesh
1 Power Attack
3 ???
6 Quicken
9 Empower Healing
12 Improved Crit Slashing
15 ITWF
18 GTWF
21 Overwhelming Crit
24 ???
26 PTWF
27 Epic Damage Reduction
28 Epic Positive

Not sure if the feats should be Cleave and Great Cleave versus Weapon Focus and Precision.
With the cleave and great cleave it means lay waste and momentum swing become possibilities in LD but not sure if its worth it.

If you cleave on a TWF you're doing it wrong.
You usually need to hit 4-6 mobs with a cleave in order for it to be on par with just swinging at a single target.
Anyway, this build has DoD, which covers your AoE DPS better than any cleaves ever could.

The only thing that cleave is good for is the better hit box while moving, but that's not worth a feat for one attack every couple seconds and the TWF animation had an update and is a bit better now in that regard anyway.
The other thing would be getting some damage in while having delays from action boosts, but in that case you are way better off by taking quick draw.
Same goes for Momentum Swing. Lay Waste is nice for the CC, but not worth the feats and points that are otherwise useless.

I would absolutely take precision. In fact I'm using precision way more than PA (depends what content you play really).
Or to put it that way: You won't notice 5 base damage missing against a target with no fort. But you will absolutely notice 25% less crits against a target with high fort.

For the second feat I would take quick draw.

[Eth]

Back from a break and back at cap. Now with even more PRR


Updated OP for level 30.

[Feagor]

Great build Eth.
Just one question: why scion of earth over arborea?

[Grailhawk]

Great build Eth.
Just one question: why scion of earth over arborea?

If you build for Earth spell power it will come out as more DPS see his comments here.

Also he probably likes the 20 PRR a lot.

[MeliCat]

"Halfling version is absolutely impossible though. Death to all halflings."

have a mostly pally PDK thing that this might be good for. would love to make one of your builds

[Eth]

Great build Eth.
Just one question: why scion of earth over arborea?

Basically what grail said.
It adds more DPS. I'm at 350ish acid spellpower, so on average that's 94.5 extra damage per hit ...and the PRR is nice.

Also arborea breaks celestias, which are important for the shroud (portals, rakshasa, codex page).

[Eth]

"Halfling version is absolutely impossible though. Death to all halflings."

have a mostly pally PDK thing that this might be good for. would love to make one of your builds

Should be a good build for you. It actually takes some effort to get killed on this build.

[MeliCat]

Should be a good build for you. It actually takes some effort to get killed on this build.

You totally underrate my abilities.

To get myself killed.

[dehgoo]

Have you tried harbinger of chaos or embodiment of law??
Or know someone who did math-fu about them?

Probably not worth swap deific ward for this.

[Eth]

Have you tried harbinger of chaos or embodiment of law??
Or know someone who did math-fu about them?

Probably not worth swap deific ward for this.

They are good, because they scale with MP. If you want more DPS instead of more defense nothing wrong with taking those instead. I'd go with harbringer considering current endgame mobs.

[Kodwraith]

14/6 as a full time Archer sub-report. Xanxibar is up back up to 26 (kids, work, etc).

I decided to switch around the enhancements to see how this split did as an archer. I went capstone DWS and up to paralyzing in AA. Doesn't leave much leftover for melee.

The upsides: Turns out I really like archers. Mid epic levels, there's so much crazy DPS flying around the only way you get on the kill chart is steali..err opportunistic sniping. So at least you feel like you're contributing. Headshot is awesome, as is sniper shot and multishot. It's crazy burst dmg still.

The downsides: A pure ranger would be much better for fulltime ranged. You also lose almost all your PRR so you die a lot. You really want the ranger cores / capstones if you want the prue pew pew arrows build.


So back to hybrid melee/archer for me. I love having the ranged option when MS is off cooldown. Sniper shot is still insane if it hits in Fury.

But this build still shines at AoE melee.

[Kodwraith]

Eth: Can you post a rough breakdown of your PRR? I can hit around 150ish with no epic past lives, but ****. How are you getting it that high?

[Eth]

Eth: Can you post a rough breakdown of your PRR? I can hit around 150ish with no epic past lives, but ****. How are you getting it that high?

Sounds alright for 26. You get 40 PRR just from feats between 27 and 30. The screenshot also has 50 rather temporary PRR.

That's my current breakdown:
Base:
- Adamantine Body: BaB*2 = 50 - 60 (depending on tenser's or not)

Equipment:
- Sightless = 35
- Circle of Malevolence = 5
- Necklace mythic bonus = 1

Racial treats:
- slashing damage stacks = 0 - 20
- Power of the Forge = 10

Enhancements:
- Sacred Defender stance = 25
- Improved Defense = 3
- Shield of Whirling Steel = 3
- Improved Parry = 10

Past lifes:
- 8 x Divine = 24
- 2 x PDK = 6

Tomes:
- 2 PRR tome

Feats:
- Epic Damage Reduction = 10
- Deific Warding = 10 - 30
- Scion of the Plane of Earth = 20

Destiny:
- Blitz = 30

So standing with no buffs that's 204.
In normal combat (tenser's + blitz) that's 244.

The 294 is with max stacks of deific warding, power of the forge and 20 stacks of Bladeforged reduction (+50).

[Kodwraith]

So I don't feel as bad now running at around 126 at level 28. This toon is missing 30 just for the eTRs alone. I also hadn't realized how much you were getting from the BF enhancements and Blitz.

How much are you hitting for on non-crits? I've been running around at about 130ish for regular hits with crits between 800 (regular) -> 1.5k (20) and up.

[Feagor]

Bad time farming those toee weapons... I'm stuck with a bunch of light maces, long swords and kamas...

Haven't seen any epic khopeshes so far...

[Thalmor]

Gonna roll one just to pi** you off. And throw in a monk level.

I'll do one without the monk level, as I server dedicated to halflings. Just have to remove my rogues levels from an existing character.

[Blank_Zero]

Finally came back and TR'd Smrti to this build. At 19 now and I found I had to drop to Hard from Elite around Vale. Ghales and Bralanis in Running are a PAIN with the Heroic Mob changes that I missed, and since I don't have a Conc Opp belt yet, Coal was miserable for MP. Then the guy in Gnolls died at the end? Bleh. At least I got Rainbow Elite done :P