Mechartie

[Dream_Marauder]

I am looking for any input that might help me find ways to make this character better, or avoid any trouble spots. He is going to be a mainly ranged character, which I will play mainly with a repeater until 20th level. After this, I will go to a great crossbow for the big buffs to non-repeaters from the mechanic tree, plus endless fusilade. His main class is still Artie, so I'm hoping for casting to be a strong option for him as well.

I do a lot of soloing in heroic, and will probably mostly be looking for groups to go above hard DC in epics, but would like him to be reasonably survivable, and providing a good contribution to the group. Let me know what you think!

Mechartie
15/5 Artificer/Rogue
True Neutral Warforged


Level Order

1. Rogue . . . . . 6. Artificer . . .11. Artificer . . .16. Artificer
2. Artificer. . . .7. Artificer. . . 12. Artificer. . . 17. Artificer
3. Artificer. . . .8. Rogue . . . . .13. Rogue. . . . . 18. Rogue
4. Artificer. . . .9. Artificer. . . 14. Artificer. . . 19. Artificer
5. Artificer. . . 10. Artificer. . . 15. Artificer. . . 20. Rogue


Stats
. . . . . . . .34pt. . .36pt . . Tome . . Level Up
. . . . . . . .----. . .---- . . ---- . . --------
Strength. . . . .8 . . . 10. . . .+6. . . .4: INT
Dexterity . . . 15 . . . 15. . . .+6. . . .8: INT
Constitution. . 16 . . . 16. . . .+6. . . 12: INT
Intelligence. . 18 . . . 18. . . .+6. . . 16: INT
Wisdom. . . . . 10 . . . 10. . . .+6. . . 20: INT
Charisma. . . . .6 . . . .6. . . .+6. . . 24: INT
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28: INT

Skills
. . . . . R .A .A .A .A .A .A .R. A. A. A. A. R .A .A .A .A .R. A. R
. . . . . 1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7 .8. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
. . . . .------------------------------------------------------------
Concent . 2 . . . .1 .1 .1 .1 .2. 2. 2. 1. 1. . .1 .1 .2 .2 . . 2. 1 .23
Repair. . 4 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1. 1. 1 .23
Spellcr . 2 .2 .2 .1 .1 .1 .1 . . 2. 1. 1. 1. . .2 .1 .1 .1 . . 2. 1 .23
Disable . 4 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1 .1 .1 .1 .1 . . 2. 1 .23
Open Lo . 4 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1. 1. 1 .23
Search. . 4 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1. 1. 1 .23
Spot. . . 4 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1. 1. 1 .23
Balance . 4 . . . . . . . . . .2. . . . . .½ .7. ½. ½. 1. 1. 4 .½ .2. 23
Jump. . . 4 . . . .½ .½ .½ .½ .2. . .½ .1 .1 .1. . .½ .½ .½ .5. . .5. 23
UMD . . . 4 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1 .1 .1 .1 .1 .1. 1. 1 .23
Bluff . . 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 .½ .½ . . . .2. . . . .8
Tumble. . 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
. . . . .------------------------------------------------------------
. . . . .48 .8 .8 .9 .9 .9 .9 14 10 10 10 11 15 11 11 12 12 16 12 17


Feats

.1. . . . : Mithral Body
.3. . . . : Point Blank Shot
.5 Arti . : Heighten Spell
.6. . . . : Precision
.9. . . . : Precise Shot
10 Arti . : Empower Spell
12. . . . : Improved Critical: Ranged
15. . . . : Improved Precise Shot
15 Arti . : Quicken Spell
18. . . . : Spell Focus: Evocation
21 Epic . : Overwhelming Critical
24 Epic . : Combat Archery
26 Destiny: Epic Spell Power: Electricity
27 Epic . : Blinding Speed
28 Destiny: Doubleshot


Spells

1. Conjure Bolts, Repair Light Damage, Ablative Armor, Shield of Faith, Enchant Armor
2. Repair Moderate Damage, Admixture: Cure Moderate Wounds, Elemental Prod, Elemental Weapons, <Any>
3. Adamantine Weapons, Flame Turret, Repair Serious Damage, Blast Rod, Insightful Damage
4. Armor of Speed, Repair Critical Damage, Cold Iron Weapons, <Any>
5. Tenser's Transformation, Silver Weapons
6. Reconstruct

Enhancements (80 AP)

Warforged (7 AP)

• Improved Fortification
  
  1. Mechanist III

Mechanic (39 AP)

• Arbalester, Tanglefoot
  
  1. Sharpshooter, Mechanics III, Awareness II
  2. Sharpshooter, Wand and Scroll Mastery III
  3. Sharpshooter, Wracking Shot III, Intelligence
  4. Sharpshooter, Fletching III, Leg Shot, Intelligence
  5. Sharpshooter, Rapid Fire III, Sniper, Mechanical Reloader

Harper Agent (8 AP)

• Agent of Good I
  
  1. Strategic Combat, Awareness II
  2. Know the Angles III

Battle Engineer (26 AP)

• Battle Engineer, Infused Weapons, Infused Armor, Infused Weapons II
  
  1. Crossbow Training, Thermal Venting III
  2. Crossbow Training, Damage Boost III, Thaumaturgical Conduits III
  3. Crossbow Training
  4. Crossbow Training, Endless Fusilade

Destiny (24 AP)

Legendary Dreadnought

1. Extra Action Boost III, Constitution
2. Damage Boost III, Constitution
3. Critical Damage III, Haste Boost III, Constitution
4. Constitution
5. Devastating Critical
6. Master's Blitz

Twists of Fate (11 fate points)

1. Grim Precision (Tier 3 Shadowdancer)
2. Stay Frosty (Tier 1 Shiradi)
3. Rejuvenation Cocoon (Tier 1 Primal)

[Dream_Marauder]

Destiny and Twists can largely be ignored - I am still going to be leveling destinies in this life, and will be starting with Shadowdancer. The twists I actually have available at the beginning of this life will all be in the arcane sphere (I think with a total of 5 fate points available)

[Nubicus]

Your Build

Don't get me wrong, I think endless fusilade is great, but I think commiting to that many points hurts your damage and negatively impacts your spells.

By cutting out points from Battle Engineer, you can reinvest in Harper for Strategic Combat II which will apply your intelligence to your damage. By changing to Bladeforged, you can take Deadly Weapons instead of Reconstruct as your one spell, and use some of the left over change from taking down battle engineer for the reconstruct sla.

Something I'm seeing with mechanic builds with Endless Fussilade is that when it pops you're going to take aggro, and then get smashed because you have specialist hitpoints and no PRR.

Also, if you're not going to take Lightning Motes, Blade Barrier or Tactical Detonation, I'd gut Empower, Hieghten, Epic Spell Power: Electricity, and Blind Speed (Get rid of BS because it's just not that useful when you can gear it).

Add in instead: Insightful Reflexes and for your ED Feat, Holy Strike would be much more effective.

[unbongwah]

His main class is still Artie, so I'm hoping for casting to be a strong option for him as well.

The main problem I see here is you don't spend anything on Arcanotechnician to bump up your spellcasting. You also only have one lvl 6 spell slot, which means you have to choose between Reconstruct, Deadly Weapons, Blade Barrier, or Tactical Detonation. The AT SLAs are great for heroic leveling because they can be meta'ed for free; but you don't have the APs to spare to spend on them and you don't have the SPs to be spamming the regular spells meta'ed.

[DaggomaticDwarf]

The amount of AP in the BE tree makes it appears you will be using rune arm a lot.

Only issue I have with that is you can't take Tactical Mobility (tier 5 in BE tree) which means you will be "Run like baby turtle" . and always = Dead baby turtle.

I feel 15/5 really hurts your casting a bit and not dipping into the Assassin tree for killer hurts your Pew Pew Pew dps

Just my opinion and not really worth the whole 2 cents.

[Dream_Marauder]

So I've been thinking a lot about the feedback I've received, and what I really want out of this character. I would be tempted to go with the BF route if +1 hearts were a *lot* cheaper. But I think the synergy with great crossbows that I'm interested in exploring will be better if I go 18 rogue for expert builder. In that case, I lose all the repair spells, and it's not as worthwhile to go WF either. I still like the idea of having rune arm use, at least for the imbues (and probably won't keep it charged when moving). So here is my revised plan:

March II
18/2 Rogue/Artificer
True Neutral Human


Level Order

1. Rogue. . . . . .6. Rogue. . . . . 11. Rogue. . . . . 16. Rogue
2. Artificer . . . 7. Rogue . . . . .12. Rogue . . . . .17. Rogue
3. Artificer . . . 8. Rogue . . . . .13. Rogue . . . . .18. Rogue
4. Rogue. . . . . .9. Rogue. . . . . 14. Rogue. . . . . 19. Rogue
5. Rogue. . . . . 10. Rogue. . . . . 15. Rogue. . . . . 20. Rogue


Stats
. . . . . . . .34pt . . Tome . . Level Up
. . . . . . . .---- . . ---- . . --------
Strength. . . . 10. . . .+6. . . .4: INT
Dexterity . . . 15. . . .+6. . . .8: INT
Constitution. . 14. . . .+6. . . 12: INT
Intelligence. . 18. . . .+6. . . 16: INT
Wisdom. . . . . .8. . . .+6. . . 20: INT
Charisma. . . . 10. . . .+6. . . 24: INT
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28: INT

Skills
. . . . . R. A .A. R. R. R. R. R. R. R. R. R. R. R. R. R. R. R. R. R
. . . . . 1. 2 .3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
. . . . .------------------------------------------------------------
Concent . 2. 2 .2. ½. ½. ½. . .1 .1 .1 .1½ 1½ 1½ 2. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 23
Spellcr . 2. 2 .2. ½. ½. ½. . .1½ 1½ 1½ 1. 1½ 1½ 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 23
Disable . 4. 1 .1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 23
Open Lo . 4. 1 .1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 23
Search. . 4. 1 .1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 23
Spot. . . 4. 1 .1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 23
Bluff . . 4. . . . 2. 1. 1. 2. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 23
Balance . 4. . . . 2. 1. 2. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 23
Jump. . . 4. . . . 1. 2. 1. 2. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 23
Hide. . . 4. . . . 1. 2. 1. 2. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 23
Move Si . 4. . . . 1. 1. 2. 2. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 23
UMD . . . 4. 1 .1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 23
Haggle. . 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 .3 .3 .3 .3 .4 .20
Tumble. . 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
. . . . .------------------------------------------------------------
. . . . .52. 9 .9 14 14 14 14 15 15 15 15 16 16 16 16 17 17 17 17 18


Feats

.1. . . . : Point Blank Shot
.1 Human. : Rapid Shot
.3. . . . : Precision
.6. . . . : Precise Shot
.9. . . . : Insightful Reflexes
12. . . . : Improved Critical: Ranged
12 Rogue. : Opportunist
15. . . . : Weapon Focus: Ranged
15 Rogue. : Improved Evasion
18. . . . : Improved Precise Shot
18 Rogue. : Slippery Mind
21 Epic . : Overwhelming Critical
24 Epic . : Combat Archery
26 Destiny: Pierce Damage Reduction: Cold Iron
27 Epic . : Improved Sneak Attack
28 Destiny: Doubleshot


Spells

1. Conjure Bolts, Enchant Weapons, Enchant Armor

Enhancements (80 AP)

Human (3 AP)

• Damage Boost
  
  1. Improved Recovery

Mechanic (40 AP)

• Arbalester, Tanglefoot, Targeting Sights, Improved Detection, Expert Builder
  
  1. Sharpshooter, Lacerating Shots III
  2. Sharpshooter, Wand and Scroll Mastery III
  3. Sharpshooter, Wracking Shot III, Intelligence
  4. Sharpshooter, Fletching III, Leg Shot, Intelligence
  5. Sharpshooter, Rapid Fire III, Sniper, Mechanical Reloader

Assassin (25 AP)

• Knife in the Darkness, Dagger in the Back, Assassin's Trick
  
  1. Sneak Attack Training, Stealthy III
  2. Sneak Attack Training, Damage Boost III
  3. Critical Mastery III, Sneak Attack Training, Intelligence
  4. Killer III, Sneak Attack Training

Harper Agent (12 AP)

• Agent of Good I
  
  1. Harper Enchantment, Awareness III
  2. Versatile Adept III, Know the Angles III

Destiny (24 AP)

Shadowdancer

1. Technician III, Intelligence
2. Skill Mastery, Intelligence
3. Shrouding Shot III, Grim Precision III, Intelligence
4. Improved Invisibility III, Intelligence
5. Executioner's Shot III

Twists of Fate (3 fate points)

1. Draconic Perception (Tier 1 Draconic)
2. Unearthly Reactions (Tier 1 Magister)