Electric Critzilla

[Talonthedruid]

Hey, out of curiosity, what would be your ideal Draconic set up during levels 20-24? I'm coming back to the game after a few months because I saw your build. I'm grinding up to 30 on my character whenever I get free time so I can TR into this build, I'm super excited.

Idk if you wanted tilo's specifically but i'll throw my draconic set up out there for you.
energy sheath shock x3
draconic presence x2
go out with a bang x3
precise evocation x2
daunting roar
blue dragon heritage x3
blue dragon spell knowledge x3
energy burst shock x3
blue dragon breath shock
flyby attack shock
energy vortex shock

[Pomdude]

Went with the 3 pally / 3 sorc version. Currently at level 18. Never had a toon that I could just stand in the middle of a bunch of EE mobs , make a cuppa and find him still alive before ! (Not quite but very close)
Damage is not awesome yet but sufficient. Minimum hits at 400 but need to work on my crit chances. I think I have hit over 2k but not often. Nice to be able to do traps and have the flexibility to go ranged / do different damage when needed. Have not run out of sp yet.
The only thing I cannot work out is how to keep my stupid doggie alive so I get the extra boost from him being near me !
I have a crafted docent with 100%fort, combat mastery with repair amp and a paralysing weap on him. I can put him on defend / just follow but I look around and see his stone within 10 secs of any EE I go into ! I have named him Canon Fodder....

I can see the potential and as I have all my ED's will enjoy playing around with the trees soon.

[NaturalHazard]

Went with the 3 pally / 3 sorc version. Currently at level 18. Never had a toon that I could just stand in the middle of a bunch of EE mobs , make a cuppa and find him still alive before ! (Not quite but very close)
Damage is not awesome yet but sufficient. Minimum hits at 400 but need to work on my crit chances. I think I have hit over 2k but not often. Nice to be able to do traps and have the flexibility to go ranged / do different damage when needed. Have not run out of sp yet.
The only thing I cannot work out is how to keep my stupid doggie alive so I get the extra boost from him being near me !
I have a crafted docent with 100%fort, combat mastery with repair amp and a paralysing weap on him. I can put him on defend / just follow but I look around and see his stone within 10 secs of any EE I go into ! I have named him Canon Fodder....

I can see the potential and as I have all my ED's will enjoy playing around with the trees soon.

How are you getting into EE at level 18?

[Pomdude]

How are you getting into EE at level 18?

HE ! Now answer my question about my poor doggy I think I havs guessed that you only use him for the static bonus and not the extra when he sniffing people's feet right before they club him to death ?
Or maybe it is possible to build one 6 levels lower than the toon he is supporting to survive ?

[TheWalruss]

Amazing build Tilo, thanks. Just did an Artificer life as 14/3/3 and it was super op.

I went with the Wizard version but for the future I will definitely roll the Paladin one. Once you hit 50% crit chance, 500 spell power and 0,5 multiplier, everything on epic difficulty dies. So spending those 3 levels on Paladin instead will greatly add to the survivability af a twink. On a multi-TRed main, the glass cannon can tank just fine EE.

[Panzermeyer]

I am rebuilding my artificer, so this build is pretty much a start caster build correct? You don't really bother with Rune Arms and crossbows? Shield and caster stick it looks like correct?

And if I am reading it correctly you are splashing Wizard and Sorc for the increased crit multipliers correct??

Using MoK to boost the crit multiplers up correct?

You saying to pretty much stick to sla's for most all your casting??

You talk about plate and a tower shield, but I don't see you take any of the shield mastery or heavy armor proficiencies.
You just ignoring the ASF??

Still trying to wrap my head around this build, but I like to look of it.

[xaxaeb]

Now that invis largely doesn't work on elite, the wizard splash for invis sla/blur isn't nearly as good. I used to use it to position near the group to prevent the group from splitting up to nuke it all down at once, and quite often starting with enemy casters in the back line. Now that the whole group sees invis if any champion sees you, that tactic won't work anymore.

Has any1 tried this with a blue dragonborn? An additional SLA in rotation, more caster/max caster levels, +3 evo DC.

[Skavenaps]

Hi! I have few questions if you don't mean to answer

-Are the wiz levels just for the extra crit on AA tree? What spell does proc MoK? Does it worth?
-If not splashing Wiz, which are the other option? This build don't have hight CHA, so paladin for Divine Grace worth it? Maybe just 17 levels of arti and 3 sorc? 14 arti 6 sorc?
-How is the self healing? Does you use go without sp fast due reconstruct high cost?

thanks!

[unbongwah]

What spell does proc MoK?

MoK should only proc off the Archmage SLAs Arcane Bolt and Arcane Blast. It used to proc off other things, but I think SSG fixed those bugs a while ago.

[cru121]

I am clearing TR cache after a heroic variation of this. I went Artificer 12 - Sorcerer 3 - Druid 2 (for flavor - electric bear!!), half-elf for Warlock dilettante.

I half-heartedly tried building for AC.
armor: heroic Executioner Plate (now nerfed/fixed) > Hardened Hide Armor
shield: Breaker of Bodies > that ML14 tower shield from devils gambit > ML17 Wall of Wood
combining +10% AC from EK, Combat Expertise, and Bear form.

The AC focus would work even better if I upgraded the rest of my gear, but I was too lazy to craft something tasty for the final levels..

For healing, I've used maximized admixtures of CMW / CSW, combined with full-meta PL:Cleric SLA. Healing was fairly okay, I did have fairly high heal amp (shield helps..).

Now bear form and combat expertise are kinda a trap: -2 INT, longer cooldown on spells, inability to use scrolls / wands...
Good thing is that I used SLAs almost exclusively, those are not subject to cooldown increase. The only spells I've used in combat were the admixtures, the cooldown was fairly annoying there.

Well and the lvl 5 non-electric prismatic evocation that artificers get, the cooldown rendered it quite useless. Electric immune mobs were a problem. I had a force rune arm for those, but it took a looong time solo. I usually relied on party members here. I also had the PL:Wiz missiles.

Bear form additionally requires Druidic Oath (no metal). That limits your armor/shield choices, so plan accordingly, if you decided to retry this.

Warlock dilettante adds a decent chunk of single target damage, but it is a bit counter productive when used with the Lightning Sphere - it procs after the daze effect and immediately breaks it.

Traps were just fine, I've used old crafted ML5, +10 skill items. And later the devils gambit trinket for search. I should have upgraded my gear for base level 19 quests, could not find boxes there. Shame on me.

Other notable gear:
ML5 three piece chrono set (+1 caster level) until level 10
old crafted lighting lore item (I have an ML5 ring IIRC)
ML8 spinneret (quality evo)
ML10 crafted goggles: +3 evo, +2 evo, +2 int
ML18 crafted 9+4 INT goggles, moving ins evo to Brazenband (get two, one at ML15, other ML16 with +1 Evo augment slotted) and enhancement evo to earthen mantle / wheloon necklace / lootgen necklace / or crafted I guess
aid/false life wands early

Enhancements: fairly late I realized that the neglected +75% scroll/wand mastery is awesome for reaper self-healing, as well as healing other, less healampy players.

[cru121]

Do the construct essence feats work in animal form? I never tested...

Robobear?

I don't know, I did not use Construct Essence.

[Gargoyle69]

Updated OP for reaper, see notes at bottom.
"This leaves only 1 reaper build that will work well 1-20. It is 7 arti 2 monk 9 arti WF."

Is that a typo or is that describing the levelling order ?

[Gargoyle69]

Leveling order. Also updated OP to have both a fleshy reaper and a robot reaper build! Also touched up OP here and there for skills/gear/reaper notes.

Nice.

[ZzpxpzZ]

So, I had a few questions about this one, in particular with the arti monk build.

Are we trying to stay centered and if so whyÉ Is it worth it for the little bits of dodge and saves considering we wont have higher stancesÉ

If we dont care about being centered, we can take mithril body and wield a rune arm and still keep evasion. If we arent staying centered, why the 3rd monk levelÉ

Thanks!

[airbornerangers]

while foraging for ideas came across this build, i am currently at lvl 12 10/2 arti/monk
was wondering why 2 sorc lvls at end instead of wiz, with the max int?
ty in advance

[cru121]

why 2 sorc lvls

for more electric spell power / crit chance / caster level from air savant?

[Talonthedruid]

Reaper Note: Due to the self-healing nerf, you will need to super specialize into positive (fleshy) OR repair (warforged) healing. You will also really want evasion by level 9, since trap boxes will start appearing after traps starting in level 9 dungeons, and a single touch of a reaper trap will instantly kill you without evasion. Around level 12 abishai will also 1 shot you without evasion. Since all the groups will be filled with warlocks AoE, your daze on lightning sphere also won't CC very well, so you will also want tactical detonation (15 arti, 16 on WF if you take reconstruct first). Oh, and it was brought up that you want Wand and Scroll mastery now for better reaper self healing, but that comes from the tree anyways. Construct essence heroic feats give you partial positive and partial repair healing, and is not super specialized enough to be effective in reaper heroics.

This leaves only 2 types of reaper builds that will work well 1-20. Super repair or super hamp evasion. I settled on 7 arti > 2 monk > X. By level 9 (36 AP) 8 AP will give 20 PRR in stance, and 28 AP will fill out AT to T4. Being centered will be the way to go, since at level 9 you will have a BaB of 6 which is only 6 PRR in light armor.


Reaper Repair based Evasion Warforged Electric Critzilla w/CC 7 Arti > 2 Monk > 9 Arti >1 Sorc 1 Monk Lawful (no gear requirements)
Max int, dex for deflect arrows by lvl 8 (tomes +2), decent wis, con, charisma, Lawful

1 Maximize
3 Empower
4 Adamantine Body free feat swap to Quicken @ level 9
6 Completionist
8 Monk Deflect Arrows (dex 13)
9 Insightful Reflexes Monk Lightning Reflexes
10 Arti Heighten
12 PL:Wiz
14 Arti Rapid Shot
15 SF:Evo
18 GSF:Evo Arti Precise Shot

The second reaper ready arti will be fully positive spell power/hamp based. To make this work will require 2 specific items, a GS heroic kama with 20 except./40 equip./60 comp. stacking HAMP, and a Jidz-Teka bracers with 50 insight HAMP in sun stance. Note that the planners for heroic GS show 10/20/30 and are not updated, but the item itself will be 20/40/60. You will also need to leave your dog on passive at the dungeon entrance, and call it to you to heal. You will heal by exploding curative admixture potions off of your dog (or other nearby party members or wall/floor/mobs). This still requires evasion by level 9, and we will pick up the third monk level for 10 more HAMP from core 2 Shintao. The race tree is used to store 0-12 AP.

Reaper +SP/HAMP based Evasion Fleshy Electric Critzilla w/CC 7 Arti > 2 Monk > 8 Arti >1 Sorc > 1 Monk* > 1 Sorc Lawful (gear requirements)
Max int, dex 13 for deflect arrows by lvl 8 (tomes +2), decent wis, con, charisma

1 Maximize
3 Empower
4 Quicken
6 Completionist
8 Monk Deflect Arrows (dex 13)
9 Insightful Reflexes Monk Lightning Reflexes
10 Arti Heighten
12 PL:Wiz
14 Arti Rapid Shot
15 SF:Evo
18 GSF:Evo

*If you will be taking this build into epics, take level 18 as 1 more arti level for reconstruct, and bonus feat construct essence, regular feat imp. construct essence, and then continue on epic feat list in OP, and swap to repair healing, then finish with 2 sorc.

Under this setup, a dragonborn at level 12 for example would have 30% PL hamp, 20exceptional/40equipment/60% competence GS HAMP, 20% ship HAMP, 50% HAMP insightful (Jidz-Tet'ka) +10% Shintao for a total of 230% HAMP.
Level 11 Scrolls of Heal will be cast at level 15 due to +4 caster levels from arti scroll mastery, with 75% additional from Wand and Scroll Mastery for 262 base healing.
Reaper 3 streaking yields only 32% self-healing.
Putting this all together, you will heal for 3.3 (Base + HAMP) x 262 (scroll of heal) x 32% = 276 points of self-healing at level 12 per heal scroll, on reaper 3, and will run in sun stance, centered. Combined with the healing admixture spells, you can full heal in seconds on reaper 3.

This is the recommended heroic build if you have the gear to make it work, because reconstruct spell for repair healing simply takes too long to get, especially with a mandatory 2 monk splash making it level 17, and there isn't nearly as much repair amplification to make reconstruct scrolls work as well as heal scrolls. Reconstruct spell will be better in epics though, as it will be more convenient to use and powerful enough.

Reaper Gear Notes:
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For fleshies, gearing with 5 piece slavers with ringsx2, trinket, belt, necklace and 3 piece abishai (helm, boots, gloves) will work best around level 8. This leaves bracers free for (Jidz-Tet'ka) (insightful healing amplification), and cloak free for heroic mysterious cloak (exceptional healing amplification), and you can cannith craft healing amplification(equipment) on robes. You will want a necklace/belt that are replaced at level 12 with iron beads necklace and belt of the healer.

At level 12, it is easiest to leave a scroll of heal equipped main hand, and your 20/40/60 HAMP kama off hand. This means you will want insightful magnetism on gloves, and normal-elite iron beads for magnetism/lightning lore which you can get from the GH saga. At this point you will no longer need the mysterious cloak or hamp robes, and can swap to slaver's cloak and slaver's robes to keep your 5 piece bonus. You will also no longer want 3 piece abishai by 12 since you will have 10 arti levels, and arti electric spells cap at caster level 10.

An Int/charisma skills wiz VI, 150 elemental mana permablur displacement clicky GS cloak perfectly hits the spot for the added mana reaper takes, as well as the lower entry level skill boost for traps, as well as UMD for recon/heal scrolls.

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Tanky Reaper Electric Critzilla w/damage spam

This is a super spam build for filling any role or roles in a reaper group, including soloing. While the prior builds have more CC with tactical detonation, this one has more tankyness, as well as non-lightning damage with warlock slas, as well as more HAMP.

This will level like the others 1-12, with your first 28 ap in AT for blast rod (level 7), then 8 AP in shintao for PRR (level 9), then 12 more Ap into AT for motes (level 12). From 13-16 you fill in the ES tree. At the start of level 17, you swap to 33 ES (burst/blast), 23 AT (blast rod), 8 shintao (PRR). Pick up Shining through and beacon at 17, then some crit multiplier/feigned health from TS and more spell power 18-20, as well as LB SLA from AT at cap.

7 Arti > 2 Monk > 3 Arti > 6 Warlock > 2 Arti Lawful

Max int, dex 13 for deflect arrows by lvl 8 (tomes +2), decent wis, con, charisma, levels in int. Any race (wf take healer's friend). Recommended build for those who love spam! (gear requirements)

1 Maximize
3 Empower
4 Quicken
6 Completionist
8 Monk Deflect Arrows (dex 13, tomes +2)
9 Insightful Reflexes Monk Lightning Reflexes
10 Arti Heighten
12 PL:Wiz
15 SF:Evo
18 GSF:Evo
21 Extend (for warlock displacement)
24 Master of Artifice
26 Epic Arcane Eldritch Blast
27 Intensify
28 Hellball
29 Dire Charge
30 Scion of Fire
30 Master of Air or BoGW (if your gear is good enough to land it)

Now your rotation will be godly. Just chain eld. burst/eld. blast/blast rod sla/blast rod/lightning sphere sla/lightning sphere, lightning bolt SLA as you see fit endlessly. Feigned health from TS and 40 HAMP from ES will add another 63 hp to your heal scrolls, so they will hit for around 340 on reaper 3!



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This is the level 12 base of all 3 builds, showing the ability to self-heal to full in seconds in reaper 3. The heal scroll and kama are almost never unequipped.

Are the warlock bursts/blasts effective in epics with only 6 wlk levels?

[cru121]

Epic Arcane Blast feat adds 2d6 more blast.

epic warlock dice feats require 12 levels of Warlock

Gota edit feat list, 6 warlock doesn't get displacement.

displace SLA from T5 ES?

[psykopeta]

awesome build i always liked to see the changes you do, wonder if i will be in the mood of doing the RTR someday will prolly be alternating between that build, 1 melee(prolly bard) anf 1 ranger polly paralizer

hope i try it before they do some changes that nerf it (i was also fan of juggernaut, however it was nerfed long ago before i decided to play it lol)

1 question: since you get 40 amp from warlock enhancements, wouldn't be nice to drop jidz-etka? or use another stance? or even go uncentered? not messing with evasion ofc i mean

edit: also if you equip pansophic circlet, maybe it would free all/most spellpowers, but then you would need lore, sad thing is 1 type lore would fit in this build only in ring/trinket, which atm are for the slavers set... dunno if it's that good at lvl 13 and beyond lol (always talking about the fleshy reaper versions, warlock one in fact)

edit2: what about making the gs cloak some

Green Steel Weave Cloak
+100 Spell Points, +6 Intelligence Skills (Non-Stacking)
Aspect of Smoke (Either)
Aspect of Smoke II - Smoke Concealment (Non-Weapon)
Wizardry VI, +2 Intelligence Skills (Non-Stacking)
Greater Lightning Lore <--- forgot how much it is

and then craft the slaver ring with 10 radiant lore and get utterdark blast so 29 of the 39 dies from warlock get some crit love? just thinking about it XD

[psykopeta]

u know...i had to ask guildies for some useless mats like chipmunk funk to craft the kama, however i have yet more than 100 signet stones and large devil scales lol

well in that case ill make something like a follow up lvl by lvl gear swaps and take the most important values (dodge, hp, sp, crit, spellpower, hamp) and post it here once i decide to do some RTR

(also i wanna check how much RXP is doing every heroic quest at lvl (so hard capped 99% the time lol), and how much favor, too)

meanwhile i will do LSD37 epic and heroic challenge farmers (i dont run challenges however, but tired of my main, now tr'ing mules lol)