Pure Ranger - Kluege's Ranged Ranger

[barecm]

Hi All.

Updated build (u49) and Obviously no longer "Pure Ranger" as the game has changed significantly since I first posted this...

I want to make sure that folks understand the goal(s) behind the build. It is not a pure dps build. There are way better choices out there if you are looking for max dps.

U49 Adjusted Paralyze/Terror Arrow Build:


12 Ranger / 6 Fighter / 2 Monk - Wisdom Based Archer Lawful Neutral
Currently Half-Elf (maybe endgame is Deep Gnome for wisdom in cores and being short for shot angles)
Paralyze DC: Base (20 + 45 wis mod + 36 Enchant DC) = 101 (reaper DC = 109)
Wis: 102 base (108 in reaper + pots)
UMD: 52
Standing Doubleshot: 130.56%
Standing Ranged Power: 214
PRR: 136
MRR: 19 (weak I know but...)

Starting Stats (+8 Stats):

Str 8
Dex 13
Con 16
Int 14
Wis 17 (All Level Ups)
Cha 10

Base Ending Stats (with Racial Completionist):

Str 22
Dex 52
Con 70
Int 35
Wis 102
Cha 51


Progression is important (I **think** this is what I did this life but did not write it down so please forgive me if it is off): 4x Ranger, 2 x Monk (save precision and Zen Archery for monk lives), then mix in fighter and ranger (I did not pay attention) to maximize feat selection. IPS is the Trickiest as you will not get until 11 ranger... which is lvl 18). You can take earlier and swap out if you want.

Level Progression (I think...lol):

1-4 Ranger
5-6 Monk
7-8 Fighter
9 Ranger
10-11 Fighter
12 Ranger
13 Fighter
14-18 Ranger
19 Fighter
20 Ranger

Feats:

1 PBS
1 HE Rogue Dilettante
3 Weapon Focus Ranged
5 Precision (Martial Arts Feat)
6 Adept of Forms
6 Zen Archery (Martial Arts Feat)
8 Power Crit
9 Enchantment Focus
11 Weapon Spec Ranged
12 Master of Forms
15 Empower Healing
18 Grand Master of Forms
19 Weapon Focus Thrown (for +2 Ranged Power)
21 Combat Archery
24 Overwhelming Critical
26 Holy Strike
27 Great Spell Focus Enchantment
28 Doubleshot
29 Mass Frog (great for undead)
30 Quicken
30 Scion of Feywild.


Favored Enemies: undead, human, elf, etc... really whatever is the current content, you can rework these by TR or whatever if needed
Skills to max: concentration, heal, UMD, search, spot, listen, possibly Perform (for Scion of Feywild)

Spell List (Ranger):

1st: tumble, jump, resist energy (swap out once you get Draconic Soul Gem slotted)
2nd: barkskin, protection from energy
3rd: wild instincts, neutralize poison

Enhancements:

AA: 23 total
Core: 3
T1: Conjure Arrows, Energy of the Wild x 3, Corrosive Arrow
T2: Elemental Damage, dispel shot x1
T3: Terror, Elemental Damage, Wis
T4: Paralyzing, Smiting

Deepwood: 34 total

Core 4
T1: Stealthy x3, Increased Empathy
T2: Survivalist, Damage Boost x3
T3: Survivalist, Thrill of the Hunt x3, Favored Hunter x1, Aimed Shot, Wis
T4: Survivalist, Killer x3, Leg Shot, Wis
T5: Heavy Draw, Strikes Like Lightning


Falconry 24

Core 3
T1: Rugged x3, Out in Nature x3, Practiced Accuracy
T2: Diving Attack Shot x1, Action Boost: Sprint x1
T3: Killer Instinct II, Conditioning, Go for the Eyes x1, Eyes of the Eagle
T4: Deadly Instinct: x1, No Mercy x3


Epic Destiny:

Shiradi Champion

T1: Stay Frosty x2, Wis
T2: Pin x2, Wis
T3: Ottos x2, Whirling Wrists x3, Wis
T4: Wis
T5: Stand and Deliver, Nerve Venom x3, Wis
T6: Hunt’s End

Twists:

1) Sense weakness (Tier 4)
2) Crit Damage or Grim Precision (Tier 3)
3) Enchantment Specialist (Tier 2)
4) A Dance of Flowers - (Tier 1)
5) Cocoon - (Tier 1)


Gear:

Weapon1: Aerania
Armor: Leg Wildwood Outfit
Goggles: Leg Magewright
Helm: Helm of the Final Watcher
Neck: Leg Winter Court
Trinket: Options here: Echo of Ravenkind
Cloak: Leg Magewright
Belt: Leg Black Satin Waist - +5 Quality Wis
Ring: Radiant Ring of Taer Valaestos (Slot +2 Feastive Wisdom here)
Ring: Leg Shattered Onyx - Insightful Wis
Gloves: Leg Wildwood Gauntlets
Boots: Leg Deepsnow
Bracers: Wildwood Wrists (whatever +21 stat you want here)
Quiver: Epic Purifying Quiver blunted ammo
Swaps / clickies: Void (for arrow clickie), neck Legendary Rose Quartz Sigil Stone 3 charges of deathward.


Augments: Litany of the Dead (+2 profane stats), (Cruel Cut) and Greater Enchantment Focus are the important ones. Add in things like Blindness and Fear Immune etc..
**Note all the other decent Raid Set Bonus ones are artifact bonuses that are covered by Wallwatch Set already so avoid them.

Build Goals:

Close to no fail Paralyze and Fear DC
Ways to make Helpless
High DPS with High Wisdom Score


***Warning - Heroic leveling sucks as you do not get IPS until late.***

[barecm]

Ok so Aasimar Scorge is basically the same build with better starting stats. Wis bumps to 18 as does con. It is pretty much a 38 point build.

Of note, healing hands is unaffected by endless healing hands from unyielding sentinel; which worked on the preview server but does not / WAI on live.

I am trying out maxing the core abilities to get healing hands regeneration and extra turns, but maybe only if you have the racial resurrection points. Just depends on play style.

Running this build in unyielding sentinel turned me into a spot healing machine which is useful for a party in reaper, but is not as effective for self healing obviously

[redoubt]

If human, what is your preference on the extra feat?

[barecm]

If human, what is your preference on the extra feat?

***Edit for current build. I would use greater spell focus enchantment or completionist. I have added weapon focused ranged to the base build already which opens up power critical.

[barecm]

OP Updated for 39

[barecm]

OP Updated for 39

[Kodwraith]

Can I ask why you went with Chieftain instead of Insightful Commands? You'd need to move WIS to the first slot on your goggles. Are you using KTA? You don't seem to have the AP for it allocated.

I've been working on my Xanxibar gear and came up with a similar setup but with WIS / Ranged Alacrity / Ins WIS goggle, then CON/Resitance/UMD slaver's bracers.


If you hang onto the Slaver's trinket, you can pick up the Slaver's Sorc set bonus DC for another two paralyze DC.

Reading your build, I need to give Feywild another look. I'm in the monkcher split right now so I just reflexively went Astral plane.

[Alfhild]

Quick update. If you want to go elf (or whatever gives the racial tree bonus), you can hit 100% doubleshot:

Current build plus:

3 sources of double shot in you sentient weapon

2 pieces celerity +2%
5 piece enlightened step +2%

With current build = 97.55%

Then:
elf to 3% double shot (high price of 18 enhancement points!)

18 enhancement points is a bit rough, so although attainable, not sure if it is worth it. Max free racial points from Racial reincarnation I believe is 11, so 7 more after that... again, a little steep.

18 pts Elf
41 pts AA for +20% DS capstone
32 pts min in DWS for SSL +20% DS
Only possible if all 11 racials completed.

[barecm]

Can I ask why you went with Chieftain instead of Insightful Commands? You'd need to move WIS to the first slot on your goggles. Are you using KTA? You don't seem to have the AP for it allocated.

I've been working on my Xanxibar gear and came up with a similar setup but with WIS / Ranged Alacrity / Ins WIS goggle, then CON/Resitance/UMD slaver's bracers.


If you hang onto the Slaver's trinket, you can pick up the Slaver's Sorc set bonus DC for another two paralyze DC.

Reading your build, I need to give Feywild another look. I'm in the monkcher split right now so I just reflexively went Astral plane.

I am. It sure why I omitted, but I swapped in kindred pendant for the enchantment Dc and bracers of the fallen hero, hardened hide helm, and Van Richten’s spectacles.

[barecm]

18 pts Elf
41 pts AA for +20% DS capstone
32 pts min in DWS for SSL +20% DS
Only possible if all 11 racials completed.

Yes, I believe I covered that, but not sure it’s worth it.

[Kodwraith]

Your gear set is missing some things, like Seeker and Resistance (although maybe spell saves on Chieftain works well enough to drop resistance). Also Armor Piercing and Ins Accuracy and Ins Deadly.

If you switched around your gear set, you might be able to pick up Seeker with the Executioner's helm. You'd need to swap boots from the Adherents Doubleshot boots to the Adherents speed/nat armor boots, but since the doubleshot boots are completley redundant with bonuses you have elsewhere, that's not such a bad thing.

Here is what I came up with for slotitng in The Avenger and Adherents sets.

Avenger Set:
Armor: Mist Laden Vestment
Belt: Cutcord
Cloak: ShadowHail Cloak

Adherent's Set: (assuming about 2 raid items):
Necklace: Kindred (CHA / Enchant / Ins Enchant)
Goggles: Van Richten’s (Doubleshot / DEX / MRR)
Boots: Greaves (FoM / Speed / Nat Armor / Reflex)
Wrist: LoreFueled (Ins Con)
Trinket: Echo of Ravenkind (Con / True Seeing / HolyBurst / Imp Dec) (can also go Echo of Icon, but then you need to slot CON someplace)

That leaves Seeker / Deadly / Accuracy / Armor Piercing / Spell Power of some sort / Resistance / WIS (e,i,q) / Ins Con / Dodge

With slots: Ring A, Ring B, Helm, Gloves
Ring A: Slavers WIS / Resistance / Tendon Slice (or UMD) / Qual WIS
Ring B: Leg Prowess
Helm: Executioner's (Seeker, +5% dmg) (any seeker helm would do)
Gloves: CC: SpellPower (Combustion or Impulse) / Armor-Piercing / Ins DEX.

This assumes you can hit your dodge cap, which you probably can.

That means we're down 8 wisdom, but up 3 DCs on enchant over +6 spell focus / +3 ins spell focus. But we did pick up more DEX and +10 Ranged power from the Adherent set, so yeah.

[barecm]

Your gear set is missing some things, like Seeker and Resistance (although maybe spell saves on Chieftain works well enough to drop resistance). Also Armor Piercing and Ins Accuracy and Ins Deadly.

If you switched around your gear set, you might be able to pick up Seeker with the Executioner's helm. You'd need to swap boots from the Adherents Doubleshot boots to the Adherents speed/nat armor boots, but since the doubleshot boots are completley redundant with bonuses you have elsewhere, that's not such a bad thing.

Here is what I came up with for slotitng in The Avenger and Adherents sets.

Avenger Set:
Armor: Mist Laden Vestment
Belt: Cutcord
Cloak: ShadowHail Cloak

Adherent's Set: (assuming about 2 raid items):
Necklace: Kindred (CHA / Enchant / Ins Enchant)
Goggles: Van Richten’s (Doubleshot / DEX / MRR)
Boots: Greaves (FoM / Speed / Nat Armor / Reflex)
Wrist: LoreFueled (Ins Con)
Trinket: Echo of Ravenkind (Con / True Seeing / HolyBurst / Imp Dec) (can also go Echo of Icon, but then you need to slot CON someplace)

That leaves Seeker / Deadly / Accuracy / Armor Piercing / Spell Power of some sort / Resistance / WIS (e,i,q) / Ins Con / Dodge

With slots: Ring A, Ring B, Helm, Gloves
Ring A: Slavers WIS / Resistance / Tendon Slice (or UMD) / Qual WIS
Ring B: Leg Prowess
Helm: Executioner's (Seeker, +5% dmg) (any seeker helm would do)
Gloves: CC: SpellPower (Combustion or Impulse) / Armor-Piercing / Ins DEX.

This assumes you can hit your dodge cap, which you probably can.

That means we're down 8 wisdom, but up 3 DCs on enchant over +6 spell focus / +3 ins spell focus. But we did pick up more DEX and +10 Ranged power from the Adherent set, so yeah.

Read my updated gear list. I have ring of prowess and Kindred spirit listed. I really am only missing seeker if I go hardened hide helm, but can swap my goggles for cannith ones with seeker and insightful wis. Or, maybe more likely, just keep the executioners helm and current goggles and lose +4 quality con (60 hps). Using the raid goggles is nice for +1 dex, but sets me back on insightful wis. I will add bracers of the fallen hero over lore fueled since stunning does work with arrows and lore fueled has zero benefits outside of the same +9 ins con.

Again, probably I will swap the +4 quality con on the legendary hardened hide for executioners helm since that would net only 60 hps anyway and the benefits are probably better with executioners helm and the +5% damage boost.

Once I get echo of ravenkind, I can swap the last few things around.

[seldarin]

Read my updated gear list. I have ring of prowess and Kindred spirit listed. I really am only missing seeker if I go hardened hide helm, but can swap my goggles for cannith ones with seeker and insightful wis. Or, maybe more likely, just keep the executioners helm and current goggles and lose +4 quality con (60 hps). Using the raid goggles is nice for +1 dex, but sets me back on insightful wis. I will add bracers of the fallen hero over lore fueled since stunning does work with arrows and lore fueled has zero benefits outside of the same +9 ins con.

Again, probably I will swap the +4 quality con on the legendary hardened hide for executioners helm since that would net only 60 hps anyway and the benefits are probably better with executioners helm and the +5% damage boost.

Once I get echo of ravenkind, I can swap the last few things around.

To my simple understanding a few things don't make a lot of sense. I mean I get that there are benefits from most items, but there are lots ot double ups:

Van Richtens Specs - Dex 20, Doubleshot 12
Legendary Shodows Footsetps - Dex 19, Doubleshot 12
Legendary Braided Cutwood - Dex 19

Echo of the Icon - Strength 20
Legendary Bracers of the Fallen Hero - Strength 19

I don't see Con anywhereor Wisdom, both of which I had assumed could be important. I just see a lot of double ups of a number of things across various items

[barecm]

To my simple understanding a few things don't make a lot of sense. I mean I get that there are benefits from most items, but there are lots ot double ups:

Van Richtens Specs - Dex 20, Doubleshot 12
Legendary Shodows Footsetps - Dex 19, Doubleshot 12
Legendary Braided Cutwood - Dex 19

Echo of the Icon - Strength 20
Legendary Bracers of the Fallen Hero - Strength 19

I don't see Con anywhereor Wisdom, both of which I had assumed could be important. I just see a lot of double ups of a number of things across various items

Some of the pieces are for set bonuses... the ones that overlap. Wisdom is on the leg chieftain ring. I may actually be moving to an RP build as the damage I was able to do on Lamannia was pretty significant. This build is more reaper support / solo. Also, I had Echo of Ravenkind for +20 con listed, not Echo of Icon.

So yeah, both wis and con are in there... just need to read a little more closely.

[seldarin]

Some of the pieces are for set bonuses... the ones that overlap. Wisdom is on the leg chieftain ring. I may actually be moving to an RP build as the damage I was able to do on Lamannia was pretty significant. This build is more reaper support / solo. Also, I had Echo of Ravenkind for +20 con listed, not Echo of Icon.

So yeah, both wis and con are in there... just need to read a little more closely.

I was actually referring to Post 5 where you clearly have Echo of the Icon listed. Fair point on Legendary Chieftain regarding Wisdom, but I am not the only one that needs to read things a little more closely.

[barecm]

I was actually referring to Post 5 where you clearly have Echo of the Icon listed. Fair point on Legendary Chieftain regarding Wisdom, but I am not the only one that needs to read things a little more closely.

Yes, it was a mistake of identity, my apologies. However, there was the description of 20 written next to that mistake as well so I had con there, just with the wrong item name. All the other stuff you were referring to is based on set fulfillment or was in the build.

[barecm]

Update 39 build now in OP.

[barecm]

Update 40: Added Chaos bow from update 40 (raid item Killing Time). Also am making the option of using Leg Hunter of the Wilds (shortbow). If so, you can remove lvl 26 Epic Spell Power Cold and put in whatever you want. I would probably just go with some sort of metal penetration like cold iron or maybe Holy Strike. Honestly, this level feat is kind of bleh so not a huge change.

Also, the new helm is nice and will fit in. I just have not gotten it yet.
***Helm obtained - temporarily added slavers crafted boots with 17 wis and 4 quality wisdom.*** Will add RSO boots when I get around to it.

[stoerm]

Thanks for posting this. Very strong build, much fun was had from 1 to 30.

[Kodwraith]

I just hit 30 on Xanxibar last night and am going to stay there for a while:

My gearset looks pretty similar but with fewer raid items. I never did get a Van Richten's goggles, but this setup is almost as good assuming you can take Blinding Speed to make geared speed unnecessary.

Silent Avenger Set:
Mist Laden Vestments
BraidedCutchord
Twisthallow cloak

Adherent Set:
Necklace: Kindred
Gloves: Crumbling Gloves
Boots: ShadowStep
Ring: Nightfall
Wrist: Fallen Hero or LoreFueledPB (either, you just want the +Ins CON).

Other Stuff:
Helm Executioner's
Goggles: CC: WIS/Spot (or whatever)/InsWis
Trinket: CC: Con / Resistance / Ins Accuracy
Ring: Prowess

You can also swap the helm/goggles combo for a Drow Sage's Cowl, then put Seeker on the first slot of your goggles. You loose some Seeker and Ins Deception, but pick up 4 WIS and about +6 will saves and more healing amp. The setup is missing INT (but I don't run Harper) and is also missing all SpellPower (you can slot the 138 augment in your bow).

This setup doesn't have any raid items, so it's nice for an alt and is mostly assemblable out of mostly Ravenloft flagging runs.