Gnumber 17 and Nocturne, two EK builds

[Vish]

Level 18
Ok been making pretty good time. Doing nothing but melee. Considering the force point has a casting buff of +5 to melee if you cast 5 spells. But really, this has just been a melee build. Have almost 1000 hp reaper. And the reconstruct is really sweet. 600 elite and like 250 reaper? But good enough to always keep me alive.
Ya I don't have much to say about the casting side of this build, as I've found it completely unneceassary. I mean I cast lightning bolt or ball lightning or one other aoe, chain lightning? It does decent damage, but not like tempest attack. That's a 1500 hp damage aoe blast, every 30 seconds. But it kills lotta stuff, take out whole mobs. So the khopesh is tearing it up, and I've got a whelm too. The melee is just op so far. And then you get bookoo spells.
I plan on taking it into epics, so it'll be a further test of what this build can do. Problem is I have no khopeshes to sentient. But I can craft thunder forged and LGS. Maybe get a khopesh from the platinum quest? I would have to farm it. Don't know what Ed ill run... Maybe sd, maybe ld, maybe magister. Since I really need arcane epic pl.
I looked I have docent and a reconstruct belt from ravenloft. May turn this into a farm build. Since I don't think I have an epic bolt sphere. Epic flame, but not electric. Would like an acid one too. But I'll prob? Craft some stuff. Again I haven't a 30 set, but have gear from previous runs. Will have to piece stuff together.
But the build has been gravy train to 18 so far. Evasion ftw. Has kinda low AC and low prr mrr, but displacement. And spells. After I get to 20 I'll reconsider my choices. Found a few scroll spells, but mostly just been choosing two each level.
Now I just got another level to juke, then into epics. Haven't been epics for a couple months, so it'll be a fresh experience. May try to get some raids in. If I can find a raid run group. I've had offers. Don't know how this build will perform. And still have 8 ap left. Got 40 into ek, and 17? Into wf, and 20 into Harper. Harper looks pretty good. Max int. and sp and skills. So at 20 I'll give an ap breakdown and prob post some stats.
But this is sweet build. Melee dps with self heals. And trapping. I've really enjoyed running it.

[GeoffreyEnz]

I like your build, You should try the build im running now, I went with a pure 20Wiz Vampire shrouded Vistani SWF dagger and orb build, currently running in divine crusader. Primarily melee only using my mana for keeping Death auras running or Negative energy burst for burst heals/damage, Wail of the banshee and Mass Hold. Even in reaper, Death aura when heightened is ticking for about 100 per tic (I would consider that decent). With Vistani and Divine crusader my guy can hit periodically 100% Doublestrike and an attack spead of 75%... its melee damage is ABSURD. When you hit 5 power charges and pop all cooldowns things just melt.

With PM survivability is INSANE. I consider myself a bit of a noob still as ive only got 9 reaper points But ive been EASILY soloing a lot of EE content....like I have NEVER been able to on any of my past lives. I know this is probably just a FoTM thing but as of right now this is my favorite character build.
The only real issue ive had is gearing... it is tricky. A lot has to be sacrificed to keep DCs decent as well as Balancing melee stats and Neg/Fire spellpower

[Vish]

Ya, I've never run a palemaster
Prob won't either
I just have ad version to undead
And the fact they are not group heal friendly
Now I have considered vkf a little bit
I have daggers I could sentient
But I went khopesh this build, will prob stick to it
As for heals, going war forge and reconstruct are good synergy
Just happen to be doing last wf racial
And the evasion from 2 rogue is great quality of life
About gearing,
I'm going to take this through epics,
Want to see if arcane warrior is any good
And I don't really have a 30 gearset
So part of the challenge will be to find what works
I'll be posting notes here as I level

[Vish]

Level 20
Reaper, shadowdancer
Str 27
Dex 35
Con 46
Int 63
wis 21
Cha 30
Hp 1103
Hamp 37
Repair 40
Sp 2141
Electric 422
Pos 253
Repair 206
Others around 220
AC 79
Dodge 9/25
Fort 34
Reflex 37
Will 28
Bab 10/20
Doublestrike 20
Melee speed 28
Melee power 109
Sr 0
Fort 210
Prr 51
Mrr 47

Ap
21 wf
40 ek
24 Harper

Gear
Helm executioners
Neck cc 7con3 devotion87 falselife20
Eyes acolytes lenses
Trinket planar compass
Body memory of fine regalia
Cloak phasecloak
Bracers cc str7 sheltering17 heavy fort
Belt thrumming spark cord
Ring1 prowess resist5
Ring2 cc 7cha3
Boots rng ff speed8
Gloves cc 7dex3 hamp27
Barovian khopesh 1.5 17-20 x4 +80 +52
Bolt sphere

Notes
Ok this is kinda the epic version of the heroic build
Didn't include DCs, or a spell list. Will prob save that for 21.
Don't really like running shadowdancer. All I'm getting is mp and int. may switch to magister and be more caster like, even tho I've pretty much completely meleed thru heroic.
Haven't done twists yet.
Ran an en da and soloed it. Will put one mans treasure on the dailys list, so I need to learn to run it. Need the platinum khopesh.
Don't get epic defensive fighting till 21? And won't reset reaper points til 21. Also get new cc gear at 21.
Don't know how I'm gonna run this build yet. I have the feat list to go by, but basically need all new gear. Pretty sure I will mostly go melee, but will look at the caster side of it more closely. Like I said, I need arcane epic pl.
In da was seeing 125 damage with imbues about 200? And tempest was doing 2500. So easy enough for dailys.
Problem really is, there just isn't pop running quests. The lfm pool is scarce. Yes I run my own, but the lack of vets playing means prob no reaper runs. Yes seeing many new players. Seems they've filled the void for this in between of expansions.
But 21 will bring gswf and epic defensive fighting. Otherwise my hp epic were like 700.
But basically I'm going to farm tokens to continue racials.
Ap config could change, I'm still evaluating things. May pull some out of wf and Harper and put it into am, for efficient metamagic.
Post again at 21.

In other notes
58 reaper points

[Vish]

Level 24
Knights xform, edf
Str 31
Dex 40
Con 48
Int 63
Wis 22
Cha 36
Hp 1184
Repair 40
Sp 2119
Electric 446
Pos 300
Repair 225
AC 90
Dodge 10/25
Fort 39
Reflex 38
Will 33
Bab 12/24
Doublestrike 20
Melee speed 38
Melee power 117
Sr 0
Fort 230
Prr 52
Mrr 50

Spells
Mm, shock grasp, retreat, shock bolt, jump
Invis, web, gust of wind, blur, electric loop
Displacement, fireball, haste, lightning bolt, acid blast
Ddoor, wall of fire, ice storm, force missiles, pk
Cone of cold, prismatic ray, cyclonic blast, ball lightning, eldars
Gh, tensers, chain lightning, reconstruct, open
Great teleport, fod, hold person mass, dbf
Mass charm monster, polar ray, open, open
Wail, thunderstrike, mass hold monster

Ap
21 wf
40 ek
24 Harper

Dc
Thunderstrike 52
Fod 43
Mass charm 44
Mass hold 45
Lightning bolt 46
Loop 45
Ball lightning 48
Chain lightning 49

notes
Ok didn't post reaper stats
But diff is 1600 hp, 4 int for 2 dc, and 19/25 dodge
Been running some reaper. But you gotta have vets doing that.
Otherwise, this is pretty much a melee build as I run it. Throw in thunderstrike as it comes off cooldown. Spell some other stuff at times just to fresh it up. Mostly all electric spells. Don't even have most of the spells on the hotbar. That's due to danger close casting. I have to turn two toggles off to get range, so hardly ever.
But been running some dailys, some r3, and just juked it to 24. Led c1 c2 motu on EE. Reconstruct like a full heal. Kinda like running elite better just so my heals hold up. But in groups I do pretty good. Kinda on the squishy side with 52 prr, but really I don't get hit that much. 90 AC, displacement and some dodge. It's ok I'm doing fine.
As to gear, didn't list it. Just have cc21 stuff for neck bracers cloak and cha ring. May craft a cold ring to swap cha ring. Since I took bogw at 24. Gear kinda sucks, here I am 24 and using a ml10 khopesh. Will prob craft a thunder forge, and maybe a LGS. Until I get rl at 29. Dont know if I can craft a orb. Electric with insightful? I may try. Haven't farmed the plat khopesh yet, heck haven't even run it. So I have no sentient. But dps is still decent. Can prob go up 25%? Tho? The first 4 epic levels are fast, now I get to the grind.
Overall build is holding up. Tempest is still goto attack for mobs. And I haven't tested any mass spells, so I need the cold lvl9. So I have more one two punch. Running it maximized at times. Ya I'm happy enough with the build so far. Has lotta hp for a melee wiz. Got the +100 from grim. Still using cc 13 trapping gear. Have been trapping somewhat. I got good scores so always succeeds.
Ok next post as I see some changes.

[Vish]

Have to put an interlude in here

Epics. And heroics. The difference
I've commented on this before. It's one of the problems of running melee,
There is just too much flashy stuff happening in epics
I mean, it's a cluster of light bombs
That really interferes with you melee targeting
I really like heroics
It's simply, stuff ain't exploding all over the place,
You can see what you're fighting
Now, in epics
It's a lag fest of light going off
It's hard to see, can't keep track of the battlefield,
It just sucks
Ya, can't do anything about it
I guess not run with casters or colors of the queen
But I had forgotten it playing heroics these last few months
That's why range is so cheese, or instakillers
When it gets hairy, you can't see a thing
The lament of a melee in epics
Sigh

[Vish]

Lvl 27
Ok couple things
Found out you can craft orbs, was using old cc planner
So crafted a electric with insightful ml24 orb
Also crafted a ml24 cold ring
Brings my electric up to 650? And cold up to 450 or 500
Also, got in a thunderholme run, and crafted a tf ml24 khopesh with first degree burns
That about doubled my dps from 125 to about 250
Running some reaper, I have 1800 hp, but low prr. Don't think that will change much
Now the push to 29 to get ravenloft
Also, keep finding scrolls. Got the lvl9 cold one. So now I duo cold and electric as they come off cooldown. Haven't maximized yet. May look again at ap and put some into am for the efficient.
But basically running r1s and some r3 with good groups. Almost 28. Been running shadowdancer whole time. Want a arcane pl, but keep forgetting to switch Ed's when doing dailys. That will be more pronounce as I move towards 30. Got a divine sphere maxxed in the pocket. May take a divine pl.
Build is fun at 29 get arcane warrior. I'll see if that makes any difference. Because using force point I'm usually max stacks on the usp. But that's only 20. And casting 5 times for the melee add is hardly worth it. So these small gains add flavor to the build, but don't really increase its power.
Oh well this is a run to 30. Wanted to farm tokens but so far only got enough for one tr. guess I'd have to stay at cap and farm tokens and arcane xp. Prob won't do that. May check vish to see if he has any tokens.
And Sharn is coming up. And knights training next week. Want to run a ranger monk build in heroics to test that out. I don't know what I'd build for Sharn. Usually I'm a duality monk. But I've went wide instead of deep, and will only have one more ap after this life. Also, almost have the 2k ddo points saved up for the racial tome. So by Sharn, that'd give me 7 ap. got a lot of lives left to do yet. But got the warforge out of the way. Even tho I've liked the warforge. Good melee tree. Going to save some elf and half elf for near the max racial, and do some aa builds.
Ya, finding more spells and putting them in my book. Too bad you lose them at tr. but this is second ek for me. Like I said, I need 2 wiz and 2 more sorc to max the wizard casting necessary. And I'm doing racials, so those will likely come sometime way down the road. Oh well, don't care that much for casters anyways. Tho sometime I'd like to run a max pl wizzy.
Prob post again at 29 with some stats.

[Vish]

Level 28
Got to 28, looked my slavers gear. Had a con necklace, the executioners helm, and the symbol. Also had a 17/4 int ring with festive int. swapped that with cold ring. So sitting on a 73 int ATM. 77 in reaper.
Been running reaper. Hp like 2000. But prr on this build is low. Don't think I'll get it to 100. I am going for beacon set and prob adherents. Don't know the config yet. I'm gonna be at 30 just briefly, will post stats. But at 29 arcane warrior, and that's mostly what I wanted to test on this build.
Looked vish. He had about 40 tokens and 1500 frags. Plus the 20 or so I've collected. Will set me up for the next 4 lives.
But I've got a gearset for this build, want to run a half elf? Ranger monk longsword build, then I'll build for Sharn. Want to run a duality monk, but I've maxxed monk pl and aasimar pl. so I have a +20 heart. May burn that and do a heroic pl. idk don't really want to waste it, but I may get a epic pl out of it, but no heroic or racial. But I plan on staying at 30 and farming Sharn, so that may be couple months. May be able to juke in some arcane xp. And take a arcane.

Ok gearset for 30
Helm executioners
Trinket symbol
Neck slavers con
Ring1 slavers int
Ring2 lprowess
Boots Fleetfoot adherents
Body memory of fine regalia beacon
eyes
Gloves beacon
Belt thrumming spark cord beacon
cloak
Bracers
Weapon barovian khopesh
Orb cc ml34 electric

[Vish]

Ok gearset for 30
Helm executioners
Trinket symbol
Neck slavers con
Ring1 nightfall swap keylock
Ring2 lprowess
Boots Fleetfoot adherents
Body memory of fine regalia beacon
eyes van richtens?
Gloves blurfingered beacon
Belt thrumming spark cord beacon
cloak phasecloak adherents
Bracers construct champion
Weapon barovian khopesh
Orb cc ml24 electric

Level 29
Took arcane warrior. Meh, +40 to usp. They really need to bump this. It's inconsequential for missing dire charge.
Went with phasecloak, ring swap to keylock. Put on construct bracers. That gives me like 600 repair, so about a 900 hp heal in reaper1. Also dropping the beacon set. Went with the silent avenger one, with 50 prr and profane. Not going to run silent avenger either. And can't seem to find either of the belts, so I guess I gotta farm em. Sigh. I thought I had all ravenloft stashed. But no luck. Have eyes open too. May take van richtens spectacles just for the mrr, since I have only 28 mrr on this build. But did get prr to 100.
But it's too much hybrid to actually be good. I'm disappointed. I swapped to barovian khopesh, and switched to magister. Melee power at 90? So like 150 in shadowdancer. Oh well, this was a quick run to 30. And my damage went from 250 to 175, but back up to 200 with barovian.
I found my tokens for next 4 lives. And I got the points for the racial tome. So that will set me to 7 ap. maybe I better wait for Sharn? Who knows what they'll offer. But at any rate I'm buying the 40 package.
Since I'm not running beacon or avenger, may swap the gloves to the insightful 9 from , oh it's a ring, of nightfall. Ok that's has 50 prr and insightful deadly. So swap it for keylock, and maybe run the beacon. When I farm the belts. Ok that sounds better. Because otherwise I need the new goggles from lost at sea, which I ran, but didn't drop. But I should be 30 after Super Bowl. I'll just run c2 and c3 of ravenloft. But those gloves are worthless. Already have QuickDraw, already have displacement, so only use is the efficient maximize. Guess I maximize my 2 lvl9s. No adherents.
And I don't have a legendary bolt sphere, so need to farm that too. Guess I'm getting a list.
But I may get int up to 90? With no spell focus. So I'll be losing half damage on my spells. Oh well. It's a quick trip to 30 and reroll. Maybe by next patch I'll be 9 where I take knights training. Prob reroll Monday.
Ok I'll see if I can put this together some more and post stats at 30. But it's pretty monster in reaper, with like 2100 hp. Just squish o matic with 100 AC and prr. Kinda sad. May be decent with a tank. Oh well, hybrids suck. Maybe Sharn may have some loot for them. Lyn is doing loot, I think she has better handle on builds being run. God I just hope they don't go over 20. That'll ruin the system.
But overall this has been a fun build. I've enjoyed melee on a wizard frame, and the reconstruct with warforge is op. so it's kinda been a max build. And the evasion has done me good service. The path to 30 was relatively easy. Will take that divine life, and keep in mind builds to squeeze out arcane past lives. Maybe a bard in my future. Maybe not...
But the build as I ran it has mostly been melee, with some casting thrown in. God in magister I have like 3000 sp, with hardly nothing to cast. Oh there's 4 min haste, lolz.
And I am seeing more raids being run. So guess ppl are coming back in anticipation on of Sharn. That's good, but I'll be hanging heroics.
Ok stats at 30.

[Vish]

level 30
Reaper
Improved shield, shield, improved Mage armor, Mage armor, blur, displacement
Adherents, gswf, beacon, fom
Magister
Knights xform, edf
Str 40
Dex 46
Con 67
Int 86
Wis 22
Cha 28
Hp 2253
Repair 60
Sp 3238
Electric 898
Spell crit 54
Multiplier 28
Cold 620
Repair 405/587
AC 160
Dodge 26/26
Fort 60
Reflex 67
Will 47
Bab 15/30
Doublestrike 37
Melee speed 45
Melee power 98
Sr 0
Fort 318
Prr 138
Mrr 70

Gear
Helm executioners
Neck slavers con resist
Eyes van richtens adherents
Trinket cc dodge doublestrike
Body memory of fine regalia beacon
cloak phasecloak adherents
Bracers of the fallen hero adherents
Belt thrumming spark cord beacon
Ring1 prowess
Ring2 nightfall adherents
Boots flightfoot adherents
Gloves blur fingered beacon
Barovian khopesh 17-20 x4 +118 +97
Legendary bolt sphere

Ap
16 (5) wf
40 ek
24 Harper

Ap
8 dread
17 dire
33 grim

Notes
Ok this build came together overnight
Looked on a missed mule, had legendary bolt sphere, had a burnscar so I could complete the beacon set, but don't have a thrumming spark cord. I'll have to farm that. Instead in stats I just added 202 to electric and cold to represent if I did have one. I did have a nightfall, and I have all the orbs except cold ones.
Then I juked together gear. Have the beacon set, which increases mrr by 20, and put on the van richtens for full mrr. I swapped out the bracers, I have alternate repair listed for champion construct, was thinking of hotswapping, but it's not much difference. Don't need spell focus, as I've evocation8 on the phasecloak, and that's all I cast, is damage spells. So actually put an adherents on this build too.
Int is only 86/87? Reaper. I'm missing festive int and profane, so could see maybe 90. Not going to use a jeweler kit on this build, or trick it out.
But I swapped out symbol for a trinket I had, that covers my dodge and doublestrike. So 26 dodge is gravy. As is 37 doublestrike. Went with the fallen hero, for insight con and prr. So prr at 138 is decent, for a melee wiz in cloth. Actually I'm pretty stoked about end stats, except for saves. They kinda suck. Since reaper, I use reflex, but I wasn't going to respec them and put in will. So those two could swing +/- 9. Because previously I was getting held and stunned too much to my liking, and if I went forward more would prob run will adds. Since my reflex still be about 60, and I got 70 mrr. Maxxed.
Running in magister, shadowdancer would give me 60 mp more. So it's a trade off but I was running magister filling out arcane xp, so I just stuck with it. Didn't post DCs, they were around 71? Ya kinda low for reflex saves, and when I turned 30 didn't retake my twists, so maybe could be a bit higher?
But it's got monster hp, and pretty decent AC, with dodge and displacement running. But it was doing decent damage. I ran a slavers 1&2 r1 to test it. Was doing like 220 base and forgot to look the imbue. But I was killing stuff ok. Only cast the two lvl9s electric and cold, maximized due to the gloves. I was seeing 5k to 10k on them. So little bit of extra damage. But they're reflex saves so I imagine I was usually doing half damage. But I cycle them in to get my stacks up. Oh ya, so force point adds +20, and arcane warrior adds +40. So something. It's just that I think this build has more potential than how I played it. But not by much. Because its so easy to just auto attack, and not cast. I mean the caster adds are so little, only +5, don't know what they are for arcane warrior side. But if you went more casting, you could prob do decent aoe damage. Never used acid well. Could run this as acid, tho I've got mostly all electric spells, and some cold, bogw.
Now that I built it, I may actually run it a few days and get a feel for it. And farm the belt. That would complete the set. But it's got good numbers, I always measure everything against my duality monk, but this is a hybrid. Has spell versatility, that's about it. Otherwise it's like a 3/4 fighter. Guess that's pretty good for ek.
Some things I never used. Hardly ever spelled wellspring, and never used the masses, and generally didn't cast anything other than the two nines. Other than buffs. That's displacement, gh, and haste. So some utility there.
But it's saving grace is warforged and reconstruct. That is still super heal, even in r1. Having ability to heal myself made it like running an aasimar on a fleshie. It was best defense I had.
And I could still reconfigure my ap. maybe a little less wf and Harper and put it into am for efficient. If I played it longer I would test that. But I was running empowered and maximized on the 9s and my sp rarely went below half. Nice thing of having 3000 sp, just for 2 spells, some buffs, and a heal pool.
The only other thing make this better at this point, would be a calamity. And I was saving up to put one on vish. So just used the barovian khopesh as poor mans substitute. But gravy for r1 runs. Like I said I may test it out more to get a better feel for it. But monster hp for a wizzy.
Oh ya. The last piece. Sentience. Won't do it, but I got my second gem up to 100k, and 8 slots. I looked over the sets. I could do the 2 four pieces for +4 DCs. But as I run it, would prob be better served just running a prowess, and twist in stuff from ld. That give me some action boosts. I guess I'm running over 1k sp on electric with all the adds from melee. Wellspring, max, empower, force point and arcane warrior. As well as sp/mp boost and reaper boost. If I get the belt I may test to see the max. That's pretty hefty adds.
Too bad it's all danger close. The real potential of this build would be better served if you had ranged casting with melee. But don't think that's ever gonna happen. But it would be sweet. Then you'd see some ek builds. Idk it's variety, but I still prefer my monk.
Pretty **** good for a wizard tho, if I do say so myself.

[Vish]

Ok gonna retire this build
Get a divine and 1 ap out of it
Got about 3 mil in arcane, guess I'll just have to finish that later
But farmed wrath couple times for the belt, no luck
I'll just do it when I'm 30 again, likely for Sharn
Will prob do a aasimar duality monk, but I may surprise myself
Like I said I'd get no gains, and don't really want to burn a 20 heart

But I'll have 6 racial ap after this
And now store has +2 tomes, at 2500
Sitting at 2300, so I need to go heroic for a bit and farm
Then I'll be sitting at 8 for Sharn
That's good enough
May squeeze in 9, but I'd have to do 2 elf lives
May not make that by time Sharn drops
Unless a run a elf monk
Don't know if I could do that
Well see,
Still no producers letter
Still no Sharn hype
So maybe I have the time

Anyways arcane warrior sucked for what's its worth,
And how I played it
Would have been better to dire charge
But I enjoyed the build
I didn't use good Ed, and I didn't sentient
And it could still hang r3
So I'll prob keep my eks in heroics,
Where they're op