Need Aasimar true ranger build help, Im lost

[Bacon_Burger]

I have 3 toons, all rangers, 1 is Aasimar w/ falconry tree.

I originally had a dex based ranger/rogue/monk w/out 10K starz.

Now my build is an Aasimar w/ wisdom hit& dmge.

Ive noticed the dps is much lower than my old dex builds, (I used strintoms acid build)

I have +6 tomes, and several human, ranger PL's w/ moderate gear. & low level crafting.

I want to utilize the extra healing hands, and the falconry attacks, but my guild mates on cannith had differing opinions on how I should maximize this build.

Im lost, I feel the wisdom based true ranger builds can be decent and even great.

I was told the doubleshot is what I should strive for, but I cant get a good grip on AA or Sniper for T5 or the core's w/ doubleshot.

The points are spread out too much for my limited knowledge on using falconry tree.

Thanks in advance.

[Bacon_Burger]

No help? wow, I thought these forums (like LotRO) would be reaching out to a struggling player.

Sad panda, plenty of people worried about how the devs will reward them for 3 days of moving equipment, but no one pays attention to a returning player's plea for help.

[unbongwah]

No help? wow, I thought these forums (like LotRO) would be reaching out to a struggling player.

Dude, no offense, but you waited less than an hour on a weeknight when the Lamannia (preview) server is open. Most of us are messing with Tieflings and/or Inquisitive builds right now. I only happened to see your post while looking for info on the latter.

[Bacon_Burger]

Dude, no offense, but you waited less than an hour on a weeknight when the Lamannia (preview) server is open. Most of us are messing with Tieflings and/or Inquisitive builds right now. I only happened to see your post while looking for info on the latter.

I didnt add the emoji, my second post was made in jest (im not used to posting here)

I had no idea the preview server was open, my bad, I dont read a lot of the forums.

Your name looks familiar, Ive seen it on the class and build threads. Any help you can provide would be most appreciated. (I'll be in the kitchen cooking bacon)

[unbongwah]

I was told the doubleshot is what I should strive for, but I cant get a good grip on AA or Sniper for T5 or the core's w/ doubleshot.

https://ddowiki.com/page/Doubleshot

One of the reasons Strimtom's build works so well as a pure ranger is it maxes out the available Doubleshot from the ranger trees: 25% from the last two AA core Enhancements; another 40% from Strikes Like Lightning and Killer (when you have max stacks). Along the way it picks up the +1 crit range and multiplier bonuses from both trees plus various other DPS goodies. The downside is there's literally no wiggle room with your APs: 41 AA + 39 DWS leaves zero left over (excluding any racial-only APs you have). You could drop a few from tier-5 DWS, but there's little if anything you could buy with those APs which would be better DPS.

So along comes Falconry and you're thinking: "Ah ha! Now I can turn WIS into my to-hit, damage, and Paralyzing Arrow DC stat all at once. It's perfect!" But there's a huge catch: you gotta siphon a lot of APs from AA and/or DWS. It costs 12 APs just to get WIS to damage (Killer Instinct) and about twice that to get the tier-4 Falconry abilities like Deadly Instinct. At the very least, you have to give up one of the big Doubleshot bonuses (Strikes Like Lightning or AA capstone) because that's 32 + 41 = 73 APs minimum.

Now I don't have Falconry yet nor any epic rangers at the moment, so this is all just theorycrafting on my part. But if I was going to do WIS-based Aasimar or Scourge ranger, I think I'd do something like this:

Scourge Falcon Archer
Ranger 20
True Neutral Aasimar Scourge


Stats
               36pt     Tome     Level Up
               ----     ----     --------
Strength         8       +2       4: WIS
Dexterity       16       +5       8: WIS
Constitution    16       +2      12: WIS
Intelligence     8       +2      16: WIS
Wisdom          20       +2      20: WIS
Charisma         8       +2      24: WIS
                                 28: WIS

Skills
          1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
         ------------------------------------------------------------
Spot      4  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  23
Hide      4  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  23
Move Si   4  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  23
Heal         1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  19
Spellcr   1  1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1  11
UMD       2     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     11
Tumble    1                                                            1
         ------------------------------------------------------------
         20  6  6  6  6  6  6  6  6  6  6  6  6  6  6  6  6  6  6  6


Feats

 1        : Point Blank Shot
 3        : Precision
 6        : Quicken Spell
 9        : Improved Critical: Ranged
12        : Empower Healing Spell
15        : Past Life: Rogue OR Completionist
18        : Spell Focus: Enchantment
21 Epic   : Combat Archery
24 Epic   : Overwhelming Critical
26 Destiny: Holy Strike OR Epic Spell Power: Acid
27 Epic   : Blinding Speed
28 Destiny: Doubleshot
29 Destiny: Embodiment of Law
30 Epic   : Epic Damage Reduction
30 Legend : Scion of: Ethereal Plane OR Plane of Earth

 1 Ranger : Favored Enemy: Giant
 5 Ranger : Favored Enemy: Evil Outsider
10 Ranger : Favored Enemy: Construct
15 Ranger : Favored Enemy: Elemental
20 Ranger : Favored Enemy: Aberration


Enhancements (80+7 AP)

Arcane Archer (42 AP)
Arcane Archer, Morphic Arrows, Metalline Arrows, Aligned Arrows, Shadow Arrows, Mystical Archer
Conjure Arrows, Energy of the Wild III, Corrosive Arrows
Force Arrows I, Elemental Damage
Terror Arrows, Soul Magic, Elemental Damage, Wisdom
Banishing Arrows, Paralyzing Arrows, Smiting Arrows, Elemental Damage, Wisdom
Moonbow, Arrow of Slaying, Final Strike, Elemental Damage, Runebow

Falconry (27 AP)
Falcon
Hunter's Knowledge, Out in Nature III
Killer Instinct I, Diving Shot III, Meticulous Fletching III
Killer Instinct II, Strike for the Eyes: Shot III, Conditioning
Deadly Instinct II, No Mercy III, Coordinated Shot, Expose Weakness

Deepwood Stalker (11 AP)
Far Shot, Sneak Attack, Sniper Shot
Favored Defense I, Stealthy III
Faster Sneaking I, Melee/Range Power Boost III

Aasimar Scourge (7 AP)
Stronger Bonds, Wisdom, Stronger Bonds II, Wisdom, Stronger Bonds III


Destiny (24 AP)

Fury of the Wild
Primal Scream III, Boulder Toss III, Fast Healing III
Acute Instincts III, Damage Reduction III
(none)
Gird Against Demons I, Sense Weakness III
Fury Eternal
Unbridled Fury

Twists of Fate (36 fate points)
Grim Precision (Tier 3 Shadowdancer)
Otto's Whistler (Tier 3 Shiradi)
Pin (Tier 2 Shiradi)
School Specialist: Enchantment (Tier 2 Magister)
Rejuvenation Cocoon (Tier 1 Primal)

Obviously if you don't have at least 7 racial APs, you need to decide whether to drop Stronger Bonds or tier-4 Falconry.

FotW is all about the burst DPS from Adrenaline. And the helpless damage bonuses from Sense Weakness + No Mercy should stack together. So your basic combat rotation when your abilities are off cooldown will look like:

1. CC an enemy with Pin or a bird attack.
2. Use Adrenaline + <Sniper Shot | Arrow of Slaying> combo on helpless mob.

The rest of the time you can use Paralyzing Arrows to freeze mobs. EDIT: Otto's Whistler is like Paralyze; it stops the mob but doesn't render them helpless.

Like I said, the downside to this approach vs Strimtom's build is all the APs you had to move from DWS to Falconry. Bosses are immune to stuns so you won't get the bonus damage from No Mercy + bird attacks which is kinda the point of the Falconry tree, IMO. That's when you'll really miss the extra Doubleshot etc. from DWS. In fact you may wish to experiment to see is tier-4 DWS (Killer) + tier-3 Falconry (WIS to dmg) is a better combo for you than what I proposed.

[Bacon_Burger]

cool, thanks, Ill give it a try,

Are rangers in a good place right now? Being a returning player Im behind the curve a little

[noinfo]

cool, thanks, Ill give it a try,

Are rangers in a good place right now? Being a returning player Im behind the curve a little

Bows are suffering a bit, melee are great.