Hey adventurers!
Did you just buy Vistani Knife Fighter when it was on sale? Are you eager to hop aboard the Dagger Thrower Train but you haven't got the Store points to splurge on Alchemist, Harper, or other P2W goodies? Do you want a ranger based on the Deepwood Stalker tree which isn't another archer while we wait for the next archer pass to break our hearts again? Are you willing to playtest a cool build on Hardcore as one of my guinea pigs errr noble volunteers?
Then step right up, do I have a build for you! Presenting the Daggerwood Stalker!
Core features:Code:Daggerwood Stalker Ranger 20 True Neutral Elf Stats 28pt 32pt Level Up ---- ---- -------- Strength 8 8 4: DEX Dexterity 20 20 8: DEX Constitution 12 14 12: DEX Intelligence 14 14 16: DEX Wisdom 8 8 20: DEX Charisma 8 8 24: DEX 28: DEX Skills 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ------------------------------------------------------------ Concent 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 23 Heal 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 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 Diplo 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 ------------------------------------------------------------ 32 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 Feats 1 : Simple Thrown Expertise 3 : Point Blank Shot 6 : Multitude of Missiles 9 : Improved Critical: Thrown 12 : Precision 15 : Quicken Spell OR Improved Critical: Piercing 18 : Empower Healing Spell OR Two Weapon Defense 21 Epic : Combat Archery 24 Epic : Overwhelming Critical 26 Destiny: Holy Strike OR Perfect Two Weapon Fighting 27 Epic : Blinding Speed OR Epic Damage Reduction 28 Destiny: Doubleshot 29 Destiny: Embodiment of Law OR Deific Warding 30 Epic : Epic Reflexes OR Epic Damage Reduction 30 Legend : Scion of: Ethereal Plane 1 Ranger : Favored Enemy: Giant 5 Ranger : Favored Enemy: Construct 10 Ranger : Favored Enemy: Evil Outsider 15 Ranger : Favored Enemy: Aberration 20 Ranger : Favored Enemy: Elemental Enhancements (80 AP) Deepwood Stalker (42 AP)Vistani Knife Fighter (31 AP)
- Far Shot, Sneak Attack, Sniper Shot, Advanced Sneak Attack, Mark of the Hunted, Horizon Shot
- Favored Defense I, Stealthy III
- Faster Sneaking III, Improved Weapon Finesse, Melee/Range Power Boost III
- Thrill of the Hunt III, Favored Hunter III, Aimed Shot, Dexterity
- Killer I, Merciful Shot, Dexterity
- Extra Favored Enemy: Magical Beast, Heavy Draw, Strikes Like Lightning, Head Shot, Improved Archer's Focus
Elf (7 AP)
- Knife Expertise, Knife Juggler, Quick Reflexes, One With Blades, Vistani Fortune
- Vistani Knife Training I, Undead Hunter, Mist Stalker, Rapid Slash
- Vistani Knife Training II, Bleeding Cuts, Mist Stalker II, Haste Boost III
- Vistani Knife Training III, Fan of Knives, Mist Stalker III, Deadly Blades
- Celerity, Mist Stalker IV
Leveling Guide
- Elven Accuracy, Elven Dexterity, Elven Accuracy II, Elven Dexterity II, Elven Accuracy III
Destiny (24 AP) Shiradi Champion
- DS0 Far Shot; DS1 Stealthy I, II, III
- DS1 Favored Defense I; DS2 Improved Weapon Finesse; Vis0 Knife Expertise; Vis1 Undead Hunter
- Vis1 Rapid Slash; Vis1 Vistani Knife Training I; Vis0 Knife Juggler
- DS0 Sneak Attack; DS2 Melee/Range Power Boost I, II, III
- Vis2 Bleeding Cuts; Vis2 Vistani Knife Training II
- Vis0 Quick Reflexes; DS0 Sniper Shot; DS3 Aimed Shot
- Vis3 Deadly Blades; Vis3 Fan of Knives
- Vis3 Vistani Knife Training III; Vis2 Haste Boost I, II
- Vis2 Haste Boost III; Vis4 Celerity; DS3 Dexterity
- DS3 Favored Hunter I, II, III; DS3 Thrill of the Hunt I
- DS3 Thrill of the Hunt II; DS4 Killer I; DS4 Merciful Shot
- DS0 Advanced Sneak Attack; Vis0 One With Blades; DS4 Dexterity
- DS3 Thrill of the Hunt III; DS2 Faster Sneaking I, II, III
- DS5 Strikes Like Lightning; DS5 Improved Archer's Focus
- DS5 Head Shot; DS5 Heavy Draw
- DS5 Extra Favored Enemy: Magical Beast; Vis1 Mist Stalker
- Vis2 Mist Stalker II; Vis3 Mist Stalker III
- DS0 Mark of the Hunted; Vis4 Mist Stalker IV; Vis0 Vistani Fortune
- Elf0 Elven Accuracy; Elf0 Elven Dexterity; Elf0 Elven Accuracy II
- DS0 Horizon Shot; Elf0 Elven Dexterity II; Elf0 Elven Accuracy III
Twists of Fate (11 fate points)
- Healing Spring III, Illusion of Well Being III
- Prism, Pin II
- Rainbow, Otto's Whistler II, Whirling Wrists III
- Double Rainbow
- Nerve Venom III
- Audience with the Queen, Hunt's End
- Grim Precision (Tier 3 Shadowdancer)
- Extra Action Boost (Tier 1 Dreadnought)
- Rejuvenation Cocoon (Tier 1 Primal)
- Only one P2W element: Vistani Knife Fighter which hopefully you bought when it was on sale for <350 DPs. Alternatively, you could level this as a F2P archer, unlock VKF tree via Favor, and use your free Heart of Wood to respec into a thrower build. You have until August 31st before Ravenloft goes back to being P2P.
- Race: elf for +4 DEX and +6% Accuracy bonus
- Doubleshot: 50% from DWS and VKF Enhancements, +100% from Multitude of Missiles while active.
- Ranged Power: +20 from Horizon Shot, +15 from Vistani Fortune when Swords procs, up to +60 from Multitude of Missiles at BAB 30, up to +125 from Improved Archer's Focus when fully stacked, +60 from Shiradi Champion.
- Sneak attacks: 7d6 SA from DWS enhancements and 6d6 from Scion of the Ethereal Plane. Sniper Shot grants sneak attack vulnerability and DWS capstone grants "You are always considered to be in Point Blank Shot and Ranged Sneak Attack range."
- Whirling Wrists has always been a must-have, but Shiradi Champion is actually good for thrower builds now. Many of the random procs now scale with Ranged Power instead of Spellpower: bad for old-school Shiradi casters, but good for ranged builds with high hit rates and lots of Ranged Power. Hunt's End is similiar to Adrenaline (although it's hard to beat Adrenaline Overload for burst DPS) and DWS provides several ranged attacks which boost base damage or critical multiplier bonuses.
- Optional: since ranger already provides the full TWF chain and many enhancements in DWS and VKF also apply to melee, you can invest in a few melee feats as well and have TWF daggers as a backup to throwing.
Drawbacks:
- Thrower builds start low and end high when it comes to DPS. You may find it preferable to level a TWF dagger build thru heroics, then use your free HoW to switch into a thrower build later on.
- No inherent run speed bonuses makes kiting mobs more of a PITA. [Why oh why didn't rangers get Fast Movement enhancements like bards and rogues?!] Possible solution: splash barbarian for +10% runspeed; barb 2 would let you add Sprint Boost and Blood Tribute for temp HPs which would certainly help on Hardcore. This costs you the DWS capstone though.
- No trap skills for that sweet bonus XP. Again, you could splash rogue or Artificer to add them, but it costs you Horizon Shot.
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07-18-2020, 03:27 PM #1Build Constructionist
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Daggerwood Stalker: A Lowbie Thrower Build for the Monetarily Challenged
Last edited by unbongwah; 07-27-2020 at 03:37 PM.
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07-20-2020, 05:04 AM #2Community Member
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Beautiful build my man as always your and super easy to switch to Halfling, I like them more than elf +3 luck saves is nice imo.
Originally Posted by unbongwah
Last edited by Rudaro; 07-20-2020 at 05:12 AM.
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