U49 Bow Max DPS Build Complete Guide

[Carpone]

So when u50 comes out, are you gonna drop KtA for the Dex based trance?

Preview of U50 bow build. I'll post a guide when U50 is released.

[NemesisAlien]

You mentioned warforged, but the gear set does not include warforge, assuming everything is the same, just docent is missing.

Oh and warforge feats.

[Carpone]

Warforged is a niche version, only if you need it for the MRR:

Drop Dodge/Mobility/Shot on the Run, replace with WF: Ranged, WF Thrown and Mithral Body.
Replace the chest piece with the docent from Part of the Family.

[Carpone]

Preview of U50 Bow Max DPS, assuming nothing changes before live.

[Yamani]

Preview of U50 Bow Max DPS, assuming nothing changes before live.

Drop Collective sight + litany.
Pick up Ravens Eye goggles + Gem of many facets (ravens eye set) Craft your stats from Collective sight onto gem. Slot a profane augment.
And if you want to go all out pick up lolth cookies for +profane att/damage.

[IlmerSilverhilt]

Great write-up, again. I also ran 13/6/1 but with fighter instead of ranger, and other differences But I feel you should include the uncanny filigree, through the mists 5pc as swap for 50rp. At least that was a big plus for me when choosing rogue. Can potentially be a dps loss from all the switching lol but its 50rp!

Im still not too fond of HW, but looks fun!

[Carpone]

Pick up Ravens Eye goggles + Gem of many facets (ravens eye set) Craft your stats from Collective sight onto gem.

Can you share the U50 stats for those items?

[Yamani]

Can you share the U50 stats for those items?

Gem is craftable so your choices for prefix/suffix/extra

[Carpone]

Thank you! That is sexy, and I've updated the gear set. This change nets: +3 SA hit, +3 crit hit, +3 crit dmg, +5 hp, -1 dmg, -2 resistance compared to Collective Sight/Epic Litany. The crit dmg more than makes up for the -1 dmg. And that doesn't even include the situational profane bonuses from cookies.

For the Cannith Crafting Suffix, I added Parrying for now for lack of a better option.

[SpartanKiller13]

Came here from the Lama thread.

With 50 MRR cap you could probably ditch Slaver's Sheltering; that'd drop you to 40 MRR before Mythic/Reaper bonuses, so you'd probably have ~47 or something anyway. Not sure it matters, but maybe something else is more impactful?

FE: Fey & Giants is for Feywild/D&D, correct? IE those are the ones to swap for pushing skulls in a specific raid or new content etc?

[muisslayer]

Hey Carpone,

Why the zen archery? i dont understand this feat in the build.

[Carpone]

Hey Carpone,

Why the zen archery? i dont understand this feat in the build.

Required for Shortbow or Longbow to be a ki weapon, which is necessary for Monk stances. Greater Sun Stance provides a 19-20/x1 multiplier.

[muisslayer]

Oh, Yea, Totally forgot about that... :S

I'm trying this build out from 1-30 right now.
Blazing trough heroics with new ranger updates.
Hope to be 25ish when U50 drops so i can see it preform in epic R8's with new ED's and horizon walker.

Thanks for the buildsheet, and i will reply with my findings later on!

[PrinceOfAsphodel]

Do you have an ok time critting things with an armor piercing stat of just over 100? I would assume that would drop your dps on things like Dooms and other red names.

[dogsoldier]

I am not convinced on ditching AA altogether. Perhaps it just "feels" like I am doing more damage when I can bypass blunt/slash/pierce and all metal type DR with the a couple of secondary imbue toggles for a mere 11 AP, 2 more (13) gets more elemental dice.

I agree that Vistani is better overall, but if going over 20 points here, may as well spend 2 more for neg level immunity.

41 DWS
23 Vistani
13 AA
2 Falconry

That leaves one action point to use in the racial tree I suppose.

[Carpone]

I am not convinced on ditching AA altogether. Perhaps it just "feels" like I am doing more damage when I can bypass blunt/slash/pierce and all metal type DR with the a couple of secondary imbue toggles for a mere 11 AP, 2 more (13) gets more elemental dice.

Math > feels. And I forgot to include 2 less SA dice, since you have to starve Assassin for AA.

The build lacks slashing DR, but that's only useful vs zombies. For reapers, bring melee or an insta killer. Throwing Dagger, Shuriken, Great Xbow Light/Heavy Crossbows don't have a way to bypass slashing either. So if there's new content that has lots of slashing DR required, I'd expect there to be a slashing DR quiver, similar to the Ravenloft bludgeon quiver.

[dogsoldier]

Math > feels. And I forgot to include 2 less SA dice, since you have to starve Assassin for AA.

The build lacks slashing DR, but that's only useful vs zombies. For reapers, bring melee or an insta killer. Throwing Dagger, Shuriken and Light/Heavy Crossbows don't have a way to bypass slashing either. Only Volley does. So if there's new content that has lots of slashing DR required, I'd expect there to be a slashing DR quiver, similar to the Ravenloft bludgeon quiver.

I am not sure what you mean by "starve Assassin", talking about a rogue split, rather than the pure 20 ranger write up I was responding about?

Regardless of multiclass or pure, I can't imagine where two extra points in Vistani for neg level immunity would be spent better elsewhere. Yes I know that those 2 AP do not add to DPS, unless you get neg leveled and then everything will fall off.

Edit: Looking through all of the posts, seems you meant the u50 preview build 13/6/1 split. I was responding to this thread original post, u49 build.

[Mindos]

The build lacks slashing DR, but that's only useful vs zombies. For reapers, bring melee or an insta killer. Throwing Dagger, Shuriken and Light/Heavy Crossbows don't have a way to bypass slashing either. Only Volley does.

Plants need slashing? I don't remember. Volley does bludgeon, not slashing, unless I'm missing something?

[Arkat]

Plants need slashing? I don't remember. Volley does bludgeon, not slashing, unless I'm missing something?

No, you're correct. Volley does Piercing and Bludgeoning damage right out of the chest. I don't know of any missile weapon that does Slashing damage by default.

[Tlorrd]

No, you're correct. Volley does Piercing and Bludgeoning damage right out of the chest. I don't know of any missile weapon that does Slashing damage by default.

While not an item ... AA imbue will give slashing.