Unique build request...Love your thoughts

[Jaysun]

My wife plays an alchemist. Lots of aoe damage and damage in general.

I want a character that compliments this with how I also enjoy playing.

So I am looking for a ranged character (bow/crossbow/repeaters/throwing knifes dont care) that also can heal her/the party when needed. To top this off I would like to be able to disable traps and have evade. The evade can come from the shadowdancer tree that is fine.

I want to be able to focus single target. Looking for something useable in R6.

Love your thoughts. Know this could be a toughy.

Multiclass is fine, probably going to have to capstone off something like Inquis or Horizon walker.

[Alrik_Fassbauer]

Artificer ?

[C-Dog]

You're comfortable waiting until Epics for Evasion? If so, yeah, pure Arti Inquis or Repeater, or 18 w/ 1 early level each of Barb and Fighter (for kiting and early-Heroic burst DPS).

If not, it sounds like Rog 2/Arti 18 would be a straightforward solution. You ~could~ get more complex, but only if you really want Evasion before 20 (since losing core 18 would really hurt into Epics).

[archest]

Rogue with a high enough charisma score can use heal and heal mass scrolls.
cure critz guild wands and such.
its a little slower using scroll.

[Jaysun]

Arti is on the mind but the repeater damage is pretty far behind other range builds. So it would get a little frustrating. The healing is doable but the cure potions are pretty slow/not powerful, but there is the repair ability but only for 1 person.

Hard to heal on anything when played a Favorsouled that has some nice healing cones. But Arti does hit all the check marks...just doesnt do any of them at a high level. Not sure how much I will enjoy it. Anyone have any cleric/favorsoul crazy builds? Not a fan of melee though. But not against it if the playstle seems fun and is competitive at R6+/Raids.

Thanks for the feedback so far!

[dredre9987]

Try out a FVS inquis? Splash rog or arti for traps?

[C-Dog]

Arti is on the mind but the repeater damage is pretty far behind other range builds...

First, it's not ~that~ far behind, and in lower Heroics it's ahead of most. But whatever.

More to the point - you don't have to use Repeater w/ Arti. Go Arti inquis, win. (There's a unique synergy between Arti Tier 4 Endless Fusillade and the Inquis equiv written in there.)

[Zdevor]

I advise my build. Its a Swiss Army Knife melee artificer. Good companion on the side of any caster type builds. You can play tank/trapper, can sneak, bluff and can do some damage too.

Have a static TR group with a dedicated DC Warlock and an Inquisitor beside my side and it is fun to cover all party roles with 2-3 players.

You can find the guide here:
https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...yman?p=6340556

[droid327]

18 pal/2 arti, CHA>CON>19 DEX for IPS, 41 Inqui 7 Fey 17 KotC (Exalted Smite+Core 3) 15 Sac Def (LOH MDB stance)

full ranged toolkit with Inqui plus a spammable Smite for single target burst, all the good passive Pal buffs, LoH+CSW for healing yourself/wife in Reaper, CHA to reflex via Divine Grace for Evasion in epic, and with a decent INT tome (and swap gear when necessary) you should be able to handle trapping