Aasimar Inquis - break down my options pls

[C-Dog]

So, because I'm doing my Aasimar lives, I was thinking FvS Inquis, but that's not carved in stone as yet.

I'm asking because 1) I've never run a FvS, so have no first-hand feel for them, and 2) I def want to take this (whatever it ends up being) to 30 (at least once), and have less familiarity w/ the new ED's and "best practices" in Epic, so don't want to rely (purely ) on my own theorycrafting here. And there are SO many diff options suggested on the boards... class split, AP split, oy.

o Aasimar Inquisitive, 36 pt build, +5 Int & Wis tomes, +2 all others.

Don't have the best gear (sets still have some holes in them), so looking for something that might be a bit more durable/survivable for the occasional solo's/farming I inevitably end up doing.


re class Split:

o Strimton submitted a recent build, Art 2/FvS 18 War Soul, which received mixed reviews.

o Psykopeta was one to advocate an alternative, Arti 4/FvS 16, with Falconry

o Unbongwah suggested adding Ranger 6 in there (late as shown in "rough") for Sniper Shot (echoed by many others). He also advocates Falconry > Warsoul if you have it, which gets me back to the above... .

And there were others as well - too many to list.

And I suppose you could split the diff, try something like Arti 4/Ranger 6/FvS 10 (for Raise Dead), grab Sniper Shot + the rest into Falconry - tho' I hadn't seen that suggested. Spreading too thin?


And then there are all the "best DPS" builds that do NOT use FvS (but are not "Aasimar" specific, either)...

o Stoner: Ranger 9/Arti 4/Rog 7* or Rog 18/Arti 2 https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...=1#post6468573
o LavidDynch: rog 13 / rgr 6 / brb 1 or 10rgr/8ftr/2art https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...=1#post6481140
o Magaiti: Rog 17 / Arti 2 / Ftr 1 https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...=1#post6478636
o Cru121: Arti 4, Ranger 15, Barb 1 (and acknowledges "heavy into FvS") https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...=1#post6468288

(* This is close to what I usually run.)

re AP split:
Obviously this depends on the final Class split. So... what are the general thoughts on Battle Engineer for Endless Fusilade (+Inq = +10 Ranged Pwr) vs. Falconry for Helpless attacks? (I assume that Aasimar changes the weighting of options a bit here?)


ED's:
Destinies agree on Shiradi as primary, but the others are a mixed bag of opinions. Shadow Dancer, Leg. Dreadnt, and Fatesinger all seem to vie for 2nd and 3rd.


To emphasize - I'm not married to a Wis build, just that since I'm doing Aasimar, I thought it might be better - or at least different but equivalent. I can always stick to Int-based, np.