Beautiful on the Inside

[Tilomere]

Beautiful on the Inside, an inquiry into Archtype legendary midskull reaper and raid leveling

I'm only setting this up at 20. I'm assuming you can level 15-19 in R1 on your own. I based this on the repeater ES warlock builds of long ago, but updated to not be in melee. I've been testing the component parts, of a caster without good offensive spells (bard spellsinger and dark apostate) using acid SLA strike, and I like that, but the rest of the time needed something to do and it didn't have quite enough oomph on its own, so I'm filling it with pew pew for a solid rotation. Inquisitor on its own also lacks enough oomph, so adding in SLA casting for AoE. Picked inquisitor over VKF thrower or archer for diplomacy skill synergy because everything just fit together (imbues from EDs and inquisitor, spell power for scaling opening up filigree for imbue die, divine might and diplo synergy, etc.).

This is designed to skip as much of heroics and all epic dungeons to go into legendary reaper where the Saga/XP/SXP/RXP rewards are. To that end it always maintains strong healing, as well as strong synergy, as well as strong no-save damage (AoE + IPS), as well as strong defenses with defensive stance and % hp, and strong HAmp to deal with reaper self-healing penalty. To maximize benefit you will additionally have to throw out 30-40 raid items so that you no longer need to do House K for bank space favor.

Starting Stats: Lawful or Chaotic
High Charisma, Dex 13 (assumes +6 dex tome)

Feats and levels:
1 (F)ighter Precision, Point Blank Shot, Rapid Shot
2 (F)ighter Precise Shot
3-7 Dark Apostate Quicken, Extend, Luck Domain
8-11 (F)ighter Empower, Rapid Reload, IC:R,
12-20 Archtype Empower Healing, IPS, Maximize
21 Overwhelming Critical
22 Acid Spell Power
24 Intensify
25 Doubleshot
27 Epic Reflexes
28 Law/Chaos
30 Reincarnate

Enhancements:
1 (+16 Racial/Tome) Purple Dragon Knight: HAMP, CHR power Surge,
13 Stalwart Defender: PRR/MRR/Saves/% HP (In heroics take PDK healing instead, and use a cannith vampiric weapon, use pl healing from PA, and use a clearwater diamond + second wind + cure mod and you will be fine)
6 Warpriest: Divine Might, + Imbue die
40 (+1 Tome) Inquisitive: Divine inquisition and stuffs
8 Kensai: +3 action boosts+2 cores
9 FI Charisma to hit and dmg, missile immunity (10 prr/mrr with spells)
3 Dark Apostate: imbue

Epic Destinies:
US: Renewal 20-22 swap to Draconic +3 Imbue die/no fail fort at 23
Legendary Dreadnaught: Imbue Dice, action boosts, haste on action boost usage
Primal Avatar: Mantle, Thorns and Carrion Swarm Strike = Epic Bramble Caster Gloves
Add Heart secondary focus: swap Thorns to Reborn in Fire at 23 to make up for loss of renewal

Sentience:
Art:
10 Ranged Power
Wep:
10 Ranged Power
Snow Peaks Imbue 1 +1 Imbue
Reverberation 2 +2 Imbue (+2 Cha, +10 USP)
Long Shadow 3 +2 Imbue (RP, Cha, +1 Hit/Dmg)
Electrocution 3 +2 Imbue (prr/mrr/stuffs)

Gear of Note:
Epic Bramble Caster gloves + Epic Ring of Baphomet set ring
Flamecleansed Fury Armor/bracers/Cloak set
Storm with Diplomacy Augment, Good Augment
Epic VOM
Sunken Slippers
Epic Elder's Knowledge neck + helm
Belt of Whirling Blades
Shield/DW Clicky + FoM flask
Epic Quiver of Alacrity
Cannith ring spell power, charisma, ins. charisma (Augment Festive/Exceptional Charisma)
Cannith goggles for seeker+deadly+ins. seeker
Augment hero/acc/con/quick draw/deathblock/stats/saves/etc.

Non-ubers can use the potency goggles from Sharn with insightful/quality potency boots, or even just a pansophic circlet to make a regular version of this build. Above is for midskull legendary reaper at 20.

[Tilomere]

Beautiful on the Inside (Dark Hunter variant)

Starting Stats:
High Charisma, Dex 13 (assumes +6 dex tome), solid Int for trapping

Feats and levels:
1 Fighter Precision, Point Blank Shot, Rapid Reload
2-8 Dark Apostate Quicken, Extend, Luck Domain
9-12 Dark Hunter Rapid Shot (DH Free), Precise Shot (DH Free), Empower, Empower Healing
13-15 Fighter IC:R (Fighter), IPS (Fighter), Force of Personality
16-20 Dark Hunter Maximize
21 Overwhelming Critical
22 Spell Power
24 Intensify
25 Doubleshot
27 Epic Reflexes
28 Spell Power
30 Reincarnate

[C-Dog]

To maximize benefit you will additionally have to throw out 30-40 raid items so that you no longer need to do House K for bank space favor.

Heresy!

Have you run this, or is it (some) theory-crafting at this point? (Not that your "theory" isn't usually solid.) How's it play?

[Tilomere]

Heresy!

Have you run this, or is it (some) theory-crafting at this point? (Not that your "theory" isn't usually solid.) How's it play?

Money-back guarantee! Hahahah!

Note how the class, gear, ED, and AP are setup to be easily exchanged to fit any build in DDO.

Melee > inquisitor/xbow > melee weap + melee tree (or kensai/vg)

Ranged > any other universal ranged tree or kensai

Caster > 3 fighter 17 caster gets lvl 9 spells and defensive stance, or 2 fighter 18 caster, and falconry T5 for % hp.

Swap ring, goggles, and weapon based on what you are playing, and LD around for whatever ED fits your main style, and no matter what your base and play style is, you have sustained AoE damage, AoE healing, single target healing, and tankyness.

It is a class/style/mostly gear agnostic build. Just take the leap of faith and melt 30 raid items. I 84.7% chance you won't regret it!

[Tilomere]

Have you run this?

I'm doing variations thereof to clean up my past lives. Here is cleric DA + tabaxi iconic at the same time:





I forgot to turn ED mantle back on this life when I got Reborn in Fire until 27, but did R8 IOD as a healer/dps hybrid after I turned it back on, with a 26 gear set. Reborn in Fire + being tanky enough to jump through the middle of melee and hit it = pure win.

Basically their are 5ish legendary reaper sagas (RL, Sharn Cogs, Sharn, Feywild, IOD) that will cap your character without ever needing to hit an epic dungeon. The difficulty you pick depends on how much power your character holds when you pick it, but R8 IOD at 27 just feels right.



















Next life will try replacing Storm with LGS Dust. Amusingly, my cleric was carried by ... a stronger cleric! Anyways, 6k RXp per dungeon while leveling and getting past lives is just a good # to get, especially considering you are also getting maximum SXp, reaper crafting materials, favor, and legendary items for your alts. It's, uh, a really progressive way to level.

[Tilomere]

Blightcaster/warlock:

Cleric 1 Blightcaster/warlock 13 since warlock/swarm has displacement.

Swarm has permanent displacement, so can replace extend with Force of Personality