Would like help with a Melee ranger build

[Bacab]

Heyas, I was wanting help with a melee ranger build.

It is going to be an Aasimar Scourge for the Iconic Pastlife.

I also need 2 regular Ranger lives, and if this goes super smoothly and works well, I am open to the 15>30>20>30 route where I do a regular Ranger 15>30 and ETR into a Dark Hunter for 20>30. I am currently doing that with Bladeforged Sacred Fist. So that would be 3 Scourge PLs and 2 Ranger PLs and 1 Dark Hunter PL.

I have seen some good melee rangers and some bad ones. Will list the ones that stood out and seemed good.

I saw a guy using Falconry. He told me he used WIS for to hit and DMG and the Battle Trance. Was also using Tempest, but I was unsure of his AP layout and he was also using Healing Hands from Aasimar, I am unsure how many racial AP he had.

Another guy I played with was a Tempest with Vistani. He was shredding as well. Unsure if he used a battle trance (maybe he used Harper?)

Anyone have any suggestions? It has been a very long time since I played a Ranger.

Notable things/gear.

I have +6 Ability Tomes.
I have 7 Racial AP and the 1 Free Universal AP.
I have 2 Deathnips (unsure if these would be great or meh)
I have 2 pairs of both of the Daggers from Sharn (the level 15 versions, Sunslice and Moonslice)
I have a ton of named Khopesh as well
I also have a ton of named Warhammers from Arty lives.

I also plan on doing a few caster lives before I get around to this, but I can tailor my XP path to farm gear for these lives in the meantime.

So I am curious with the all out WIS build for Falconry and leveraging Healing hands. Or go DEX for some nice AC, Reflex?

I am not very good at playing melees, but I have started to think more DPS tends to make things safer because dead monsters quit damaging you.

Any suggestions are welcome!

[C-Dog]

...I am open to the 15>30>20>30 route where I do a regular Ranger 15>30 and ETR into a Dark Hunter for 20>30. ... So that would be 3 Scourge PLs and 2 Ranger PLs and 1 Dark Hunter PL.

Um... no.

That would be a (1) Epic PL (30>20), with the toon then setting itself up (20>30) for either another (2nd) Epic PL (>20, but not recommended*) or {a (1) Iconic PL + a (1) Class PL}.

(* At this point you've milked epics twice on one life, 2 runs up to 30, so you'll be mostly out of "1st time" experience boosts if you try a third.)

You get {1 Iconic PL + 1 Class PL} for each TRUE Iconic Reincarnation, which means a new build. You get 1 Epic PL for 30 > 20 (doesn't matter what race it is).

And after an Epic, an Iconic must go to 30 again to IR.

[Bacab]

Um... no.

That would be a (1) Epic PL (30>20), with the toon then setting itself up (20>30) for either another (2nd) Epic PL (>20, but not recommended*) or {a (1) Iconic PL + a (1) Class PL}.

(* At this point you've milked epics twice on one life, 2 runs up to 30, so you'll be mostly out of "1st time" experience boosts if you try a third.)

You get {1 Iconic PL + 1 Class PL} for each TRUE Iconic Reincarnation, which means a new build. You get 1 Epic PL for 30 > 20 (doesn't matter what race it is).

And after an Epic, an Iconic must go to 30 again to IR.

Oh, my statement was poorly worded. I meant 3 separate 15>30s with 1 extra 20>30 mixed in. For a total of 3 Scourge PLs, 2 Ranger PLs and 1 Dark Hunter PL.
So itd look like this:
15>30 for Scourge and Ranger PL
15>30 for Scourge and Ranger PL
15>30>20>30 for Scourge and Dark Hunter

[spifflove]

If you go Vistani that is all you can afford with tempest probably the same with falconry.
Vistani and sdk dark hunter; falconry and aasimar iconic ranger.
Educational reading:
https://forums.ddo.com/forums/showth...-Melee-Rangers

https://forums.ddo.com/forums/showth...of-old-and-new

[Caarb]

You need to decide your main attribute first. Rangers are a class that can use

Int,Dex,Cha,Wis,Str to good effect with pros and cons to each.

For a past life you dont need a trance but if you are building something to stay at 30-32 to earn some first time reaper bonus a trance is too good not to have so factor that in. Both Vistani and Tempest Capstones are strong.

I would stick to T5 tempest as Dance of Death + CC weapons will make questing a breeze but dont discount T5 Vistani as it is also strong

If I was building an end game build I would probably go Str 18/1/1 with 41 Vistani 36 Tempest 3 Warsoul

If I was building for a quick and easy past life I would probably go Dex pure 42 Tempest 21+ Deepwood 12+ horizon walker grab favored enemy from Falconry and vistani

I am assuming you dont have a lot of racial points so wont mention scourge weapons but if you do that is also a good option - will probably require Dino Weapons to be competitive though.