Best Ranged Build For Soloing R5/6 Endgame?

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Khurse

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Hi All
Wondering if anyone has a ranged focused build that can solo.
I've been looking at Ranger with bow, some sort of Inquisitive (not understanding why so many people use Artificer for Inquisitive) and Monk shuri.
Problem is I'm (probably) going to hate levelling all of these (Inquisitive might be OK, not sure how well they deal with packs) so I don't really want to try this three times to see which one works best for me. (Or I can just run to 32 as something else and LR)

I was going to go bow, but not sure about attack speed, I've run with a few in groups and they didn't seem great. (Of course they could have been newer players, have no idea) Then thought about doing a Shuri Monk, but keep reading in places that they were nerfed in U66 so I'm not sure how they work these days. Have never done an Inquisitive, looks fun, but not sure about it's solo potential.

I don't really care if it can't solo R10, I'm happy if I keep doing R5/6 at a decent pace if possible.
Toon is Racial/Heroic completionist, has/can get pretty much any gear, I just haven't played at end game in a while and have no idea what works anymore.

Thanks for any suggestions! (Including telling me to just stick with melee as it solos much easier)
 
rabidfox

rabidfox

The People's Champion
Arti repeater build that's either WF or self-forged (via feats). Solid damage, bubble for when things go sideways, & self-heals.



A nice build https://forums.ddo.com/index.php?threads/cyborg-u66.10077/post-105625

https://forums.ddo.com/index.php?th...rti-build-r10-push-raid-capable.287/post-1445 is one I ran for ages (it's more utility heavy, but I slowly solo'd r10s before with it).

And there's a ton of other builds that look nice in the artificer section, I'm just not personally familiar with any of them to know which ones would be best to link.
 
Vox

Vox

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Have you looked into a 15/3/2 imbue inquis?

Basically, 15 alchi or wizard w/points in VC or EK, ranger/monk/warlock flavours for the other classes & depends on your preference for debuffing or more imbue dice.

Don't go bow. Aside from the idiotic looking bow holding animations, bow is far to easy to desync and do nothing.
 
Jeronimo

Jeronimo

Playing since 2006
Vox said:
Have you looked into a 15/3/2 imbue inquis?

Basically, 15 alchi or wizard w/points in VC or EK, ranger/monk/warlock flavours for the other classes & depends on your preference for debuffing or more imbue dice.

Don't go bow. Aside from the idiotic looking bow holding animations, bow is far to easy to desync and do nothing.
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This! ^^^

My favorits are Wiz 12/Arty 6/Rogue 2 and Wiz 15/Ranger 3/Rogue 2.

It's very easy nowadays to get 42+ imbue dice along with 900-1000 spellpower. Using the EK imbue, you can also easily swap elemental damage depending on the circumstances.

Wiz and rogue makes it very fun to play as a utility build with easy handling of traps, evasion, buffing, spells etc.

I might try an alchemist variant as well in the future, but I have heard that it can be a bit akward against poison immune mobs... not sure if that's correct or not though.
 
Garix

Garix

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Jeronimo said:
This! ^^^

My favorits are Wiz 12/Arty 6/Rogue 2 and Wiz 15/Ranger 3/Rogue 2.

It's very easy nowadays to get 42+ imbue dice along with 900-1000 spellpower. Using the EK imbue, you can also easily swap elemental damage depending on the circumstances.

Wiz and rogue makes it very fun to play as a utility build with easy handling of traps, evasion, buffing, spells etc.

I might try an alchemist variant as well in the future, but I have heard that it can be a bit akward against poison immune mobs... not sure if that's correct or not though.
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Depends if they've fixed Poisoned Shot to be more reliable. Last time I played one it would only fire if you were stood still. other wise it just went on cool down.
 
kmoustakas

kmoustakas

Scourge of Xaos
People were soloing r10s with 12 artie 6 wizard 2 rogue for a while then switched to wisdom based 12 artie 5 something 3 something when they changed the artificer strikes.
 
K

Khurse

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Thanks all

Was kinda hoping Shurimonk was going to be an awesome soloist somehow lol, but Crossbows are cool too

Hadn't really considered an Artificer split ( Pretty sure my only Artificer playtime was taking a stone to near cap and then TRing)
I'll check it out.
 
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Khurse

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Fisto Mk I said:
I fear new high-end Shurimonk must have not more than only 3 lvl Monk for for ANT. 3 Monk/5 Pally/12 DH Eladrin... something like it... 8)
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LOL I feel there's a joke I'm missing here..

But- just realized, does ANT and Shuriken expertise stack?
 
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PraetorPlato

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Fisto Mk I said:
Yes, fully stack.


Yea, i know, i run 2/18 Pally/Monk currently and use both. But +25 (26 soon) to SA dice boosts from both Eladrin and DH is too good to be ignored, and t5 KotC is very good too. 8)
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I am not sure how you use capstone of NS on a 18 monk/2 pally. The Eladrin boost is independent of your class choice. Regardless, thrower wants t5 HW because of IAF, and t5 NS is terrible on a thrower.
 
Fisto Mk I

Fisto Mk I

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PraetorPlato said:
I am not sure how you use capstone of NS on a 18 monk/2 pally. The Eladrin boost is independent of your class choice. Regardless, thrower wants t5 HW because of IAF, and t5 NS is terrible on a thrower.
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Ah. I mean, both C5 and T5. T5 NiS is very good for thrower, because provide +5 to MRR/MRR Cap, +25% bonus to HP, unavailable other meaning way, and +2 to Crit Range. HW splendid in paper, not so good in live, because too many wasted AP for thrower build. T4 NSM hardly to sustain, T5 MS is nuisance to use (at least, for me), T5 IAF is really good... but it's all. It's Bow tree, unfortunately.

You cannot take all goodies, sorry, something must be sacrificed. I pref more survivability than raw damage, and trance with slightly lesser benefits but active permanently than chance game with NSM, and... soul stone have zero dps. 8)
 
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magnus2882

magnus2882

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i'd chime in here but too many acronyms that i'm unfamiliar with...

What is ANT?
NiS?

is it that hard to spell out the words so 75% of the viewers know what the hell you are referring to?
 
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