Bubble utility arti build - r10 push raid capable
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rabidfox
The People's Champion
Trailblazer gets "Springing Pounce: You gain the Spring Attack feat. When you use it while holding a Quarterstaff, you gain Feline Agility..." This gives the build a leap and a way to trigger fast run speeds on demand (swap to staff, spring attack, swap back to xbow). It's a big mobility gain which I find really matters to me. Regular Tabaxi doesn't get this. If that's not something you care about then you can save the +1 heart and go regular; but if you can get down the swap/spring attack/swap usage then it can be a nice thing to have.
Thanks!, Had just noticed Spring Attack after I posted.
Weapon swapping always seems to take forever for me, but might be worth a try.
Vox
Well-known member
Do you think there is any worth in using gnome instead of TTB?
Could muddle in spring attack line to keep that mobility, gnomies have much higher attack & damage with light repeaters, more dodge & dodge cap, additional CC, and can enjoy critical threat range without needing t5 BE.
Could muddle in spring attack line to keep that mobility, gnomies have much higher attack & damage with light repeaters, more dodge & dodge cap, additional CC, and can enjoy critical threat range without needing t5 BE.
rabidfox
The People's Champion
If you want more damage, sure. There's lot of ways to go more damage like https://forums.ddo.com/index.php?threads/epicsouls-cyborg-build.10077/ too or 12 arti/other stuff splits. On r10 raids, like Skeles, there's a lot of arrows flying around and they'll one shot a person so the deflect arrows in Tabaxi was a big deal; but for other content, other races could be solid choices. But any other race will have reduced mobility as this build has no sprint boost outside being Tabaxi.
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Vox
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Nice insight ty.
I guess if I were building similar I might swap PA for GMoF to pick up deflect, mantle swap for movespeed, etc.
Did you find the non-upgraded fire strike & spell from PA crucial in the pushes you used this build on?
rabidfox
The People's Champion
I haven't been in primal for ages. That was just a few spare points that allowed for some off-healing in that tree, it was neither here nor there for needing it; but there were times where it came in clutch for a fast spare heal. My EDs have changed around a bunch; they get customized for different raid pushes based off what's ideal for that specific raid. The only thing that hasn't changed for me in that past 1.5 years is my race and heroic AP spread (well, it might have changed slightly here or there). And my feats went thru a few small shifts with the recent level increase.
My generic ED setup is shiradi, SD, and fatesinger for general usage:
Purple Haze
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I just wanted to say thanks for sharing this - i'm very late to the party it seems but having got used to life as a soulstone on my poor little BE T5 arti, to discover that there were 1000+ HP out there waiting to be collected in RM is lovely 
rabidfox
The People's Champion
I use extend on positive energy infusion; it's useful for long push raids and insuring it's kept up on the tank(s). I generally don't cast tensers because of it increasing the cooldown on spells. But that single spell use is enough to warrant taking extend for me.
I was convinced the 6 seconds was going to be too tight and too hard to utilise without super-skills so never switched to this despite wanting to support Stormsinger duo instead of overshadowing him - he knows I am intentionally slowing down to give him something to do and that feels bad for both of us.
But in practice it is not hard to tell when he has gotten in over his head and 6 seconds is long enough for a most characters to fix most problems.
But in practice it is not hard to tell when he has gotten in over his head and 6 seconds is long enough for a most characters to fix most problems.
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kmoustakas
Scourge of Xaos
Wait, does it extend the duration of the debuff too or not?
rabidfox
The People's Champion
No. It gives some nice breathing room between when the debuff wears off and refreshing the buff.
kmoustakas
Scourge of Xaos
That is super interesting for a pure support build or even a tank build that's not needed as tank in this run
rabidfox
The People's Champion
I'm currently playing a non-arti at the moment and didn't put my gear setup into a planner before I TR'd (whenever I go back to arti then I'll reupdate my gear setup). If you look at Epic's arti gearset, that's about where I was at (give or take): https://forums.ddo.com/index.php?threads/epicsouls-cyborg-build.10077/
rabidfox
The People's Champion
It puts 41 AP into mastermaker for bubbles and utility (none of that adds damage). It doesn't go t5 BE for crit range and other damage stuff. It's a low damage build compare actually building for damage. Even my ED choices are often all about group needs over individual damage. Sure, it's more damage than a flavor build (or a warlock) but that's not saying much.
Fair enough. When I think of low damage I think of All Con all defence like PraetorPlato's Pally build.
This looks like you could be in a group pretending not to be a tank and contributing