Grunndi
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EDIT: My picture links keep dying and I don’t have time or energy to find a new hosting site so I’ll add some narration so you get the idea behind it all.
Been on this build for a while now. Nothing too groundbreaking here, this is just what you get when you want to raid but you’re tired of trying to find a tank, or a healer, but you also want to keep some half decent DPS to be able to run things solo too. Druid Bears might be able to do this better, but I personally hate animal forms, just not my jam. Also you get to be an Axe and Board Dwarf which has been scientifically proven to be the most awesomely cool set up ever. The way I’ve got things set up you do need ALL the extra APs and EDPs, any fewer and you start losing useful things very quickly, so fair warning there.
Pros:
-Axe and Board Dwarf
-Tanky enough for low skull raids and r10s as is, can rearrange gear and APs/EDs for higher skull raiding if needed.
-Moderate DPS, well played meta DPSers will leave you in the dust, but can compete with lesser or poorly played builds
-Great at holding aggro in LH/r1 where intim tanks can struggle.
-Good self heals, can keep the party up too when needed.
-Pally Saves, immunities, and instant greater resto (remove disease)
Cons:
-Does not play well with other tanks, lots of hate increase plus decent DPS means you WILL grab aggro. So not good for high skull raids.
-No real CC, just Adren Trips and Vorpal Stuns
-You will start to look at intim/block tanks in low diff raids a little funny. Whaddayah mean all you do is tank?!? And you need heals?!? And you lose aggro in LH every time a DPSer gets a few big hits?!? Maybe just go sit in a corner and count pebbles until the raid is done.
So what’s it look like then? Here’s self buffed reaper stats, you can see everything I used in the buff bar (no yugo pots or Lasting MP/USP/PRR/MRR pots were used). Also no boosts and no stacks, so add 20PRR/MRR and 75MP (plus 50 more with prowess swap) in most cases. Not shown is 200% strikethrough, 953% melee threat increase, 114% standing Fort bypass, 19% Dodge.
(Narration Edit: 6.3k HP, 417prr, 214mrr, 300+ Hamp, Saves all above 110, 868 pos power. 4x Crit multi, Damage Mod +186, 300 standing Mp, 100 DS, 120 intim, 105 holy retribution DC)
And here’s Marketplace stats with only ship buffs running for those who like that:
(Narration Edit: Lower but still wildly impressive)
And gear. I have a few swaps, usually trinkets, to get absorbs or Heart in for different stuff as needed. This is my typical set up though. I have put curses on everything but didn’t get anything super useful besides +1 Att/Dam on my armor.
(Narration Edit: Dino Daxe and Shield, Dino Ring, Lindals, Birchlore gloves, Vecna eyes with qual PRR, Devils dance with DPS items and med armor, battleworn medal, deepsnow boots, nocturne ring, mysterious bracers, raptor neck)
So 5pc Dino, 4pc Winter, 3pc Devils Dance.
I’m very excited for the new HP Aug set, and I’ll be doing a little swaperoo
Direbear -> Lindals
Pendant of the sky -> Raptor Neck
Add HP set Augs to Eyes/Neck/Trinket
Cold Iron Bracers -> Mysterious Bracers (I didn’t have good boosts on my cold iron and I’m not farming Immort Lessons lol. Mysterious nets +15 Hamp, +6 MRR and get another Aug slot at the expense of 20-30 HP)
EDIT: I have since made the swap above and I absolutely love it, can get comfortably above 5k hp outside reaper and with regular party buffs (meaning no Arti PEI) I’ve seen my HP hit just below 6.8k. The Raptor neck proc is amazing for a TYWA build, and I’m far too lazy to swap necks constantly for the proc, so I have to build that item into my sets.
Filigrees are (all rares):
2x Soulweaver/Splendid 2 Con
1x Soulweaver Pos Power
1x Splendid Pos Power
2x Grandfathers/Snakebite 2 Con
2x Touch of Grace/Purity 20 Hamp
1x Touch of Grace 10 Hamp
5x Dread (MP, MP, Tactics, Str, PRR)
I use 1 swap with 5xSanctified Fervor and 5xProwess, and another swap with Max Charisma filis along with an alchemical Charisma shield with Festive Charisma and Litany (since swapping breaks my dino set) slotted for trance. I'm at 86 Charisma with my trance gear. I don't bother swapping artifacts, don't really use yugo pots, and I only have a +12 Charisma Augment so could potentially go to 96, but that's a lot of work for 2 extra Att/Dam.
Feats:
Power Attack
THF Line
Imp. Crit Slashing
Quicken
Toughness
Overwhelming Crit
DS
Epic Toughness
Perfect THF
Epic DR
Deific Warding
Epic Fortitude
Scion of Celestia
Shield Mastery Specialty
Abilities and Skills:
Max Con, rest in Str and Charisma.
Max Heal and Intim, whatever for the rest (UMD, Jump, Tumble)
AP set up:
(Narration Edit: 41 KotC, 31 SacDef, 8 Vistani, TYWA and Qual HP from Dwarf)
Whaaaaat…? Axe and Board and not a single point in Vanguard?!? Yep. For my purposes KotC is better, great DPS tree and gets me 60 Hamp. Like I said before, you need all the extra APs or you lose something good. TYWA lets me go Con primary and still keep a decent Damage Mod. I need to be able to cast so I prefer going heavy into Defender than trying to rage from Fury. Only 9 Action boosts so in most raids I’ll use both haste and power boost. Everyone knows Divine Sacrifice is a short cooldown +1 Crit multi attack, but the temp SP are actually super useful for stretching your blue bar out through longer raids. Renewal and Trance become free and Prayer gets way cheaper.
ED set up:
(Narration Edit: T5 fury for just epic moment and full Adren line, t4 US for Con to hands and 4th core, t4 EA for mantle DR upgrade)
For a while I was switching between this layout and an LD T5, Fury T4, EA T3 set up that was a bit higher damage. But this set up works just fine and I kept running out of plat switching all my points every day. EA wings are something I really just can’t live without and the passive heal aura hits me for 2-3k. Renewal tics for 1.4k and wings heal for about 1.5k. LoH are a full heal in lower diffs (6.9k outside reaper), but don’t regenerate so tend to be for emergencies or helping other people out.
EDIT: haven’t changed much since the EA update, just had to drop the 4th EA Core . The EA heal proc going off 100% of the time now is wild with renewal, the best I’ve seen in town was over 14k.
(Narration Edit: mantle proc from renewal heals for 4-5k and 12-14k on a Crit)
With the crappy Crit range on a Daxe, Adren and Fury moment do a lot of the heavy lifting for DPS. Having Boulders Might and Exalted Smite means I always have a +2 Crit multi attack ready and can keep using Adren during the epic moment.
DPS is decent. The screenshot below is from an LH Fires solo run I did, so just self buffs and debuffs. With a full raid party of buffs and debuffs I’ve seen Adren Crits hit 175k in LH and 125k in R1.
(Narration Edit: it’s a 105k Crit during a solo LH fires run)
And PuGing some LH THTH as the Tank.
(Narration edit: 138k Crit to kill the boss on LH Too Hot while main tanking, also came 2nd for kills with 18/75 kills, behind a Sorc with 19 kills)
So yeah, that’s about it. Works great for r10 questing and low skull raids and can pull its weight for kills and boss DPS. And since it’s fully capable of Tanking, Healing, and has some DPS that’s means it’s pretty good for soloing or short-manning raids. You can see some of the stuff I’ve done here:
Been on this build for a while now. Nothing too groundbreaking here, this is just what you get when you want to raid but you’re tired of trying to find a tank, or a healer, but you also want to keep some half decent DPS to be able to run things solo too. Druid Bears might be able to do this better, but I personally hate animal forms, just not my jam. Also you get to be an Axe and Board Dwarf which has been scientifically proven to be the most awesomely cool set up ever. The way I’ve got things set up you do need ALL the extra APs and EDPs, any fewer and you start losing useful things very quickly, so fair warning there.
Pros:
-Axe and Board Dwarf
-Tanky enough for low skull raids and r10s as is, can rearrange gear and APs/EDs for higher skull raiding if needed.
-Moderate DPS, well played meta DPSers will leave you in the dust, but can compete with lesser or poorly played builds
-Great at holding aggro in LH/r1 where intim tanks can struggle.
-Good self heals, can keep the party up too when needed.
-Pally Saves, immunities, and instant greater resto (remove disease)
Cons:
-Does not play well with other tanks, lots of hate increase plus decent DPS means you WILL grab aggro. So not good for high skull raids.
-No real CC, just Adren Trips and Vorpal Stuns
-You will start to look at intim/block tanks in low diff raids a little funny. Whaddayah mean all you do is tank?!? And you need heals?!? And you lose aggro in LH every time a DPSer gets a few big hits?!? Maybe just go sit in a corner and count pebbles until the raid is done.
So what’s it look like then? Here’s self buffed reaper stats, you can see everything I used in the buff bar (no yugo pots or Lasting MP/USP/PRR/MRR pots were used). Also no boosts and no stacks, so add 20PRR/MRR and 75MP (plus 50 more with prowess swap) in most cases. Not shown is 200% strikethrough, 953% melee threat increase, 114% standing Fort bypass, 19% Dodge.
(Narration Edit: 6.3k HP, 417prr, 214mrr, 300+ Hamp, Saves all above 110, 868 pos power. 4x Crit multi, Damage Mod +186, 300 standing Mp, 100 DS, 120 intim, 105 holy retribution DC)
And here’s Marketplace stats with only ship buffs running for those who like that:
(Narration Edit: Lower but still wildly impressive)
And gear. I have a few swaps, usually trinkets, to get absorbs or Heart in for different stuff as needed. This is my typical set up though. I have put curses on everything but didn’t get anything super useful besides +1 Att/Dam on my armor.
(Narration Edit: Dino Daxe and Shield, Dino Ring, Lindals, Birchlore gloves, Vecna eyes with qual PRR, Devils dance with DPS items and med armor, battleworn medal, deepsnow boots, nocturne ring, mysterious bracers, raptor neck)
So 5pc Dino, 4pc Winter, 3pc Devils Dance.
I’m very excited for the new HP Aug set, and I’ll be doing a little swaperoo
Direbear -> Lindals
Pendant of the sky -> Raptor Neck
Add HP set Augs to Eyes/Neck/Trinket
Cold Iron Bracers -> Mysterious Bracers (I didn’t have good boosts on my cold iron and I’m not farming Immort Lessons lol. Mysterious nets +15 Hamp, +6 MRR and get another Aug slot at the expense of 20-30 HP)
EDIT: I have since made the swap above and I absolutely love it, can get comfortably above 5k hp outside reaper and with regular party buffs (meaning no Arti PEI) I’ve seen my HP hit just below 6.8k. The Raptor neck proc is amazing for a TYWA build, and I’m far too lazy to swap necks constantly for the proc, so I have to build that item into my sets.
Filigrees are (all rares):
2x Soulweaver/Splendid 2 Con
1x Soulweaver Pos Power
1x Splendid Pos Power
2x Grandfathers/Snakebite 2 Con
2x Touch of Grace/Purity 20 Hamp
1x Touch of Grace 10 Hamp
5x Dread (MP, MP, Tactics, Str, PRR)
I use 1 swap with 5xSanctified Fervor and 5xProwess, and another swap with Max Charisma filis along with an alchemical Charisma shield with Festive Charisma and Litany (since swapping breaks my dino set) slotted for trance. I'm at 86 Charisma with my trance gear. I don't bother swapping artifacts, don't really use yugo pots, and I only have a +12 Charisma Augment so could potentially go to 96, but that's a lot of work for 2 extra Att/Dam.
Feats:
Power Attack
THF Line
Imp. Crit Slashing
Quicken
Toughness
Overwhelming Crit
DS
Epic Toughness
Perfect THF
Epic DR
Deific Warding
Epic Fortitude
Scion of Celestia
Shield Mastery Specialty
Abilities and Skills:
Max Con, rest in Str and Charisma.
Max Heal and Intim, whatever for the rest (UMD, Jump, Tumble)
AP set up:
(Narration Edit: 41 KotC, 31 SacDef, 8 Vistani, TYWA and Qual HP from Dwarf)
Whaaaaat…? Axe and Board and not a single point in Vanguard?!? Yep. For my purposes KotC is better, great DPS tree and gets me 60 Hamp. Like I said before, you need all the extra APs or you lose something good. TYWA lets me go Con primary and still keep a decent Damage Mod. I need to be able to cast so I prefer going heavy into Defender than trying to rage from Fury. Only 9 Action boosts so in most raids I’ll use both haste and power boost. Everyone knows Divine Sacrifice is a short cooldown +1 Crit multi attack, but the temp SP are actually super useful for stretching your blue bar out through longer raids. Renewal and Trance become free and Prayer gets way cheaper.
ED set up:
(Narration Edit: T5 fury for just epic moment and full Adren line, t4 US for Con to hands and 4th core, t4 EA for mantle DR upgrade)
For a while I was switching between this layout and an LD T5, Fury T4, EA T3 set up that was a bit higher damage. But this set up works just fine and I kept running out of plat switching all my points every day. EA wings are something I really just can’t live without and the passive heal aura hits me for 2-3k. Renewal tics for 1.4k and wings heal for about 1.5k. LoH are a full heal in lower diffs (6.9k outside reaper), but don’t regenerate so tend to be for emergencies or helping other people out.
EDIT: haven’t changed much since the EA update, just had to drop the 4th EA Core . The EA heal proc going off 100% of the time now is wild with renewal, the best I’ve seen in town was over 14k.
(Narration Edit: mantle proc from renewal heals for 4-5k and 12-14k on a Crit)
With the crappy Crit range on a Daxe, Adren and Fury moment do a lot of the heavy lifting for DPS. Having Boulders Might and Exalted Smite means I always have a +2 Crit multi attack ready and can keep using Adren during the epic moment.
DPS is decent. The screenshot below is from an LH Fires solo run I did, so just self buffs and debuffs. With a full raid party of buffs and debuffs I’ve seen Adren Crits hit 175k in LH and 125k in R1.
(Narration Edit: it’s a 105k Crit during a solo LH fires run)
And PuGing some LH THTH as the Tank.
(Narration edit: 138k Crit to kill the boss on LH Too Hot while main tanking, also came 2nd for kills with 18/75 kills, behind a Sorc with 19 kills)
So yeah, that’s about it. Works great for r10 questing and low skull raids and can pull its weight for kills and boss DPS. And since it’s fully capable of Tanking, Healing, and has some DPS that’s means it’s pretty good for soloing or short-manning raids. You can see some of the stuff I’ve done here:
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