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[Stoner81]

What a bummer I always liked repeaters I still have three Artificer lives to do on my main and I just gotta repeater with adamantine and a red and orange slot I would love to craft a make something for lower levels now I have no idea what to do for my artificer lives considering Artie caster is supposed to be rather blah and melee blehhh.

I am running an Arti on Cormyr atm and so far this is what I have found...

Early levels suck! Fine style! The attack speed reduction is beyond ridiculous! But once you start getting the AoE's from Battle Engineer things do pick quite a bit. In addition to this it seems like the attack speed is going up a bit, now granted it's not anywhere close to what it was before but still it's not the worse.

I think it's akin to Alchemist in that early levels suck until you get Multi Vial (so I hear, never actually run one).

YMMV but that is my experience so far on a first life toon with nothing and running elite.

Stoner81

 

[kmoustakas]

I am running an Arti on Cormyr atm and so far this is what I have found...

Early levels suck! Fine style! The attack speed reduction is beyond ridiculous! But once you start getting the AoE's from Battle Engineer things do pick quite a bit. In addition to this it seems like the attack speed is going up a bit, now granted it's not anywhere close to what it was before but still it's not the worse.

I think it's akin to Alchemist in that early levels suck until you get Multi Vial (so I hear, never actually run one).

YMMV but that is my experience so far on a first life toon with nothing and running elite.

Stoner81

I wonder if this is like the sonic blast nerf. Was intentional to really go overboard in the early levels because they were really OP early?

 

[Tilomere]

10 seconds gets you 6 rounds of 3, melee with an axe gets 18 attacks in that time, great crossbow gets 1 per second.

So let's slow this down with Patience, where 10 seconds is now 5.5 attacks, or roughly 1 special attack every 2 seconds, with 10% wasted time in between. That means that Shoot First can be one of 3 special attacks every six seconds. Exalted Shot T2 KoTC can be a second. Shatter Defenses T3 BE rotated with Hunt's End will rotate as the third ability.

Repeater rotation is: SF > ES > SD > SF > ES > HE

Since 5 out of 6 of the attacks are now AoE, you probably get more hits/sec now than you did before, causing even more lag

13 AP Inq AoE Shot, Imp. Observation fort bypass
9 AP KoTC DM + AoE Shot
5+2 tome AP FI Chr to hit/dmg
12 AP BE AoE Shot
41 HW Ranged Power, Abundent Step

15 Paladin
4 Arti Feats
1 Monk (Deflect Arrows)

 

[Tilomere]

You've made some interesting insights that make me think that heroic leveling with some sort of crossbow might not be such a pain.

What would be more powerful between inq or repeater build if one were to pick up Shoot First ranged aoe from inq, level 2 ranged aoe from paladin, and level 3 ranged aoe from BE arti to rotate between each aoe shot?

This is a good way of thinking. Rotation first, then work the build backwards from there.

 

[Stoner81]

I wonder if this is like the sonic blast nerf. Was intentional to really go overboard in the early levels because they were really OP early?

It certainly seems like it, it is awful now trying to kill hordes of mobs while firing slower than a snail :(

Stoner81.