This is a ranged DPS build, intended for R1 raids and R6(ish) questing on a toon with low to moderate investment. I suggest that you have at least +5 Dex, Con, Int tomes.. Like most builds, it would greatly benefit from having racial completionist, completionist, etc, but that is not the expectation. Onto the build.
Stat Spread (assumes +5 tomes)(Halfling) 36 pt build
10 Strength - helps with carrying things. Not used for anything else.
14 Dexterity - (need 19 for feats). Damage stat until level 7.
16 Constitution - HP is nice. Need 21 for Legendary Toughness.
18 Intelligence - primary stat. Damage, to-hit, reflex saves, trap skills.
10 Wisdom - Helps with will saves and spot
8 Charisma
Stat Spread (+5 Tomes, Gnome)
10 str 14 dex 16 con 20 int 8 wis 8 cha
Stat Spread (+5 tomes, Eladrin)
10 str 14 dex 16 con 18 int 12 ws 8 cha
Chaotic Alignment to get 2 imbue dice from Harbinger of Chaos.
Class Split
16 Artificer, 2 Fighter, 2 Barbarian
Artificer Blurb - I take artificer because this build uses repeaters. Battle Engineer is a really good tree for repeaters.
12 Artificer is required for Expanded Clip, which gives 33 doubleshot.
Fighter Blurb - Bonus feats, could drop 1 artificer for stalwart defender stance, or drop both to get the lv 18 core in BE.
Barbarian Blurb - Running fast is good. 2 Barbarian gives 3% DR which is roughly equivalent to, and stacks with, Stalwart Defender stance at no AP cost.
Race Choice
This isn’t important unless you’re missing tomes for feat stat prerequisites or have a bunch of racial AP to burn. I personally have a few racial AP to spend so I went with Eladrin for the displacement and doubleshot.
Quick notes on race:
Eladrin - Doubleshot, Displacement, To-hit bonuses
Elf - like Eladrin but just generally worse for repeater.
Halfling* / Gnome* - Dodge
Dwarf* - HP; can help with dodge if you decide to go in medium or heavy armor.
Warforged** - Frees up one bonus feat (construct essence), horrible dodge; Requires Mythril or Addy body feats. Racial repair amp make reconstruct self heal noticeably better. Highest Ranged Power, if you have the RAPs.
*Short races are better for Improved Precise Shot
**Tall races are worse for Improved Precise Shot
Special mention for gnomes and deep gnomes if you have a lot of racial ap, you can run a light repeater and take the critical enhancement from the racial tree, allowing you to take +20% hp in battle engineer. Note, Deep Gnome will need a +1 LR to fix the one wizard level. The Lamordia crafted repeaters or Undying Age light repeaters are reasonable choices for your weapon if slightly less powerful than Lash, so you don't lose much in DPS by doing this, at least compared to other builds that are Gnome based.
Levelling Order and Feats
Bonus Feat From Class, Granted Feat
Construct Essence lets you pick up Attached Weapon for .5W extra damage.
Improved Construct Essence and Quicken are there primarily to improve your self healing capabilities. Reconstruct can easily hit yourself for 1k+ on r1 making this build very self sufficient in raids.
Shot on the Run provides you with some ranged power and an (effective) to-hit bonus while kiting. It is a very good feat. The extra tumble charge and max dex bonus from mobility is just yummy extra.
Insightful Reflexes makes it much easier to get a high reflex save. As you don't have evasion until Shadowdancer grants it taking it late makes sense.
Epic Destiny Feats, Scion Feats
Epic and Legendary Feat Blurbs
Holy Strike and Watchful Eye are both decent feats in their own right but Shardi has extra benefits if you have these feats.
Expanded Clip is 33 Doubleshot when using a repeater. This is what puts repeaters over the top for dps.
Harbinger of Chaos is why you want to be chaotic.
Eerie Aim, Legendary Toughness, and Titan's Blood are all feats that are taken to make up for gear and past life deficiencies. You want to get above about 2k hp/200 prr in reaper, and the HP feats help a lot with that. Having less effective HP than that will result in you being one shot more often than is ideal.
You also want to have about 200 to hit mod on your weapon die for mid-high reaper Lamorida. Havijg less than this will result in you having more glancing blows and dropped crits from failed confirmations than is ideal.
The Level 31 Feat Slot has several choices, Legendary HP is what I would recommend (Legendary Aim and Protected Actions would be my other two choices).
The Level 33 Feat Slot also has several choices, Eerie Aim is what I would recommend (Overwhelming Critical would be my other choice).
The Level 34 Feat Slot, surprisingly, also has several choices. Titan’s Blood is what I would recommend (Legendary HP would be my other choice). See gear notes for further details.
Skill Notes (Listed in priority order)
(Needed)
Use Magic Device - 42 UMD to use Resurrection Scrolls. 10 or more ranks mandatory.
Tumble - 10 or more ranks to get the extra charge and improve how fast it makes you go.
Perform - 1 rank. This gives ~35 sonic spell power at cap with amps up a Fatesinger proc.
(Nice)
Trap Skills - Optional but recommended. Search, Disable Device, Open Lock, Spot(optional)
Endgame traps are about ~120 DC. LGS Int Skills swap helps a lot with this.
Spellpower - If using the BE imbue this is more damage.
Repair - More spell power for self healing.
Balance - Stand up faster after being knocked down. YMMV with how useful this is.
Spells:
Enhancements
CORE
Battle Engineer -
A nice DPS tree for Artificers.
Vistani Knife Fighter -
The second core is Deflect Arrows, which is an extremely helpful defensive ability. On a ranged character it's far too good to pass up.
The third core is 5 doubleshot. All of the points used to get here are beneficial too, the AP is well spent here.
Harper -
Int Trance and Int to hit. It's an INT build, this is a given.
Inquisitive -
2nd core is 5 doubleshot, which is great. Shoot First is possibly the best AOE ranged attack in the game.
Flex -
Currently I like putting 21 points into VKF to pick up another 5 Doubleshot and 3 points into Renegade Master Maker to grab a little bit of Ramp.
Epic Destiny
CORE
Shiradi Blurb
This is basically the only ranged tree for repeaters. While the build doesn’t really care about the epic strike (pin is strictly inferior in almost every capacity to Pluck the String from Fatesinger), the rest of the Destiny is what this build wants.
Fatesinger Blurb
Pluck the String works wonderfully well with repeaters.
Shadowdancer Blurb
Look! More doubleshot! The build grabs everything that’s relevant to this build plus this allows us to sneak evasion into the build which is really nice. Immunity to neg levels and access to dimension door provide a lot of nice utility also.
General Build Notes
Attack Rotation
Pluck the String, Hunt’s End, Shoot First (aoe), Thunder-Shock Weapon (aoe), Shatter Defenses (aoe). These are in order of most to least single target damage and at cap. Without Endless Fullisade active rotating through these on CD should leave no time for autoattacks (barring lag or poor play).
The AOE attacks do not make use of IPS. When I am using IPS lines I typically don't use these attacks as they can cost damage. Caustic Shot enters the rotation then. Hitting Pluck the String, even while on cooldown, will cause you to make a normal attack so this can reasonably replace auto attack.
(Do note that sometimes behavior of the AOEs is buggy and they will proc extra hits or trigger along an IPS line. I do not know how to intentionally reproduce this, it might be lag / mob / mob facing related)
(IPS seems to work better than Archer’s Focus if the game is being laggy or you have a high latency connection. It seems that attacks are much less likely to fail to register while you are in this stance. YMMV.)
Gear Notes
An important note, this gearset is intended to be quickly and easily farmed to get the character online. There are better and more optimal pieces to slot in, but this gearset will be perfectly fine for farming those more optimal pieces. Alternative suggestions follow the primary suggestions (obviously prepend “Legendary” to the front of each of these, even where inappropriate).
Low Effort Gear
Weapons
Lash, a heavy repeating crossbow from DoV, is what I use. Any raid xbow with Legendary Affirmation (requires crafting) would work pretty much the same way. Leg Aff is mostly because it makes it way easier to quest - I don’t have to watch my HP much.
A Legendary Calamitous Repeating Heavy Crossbow would probably be the easiest to get and is BTA also. The new raid crossbows are not better than Lash, but they can be nice if you want to be silly as a gnome.
Needle, from CitW, is HUGE fun on this build during an ETR. worth getting one. It also isn’t bad for cap - I used it until I got a lash
Solar Augments:
Runearms
major thing is to have one and have it have Alchemical Acid proc.
Cloaks
Swap out for Spell Absorb when needed.
Artifacts
The raid artifacts are easier to get than the ones in quests currently.
Filigree Setups
General DPS (this is what I run, do note Shattered Device is rare but you do really want it for the set bonus)
Artifact
Weapon
Ranged Power Raw DPS Alternative filigree arrangement for higher damage if someone else is doing the debuff from shattered device.
Artifact:
Levelling Advice
Starting from level 1, I would put my first 13 points into Inquisitive. Shoot First is pretty incredible dps, think of it like Fireball (and it has a shorter cooldown than the Artificer version). The 3rd core also autofinds traps which is really nice (this can be dropped at 27 due to Watchful Eye). Next focus points into Harper for Strategic Combat I, then into Battle Engineer. I also recommend using a repeating crossbow to level. Here are some suggestions:
I used Lomordia gear until epics the last time I ran heroics (8 to 20), something like:
Bonus Build
Same theory, different class split. I haven’t run this personally because I don’t own dragonlord, but I typed it out for someone else (who presumably does own dragonlord).
Levelling Order and Feats
Bonus Feat From Class, Granted Feat
Epic and Legendary Levels are the same as above
Enhancments:
BE t5 36 t5's
VKF 11 3ed Core
Harp 8 Strat. Combat I, KTA
DL 7 Imbue, doubleshot, dragonslayer
inq 12 SHOOT FIRST, 2nd core
“QUESTIONS” FOR THE CREATOR
High Effort Endgame Gear
My current “endgame” gear setup:
Green: 13
Yellow: 2
Blue: 2
Colorless: 9
Useful Augments
In-game Purchasable
Stat Spread (assumes +5 tomes)(Halfling) 36 pt build
10 Strength - helps with carrying things. Not used for anything else.
14 Dexterity - (need 19 for feats). Damage stat until level 7.
16 Constitution - HP is nice. Need 21 for Legendary Toughness.
18 Intelligence - primary stat. Damage, to-hit, reflex saves, trap skills.
10 Wisdom - Helps with will saves and spot
8 Charisma
Stat Spread (+5 Tomes, Gnome)
10 str 14 dex 16 con 20 int 8 wis 8 cha
Stat Spread (+5 tomes, Eladrin)
10 str 14 dex 16 con 18 int 12 ws 8 cha
Chaotic Alignment to get 2 imbue dice from Harbinger of Chaos.
Class Split
16 Artificer, 2 Fighter, 2 Barbarian
Artificer Blurb - I take artificer because this build uses repeaters. Battle Engineer is a really good tree for repeaters.
12 Artificer is required for Expanded Clip, which gives 33 doubleshot.
Fighter Blurb - Bonus feats, could drop 1 artificer for stalwart defender stance, or drop both to get the lv 18 core in BE.
Barbarian Blurb - Running fast is good. 2 Barbarian gives 3% DR which is roughly equivalent to, and stacks with, Stalwart Defender stance at no AP cost.
Race Choice
This isn’t important unless you’re missing tomes for feat stat prerequisites or have a bunch of racial AP to burn. I personally have a few racial AP to spend so I went with Eladrin for the displacement and doubleshot.
Quick notes on race:
Eladrin - Doubleshot, Displacement, To-hit bonuses
Elf - like Eladrin but just generally worse for repeater.
Halfling* / Gnome* - Dodge
Dwarf* - HP; can help with dodge if you decide to go in medium or heavy armor.
Warforged** - Frees up one bonus feat (construct essence), horrible dodge; Requires Mythril or Addy body feats. Racial repair amp make reconstruct self heal noticeably better. Highest Ranged Power, if you have the RAPs.
*Short races are better for Improved Precise Shot
**Tall races are worse for Improved Precise Shot
Special mention for gnomes and deep gnomes if you have a lot of racial ap, you can run a light repeater and take the critical enhancement from the racial tree, allowing you to take +20% hp in battle engineer. Note, Deep Gnome will need a +1 LR to fix the one wizard level. The Lamordia crafted repeaters or Undying Age light repeaters are reasonable choices for your weapon if slightly less powerful than Lash, so you don't lose much in DPS by doing this, at least compared to other builds that are Gnome based.
Levelling Order and Feats
| Heroic Levels | |||||
| 1 | Artificer 1 | Point Blank Shot, Rapid Reload | 11 | Artificer 8 | ABF: Shot on the Run |
| 2 | Barbarian 1 | 12 | Artificer 9 | Imp Crit: Ranged | |
| 3 | Artificer 2 | Rapid Shot, Rune Arm Use | 13 | Artificer 10 | |
| 4 | Artificer 3 | 14 | Artificer 11 | ||
| 5 | Artificer 4 | ABF:Construct Essence | 15 | Artificer 12 | Improved Precise Shot, ABF:Improved Construct Essence |
| 6 | Artificer 5 | Precise Shot | 16 | Artificer 13 | |
| 7 | Artificer 6 | 17 | Artificer 14 | ||
| 8 | Fighter 1 | FBF: Dodge | 18 | Artificer 15 | Insightful Reflexes |
| 9 | Fighter 2 | Precision, FBF:Mobility | 19 | Barbarian 2 | |
| 10 | Artificer 7 | 20 | Artificer 16 | ABF:Quicken |
Construct Essence lets you pick up Attached Weapon for .5W extra damage.
Improved Construct Essence and Quicken are there primarily to improve your self healing capabilities. Reconstruct can easily hit yourself for 1k+ on r1 making this build very self sufficient in raids.
Shot on the Run provides you with some ranged power and an (effective) to-hit bonus while kiting. It is a very good feat. The extra tumble charge and max dex bonus from mobility is just yummy extra.
Insightful Reflexes makes it much easier to get a high reflex save. As you don't have evasion until Shadowdancer grants it taking it late makes sense.
| Epic Levels | |||||
| 21 | Epic 1 | Expanded Clip | 28 | Epic 8 | Harbinger of Chaos |
| 22 | Epic 2 | Holy Strike | 29 | Epic 9 | |
| 23 | Epic 3 | 30 | Epic 10 | Patience, Scion of Arborea | |
| 24 | Epic 4 | Combat Archery | 31 | Legend 1 | Legendary Toughness |
| 25 | Epic 5 | Doubleshot | 32 | Legend 2 | |
| 26 | Epic 6 | 33 | Legend 3 | Eerie Aim | |
| 27 | Epic 7 | Watchful Eye | 34 | Legend 4 | Titan’s Blood |
Epic and Legendary Feat Blurbs
Holy Strike and Watchful Eye are both decent feats in their own right but Shardi has extra benefits if you have these feats.
Expanded Clip is 33 Doubleshot when using a repeater. This is what puts repeaters over the top for dps.
Harbinger of Chaos is why you want to be chaotic.
Eerie Aim, Legendary Toughness, and Titan's Blood are all feats that are taken to make up for gear and past life deficiencies. You want to get above about 2k hp/200 prr in reaper, and the HP feats help a lot with that. Having less effective HP than that will result in you being one shot more often than is ideal.
You also want to have about 200 to hit mod on your weapon die for mid-high reaper Lamorida. Havijg less than this will result in you having more glancing blows and dropped crits from failed confirmations than is ideal.
The Level 31 Feat Slot has several choices, Legendary HP is what I would recommend (Legendary Aim and Protected Actions would be my other two choices).
The Level 33 Feat Slot also has several choices, Eerie Aim is what I would recommend (Overwhelming Critical would be my other choice).
The Level 34 Feat Slot, surprisingly, also has several choices. Titan’s Blood is what I would recommend (Legendary HP would be my other choice). See gear notes for further details.
Skill Notes (Listed in priority order)
(Needed)
Use Magic Device - 42 UMD to use Resurrection Scrolls. 10 or more ranks mandatory.
Tumble - 10 or more ranks to get the extra charge and improve how fast it makes you go.
Perform - 1 rank. This gives ~35 sonic spell power at cap with amps up a Fatesinger proc.
(Nice)
Trap Skills - Optional but recommended. Search, Disable Device, Open Lock, Spot(optional)
Endgame traps are about ~120 DC. LGS Int Skills swap helps a lot with this.
Spellpower - If using the BE imbue this is more damage.
Repair - More spell power for self healing.
Balance - Stand up faster after being knocked down. YMMV with how useful this is.
Spells:
- Insightful Damage (Level 3) - Int: Damage with weapons.
- Reconstruct (Level 6) - Strong self healing
- Deadly Weapons (Level 6) - Best general DPS buff
- Greater Elemental Weapons - Almost as good as deadly; better than deadly for some builds.
- Various DR breaker buffs - Arti can pack these and they are helpful situationally. Your best weapon with Good buff is usually better than your DR breaker with Deadly.
Enhancements
CORE
| Battle Engineer | 36 | T5s |
| Vistani Knife Fighter | 11 | 3rd Core |
| Harper | 7 | Strategic Combat I, Know the Angles |
| Inquisitive | 12 | Shoot First, 2nd Core |
| Flex | 14 |
Battle Engineer -
A nice DPS tree for Artificers.
Vistani Knife Fighter -
The second core is Deflect Arrows, which is an extremely helpful defensive ability. On a ranged character it's far too good to pass up.
The third core is 5 doubleshot. All of the points used to get here are beneficial too, the AP is well spent here.
Harper -
Int Trance and Int to hit. It's an INT build, this is a given.
Inquisitive -
2nd core is 5 doubleshot, which is great. Shoot First is possibly the best AOE ranged attack in the game.
Flex -
Currently I like putting 21 points into VKF to pick up another 5 Doubleshot and 3 points into Renegade Master Maker to grab a little bit of Ramp.
Epic Destiny
CORE
| Shiradi | 35 | T5s |
| Fatesinger | 18 | Master of Acou (T3) and The Rhythm (T3) |
| Shadowdancer | 14 | Shadow Striker (T3) |
Shiradi Blurb
This is basically the only ranged tree for repeaters. While the build doesn’t really care about the epic strike (pin is strictly inferior in almost every capacity to Pluck the String from Fatesinger), the rest of the Destiny is what this build wants.
Fatesinger Blurb
Pluck the String works wonderfully well with repeaters.
Shadowdancer Blurb
Look! More doubleshot! The build grabs everything that’s relevant to this build plus this allows us to sneak evasion into the build which is really nice. Immunity to neg levels and access to dimension door provide a lot of nice utility also.
General Build Notes
Attack Rotation
Pluck the String, Hunt’s End, Shoot First (aoe), Thunder-Shock Weapon (aoe), Shatter Defenses (aoe). These are in order of most to least single target damage and at cap. Without Endless Fullisade active rotating through these on CD should leave no time for autoattacks (barring lag or poor play).
The AOE attacks do not make use of IPS. When I am using IPS lines I typically don't use these attacks as they can cost damage. Caustic Shot enters the rotation then. Hitting Pluck the String, even while on cooldown, will cause you to make a normal attack so this can reasonably replace auto attack.
(Do note that sometimes behavior of the AOEs is buggy and they will proc extra hits or trigger along an IPS line. I do not know how to intentionally reproduce this, it might be lag / mob / mob facing related)
(IPS seems to work better than Archer’s Focus if the game is being laggy or you have a high latency connection. It seems that attacks are much less likely to fail to register while you are in this stance. YMMV.)
Gear Notes
An important note, this gearset is intended to be quickly and easily farmed to get the character online. There are better and more optimal pieces to slot in, but this gearset will be perfectly fine for farming those more optimal pieces. Alternative suggestions follow the primary suggestions (obviously prepend “Legendary” to the front of each of these, even where inappropriate).
Low Effort Gear
| Slot | Name | Source | Notes |
| Head | Teraza’s Perfect Sight | Frame Work | |
| Neck | Night Brigade Necklace | Rats in a Cage | |
| Goggles | Goggles of the Berserker | S. Red Wizards MD | |
| Trinket | Periapt of Intelligence | Key to the Myth MD | |
| Armor | Armor of Sunlight | Key to the Myth MD | |
| Back | Cloak of Forest Arrows | Times long past MD | |
| Wrists | Rocard, Champion’s Cuffs | Den of Vipers | Raid artifact. Selected because it is easier to farm than the ring from voices. |
| Belt | Belt of Bold Brilliance | House of Gems MD | |
| Ring | Band of Faith and Fortress | Myth Dranor (Worm) | |
| Ring | Katra’s Razor Wit | Diplomatic Impunity | |
| Feet | Greaves of Season’s Warding | Drow Portal MD | Best in slot. |
| Hands | Maenya’s Iron Fists | Eyes of Sone | |
| Weapon | Lash, the Arbalest of Arcs | Den of Vipers | Raid weapon, best in slot. |
| Runearm | Legendary Unbridled Power | Locked Away (p2) | Alchemical Acid Proc |
| Alternatives | |||
| Back | Jeweled Cloak | In r6+ I usually always wear spell absorption. Veng reapers cast polar rays that hurt. | |
| Back | Legendary Phiarlan Mirror | ||
| Back | Epic Phiarlan Mirror | ||
| Back | Mantle of the Worldshaper | ||
| Weapon | Legendary Clamitous RHX | Lamordia Crafting | Best BTA / non raid xbow |
| Weapon | Needle | Caught in the Web | Great ETR weapon. |
| Runearm | Toven’s Prototype | Master Artificer | Easy to get |
| Runearm | Dinobone | Skellies Raid | Can slot Evil Absorb |
| Runearm | Demon Engine | Fire over Morgave | Highest damage rune arm, If you have the ring from voices. |
Weapons
Lash, a heavy repeating crossbow from DoV, is what I use. Any raid xbow with Legendary Affirmation (requires crafting) would work pretty much the same way. Leg Aff is mostly because it makes it way easier to quest - I don’t have to watch my HP much.
A Legendary Calamitous Repeating Heavy Crossbow would probably be the easiest to get and is BTA also. The new raid crossbows are not better than Lash, but they can be nice if you want to be silly as a gnome.
Needle, from CitW, is HUGE fun on this build during an ETR. worth getting one. It also isn’t bad for cap - I used it until I got a lash
Solar Augments:
- Ranged Power
- Doubleshot
- MRR Cap
- MRR
- Ranged Power
- Repair Amp
- PRR
- MRR
Runearms
major thing is to have one and have it have Alchemical Acid proc.
Cloaks
Swap out for Spell Absorb when needed.
Artifacts
The raid artifacts are easier to get than the ones in quests currently.
Filigree Setups
General DPS (this is what I run, do note Shattered Device is rare but you do really want it for the set bonus)
- 4 Spines
- 4 Crackshot
- 4 Shattered Device
- 3 Long Shadow
- 2 WoF (we get this set because of the raid filigrees)
Artifact
- Spines / WoF - Ranged Power
- Shattered Device - Ranged Power
- Long Shadow - Ranged Power
- Crackshot - Ranged Power
- Spines - Ranged Power
Weapon
- Spines / WoF - Ranged Power
- Shattered Device - Ranged Power
- Long Shadow - Ranged Power
- Crackshot - Ranged Power
- Spines - Ranged Power
- Crackshot - Damage
- Crackshot - Reflex
- Shattered Device - PRR OR Hit/damage OR w/e
- Shattered Device - Armor Pen
- Long Shadow - Damage
Ranged Power Raw DPS Alternative filigree arrangement for higher damage if someone else is doing the debuff from shattered device.
Artifact:
- Spines / WoF - Ranged Power
- Wildhunter - Ranged Power
- Dreadbringer - Ranged Power
- Crackshot - Ranged Power
- Long Shadow - Ranged Power
- Spines / WoF - Ranged Power
- Wildhunter - Ranged Power
- Dreadbringer - Ranged Power
- Crackshot - Ranged Power
- Long Shadow - Ranged Power
- Spines - Ranged Power
- Spines - Damage
- Crackshot - Damage
- Crackshot - Reflex
- WoF - Ranged power
Levelling Advice
Starting from level 1, I would put my first 13 points into Inquisitive. Shoot First is pretty incredible dps, think of it like Fireball (and it has a shorter cooldown than the Artificer version). The 3rd core also autofinds traps which is really nice (this can be dropped at 27 due to Watchful Eye). Next focus points into Harper for Strategic Combat I, then into Battle Engineer. I also recommend using a repeating crossbow to level. Here are some suggestions:
- Nicked Crossbow (ML2), Sharn Syndicate
- Hellfire Crossbow (ML4), Chronoscope
- Barovian’s Repeating Crossbow (ML10), Wagon Guy in Barovia
I used Lomordia gear until epics the last time I ran heroics (8 to 20), something like:
| Slot | Name | Source | Notes |
| Head | Cannith Crafted | Intelligence | |
| Neck | |||
| Goggles | Scient’s Sights | ||
| Trinket | Cannith Crafted Spellpower | Imbue Spell power | |
| Armor | Gravekeeper (heavy) | Lamordia Wilds | |
| Back | Lamordian Stoic Cloak | Ends / means | Ram’s Might |
| Wrists | Cannith Crafted | Saves, dodge | |
| Belt | |||
| Ring | Cannith Crafted | Constitution / Sheltering | |
| Ring | |||
| Feet | |||
| Hands | Elise’s Grasp | Snowfall and Sunlight | Cover self heals in heroics |
| Weapon | |||
| Runearm | Unbridled Power | Dolorous Acid |
Bonus Build
Same theory, different class split. I haven’t run this personally because I don’t own dragonlord, but I typed it out for someone else (who presumably does own dragonlord).
Levelling Order and Feats
| Heroic Levels | |||||
| 1 | Artificer 1 | Point Blank Shot, Rapid Reload | 11 | Dragonlord 4 | FBF:Mobility |
| 2 | Barbarian 1 | 12 | Artificer 7 | Imp Crit: Ranged | |
| 3 | Artificer 2 | Rapid Shot, Rune Arm Use | 13 | Artificer 8 | ABF:Shot on the Run |
| 4 | Artificer 3 | 14 | Artificer 9 | ||
| 5 | Artificer 4 | ABF:Construct Essence | 15 | Artificer 10 | Insightful Reflexes |
| 6 | Artificer 5 | Precise Shot | 16 | Artificer 11 | ABF:Improved Construct Essence |
| 7 | Artificer 6 | 17 | Artificer 12 | ||
| 8 | Dragonlord 1 | 18 | Artificer 13 | Quicken OR Improved Precise Shot | |
| 9 | Dragonlord 2 | Precise Shot, FBF odge | 19 | Artificer 14 | |
| 10 | Dragonlord 3 | 20 | Artificer 15 |
Epic and Legendary Levels are the same as above
Enhancments:
BE t5 36 t5's
VKF 11 3ed Core
Harp 8 Strat. Combat I, KTA
DL 7 Imbue, doubleshot, dragonslayer
inq 12 SHOOT FIRST, 2nd core
“QUESTIONS” FOR THE CREATOR
- Missing artificer bonus feat, level 8
- Why two barbarian? Could do the fighter split as 16/3/1 as just the “core”, same BAB even.
- 3% DR. BAB doesn’t matter much because Shardi gives full BAB in t5 now.
- Non-raid gearing would be nice as alternatives (i.e. the raid artifact), I like how pretty much everything comes from a single source, that’s super groovy.
- The problem is that the non-raid 5 filigree artifacts have very low drop rates. I have ransasked the quests that drop the ones that would work several times and haven’t pulled a single one. I ended up building around Rocard’s because I pulled it while trying to get Lash and everything on it is useful for the build.
High Effort Endgame Gear
My current “endgame” gear setup:
| Slot | Name | Source | Notes |
| Head | Lamordian Bowler GCS | B. City Streets LM | Dolorous Q int |
| Neck | Dracolich's Eye GYM | Threats ON MD | Insightful Con |
| Goggles | Goggles of the Archer GCS | Book Burning MD | |
| Trinket R | Legendary Heartshard GCS | Snowfall & S LM | Con, Q Con, Rebellion |
| Armor R | Downcast Vest GCS | Body Snatchers LM | Fort, P. Sneak, MRR, Apen |
| Back | Lamordian Stoic Cloak GCS | End & Means LM | Dolours Q Attack |
| Wrists | The Wicked Spines GBM | Relentless LM | Int, Q damage, PRR, Q Seeker |
| Belt | The Baron's Bandolier GCM | Miner Sacrifice LM | Dolorous Seeker |
| Ring R | The Autumn Equinox GYB | Voices ot Dead MD | Artifact. Rare. PAIN. Insightful saves, doubleshot, and Alchemical earth make it too good to pass up. |
| Ring | Ring of Unnatural Accuracy GC | Pilgrims’ Peril | Q. Doubleshot, Threat redux |
| Feet | Greaves of Season’s Warding GCM | Drow Portal MD | Best in slot. |
| Hands | Claws of the Coldlight Walker GCM | Light in the Attic LM | Dolorus Deception |
| Weapon | Lash, the Arbalest of Arcs | Den of Vipers | Raid weapon, best in slot. |
| Runearm | Demon Engine GY | Fire over Morgrave | Dripping with Magma, Electric Spellpower |
| Alt Trinket R | Golden Souvenir Coin | Zoo Creeper | More seeker option. |
Yellow: 2
Blue: 2
Colorless: 9
Useful Augments
In-game Purchasable
- Deadly 11 (Y) Morgrave NEEDED
- Resistance 11 (B) Morgrave NEEDED
- Ranged Power 12 (Y) Dread NEEDED
- Repair Amp 50 (B) Sharn - lv 32 version is random drop
- Reconstruction 139 (R) Sharn - lv 32 version is random drop
- Accuracy 20 (B) Fey - lv 32 version is random drop NEEDED
- Healing Amp 50 (B) Fey - lv 32 version is random drop
- Armor Agility +2 (B) Token
- Festive Int C
- Festive Con C
- Legendary Moment to Moment
- Ravil’s Book of Legendary Recipes
- The Art of Sabotage, Vol 3 - Saves some Lamordia mats, lets you use Gravekeeper’s armor
- Arcane Empowerment (G) - Hunt or Be Hunted
- Essence of the Epic Litany of the Dead Mark of Death
- Essence of Dark Diversion Deathwyrm
- Set Augment: Dusk Raider - Stradh, Coat of Van, Ranged Power
- Set Augment: Tough Shields - Deathwyrm, Dumathoin’s Bracers, PRR
- Set Augment: Arcane Barrier - Stradh, Mantle of Escher, MRR Cap
- Repair Amp - Snowfall and Sunlight, locked chest on 3ed floor
- PRR - Portal ot Below - End Chest
- MRR - Book Burning, A Light in the Attic - End Chest
- Damage - Red Wizards, Zoo Creeper, Knife’s Edge - End chests
- Ranged Power - Time’s long past, Sleeping w/ Fishes - End C; Snowfall - Potion Paw NEEDED
- Healing Amp - Darkness and the Light, End Chest
- Doubleshot - Portal Below End chest, Snowfall - Potion Paw
- Repair Amp - Voices of the Dead, Body Snatchers - End Chests
- Healing Amp - The Wish, Hooked Horror chest
- Sneak Attack Dice - MD Saga rewards. Rare drop The Knife’s Edge end chest.
- MRR - Safehold, Darkness and the Light - End Chests
- Imbue - Snowfall and Sunlight, rare. MD and Lamordia Saga.
- Elemental Absorb - Giant Lamordia Purple, rare drop. Lamorida Saga.
- Damage - The Wish, rare end chest. Lamordia Saga.
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