Starting My First Alt - Want Him To Be Ranged Focused - Build Ideas

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Future

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Hey folks,

Got the main sitting at cap for a while farming up end game gear for melee. While the LFM's are quite, or I have the TR itch, I'm thinking of booting up my first alt, so I have something else to do when I am sick of gear farming.

This time around, I'm thinking of making it specifically focused on trying out various ranged builds (partially too also focus on getting the correct PL's).
I'd be curious to get some help figuring out which PL's should be prioritized, as well as a potential template build for the usual TR grind?

Help is appreciated in advance, thank you :)
 
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Hobgoblin

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to elaborate on why I picked those past lives, ranger is six damage on each hit monk is three more paladin and fist give you a lot of hamp barbarian is 30 hit points and dragonlord is three damage
 
Mornyngstar

Mornyngstar

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With each Heroic life you shoulds do 4-5 Epic TRs. There is plenty of Epic xp to do that and I have done that even with my alts, without the Heroic TR since I keep them at Cap. This is to have run all Quests for the highest favor I can reasonably get with them (not doing all challenges, or max raids).
 
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Hobgoblin

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I stop at 3. you can do more but that's when it starts taking more time so for me it is more efficient to simply TR after the third and repeat
 
Mornyngstar

Mornyngstar

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Hobgoblin said:
I stop at 3. you can do more but that's when it starts taking more time so for me it is more efficient to simply TR after the third and repeat
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It's just in my case I run all the quests for maximum favor (other than higher raids and challenges). The balancing with 3 still works good and make sure to save Base lv 30+ quests for when you are lv 30+ to get the double Reaper xp first time bonus. My capped alts all have 20+ reaper points from doing this.
 
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Future

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Mornyngstar said:
It's just in my case I run all the quests for maximum favor (other than higher raids and challenges). The balancing with 3 still works good and make sure to save Base lv 30+ quests for when you are lv 30+ to get the double Reaper xp first time bonus. My capped alts all have 20+ reaper points from doing this.
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Tbh i've never been able to do more then 1, that's why my main guy is fully completionist more or less, only missing epics at this point. Do you have a quest list of how you manage to all those lives without losing your mind? (the 3+ epls)
 
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Hobgoblin

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basically first one is easy - hit von 3 spies von 5 wgu mirror then slayers

2nd then do saga lines but dont take them

3rd you take sagas and run the high xp q you didnt do last life

then er tr
 
Mornyngstar

Mornyngstar

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Future said:
Tbh i've never been able to do more then 1, that's why my main guy is fully completionist more or less, only missing epics at this point. Do you have a quest list of how you manage to all those lives without losing your mind? (the 3+ epls)
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On my alts I am getting the maximum easily attained favor, basically every quest on Elite/Epic Elite. Since I won't be Heroic/Racial/Iconic TRing them they just sit there with all their Sagas banked for collection when a Guild Bonus Weekend comes along. To get them to that point by running all epicable quests at level, that is how I get 3-4 lives out of them with some easy slayers also (use to be King's Forest and Thunderholm for the most part. Additional past lives occur after a Guild Bonus weekend since I need to run off all Heroic and Epic Sagas again which gives a majority of xp for leveling. Also hitting Chrono and Vault of Night raids as a boost. (Just my play style.)
On my main, Mornyngstar I am currently running off Racial past lives while still running in epics I do the 4-5 Epic TRs and most of the quests on done on R4 to get the little bit extra Reaper xp. On Seldissan I am currently running serial Epic TRs, so far 24 in a row.
With the availability of xp in epics doing a minimum of 2 Epic TRs is a sinch for speed (3 is better). That way those Epic PL Feats will help more in leveling. Essentially maximizing gain with less effort (other than using Ottos'.

Note: If you just prep all Epic Sagas then collect on the next life and prep again that should get you most of an Epic life.
 
saekee

saekee

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Another Alt option is to create a parked toon at some level that might interest you. I have a few at different levels for running with new players/guildies and certain gear needs/farms/challenges.

For example, I have an Alt for level 21 for early epics help, epic challenges, etc. I am min-maxing them for that position and not bothering with lots of ERs/TRs. The enjoyment of it is that at some point, you are ‘done’ with e
them—good gear, great level split, etc.
 
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Mornyngstar

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saekee said:
Another Alt option is to create a parked toon at some level that might interest you. I have a few at different levels for running with new players/guildies and certain gear needs/farms/challenges.

For example, I have an Alt for level 21 for early epics help, epic challenges, etc. I am min-maxing them for that position and not bothering with lots of ERs/TRs. The enjoyment of it is that at some point, you are ‘done’ with e
them—good gear, great level split, etc.
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This is an excellent idea.

I currently have a bank Warlock at lv 16 to farm heroic challenges on lv 20 during challenge bonus weekends. I had been running it at lv 15 to start but the chests that drop in your inventory need min lv 16 to open so that was why I leveled it to lv 16 (had 60+ chests in inventory). My bank alts are typically leveled to lv 20 before parking them. (Eventually may cap them if/when I get the time.)
 
Stoner81

Stoner81

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Future said:
Hey folks,

Got the main sitting at cap for a while farming up end game gear for melee. While the LFM's are quite, or I have the TR itch, I'm thinking of booting up my first alt, so I have something else to do when I am sick of gear farming.

This time around, I'm thinking of making it specifically focused on trying out various ranged builds (partially too also focus on getting the correct PL's).
I'd be curious to get some help figuring out which PL's should be prioritized, as well as a potential template build for the usual TR grind?

Help is appreciated in advance, thank you :)
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If you just want the past lives then, as Hob said, my Inquisitive Past Life Getter build will suit you down to the ground.

On the other hand, if you want to experience each type of ranged build then it won't. All ranged builds typically use the same stats and equipment for the most part (odd exceptions like bows). Crossbows use the same and are usually INT based builds (Arti, Mechanic, Inquis). All 3 are very fun imho but as I said if you just want the past lives then use my aforementioned build.

Stoner81.
 
Bjond

Bjond

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IMHO, use INQ to farm PLs, RXP, etc..

Once you are ready to "retire" your ranged and park it at cap while you do TRs on your main or simply make another alt, swap it to thrower. At-cap gear for INQ v Thrower is virtually identical. It's pretty easy to rig your thrower build such that levelup as INQ with your now "old" INQ gear is easy with a cheap swap to thrower for far FAR better DPS in your raids.

BTW, bow & repeater have strong builds for at-cap ranged raiding, too if you prefer, but INQ is likely to remain top leveling ranged for a long time.
 
Deamon81

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You can try a Dark Hunter / Rouge with Horizon Walker tree. Its very powerful also on high level.
Only gap is, most damage ist via sneak attack.
 
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Rincewind

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So this is the basic you need, 3 ranger, 3 monk, 3 paladin, 3 barb lives for damage HA and hp, then 3 doubleshot and 3 Enchant Weapon of Epic past lives then you can get fortification, 3 chaosmancer for the steps.

as far as builds go, for bow ill go 12 ranger 8 dragonlord dragonlord t5, dws core 4. bow users shold focus more on physical damage more than sa or imbues, since their attack speed is the slower of the range builds, I need to test this but I think t5 divine crusader might actually be better than t5 shiradi, for this you should try 15 paladin 5 dragonlord, for holy sword, zeal smite evil and other active dmg abilities
Inqui is more flexible, but the base I think is better if you go 15 alchemist, 2 rogue 3 something else, can be 5 rogue too or ranger, bard, paladin for different flavours of imbue.
 
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