Worst builds?
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Natashaelle
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Worst Battle Cleric I've ever played *should* have worked, seemed to on paper anyway -- but it was jst plain straightforward awful.
(old DDO prior to the combat system revamp and level cap 16)
Fighter 2 / Paladin 6 / Cleric 8
There was NO synergy between Pally and Cleric, so it was a very weak Paladin and a mediocre Cleric, with not enough Fighter Feats to even start to make up for the flaws. Gosh I was glad when they introduced Reincarnation !!
(old DDO prior to the combat system revamp and level cap 16)
Fighter 2 / Paladin 6 / Cleric 8
There was NO synergy between Pally and Cleric, so it was a very weak Paladin and a mediocre Cleric, with not enough Fighter Feats to even start to make up for the flaws. Gosh I was glad when they introduced Reincarnation !!
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ProllyDidItWrong
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I have a menagerie of them on my old server. Builds so bad and unplayable I had to start on a new server to shed the shame from my bangs.
PDIW
PDIW
FaustianBargain
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Back in the pre-reincarnation days when I was trying to figure things out I’d take a really defective character into Devil Assault to let the devils take care of business, then delete and reroll.
ProllyDidItWrong
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Yeah - back before I knew how to /ddo (which I still really don't -BTW) it seems I went through a splash 2lvs rogue on every build phase. I also have a curious number of TYWA Dorf failures on my old server... many of these Frankenstein build abominations worked okay at first but would fall apart in mid levels or in epics. I never really deleted any toons over level 7 because I'm holding on to hope that someday we will have a reincarnate into a stone of experience feature and I'll be able to throw that lost XP into my main... a boy can dream, right?
That looks like you took the old Batman build (monk 2 / paladin 2 / fighter 12 IIRC) and were like "I bet I can improve this!"
sweetenedwithgluten
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How about a Half-orc Rogue, Thief Acrobat with balanced limitations?
You have to use The Balance Beam, from the anniversary event, and can only equip items from the Grotto or bought from regular vendors. No pawn shops, no crafted items, but collectables vendors allowed for potions. Slot a Ruby of Ghostbane or other min level 1 ruby if you want. Take enough STR for the two-handed fighting, otherwise DEX build. Ship buffs are your only help beyond a potential hireling. If you're brave, consider glamering those rags you started with so look the part along the way.
I'm certain this will be the balanced build you were looking for.
You have to use The Balance Beam, from the anniversary event, and can only equip items from the Grotto or bought from regular vendors. No pawn shops, no crafted items, but collectables vendors allowed for potions. Slot a Ruby of Ghostbane or other min level 1 ruby if you want. Take enough STR for the two-handed fighting, otherwise DEX build. Ship buffs are your only help beyond a potential hireling. If you're brave, consider glamering those rags you started with so look the part along the way.
I'm certain this will be the balanced build you were looking for.
Skoltr
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ATM I'm playing an awful sorc build for the pl. It looks bad but it works. Teifling scoundrel 5 bard level, 2 fighter (if you want can be 2 rogue instead but lose out on shield mastery feat), and the rest sorc. You dont do normal sorc stuff. Take your swashbuckling in bard tree, dip into feydark for the familiar and shadow blade and for the sorc part you do ek, no savant ( also grab the bottom round of racial tree). Your spell are mostly buffs, firewall, web and a dot. I don't think it would work for a first life unless you got a bigger tomes, I have a +6 all around and guildly who did this had a +8 (your a cha based not str or dex but you need a little bit of them so the tomes make up for it). But works for those who don't like being a caster or play sorc.