Winged Predator: 38 Ranger 1 Pal 1 Asn

[sabregirl]

I'm a big fan of strength rangers and the pharlan subrace obviously. Pharlans, of course, are well known as great hunters as well as defenders of the faith. I have really enjoyed playing this character in almost all areas of the mod from Nessus to Aboleths.

Devcrit bastard sword, and +14 blade thirst for consistent mega damage. Called shot DC maxes out at 54 with PoM bracers but it does land in the hells even without them. However most non-crit immune monsters are rapidly beaten to death before the called shot lands.


AB shown with song and +14 blade thirst against a favored enemy. AC shown with song and girding. STR artifact has been used on her. Could get a few more AC from strongheart.

Starting Stats (after pharlan)
STR 14 (20)
DEX 14
CON 12
WIS 12 (16)
INT 14
CHA 12 (16)

Level Progression
01: Ranger(1): Blooded, Favored Enemy: Outsiders
02: Ranger(2)
03: Ranger(3): Weapon Proficiency Exotic
04: Ranger(4): STR+1
05: Ranger(5): Favored Enemy: Aberrations
06: Ranger(6): Power Attack
07: Ranger(7)
08: Ranger(8): STR+1
09: Ranger(9): Cleave
10: Ranger(10): Favored Enemy: Animals
11: Ranger(11)
12: Ranger(12): STR+1, Weapon Focus: Bastard Sword
13: Ranger(13)
14: Ranger(14)
15: Ranger(15): Improved Critical: Bastard Sword, Favored Enemy: Monstrous Humanoids
16: Ranger(16): STR+1
17: Ranger(17)
18: Ranger(18): Great Cleave
19: Ranger(19)
20: Ranger(20): STR+1, Favored Enemy: Reptilian Humanoids
21: Ranger(21): Armor Skin
22: Ranger(22)
23: Ranger(23): Favored Enemy: Elementals
24: Ranger(24): STR+1, Great Strength III
25: Ranger(25): Favored Enemy: Magical Beasts
26: Ranger(26): Favored Enemy: Dragons
27: Ranger(27): Great Dexterity I
28: Ranger(28): STR+1
29: Ranger(29): Favored Enemy: Undeads
30: Ranger(30): Great Dexterity II, Favored Enemy: Vermin
31: Ranger(31)
32: Ranger(32): STR+1, Favored Enemy: Constructs
33: Ranger(33): Great Strength IV
34: Ranger(34)
35: Ranger(35): Epic Weapon Focus: Bastard Sword, Epic Prowess
36: Ranger(36): STR+1, Great Strength VI
37: Ranger(37)
38: Ranger(38): Bane of Enemies
39: Paladin(1): Great Strength IV
40: Assassin(1): STR+1 *Alignment Change*

Don't forget to change back to lawful good before going immortal.


Legendary Feats
Great Dex III
Great Dex IV
Overwhelming Critical Bastard Sword
Devastating Critical Bastard Sword
Legendary Spell focus enchantment
Legendary Weapon Focus Bastard Sword
LSA tumble

PANDECT: Blindfight/Called Shot
ESF BOOK: Enchantment

Skills

Max:
Discipline
Tumble
Listen
Hide
Craft Armor
43 pts UMD
43 Pts Conc.
Dump spare points in craft weapon

I ditched animal empathy in this version, my doms seemed to only get me killed by attacking KB monsters. You can swap your str and dex around however you like, this is just the balance I chose.

The main benefit to this build is using the pharlan CHA bonus to avoid taking ANY save feats which on a str ranger usually takes a ton of feats since both reflex and will are abysmally low. So instead of using the stygia katanas you can use bastard swords (or any other medium weapon you like) instead.

[chirikov]

what are the saves like at 60?

[sabregirl]

Without demi they would be 64/57/58 at single demi 66/59/60 and at double 68/61/62

-S

[dragonlance007]

Legendary Feats
Great Strength V
Great Strength VII
Great Strength VIII
Legendary Spell focus enchantment
Legendary Weapon Focus Bastard Sword

I only see 5 feats here and you get 7 in the LLs. Also you go from Great STR V to VII. So I am assuming you took great STR VI aswell but what did you take for the last feat?

~DL

edit: ahhh LSA Tumble and Great STR VI are the missing feats, eh?

[starlandra]

what am I missing? why the assassin level? level 2 paly would give you fear immune at least.

[jonuhey]

I guess its umd, no?

[starlandra]

doh! rogue seems more versatile if for that reason alone.

[dragonlance007]

Sept 6, 2008 0:22:10 GMT starlandra said:

what am I missing? why the assassin level? level 2 paly would give you fear immune at least.

hhmmm lets see. Looks like just UMD dump and 1d6 death attack damage. Why not just use rogue and save 8 skill points (from move silently req for sin) and no alignement change while only missing out on poison weapon feat?

~DL

[sabregirl]

Rogue gives you an XP pen as pharlan - also the death attack stacks and you have a small chance for paralyzing your prey if you can catch em FF. With all of your attacks from dualing it's definitely a non-zero chance. Since mine was a reincarnation from my WM ranger - which also had an xp pen after the changes to subraces I could have gone with rogue, but assassin also fits this character's life story a bit better as well, plus if anyone wanted to build it from scratch they would have to eat the pen.

TY DL for my feat goof up and I believe you are correct - will check and then fix it.

[alsterberg]

What's the damage output on this build, equal to you Kolyarut WM/Ranger? Noticeable change?

[sabregirl]

Should be fairly similar since the crit range is only -1 and this build gains quite a bit of bonus from invisibility purge over the WM version. I was dropping amnizu conceal by 10% with no song or curse (84 listen). A direct comparison is impaired by the fact she's now under demi penalties, but AB is basically the same. Only thing I think I would change is possibly go with 10 base con and 10 base cha. And . .I still can't seem to figure out where that one feat went to . . .

-S

[xarkon]

I have a question about weapons choice. If you are dual welding bastard swords (med weapons) with a medium size character don't you loose 4AB to main and offhand attacks (over single weap) as opposed to only 2AB for each if you have a light weapon in offhand?

[starlandra]

yes... but it is worth it

[xarkon]

Sept 6, 2008 2:44:21 GMT sabregirl said:

Rogue gives you an XP pen as pharlan...


Seems like 1 level of rogue would work without XP penalty as half-elves highest level class does not count (just like humans) and the other two are balanced. Am I missing something?

Thanks,

---Xarkon

[arek]

Looking at

"Pharlan" (secret Beyond UltraRare; adds wings and tail)
- FCs: Cleric, Paladin
- STR +4, WIS +4, CHA +4, free feats: Great Strength I, Great Strength II, Divine Might, able to walk on quicksand, base SR 15 +1/lvl

versus

"Erinyes" (secret Beyond UltraRare; changes Appearance)
- FCs: Base Race, Ranger
- DEX +6, CON +2, WIS +4, CHA -2, free feat: Point Blank Shot, free feat: Rapid Shot, free feat: Weapon Focus Longbow, free feat: Epic Weapon Focus Longbow, able to walk on quicksand, speaks Infernal

Seems to me like unless the FC list includes "Base Race", it overwrites the bace race's FC list, meaning that Pharlan loses FC: Any and gains FC: Cleric, Paladin.

--Arek