Cat and Chopsticks (40rgr)

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Idea:
A strength ranger with a respectable dexterity that keeps DC focused only dropping 2 from max possible (on half-orc 20 at creation sub). I liked the colorful effect you get when using shape shift undead for critical immunity and waterbreathing. Also, not having to splash any crit feats is handy for a decent range on your spears without feat wasting. Planning to use Graz'zt's Abyssal Helm with Augmenter of Skilled/Precision Spear work for IC/OC/DC Spear.


Pro's:
High AB - around 98 dual wielding at 60 w/ iof, song.
CS DC of 55 @60, 57 at x2, 59 with ego and pom gloves.
16-20 x4 crits.
High dmg output.
High conceal of 50-66% depending on hide from gear.
Critical hit immunity with shape shift undead.
High saves, all 60+ @lvl60.
Good dex, enough for advespas/erinyes pre demi and pre stat check gear/feat. Maxed out 50 dex check w/ para feat and balance from gear.
Innate sleep imm.
Poison Immune.
Disarm!!!!

Con's:
Gear dependant for crits.
CS wont be easy without curses pre demi.
Buff dependent for crit immune.
Mediocre AC pre demi - low 130's.

The Build:


Base Race: Half-Elf (sleep imm, +1 sp per level in LL)

Subrace - Wemic (CS, Wep Finesse, ESF....) +6 Dex, +4 Str, +2 Wis, +2 Con, -4 Cha

Alignment - Whatever you feel, evil is always nice

Stats:	Creation	On the docks	Lvl 60 w/ con arti +14	Lvl 80 x2 w/ +16
Strength	16	20	62	70
Dexterity	14	20	34	42 +4 para balance, +4 asmo belt?
Constitution	10	12	18	26
Intelligence	14	14	28	36
Wisdom	14	16	30	38
Charisma	8	4	18	26

Level Progression: Ranger 1-40

Pre-Epic Levels 1-20:



1 - Blooded, FE



3 - WF Spear



5 - FE



6 - Lightning Reflexes



9 - Great Fortitude



10 - FE



12 - GWF Spear



15 - Iron Will, FE



18 - Metamagic (Extend Spell)



20 - FE



Epic Levels:



21 - Bane of Enemies



23 - EWF Spear



24 - Great Strength I



25 - Epic Prowess



26 - FE



27 - Great Strength II



29 - FE



30 - FE, Great Strength III



32 - FE



33 - Great Strength IV



35 - FE x2



36 - Great Strength V



38 - FE



39 - Great Strength VI



40 - FE



Legendary Levels:



42 - LSA Tumble



45 - Great Strength VII



48 - Great Strength VIII



51 - LWF Spear



54 - Legendary Will



55 - Con Artifact here to maximise HP on levelups. Minauros Disarm pandect anywhere from 56-59.



57 - Legendary Reflexes



60 - Legendary Disarm



Paragon Levels:



63 - PWF Spear



66 - Paragon Disarm



69 - Paragon Balance



72 - Paragon Inherent (Waterbreathing/Lev)



75 - Paragon Adaptivity I (Instead of these two feats, you can take Great Dex II to get 52 effective dex check meaning no Elite Male KD for you ever)



78 - Paragon Adaptivity II (Or Paragon Int Check for paragon dogais etc...)

As for skills you have effectively enough points to max 7 skills pre-paragon. I.e. Discipline, Listen, Tumble, CW, CA, Hide, maybe... Animal Emp or Parry if you are bad at managing buffs.

Props to Twilight Semner for the idea of str, spear and the guideline build. Altered it to fit wemic and change it up a bit to my liking. Cant go wrong with disarm... in most cases

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Is animal emp worth taking on rangers? And any thoughts on taking parry, even though you get crit imm from buff.

[Yojimbo]

Well AE has use in Pre-LLs for a little birdie and later can add a small boost to your pet but those are rarely used it seems and still need heavy buffing to be good so I would say 1 point in AE until other more useful skills are done. I like to take parry when ever possible with the only exceptions being characters who I can reliably expect to never be without their crit immunity in combat since the Ranger's comes from a spell which can run out mid combat or be dispelled/breached/morded I would say it is not reliable enough and parry makes for a good investment.

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I think i agree with you for parry actually, at least on this type of crit imm. Tempted to try animal emp aswell though, i know you can get firegrubs from beholders, arachils from hells. Not sure about any others off the top of my head though.

[tomaan]

Feb 23, 2015 17:22:13 GMT @m4l4dl3 said:

Stats:	Creation	On the docks	Lvl 60 w/ con arti +14	Lvl 80 x2 w/ +16
Strength	16	20	62	70
Dexterity	14	20	34	42 +4 para balance, +4 asmo belt?
Constitution	10	12	18	26
Intelligence	14	14	28	36
Wisdom	14	12	26	34
Charisma	8	4	18	26

I think there's an error in your starting stats. Wemic gives +2 to Wis, but it looks like you have it as -2.

As for AE, parry is always good, or you could just drop INT to 12 and put the 2 more points into Con for extra HP. Another option is to put both Wisdom and INT at 12 and increase starting Dex to 16.

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Feb 26, 2015 19:25:47 GMT tomaan said:

Feb 23, 2015 17:22:13 GMT @m4l4dl3 said:

Stats:	Creation	On the docks	Lvl 60 w/ con arti +14	Lvl 80 x2 w/ +16
Strength	16	20	62	70
Dexterity	14	20	34	42 +4 para balance, +4 asmo belt?
Constitution	10	12	18	26
Intelligence	14	14	28	36
Wisdom	14	12	26	34
Charisma	8	4	18	26

I think there's an error in your starting stats. Wemic gives +2 to Wis, but it looks like you have it as -2.

As for AE, parry is always good, or you could just drop INT to 12 and put the 2 more points into Con for extra HP. Another option is to put both Wisdom and INT at 12 and increase starting Dex to 16.

Nice catch on the wisdom, not sure why i did that.. maybe i was looking at the wrong race.

I think since there isnt enough mobs that i know of that can be emped there isnt much point in taking it on a character that doesnt benefit from the skill in terms of dmg etc... Parry i believe is a must have if your crit imm is vulnerable to mord/breach/amni aswell and i think the int drop could be ok, not entirely sure how many skills i can max at 60 i.e. CA, CW etc..

[tomaan]

Feb 26, 2015 20:49:20 GMT @m4l4dl3 said:

Feb 26, 2015 19:25:47 GMT tomaan said:

I think there's an error in your starting stats. Wemic gives +2 to Wis, but it looks like you have it as -2.

As for AE, parry is always good, or you could just drop INT to 12 and put the 2 more points into Con for extra HP. Another option is to put both Wisdom and INT at 12 and increase starting Dex to 16.

Nice catch on the wisdom, not sure why i did that.. maybe i was looking at the wrong race.

I think since there isnt enough mobs that i know of that can be emped there isnt much point in taking it on a character that doesnt benefit from the skill in terms of dmg etc... Parry i believe is a must have if your crit imm is vulnerable to mord/breach/amni aswell and i think the int drop could be ok, not entirely sure how many skills i can max at 60 i.e. CA, CW etc..

You should get 6 max skills with a 12 int (4 from ranger + 1 from INT + 1 from Half Elf), but you might want to run it through the test server.

Or just take parry