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An Ill-Advised Archery Guide - Dual Warden/Hunter Loadouts
Here is a new Archery build for Mod 17. Happy holidays!
Available from Google Drive: http://bit.ly/YarrowsUtterlyArchery
Available from Google Drive: http://bit.ly/YarrowsUtterlyArchery
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- Focused - now increases 2% per second to a maximum of 20% (down from 2.5% per sec to a max of 25%)
- To The Wind - now grants a 5% boost to Throw Caution (down from 10%)
- Skirmisher's Gambit - now reduces Critical Strike by 10,000 and increased crit severity by 25% (from -3K crit and +30% crit sev)
- Disruptive Shot - magnitude increased to 300 (up from 250 magnitude)
- More than Disruptive - now increases your ranged damage by 10% for 5 sec (up from 5% damage for 5 sec)
- Slasher's Expertise - now increases your melee damage by 10% for 10 sec (up from 5% damage for 10 sec)
- Longstrider's Shot - magnitude increased to 525 (up from 480 magnitude)
- Gushing Wound - magnitude and DoT magnitude increased to 300 (up from 280 magnitude for both)
- Aspect of the Falcon - now grants a 10% damage bonus (up from 5% damage)
- Thorned Roots - increased magnitude against control immune targets to 150 (up from 100 magnitude)
- Hawk Shot - magnitude increased to 210 (up from 170 magnitude)
- Prey (from Predator) - now increases ranged damage by 10% (up from 5% damage)
- Biting Snare - can now occur every 15 seconds instead of 20 (i.e. more frequent dailies)
This slightly hurts Warden (both the melee and range variants) but significantly does help Hunter. Overall for this build, the Mod 18 changes do not seem to suggest much need for any significant alternations in feats or powers.Note: I do wish though that Rapid Volley would receive a small boost in damage, as it just feels a little bit too wimpy at the moment. Same goes for its melee variant.
Just to be clear, this isn't to suggest archery is BIS or even close to Warden Melee. Read the first page in the guide and you'll get a better sense of what this is really about. I'm also not knocking archery either, but just trying to make the most of a challenging situation.
A couple of issues are worth noting.
The lack of maneuverability when firing Electric Shot does not couple well with the long cast time of ranged powers. Penetrating Arrows is a much nicer at-will in that respect, but the larger issue comes down to achieving an overall synergy of feats and damage, which seems better served with Electric Shot. Even then, the added lightening damage from Storm Conduit is not nearly as easy to proc nor as useful as flurry is for Warden Melee. It's a nice idea to have a storm ranger, but right now our storm seems to need a little more oomph to it. One way to possibly fix this is for the devs to change Split the Sky to be able to strike more frequently and multiple times at once.
But glad to see Hunter getting a boost, even if Warden gets a small nerf. Overall, I think we will be fine for the most part, in respect to the other classes.