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Obsidiancran3's Nature Build Guide
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Before reading further please note this was posted in December 2013, many changes have happened to the game since then and I stopped keeping up with the game. All advice here should be considered out of date at best.
Firstly I would like to thank Voltomey for his hard work compiling the HR Guide, this guide would not have happened without it!
With the Nature path the first thing to decide on is actually will you focus on ArP or Buffs with your gear. If you choose to focus on ArP with gear then Str 13 is fine for starting and Wood Elf, Drow and Tiefling are recommended races. If you want to focus on buffs then you need more strength and Half-Orc, Wood Elf, and Drow become the recommended races.
Recommended T2 Armor Sets:
Buffing - Forest Lord: 4 piece bonus: When you Buff a Ally you have a chance to grant them 500 Power 500 Armor Pen Crit Strike Or Recovery You always grant the stat of theirs that is highest.
ArP - Royal Guard: 4 piece bonus: when ever you deal damage there's a chance you lower the CD on all powers by 30%
I personally prefer the Royal Guard set as it makes 24% reduction for PvE easy meaning you get 100% damage at all times and the chance to reduce cool downs puts less pressure on Recovery allowing you to build Crit and Power more.
Stats:
Looking for a roll of;
Str 13
Con 10
Dex 17
Int 11
Wis 13
Cha 11
ArP Gear Target Stats at 60 (without campfire);
Str 15
Con 12
Dex 23 (minimum)
Int 15
Wis 19
Cha 15
Buff Gear target stats; (these are more balanced and are also the stats that best suit PvP for this build for the ArP gear).
Str 17
Con 12
Dex 23
Int 15
Wis 17
Cha 15
Key stat effects for points above 10:
Str: 1% Defense Reduction 1% Stamina Regain 1% DoT Damage Resist
Dex: 1% Damage 1% AoE Damage Resist 0.5% Deflect
Int: 1% recharge speed
Wis: 1% crit chance 1% control bonus 1% control resist
Cha: 1% Combat Advantage damage boost 1% companion stat boost
Artifacts:
Blood Crystal Raven Skull, Lantern of Revelation and Waters of Elah'zad with the Lantern in Primary. Gives the best stat boosts at max and the Lantern does an attack.
Get the Water's as your freebie Artifact and grind PvP for the Raven Skull. You might get lucky on the Skirmish or one of the other sources of artifacts to get the Lantern, but in truth its the least important of the three.
Fey Boons:
These are pretty straightforward;
Hunter, Precision, Haste, Ferocity and Thistle.
Thay Boons:
These are more gear dependent than the Fey ones so;
Gambit
Thirst if you are up around 1k life steal or more otherwise Regeneration
Shimmer if you have capped ArP otherwise Piercing.
Shadowtouch
Consumption if you have good life steal otherwise Bastion.
Build:
http://nwcalc.com/hr?b=p9b:4ixq4:5ywj,1fi3iii:6u000:60000:bu5z1&h=0&p=swd
Heroic Feats:
Predatory Action 2/5 - you need to invest 2 more points in something. Might as well be something that is going to boost the damage output of powers you will use regularly.
Weapon Mastery 3/3 - more crit means more chance for more damage all the time.
Toughness 3/3 - because not dropping in 1 hit means more everything.
Agile Combatant 3/3 - Even if you stay mostly in ranged, as this build assumes, when you do swap stances this means you will get more damage for the few seconds after the stance switch. In epic dungeons and PvP expect to switch stance or you will fail more.
Endless Assault 3/3 - More damage for our relatively weak encounters is good, especially with Rain of Arrows, Split the Sky and Thorn Ward and their DoT like effects.
Lucky Skirmisher 3/3 - Because 3% more deflection means taking less damage. You should get deflection above 20% relatively easily, above 30% with some effort. So that means you talk 1/2 damage from 1/3 of the attacks on you. 3 feat points to make that easier is a good investment.
Disciple of Dexterity 3/3 - Because more damage on all your attacks is better than more damage on some of your attacks.
Humans: Use your three bonus feats to get Scoundrel Training 3/3.
Paragon Feats
Archery Path:
Black Arrow 5/5 - This is one of the best blanket boosts to DPS we can access in Paragon for a Nature build, keeping in mind the goal here is not to spend much time in melee stance.
Nature Path:
Nature's Blessing 5/5 & Forestwalk 5/5 - These two feats are weak, however they are both better than the two tier 2 feats, mostly because the powers affected by the tier 2 feats are so bad you shouldn't put points in them. Blessing makes healing from other sources (like the DC, Campfires and some items) work better and Forestwalk gives a little movement buff each time you buff someone - particularly funny with Into the Fray from a GF in the party.
Grace of the Fox 5/5 - 5s off the cool down of Fox's Cunning is a complete win. Be aware most people will not even realize they are getting this buff, and it doesn't proc Forest Walk (bug reported). Also at this time it doesn't change your tool tip, and when you first activate the power it will look like nothing has happened, but the feat does work.
Thickness of the Stag 5/5 - A damage reduction bonus while you have the Temps from Stag Heart is a huge bonus. I ran FH recently and asked at the last boss if everyone was getting the temps and people were "oh that's where they are coming from". Between the 10% DR bonus and the temps people were taking a lot less actual damage. (Which is good because the only item of t1/t2 gear I had were blades and so my DPS was really bad.)
Master of Nature 1/1 - The whole point to this tree. Giving everyone the maximum benefit from your buffs is what it is all about.
At this point you have 5 points left and three choices for what to do with them. My personal preference is to run Blessing of the Oak 5/5, however the other two legitimate choices are Endurance of the Boar (because stacking it with Thickness is more goodness) and Bloodthirsty. I personally don't choose Endurance of the Boar because adding 5 more stacks of 2% reduction that are taken off by each attack doesn't seem as useful as more heals from Oak Heart (that said see Defense comments in post 3). Similarly I passed on Bloodthirsty because while a big buff for switching to a melee encounter is there most of my melee powers are buffs; Fox's is the one exception here.
Firstly I would like to thank Voltomey for his hard work compiling the HR Guide, this guide would not have happened without it!
With the Nature path the first thing to decide on is actually will you focus on ArP or Buffs with your gear. If you choose to focus on ArP with gear then Str 13 is fine for starting and Wood Elf, Drow and Tiefling are recommended races. If you want to focus on buffs then you need more strength and Half-Orc, Wood Elf, and Drow become the recommended races.
Recommended T2 Armor Sets:
Buffing - Forest Lord: 4 piece bonus: When you Buff a Ally you have a chance to grant them 500 Power 500 Armor Pen Crit Strike Or Recovery You always grant the stat of theirs that is highest.
ArP - Royal Guard: 4 piece bonus: when ever you deal damage there's a chance you lower the CD on all powers by 30%
I personally prefer the Royal Guard set as it makes 24% reduction for PvE easy meaning you get 100% damage at all times and the chance to reduce cool downs puts less pressure on Recovery allowing you to build Crit and Power more.
Stats:
Looking for a roll of;
Str 13
Con 10
Dex 17
Int 11
Wis 13
Cha 11
ArP Gear Target Stats at 60 (without campfire);
Str 15
Con 12
Dex 23 (minimum)
Int 15
Wis 19
Cha 15
Buff Gear target stats; (these are more balanced and are also the stats that best suit PvP for this build for the ArP gear).
Str 17
Con 12
Dex 23
Int 15
Wis 17
Cha 15
Key stat effects for points above 10:
Str: 1% Defense Reduction 1% Stamina Regain 1% DoT Damage Resist
Dex: 1% Damage 1% AoE Damage Resist 0.5% Deflect
Int: 1% recharge speed
Wis: 1% crit chance 1% control bonus 1% control resist
Cha: 1% Combat Advantage damage boost 1% companion stat boost
Artifacts:
Blood Crystal Raven Skull, Lantern of Revelation and Waters of Elah'zad with the Lantern in Primary. Gives the best stat boosts at max and the Lantern does an attack.
Get the Water's as your freebie Artifact and grind PvP for the Raven Skull. You might get lucky on the Skirmish or one of the other sources of artifacts to get the Lantern, but in truth its the least important of the three.
Fey Boons:
These are pretty straightforward;
Hunter, Precision, Haste, Ferocity and Thistle.
Thay Boons:
These are more gear dependent than the Fey ones so;
Gambit
Thirst if you are up around 1k life steal or more otherwise Regeneration
Shimmer if you have capped ArP otherwise Piercing.
Shadowtouch
Consumption if you have good life steal otherwise Bastion.
Build:
http://nwcalc.com/hr?b=p9b:4ixq4:5ywj,1fi3iii:6u000:60000:bu5z1&h=0&p=swd
Heroic Feats:
Predatory Action 2/5 - you need to invest 2 more points in something. Might as well be something that is going to boost the damage output of powers you will use regularly.
Weapon Mastery 3/3 - more crit means more chance for more damage all the time.
Toughness 3/3 - because not dropping in 1 hit means more everything.
Agile Combatant 3/3 - Even if you stay mostly in ranged, as this build assumes, when you do swap stances this means you will get more damage for the few seconds after the stance switch. In epic dungeons and PvP expect to switch stance or you will fail more.
Endless Assault 3/3 - More damage for our relatively weak encounters is good, especially with Rain of Arrows, Split the Sky and Thorn Ward and their DoT like effects.
Lucky Skirmisher 3/3 - Because 3% more deflection means taking less damage. You should get deflection above 20% relatively easily, above 30% with some effort. So that means you talk 1/2 damage from 1/3 of the attacks on you. 3 feat points to make that easier is a good investment.
Disciple of Dexterity 3/3 - Because more damage on all your attacks is better than more damage on some of your attacks.
Humans: Use your three bonus feats to get Scoundrel Training 3/3.
Paragon Feats
Archery Path:
Black Arrow 5/5 - This is one of the best blanket boosts to DPS we can access in Paragon for a Nature build, keeping in mind the goal here is not to spend much time in melee stance.
Nature Path:
Nature's Blessing 5/5 & Forestwalk 5/5 - These two feats are weak, however they are both better than the two tier 2 feats, mostly because the powers affected by the tier 2 feats are so bad you shouldn't put points in them. Blessing makes healing from other sources (like the DC, Campfires and some items) work better and Forestwalk gives a little movement buff each time you buff someone - particularly funny with Into the Fray from a GF in the party.
Grace of the Fox 5/5 - 5s off the cool down of Fox's Cunning is a complete win. Be aware most people will not even realize they are getting this buff, and it doesn't proc Forest Walk (bug reported). Also at this time it doesn't change your tool tip, and when you first activate the power it will look like nothing has happened, but the feat does work.
Thickness of the Stag 5/5 - A damage reduction bonus while you have the Temps from Stag Heart is a huge bonus. I ran FH recently and asked at the last boss if everyone was getting the temps and people were "oh that's where they are coming from". Between the 10% DR bonus and the temps people were taking a lot less actual damage. (Which is good because the only item of t1/t2 gear I had were blades and so my DPS was really bad.)
Master of Nature 1/1 - The whole point to this tree. Giving everyone the maximum benefit from your buffs is what it is all about.
At this point you have 5 points left and three choices for what to do with them. My personal preference is to run Blessing of the Oak 5/5, however the other two legitimate choices are Endurance of the Boar (because stacking it with Thickness is more goodness) and Bloodthirsty. I personally don't choose Endurance of the Boar because adding 5 more stacks of 2% reduction that are taken off by each attack doesn't seem as useful as more heals from Oak Heart (that said see Defense comments in post 3). Similarly I passed on Bloodthirsty because while a big buff for switching to a melee encounter is there most of my melee powers are buffs; Fox's is the one exception here.
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The Nature build has all its key powers above level 30, this means that during leveling you need to try and keep lower level powers at 2 as long as possible. Personally I prioritize bumping them as follows; Split Shot, Thorn Ward, Pack Wolf, Rapid then dailies then others. you can of course do it differently to your taste.
On Forest Meditation: This power is a power you run 3/3 or pass on it. Personally I pass on it, I'm happy to pop potions and stack regen, which makes it an unnecessary power for me, however other players strongly recommend it, so if you choose to invest points in it you will need to decide what to sacrifice.
Powers In Detail
Split Shot/Strike 3/3 - The bread and butter of all HRs. This will basically never be off your bar. Try to hold for at least half a bar before releasing. Be aware that it fires all the way out to its range, so if you don't hit 5 closer targets with it, and there is another mob in the distance you will hit them and draw them into the fight, and you get their agro...
Rapid Shot/Strike 3/3 - This is a much maligned power. It does less damage than Split Shot for similar time frames but it does something else not documented in its description in PvE at least. When you hit an enemy with this they pause a moment, you can actually slow the advance of a normal movement or slow movement enemy (the charger/teleporter's cannot be affected) long enough to make a noticeable difference. This is nearly always on my bar.
Marauder's Escape/Rush2/3 - At low levels its a good get out of harm's way power. By end game its a poor choice. You never want to run that far from the party as a Nature build!
Seismic Shot 3/3 - Good damage, groups enemies into a bunch and pushes them. However it uses 100% of your AP. Its situationally good, but over all I rarely use it after I get access to Disrupting Shot, and at low levels it falls off my bar once I have Forest Ghost.
Aspect of the Falcon 2/3 - 1 point you have to put in it, and due to the way you have to level the 2nd one is basically needed as well because no points go in Mediation in this build.
Hindering Shot/Strike 3/3 - solid power choice for PvP and while leveling. 3 shots is also handy. Its mostly useful while leveling however. The third point could go elsewhere.
Rain of Arrows/Swords 3/3 - I personally have a love/hate relationship with this power. When it works its amazing (think Hexers and other enemies that rarely move), the rest of the time its bad. The small AoE and the fact that only arrows that hit something do damage make it a hard power to use, but it can be used very effectively on certain enemies or in certain parties. While leveling it also combos nicely with Hindering Strike.
Forest Ghost 3/3 - This power is very useful, the current bug with Stormstep aside. It grants some stealth in PvE, letting you break agro for its duration so you can take a pot and set up a power or just plain run away (because it gives a run speed boost as well). When being used to break agro you do need to be careful to move away from things however otherwise you hit them and gain agro you will need to remove when Ghost ends, unless someone else agros them. I find it particularly useful in things like the SP end boss for getting rid of the mobs that inevitably go to you, its also handy for running in to revive a team mate in a dangerous situation (as long as the floor isn't painted red). It is also really handy for just getting some damage on everything fast without taking much damage yourself; pop it and run through a pack of enemies and still have time to set up a power and take a pot.
Thorn Ward 3/3 This power is rarely off my bar. It hits fairly well (and you spend 3 feat points to buff it) and when it hits it debuffs whatever it hits, helping you kill things faster and generally boosting the party's damage. The debuff will force DR into negatives so you get bonus damage when you have ArP capped.
Aspect of the Lone Wolf 3/3 - Having finally adopted this power again (after abandoning it during play test) I have it on bar regularly now. It doesn't show up anywhere that it is working, but it is working. A DR boost of up to 25% is very handy on a squishy class like the HR. I take noticeably less damage with it slotted than without it.
Aimed Shot/Strike 3/3 It hits really hard in ranged and ok in melee with a DoT effect. In ranged it has a long cast time and is easily disrupted, but in the situations where it works (FH and SP spring to mind) it does amazing damage and is worth 3/3 just for those times. I see a lot of mention of using it in PvP but I don't recommend it for this build.
Constricting Arrow/Steel Breeze 3/3 It has an interrupt and it does ok damage or its a good AoE melee attack (with a fairly large AoE). During leveling its a solid power, once you are at 60 its a solid PvP power just for the staggered timing of the interrupt.
Boar Hide/Charge 3/3 - This is a useful power, more during leveling than in end game, but with certain party make ups could go on bar in end game as well. Depending on how much you need to get into thing's faces. Note that at 3/3 you have 10/8/6/4/2/0% DR bonus from this power - applying a 10% DR buff across a party is pretty handy as well. (Keep in mind while the general preference is to be at range, this build can go to melee with limited loss in effectiveness.)
Split the Sky/Throw Caution 3/3 - Very strong power when the party is confronted with a lot of adds and you have a tank. Worth 3/3 for those times (think FC and PK bosses).
Disruptive Shot 3/3 - This is an all around great power. While it doesn't stop movement and its only a short disruption it is enough to make a big difference from time to time in both PvE and PvP. Also combos with Stormstep nicely, without a bug.
Stormstep Action 3/3 - 3s off buff cool down for using a daily is a good deal when you have encounter cool downs of 10s plus.
Binding Arrow/Oak Skin 3/3 - this is one of our most damaging ranged powers for single target that is just point and shoot. It also applies strong grasping roots to anything within 25' that you hit along with whatever is directly behind the target. Its a solid PvE and PvP power. The buff is a heal (boosted by Power) that heals 100-200 points per tic and also a 10% Damage Reduction buff, this is handy in solo play because it reduces your need for pots. Its also a handy boost when your party is scattered all over in a dungeon, as like all our powers the range is "line of sight" (transparent walls still block them so no buffing after you die on a boss).
Commanding Shot/Stag Heart 3/3 - while it has low damage itself it does have a debuff (10-14% I haven't done enough testing for a conclusive result) that will drive damage resistance negative causing all attacks while the debuff is in effect to do more damage. With its slow casting time and over-blown animation its a PvE only power, but in PvE on bosses and elites its a great power. The Stag Heart buff provides about 2000 temp HP (I'm guessing its 10% of target HP at 3/3, again not enough testing to be certain) and when feated also grants 10% DR. On the surface this seems kind of pointless, but with 30-60% DR (according to your feats etc) and 20-30% deflect those Temps can last a surprisingly long time. For dungeon running its a go to power.
Fox's Cunning/Shift 3/3 Give everyone in the party a total damage dodge (but not CC) every 10s or do a strong melee attack (currently even stronger vs 1 target - hopefully never to be "fixed") against up to 5 targets. Always on bar. The range on Cunning is Line of Sight. Shift doesn't get used up if there are no targets in range.
Twin-blade Storm 3/3 Do 12% more damage for hitting 3 or more targets, this feature is nearly always giving you a significant damage buff. While it isn't always on bar it is there a lot.
Power Bar Selections:
At-Wills: Split Shot and Rapid Shot are the defaults, situationally Aimed Shot is rotated in for higher burst damage for single target encounters or encounters with elites with slow build up powers. Things like the DV end boss, FH bosses, Plaguechanged Maws and similar slow moving targets can all benefit from Aimed + Split as your load out.
Class Features:
Party: Aspect of the Pack Wolf + Twinblade Storm/Stormstep Action.
- Pack + Twinblade gives all the party within 25' of you CA and you bonus damage for multiple targets.
- Pack + Stormstep gives all the party within 25' of you CA and you get faster refresh on your buffs.
On Boss: (For example in SP/FH/VT end bosses) Lone Wolf + Stormstep. - You are hitting one target and other party memebers will rarely be close enough to worry about Pack. If you have some means of coordinating well then replace Stormstep with Pack.
Solo: Lone Wolf + Twinblade.
Daily Powers:
Forest Ghost + Disruptive/Seismic
Seismic is going to be ran in any place where pushes are important, but otherwise stick with Disruptive.
Encounters:
Party; Thorn, Commanding, Fox's
Single Target: Binding, Commanding, Fox's
SP Boss (and similar low movement bosses): Thorn, Commanding, Fox's or Thorn, Commanding, Rain
Solo: Thorn Ward, Binding, Fox's.
For both Solo and Party play you rotate out Commanding/Binding for Split the Sky as needed for the encounters you are running and the party you are with. Typically I will trigger the temps from Commanding then swap to Split before a boss fight such as in PK where adds swarm.
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The HR is a class that depends on its gear, a little experience with the game and you quickly learn to watch things like Power, Crit and Armor Pen, but often the damage number for weapons is overlooked (at least in conversations). With a HR dmg is a key factor in generating actual damage so if you have a choice between similar weapons for Power/Crit/ArP but one has higher damage always take the higher damage weapon.
On Aspect of the Serpent:
While I haven't gotten much from this feat due to my playstyle I recognise that this is an excellent alternative to Twinblade especially in dungeons when there is another HR that is hanging back and shooting. If you do want to spec into it I recommend trading points off Aspect of the Falcon (1) and Seismic Shot (2).
Dex and Damage:
23 Dex is the lowest dex you should ever have without a campfire, because you will just loose too much damage if it goes lower. See above reflection on the need for a high damage weapon set as well. Remember every point of dex above 10 is 1% damage; so if 2 HRs have identical gear the one with more dex will do more damage. You will notice this in pvp and dungeons so definitely no lower than 23 without campfire.
Weapon Enchants:
Vorpal: This is the obvious choice for improving your Crit based DPS, and even with this build 30% crit is relatively easy to gain.
Flaming: Not as obvious a choice for improving you DPS but with at-will AoE to spam out the DoT this will give you a clear boost in DPS as well, without you having to worry about getting crits.
Plague Fire: Probably the best enchant for this build, more base DPS and the debuff it applies works into the support side of the class this build is designed to enhance.
Terror: So you don't want to spend a lot of AD to get a Plague Fire? Then look no further than the Terror enchant; easy to get and it boosts your DPS and debuffs all the enemies you hit, boosting every one else's DPS. Probably the best Enchant if you went with the Forest Lord armor as well.
Armor Enchants:
Soulforged: Well its arguably the most powerful armor enchant in the game atm, the only reason not to run it generally is you are a GF or GWF Tank.
Barkshield: It looks cool, its thematic to the ranger, and its actually a fairly good enchant when you consider that you will nearly always have Fox's Cunning active so this is there to give you a few extra moments of breathing room.
Observations on Play Style:
While this is a primarily ranged build the Nature ranger isn't going to be hanging out a million miles from everyone else in the party. You want to be fairly close to the action, you are not going to loose dps because you have no dps boosts for being further away, so you can edge around and through the battle hanging out on the edge of the DC's blue circle and being fine. The only thing that makes you care about being back is Aspect of the Lone Wolf, and that is easy to accommodate without being so far from the party that Aspect of the Pack isn't doing anything as well (I mean when you pull agro and need to move away to get maximum effect from Lone Wolf that's fine). Keep moving, keep an eye on your buff timers and apply damage at-will.
More reflections will be added as they come to me.
Defensive Buffs
Not my work, but a great analysis of some of our defensive buffs and how they work can be found here. The net summary is that by stacking defense and running the buffs you can set yourself up with a very high Damage Reduction making you very survivable with a Nature Build. To maximize this you do need to take Endurance of the Boar 5/5, and your bar would have Binding/Commanding/Boar's as encounters and Lone Wolf as a feature.
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One question...do I see that right, that you can play this build without melee just ranged if you want or is it nessecary to switch?
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isnt it better to clear dungeons faster rather than having another semi support player in the team?
Really interested in building a nature hunter, but seems to me youd only contribute in harder dungeons rather than fast kill easy t2 dungeons
In easier dungeons the difference will not be noticed in the DPS.
In harder dungeons the difference made by the buffs will be noticed and the loss of DPS from you will be more than made up for by the increased DPS from everyone else (largely from Fox's) that loss will be more than covered. Remember when someone goes down they make no DPS and the person that goes to res them makes no DPS; so if people go down less you increase DPS.
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If the only way you are going to measure party contribution at the end of a dungeon is the Paingiver table this build isn't for you, but even then it should be placed 1-3 played right. This build contributes far more to dungeon success than raw DPS and you can see how successful it will be just running the powers it boosts in Archery tree. Where they are highly effective.
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Melee stance =/= melee range for power effects.
I've played a lot of HR and have a pretty good idea of what is going on with the class' mechanics, the biggest issue for this class is there are a lot of play-style variations you can have. For example my build assumes a shooty play-style, I can already tell you changes to make for a more hybrid style and even to get a more melee orientated build going. Thorough testing of the class is going to take months and a lot of people feeding back into threads like this one from trying the builds out and tinkering.
I've played this build, it works fine, only slightly behind the archer spec, I just haven't run it through every dungeon and every possible scenario. I haven't even managed to do that with my Archery spec. Even then there is a huge play-style issue with this class, because how you play is really going to change things up.
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Race: Wood Elf
Stats: base roll per post 1 with Dex/Wis Racials.
She will only get played when I don't have something I need for my main. But experience will make the first 20 levels or so go fast at least.
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Firstly I only do GG PvP (and that only for the AD with HRs).
Secondly this is not a PvP build, go check out the Combat Spec and Archer spec builds posted by others for PvP. Sure you can take it into PvP, but compared to those specialized builds this will not do very well.
Thirdly as noted above my live version of this character is barely started, level 20 by the end of the weekend isn't going to be getting you any exciting video footage that tells you anything about the build that is different from any other shooty based ranger at that level.
But the truth is I'm not sure what you expect to get from a video. 1 or 2 instances of the build at work is hardly going to show anything of note.
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hey volt, can you explain why choose those bows for specific sets? thanks
Dread Legion Bow Set
Set 1 Bonus 450 Armor Pen
1866 Power
450 Armor Pen
218 Crit Strike
218 Life Stea
Forest Lord
Set 1 Bonus 450 Recovery
Set 2 Bonus When you Buff a Ally you have a chance to grant them 500 Power 500 Armor Pen Crit Strike Or Recovery You always grant the stat of theirs thats is highest.
9AC
1271 Recovery
1271 Deflect
766 Defence
574 Power
504 Lifesteal
The forest Lord set comes with like no Armor pen Dread legion Bow comes with a little crit and 900 armor pen and it comes with more life steal and a lot of power. With just the two item sets alone you stats will be. If Obs doesn't mind me hijacking and making a few recommendations. This gives us allot of leeway i am gonna stick the regen rings on this ranger because regen is ****ing amazing.The Accessories set up is
Rings: Noble ring of the beast
Belt Frost pelt Girdle
Gemmed shirt and Pants
Neck: Any neck with 154 power recovery and crit on it
Recommended Artifacts
Waters of Elah'zad obs already explained this one
Lantern of Revelation more dps stats for you Obs took care of this one
Emblem of Seldarine
Bind on Equip
Recharge Time:120s.
Use:
- Buff yourself and nearby allies with Seldarine's Blessing for 15s, during which time they will be Healed for 437 / 581 / 725 / 869 every time they are hit.
Equip:+300 Defense.
Equip:+300 Life Steal.
Equip:+400 Companion Influence.
If your a buffing ranger this should be you main Artifacts IMHO its not realy a big heal its more of dmg mitigation it will negate trash mob dmg it als also prevent a party whipe.This also great for pvp Buff rangers basically never leave home with out it. This drops in MC
Combined Forest Lord Dread Legion Bow with Boons Artifacts and Rank 7 enchants and Accessories
You hit all of you offensive caps you will be stuck with a 30% crit chance or near it if obbs gave you rolls with at least 15 Str you will be neer armor pen cap in pve this also lets you hit life steal cap and regen caps of 10% if your running thistle stack deflection simple as that alternatively you can also just stack HP in fact i recommend it more for this build.
Power 3123
Armor Pen 1604 4 rank 7 azure
Crit strike 1841
Deflection 2196 5 rank 7 silvery
Recovery 2175
Life steal 1542
Regen 1589
Defence 1436
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Thank you. I really like how you explain things in the ranger section
One of the biggest problems I see myself having is actually getting a Royal Guard and a Forest Lord set to test and compare how the build works once I reach 60.
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Whats a good active compaion to have if you only want it rank 15? Man at arms used to be great but now he can only take a few hits(finishing up rothe valley) even with nature buffs and the 300k price tag to upgrade is a bit daunting.
Alternatively go to Winter Festival every day and get the Mimic; actually do this anyway because once you change to the Cat or Stone (Cat by prefference) the mimic offers +100 defence as its active bonus vs the man at arms' +25.
What didn't you like about Fox's? (The fact it doesn't protect you from CC now is annoying but the damage reduction can be huge and its our hardest hitting burst damage encounter.)
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Are there any melee focused builds?? I can't find any on the forums atm. If not, what feats/powers should I be getting? if you have tested any builds.
(On my phone so no link but its on the front page of this section.)
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I mainly don't like the camera going crazy during the melee version. I also like having the knockdown from boarcharge too much.
Yeah love the prone from Boar Charge as well, and totally understand about the camera movement on Fox's Shift.
I'm still trying to figure a build that abuses Fox's and Boars to be honest but I think that is moving away from the shooting based build of my original posts and into a more hybrid build. Which I do think would be effective with a nature spec.
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That's very much the thinking behind this build as well.
I'd love to hear the differences and the reasons why you picked those options.
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