Curse

whufc89 · Mar 20, 2008, 10:41 PM // 22:41

I'm setting up Pyre Fierceshot as an interrupt ranger & so far I have the following build for him:

[skill]broad head arrow[/skill][skill]epidemic[/skill][wiki]VOLLEY[/wiki][skill]distracting shot[/skill][skill]savage shot[/skill][skill]lightning reflexes[/skill][skill]resurrection signet[/skill]

Expertise - 12
Marksmanship - 16

He also uses a recurve bow.

Lightning reflexes is for IAS, BHA for daze, Epidemic to spread daze to adjacent enemies, Volley for mass interrupts when enemies are dazed.

The thing is, I have one skill slot left & I'm not sure what to include in it. I don't want to put in a self heal as I always bring 3 monks with me & 99% of the time they do brilliant at healing. I was going to add [wiki]Disrupting Shot[/wiki] in the list skill slot but on the wiki page it says "Notes: Heroes do not use this skill effectively".

So basically:

- What do you think of this build?
- What skill should I include in the last skill slot?

Thanks a lot.

EDIT: I just read up on [wiki]Sloth Hunter's Shot[/wiki] & it suggests using it along with skills which interrupt or daze. What do you think?

Antithesis · Mar 21, 2008, 01:11 AM // 01:11

Poison Tip Signet. Sloth Hunter's makes energy management a bit dodgy on a Hero in that build. I also use Needling Shot in place of Lightning Reflexes.
Drop Marks back to 14 in HM, bump Exp to 13.

whufc89 · Mar 21, 2008, 01:19 AM // 01:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by Antithesis

Poison Tip Signet. Sloth Hunter's makes energy management a bit dodgy on a Hero in that build. I also use Needling Shot in place of Lightning Reflexes.
Drop Marks back to 14 in HM, bump Exp to 13.

Cheers, although you don't think 12-13 expertise will be enough Energy Management for that build?

What about keeping sloth shot & replacing lightning reflexes with PTS?

Also, if the enemies are poisoned the hero may use epidemic to spread the poison instead of concentrating on using BHA & spreading daze. I'm just wondering about hundreds of different things at the moment so I may be wrong of course

Antithesis · Mar 21, 2008, 01:51 AM // 01:51

My hero struggles a bit with Sloth, it just tips the energy balance even without LR. Maybe a Zealous bow string will be ok due to Volley.

The hero runs Epidemic fine with PTS and BHA on the bar. There is some downtime however as it takes a little time to activate PTS (only a sec but you notice it) which does interrupt the flow of Needling Shot on my build.

Keen Arrow's another option for the Sloth slot.

whufc89 · Mar 21, 2008, 02:28 AM // 02:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by Antithesis

My hero struggles a bit with Sloth, it just tips the energy balance even without LR. Maybe a Zealous bow string will be ok due to Volley.

The hero runs Epidemic fine with PTS and BHA on the bar. There is some downtime however as it takes a little time to activate PTS (only a sec but you notice it) which does interrupt the flow of Needling Shot on my build.

Keen Arrow's another option for the Sloth slot.

Thanks a lot, I'll try it out