Curse

Flamingpeanut · Aug 04, 2005, 09:29 AM // 09:29

Ok, here's the build I currently have:

R/Me
Illusion Magic: 9
Expertise: 8 (9 with rune)
Wilderness Survival: 10 (13 with mask + major rune)
Marksmanship: 10 (11 with rune)

Skills:
Kindle Arrows
Poison Arrow
Conjure Phantasm
Power Shot
Dual Shot
Troll Unguent
Whirling Defense
Res Signet

Basically I start the fight by whacking on Kindle Arrows, for the extra 20 damage per hit. Pick my target, Poison and Phantasm for -9 degeneration. After that I'm just hitting them with Power/Dual shot and recasting Poison/Phantasm when needed, with Unguent and Defense for when someone hits me.

This build has been fine for 4v4 arenas, but I was wondering if anyone has any ideas to improve it.

Some suggestions I've had:
Swap Power Shot with Penetrating Shot
Swap Dual Shot with Hunter's Shot and Phantasm for Epidemic (spread the pain).

Bast · Aug 04, 2005, 10:52 AM // 10:52

This will be much more effective:

Skills:
Signet of Midnight [E]
Kindle Arrows
Conjure Phantasm
Power Shot
Dual Shot
Troll Unguent
Whirling Defense
Res Signet

ElderAtronach · Aug 04, 2005, 11:15 AM // 11:15

Do you know how signet of midnight works? Without antidote signet in there as well, you are just as blind as the warrior you used it on...

As for power shot, I'd definitely swap it for penetrating.

Neo-LD · Aug 04, 2005, 11:31 AM // 11:31

1) Penetrating is better than power, no reason not to switch.

2) Epidemic Stinks. The enemies have to be shoulder to shoulder for it to work.

3) How in the world will signet of midnight improve that ranger. Itll make it worse!

Bast · Aug 05, 2005, 04:02 AM // 04:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neo-LD

3) How in the world will signet of midnight improve that ranger. Itll make it worse!

Lol. Is that possible? Phantasm? 2 preparations? Troll? Whirly Defense? That's 4 or 5 skills you can toss right there.

Signet of Midnight at least shuts one of the other team's warriors or rangers down. That's a better use of a character than the original build was.

ComMan · Aug 05, 2005, 04:13 AM // 04:13

Drop Illusion Magic and put those points into Ranger attributes.

Get 4 Beast Mastery and add Tiger's Fury to your lineup.

Drop Whilring Defnese, if you really need a defnesive skill then take Dodge or Dryder's Defenses, since Whirling D won't help you escape from anything but another Ranger or a Warrior. With Dodge you can at least try to get out of casting Ranger.

Flamingpeanut · Aug 05, 2005, 04:25 AM // 04:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bast

Lol. Is that possible? Phantasm? 2 preparations? Troll? Whirly Defense? That's 4 or 5 skills you can toss right there.

Signet of Midnight at least shuts one of the other team's warriors or rangers down. That's a better use of a character than the original build was.

First of all, if you knew anything about rangers you'd know that Pison Arrow isn't a preparation.
And instead of talking about skills you can 'toss' why not give some examples of what you'd put in there instead?

wesam the wicked · Aug 05, 2005, 05:03 AM // 05:03

actually, thats a pretty good build.

the kindle+psn arrow is a great fast way to do dmg and psn ur apponents, and with the conjure phantasm the 9 degen is quite nice.

also, in my opinion the penetrating arrow is a DEFINITE switch, especially if your using a horn bow. i have one with a sundering on it, so 1/10 times i get a total of 40% armor pen which is absolutely devastating (on avg 30% though with Pen Arrow).

also, i would HIGHLY recommend lighting reflexes, because first of all u do not have to take off any points top put into beast mastery (it works off expertise) and its a great way to protect urself while prepping a troll or for an offensive because of the increased attack speed. i use it in conjuction with kindle arrows and pen arrow/dual shot, because u can spam dual and pen arrow for really sick amounts of damage.

also, u want to keep dual shot because of ur kindle flame preparation. this way u get dual 20 fire dmg, plus the dmg of your bow, and it has a fairly fast recharge time.

otherwise nice setup, i hope that helps

Bast · Aug 05, 2005, 06:22 AM // 06:22

I'm encouraging you to experiment.

Think about what you want to do and figure out how to do it with only 7 or 8 skills.

The Poison Arrow was a misread. My eyes read Poison Arrow, my brain said Apply Poison. However, it matters little because they're both trash. Woo~!

Flamingpeanut · Aug 05, 2005, 09:00 AM // 09:00

Well, fun new update.
Just had a few hours' experiment in 4v4, and here's something that's worked well:

Same stats as before, but in 9 BM instead of Illusion.

Kindle Arrows
Tiger's Fury
Poison Arrow
Penetrating Shot
Hunter's Shot/Dual Shot/Distracting Shot (Depending on what I want to do)
Troll Unguent
Dryder's Defenses
Res Signet

Sort of removes the degeneration theme, but it's working well. May need to get a Half Moon to make full use of Tiger's Fury though.

Puddin Tame · Aug 06, 2005, 12:28 AM // 00:28

Peanut, you may do just a little better with the mineral springs shortbow as second weapon set, rather than that crappy purple longbow I sold you.

ElderAtronach · Aug 06, 2005, 12:40 AM // 00:40

Just wondered why you have Dryder's defense. Rangers already have superb armor against elements, and it doesn't last long for the recharge time to warrant its inclusion in the build...

@ Bast: Jesus forgives you