Curse

Legeon · Jun 28, 2006, 10:23 PM // 22:23

Hi all.

Now I'm not usually the one to say

"oh man I made this build I rock" or anything like that but today I created a rather nasty build for random arena which worked great for me. The premise is, you use discord as your main dmg source + apply poison + parasitic bond as a condition/hex to get it going. Also you'll be using a bow so you can distract things like heal sigs and troll unguents. Also, you'll have whirling defense to protect yourself.

I'm not saying its a perfect build with no weaknesses, but it's a nice change of pace from the touch rangers you always see.

The build is this:

13 expertise (9 + 1 + 3)
10 wilderness (9 + 1)
12 death magic

Skills:

1) Discord {E}
2) Parasitic Bond
3) Taste of Pain (or Throw Dirt)
4) Distract Shot
5) Apply Poison
6) Troll Unguent
7) Whirling Defense
8) Resurrection Signet

So to recap. You first use apply poison, hit someone, cast parasitic bond. That's -5 regen right there. Then you spam Discord every 2 seconds. If you see a heal sig/res sig/troll unguent or anything else you don't like, distract shot it. Heal yourself with troll ungy, or use taste of pain. And whirling for assassins/warriors/rangers etc.

Weaknesses of the build:

Since discord is a spell not a skill, things like reversal, backfire and such will be annoying. But the beauty part of the build is, not many expect rangers to use spells so it doesn't happen very much.

Highlights of the build so far:

Soloing a frenzied W/Mo in 11 seconds from full health.

Anyways there she is. I just made it this morning so maybe it's not the best it could be, but it works not too bad. And as far as I know this build hasn't been done before as I haven't seen or heard of any rangers using this. Give it a shot and tell me what you guys think. And btw, the reason its R/N and not N/R is because of the better armor, expertise, easy to apply conditions and great self defense stances which a necro can't really provide.

And I play Ranger and only Ranger so I just wanted to make a build that's fresh and fun. I know there's better builds out there but I'm just saying this one was fun to do and doesn't work half-bad either

Have fun!

Ruhern · Jun 28, 2006, 11:17 PM // 23:17

Since you said you just made this build, and you didn't say which weapons you are using, then I suggest it may help if your secondary weapon be a wand that has 20% chance half cast time 20% chance to half recharge time on Death Magic spells. Though you may already do that.

Legeon · Jun 29, 2006, 12:25 AM // 00:25

ah thanks, forgot to mention you need a poisonous bow. apply poison doesnt work with staffs unfortunately.

Legeon · Jun 29, 2006, 12:25 AM // 00:25

bah dbl post...can mod delete please. thanks.