Spirit's Strength sniper

This is a Spirit's Strength build. the only thing missing is [card]Sight Beyond Sight[/card]. Agreed, take out one of the two stances for [card]Sight Beyond Sight[/card].

Volley is really the only reason to run /R over /P. Paragon is vastly superior for single target DPS. im not sure if this would remain true if they used turret ranger skills.. but they would destroy your energy.

plus volley fails

im not sure if this would remain true if they used turret ranger skills.. but they would destroy your energy.

plus volley fails Yeah, absolutely no way to maintain the energy for that. Volley is perfectly fine for a rit, especially with splinter. It's perfectly fine if splinter expires quickly, because then you procced a gazillion damage off it, so all is well.

Personally, I just run splinter barrage whenever I want to do that, but volley works perfectly fine.

i don't think so , splinter will end very soon , and each of the 3 arrows of volley count as attacks , so it's like one volley and goodbye splinter , you should go as /P imo I am pretty sure that that is the whole entire point of Splinter + Volley/Barrage.

Agreed, take out one of the two stances for [card]Sight Beyond Sight[/card]. well I originally started out with that instead of dryders, however after several matches I found that blind was almost never used against me so I figued it would improve survivability with the blocking stance (saved me from more than a few sin spikes ). Still Sight is a very useful cover enchant for SS, but again I didn't run into enough enchant removal to make me reconsider it (about 15 matches and only had SS removed once).

But yeah, the build is really just something that came about from boredom and tinkering around with SS. I was really focusing on being able to strike from extreme range and still strike for very considerable damage. 60 and up damage per strike from longbow range is pretty fun, and it does make killing capture point npc's rediculously easy.

ur beter off using a normal ranger build as it requires less prepartion and has much more room for error than ur build. In ab i use prepared shot+sundering attack+penetrating attack and it works just nicely, i do 50-90dps using this spike. On top of that, i gain energy while spiking over along period of time=P (2energy for an 8second spike to be exact), then i use this energy for a expensive concussion shot that pwns any 1second caster or longer ele. also ur build lacks energy management / reliability 8 second spike?

Even though I'm pve through and through i'd never make a comment like that

Ranger's advantage over rits is energy consumption. Rits advantage here is every arrow can get +8 dmg from level 10 marks +35 from say 15 spawning - that's +43 damage EVERY "vanilla" SHOT. While I agree, setup can take away from pvp, I've been using this for a few days recently in pve and it is devastating. needling shot in particular, hitting for 66 damage, against any target reguardless of armor without pause.

The spear IS faster which makes the dps better, and the skills are adrenaline based letting the rit focus on keeping cover enchants and weapon spells up, but the bow is fine. Triple shot will go over rather well with this. even dual shot grants over 80 armor ignoring damage - though as a rit, energy will be a problem.

well I originally started out with that instead of dryders, however after several matches I found that blind was almost never used against me so I figued it would improve survivability with the blocking stance (saved me from more than a few sin spikes ). Still Sight is a very useful cover enchant for SS, but again I didn't run into enough enchant removal to make me reconsider it (about 15 matches and only had SS removed once).

But yeah, the build is really just something that came about from boredom and tinkering around with SS. I was really focusing on being able to strike from extreme range and still strike for very considerable damage. 60 and up damage per strike from longbow range is pretty fun, and it does make killing capture point npc's rediculously easy. It's a cover enchantment, mostly. But it's still an essential skill to use when you're up against Air Elementalists.