CA Piss Off Ranger (utility ranger)

well, i made this build today as sorta like a Expertise build, and i found it works pretty good. it spreads the 3 best conditions (in my eyes) - Dazed, Cripple, and Blind, and can keep them up almost indefinetly

12+4 Expertise (yea, your seeing things right, 16 expertise)
9+1 Marksmanship
9+1 Wilderness

Oath Shot (e)
Whirling Defense
Pin Down
Dust Trap
Healing Spring
Concussion Shot
Read the Wind
Rez Sig

alright, this build is ALL about Oath Shot. now, ill tell you about all the good stuff about this build

you can keep up whirling defense during the entire battle, as it lasts 21 seconds and oath shot has 20 seond recharge

you can keep up healing spring all the time with oath shot, as it lasts 10 seconds

you can use 2 dust traps back to back for 39 damage a second five seconds+ blind

you can keep cripple up all the time with Pin Down and Oath Shot

you can keep dazed up all the time with the recharge and low energy cost

Concussion shot and Dust Trap each cost only 10 energy each

everything else is under 5 energy

energy is never a problem with 16 expertise and careful timing.

and the best one - You can piss of any class.

you are a vital asset to any team, with the ability to blind warriors, cripple fleeing targets, Daze and constantly interrupt Spellcasters, and keep up an AoE heal indefinetly

this build might not suit everybodies fancy, namely those devout Ranger Spikers, but it works really good

This is the reason why rangers are the best class!
Knido has presented this fact clearly in this well thought out build.

/applause

Here comes the critiques ...

Very impressive i will most defintily give it a try!!

QUestion are you using a sup to get expertise that High? or a major?


Thanks for sharing!!

Quote: Originally Posted by 4runner

superior + mask, and glad for the positive feedback ^^

if you wanted to you could take out RtW for apply poison, just to add a 4th condition to the build.

no rtw is better. the speed on the arrow should be maintained. this build is good but under energy denial it could die out. anyways at least concussion shot cameback. i rememebr in april how all monks brought mend ailment and now only a few bring it.

i'll definitly have to try this out.

Awesome build knido!

Ugh, pain in the butt.

Careful not to shoot an Oath Shot at a stance user. Then you'd be in big trouble

God Bless Oath shot =)

is this build efficient in pve? or just a pvp build.. because my r/me needs a bit of help developing for a pve general mission build w/ teams.

eh, pretty much a PvP build, havent tried it on my PvE ranger yet.

might work good, but take out Pin Down for something else

I thought that particular attribute split went 12/10/8...am I missing something?

Anyways, my only issue is repeating the caution of picking your Oath Shot targets very carefully. Accidentally toss one at a Lightning Reflexes or another Whirling Defense and you're up a crick, especially if your own WD is about to expire. Otherwise, interesting build. Never really seen an effective use of the ungodly expensive Concussion Shot before. Also, why Dust Trap? Throw Dirt would seem a more effective Blind to me, though that's mostly because Throw Dirt's more splashable than a Trap. Again, I'm just a stupid nOOb, so if I'm wrong let me know :-P

yea, its supposed to be either 12/10/8 or 12/9/9, messed up on that.

and i just threw in Dust Trap for damage, since i figured i had all this extra energy anyway

I like being annoying, and these are 2 pictures which have been flamed like hell at ogaming. None are fake, and I have 16 other pictures to back it up, discredit each one, I dare you. OK with all the ominous talking and crap out of the way.....http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/5...minutes6pe.jpg
(on my monk, started at 7pm lasted until 5am, fell asleep and got killed while sleeping -_-)
http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/2339/owned1sc.jpg
On my ranger ^_^

Im going to give that a try.

Wow, I just tried loading this page on my 56k laptop, lagged like crazy. I'll put the images as a link instead of imbedding, sorry about that

I been ruining a build like this for a long time and loved it. A matter of fact I now believe Oath shot is one of the top Elite in the game. I used to run dust trap but found I got intruded to many times and it was to costly. Throw dirt really works better. I also learned Healing spring sometimes works great but then you get to those people that can hit you even thou you got Whirling Defense up. Your build really does works well and is a lot of fun.

Here is mine I had a lot of success with

12+2Expertise
12+ 3 Marksmanship

PinDown/ or Troll urgent or healing springs.
Oath Shot (e)
Read the Wind
Concussion Shot
Distracting shot
Throw Dirt
Rez sig
Lighting reflexes ( I have learned to like this better than Whirling defenses because it allows to attack faster it last 11 sec compared to Whirling defenses 18 sec. 7 sec with oath shot doesn’t matter :

I also like this variation

Call Shot
Oath Shot (e)
Apply poison
Concussion Shot
Distracting shot
Throw Dirt
Rez sig
Lighting reflexes

I want to try your build with maxed expertise (and 1 thing, 15 in this attribute is not enough? i mean 15x4=60% less cost, it's 64% round up?)

Well, my build:
Wilderness maxed (15 or 16)
Expertise 11/12 i don't remember
Marksmanship 9

All these with its runes.

Skills:

Fire trap
Dust trap
Poison shot (e)
Kindle (i think it's the english name, i mean the +fire damage, not the explosive)
Troll
Whirling defense
spike trap (well the non elite bleeding trap)
Rez signet

This build is hard vs warriors, since when they trigger traps i also shot them poison (and bleeding + poison is hard to keep without healing, and meanwhile some burn to damage).
Also with kindle and poison shot you can do enough damage to be annoying at least.
Is not perfect, perhaps you have energy trouble, but all skills are of few energy less dust trap.
Sometimes i change a trap for double shot.

See you people.

...replace rtw with 'Determined Shot,' and if you are aware that you will be firing at a stance user; use Determined instead of Oathshot.

a pity to lose rtw; but a composite bow should compensate a bit for the lack of 'zip.'