Rubbinns wrote on Nov 13^th, 2013 at 6:07am:

From here on your post just went downhill.

It's a template, designed especially for all round efficiency for someone chain TR'ing. It also happens to be a strong template for any random life even without all of the gear I used.

That aside:

16monk for Qp is obviously viable (hell my monk is a 16/2/2 now), but it's slower to level than this 9/9/2.  16monk is pretty locked into a monk pastlife too...

The template as posted here isn't really EE optimized either, it's a TR focused build thread.

i like it ... the wolf air combo with druid monk and the enhancement bonus to doublestrike is deadly and kills  - the whole speed and DS bonus w 100% attacks on both hands is where its at.  atm im leveling a druid past like that ill end up making some form of 9+ druid ( currently 10 druid and 4 monk ) the winterwolf form w impCB means 17-20 3x crits about as fast as you can peel em off. theres even enhancements to make fort drop ... will help with bosses and undeads

Great idea there.

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/432557-pastlifenmo-am-I-missing-someth...

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pastlifenmo...am I missing something?

    Okay for those of you who know this build, maybe someone can explain something that I think is incorrect...

    Level 1, Druid (Feat: Cleave)
    Level 2, Druid
    Level 3, Druid
    Level 4, Monk
    Level 5, Druid
    Level 6, Druid (Feat: Great Cleave)

    Can someone explain to me how you can take Great Cleave when you need a BAB of 4, and a lvl 5 druid, lvl 1 monk splash only has a BAB of 3. Now if I just go druid all the way to 6, I can get the feat and wait until 7 for splashing monk, but that isn't what the build shows on the website that shall not be named. Am I completely wrong with this? I tried creating a lvl 7 to test and ran into that snag when following the build exactly as it's laid out.

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and Esmarelda, why you no ask here?

I've got no idea where he's gone wrong here.

Gutted too.  Now his thread will probably show up when people google Pastlifenmo

Thank you Munkenmo for pwning me on how to finally post!

And I apologize for posting to the ddo forums because I couldn't figure out how to post here and reading iz hard!

But let me ask because I cannot figure it out.  I think the concept is great and it looks good. But from creating a lvl 7 char on the server and following the levelling path, level 1-3 is druid. 3rd lvl druid BAB is +2. Then take 1 monk, BAB +0, then 2 more druid, 4th and 5th, BAB is only +3. So at lvl 6, my BAB is +3. Unless I am missing something else, does the enhancements change that, or is the basic math incorrect? And it's not just the math, I tried it on a fresh veteran char, lvl 7 so I should have been able to build up to 7. I want to follow this path because it looks awesome. But maybe I'm doing something wrong.  Do the enhancements you listed have any impact?  And yea, insult me as a noob because really I am since I came back about a month ago after leaving over a year ago when MOTU came out.

Yea I saw Ellis on the other post explain the changes...and thanks for updating your info.  It may have been different in the past and I won't be adding to the discussion on the other site.  This build looks great and I look forward to using it on my next TR.

And here's another noob question.  What skills do you normally take when levelling?  Balance, Jump, Bluff?  I want to make sure I am making the most out of my levelling since I only get 1-2 hours a night to grind.  But oh I love the grind.

Esmarelda wrote on Dec 11^th, 2013 at 10:57pm:


I max umd and intimidate.

It's easier to kill enemies who're aggroed on me than running after someone else.

UMD is godly.

After those 2, 1tumble, rest spot, if you still have skill points then balance.

Jump's not too important, druids get it as a spell, you'll max it out between the spell and your str score.

Munkenmo wrote on Dec 11^th, 2013 at 11:28pm:


Since skills aren't really high priority except UMD, would this build do well with a 1 rog splash for trapping?  I am assuming you solo well with this build, but how do you deal with traps?

You are able to run through elite traps and not get chopped into pieces?  I'm not all GS'd out so I don't have the extra HP that would be needed if I failed a save.  Unless this build incorporates high saves so traps are trivial and I have not seen it.

But if that's the general consensus, then it's something I will attempt.