The Ric Flair Woo Woo Woo Build

If you don't know who Ric Flair aka The Nature Boy is, you should read this first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ric_Flair 

TL;DR watch this:


If you don't know how "woo" applies to DDO, it's the sound effect when neg leveling a mob.

Goals:

Superb damage avoidance and mitigation
Excellent melee damage
Desired in Shadowfell EE quests
Decent Self-Healing
Totally Awesome Build Name

Human 9 Monk/8 Fighter/3 Ranger

1F Exotic Weapon Proficiency: Bastard Sword, Power Attack, Weapon Focus: Slashing
2R
3M Dodge, Cleave
4R
5M Mobility
6F Exotic Weapon Proficiency: Khopesh, Great Cleave
7F
8M Path:Harmonious Balance
9F Improved Critical: Slashing, Weapon Specialization: Slashing
10F
11M
12F Improved Two Weapon Fighting, Greater Two Weapon Fighting
13F
14M
15F Greater Weapon Focus: Slashing, Magical Training
16M Deflect Arrows
17M
18M Master of Forms
19M
20R
21 Overwhelming Critical
24 Spring Attack
26 Perfect TWF
27 Blinding Speed
28 Elusive Target

Kensei (33)
1 Kensei Focus
6 Extra Action Boost III
2 Kensei Weapon Specialization I
2 Exotic Weapon Mastery
1 Spiritual Bond
1 Strike With No Thought
3 Haste Boost III
2 Kensei Weapon Specialization II
4 Improved Dodge II
2 Weapon Meditation I
1 Shattering Strike I
2 Kensei Weapon Specialization III
2 Kensei Weapon Specialization IV
1 Reed in the Wind (filler)
1 Keen Edge
1 Deadly Strike
1 One with The Blade

Ninja Spy (12)
1 Ninja Training I
3 Acrobatic III
2 Sneak Attack Training I
1 Ninja Training II
2 Fists of Iron
3 Agility III
1 Shadow Veil

Shintao (15)
1 Bastion of Purity
6 Deft Strikes III
1 Protection from Tainted Creatures
6 Iron Skin III
1 Iron Hand

Tempest (12)
1 Shield of Whirling Steel
2 Whirling Blades
2 Improved Reaction II
1 Tempest
6 Improved Parry III

Human (8)
1 Damage Boost
2 Constitution
1 Defense Boost
2 Strength
2 Improved Recovery I

Fury of the Wild:
1: Primal Scream (3), Fast Healing (3)
2: Acute Instincts (3), Damage Reduction (3)
3:
4: Sense Weakness (3), Overwhelming Force (3)
5: Fury Eternal (2)
6: Unbridled Fury (2)
2 AP unallocated

Twists:
Momentum Swing
A Dance of Flowers
Rejuv Cocoon

Gear:
Head: EE Black Dragon Helm +3 CON (Green: Good Luck, Yellow: 40 Fire Resist)
Goggles: Deadly of Accuracy
Chest: Flawless Black Dragon Robe (Blue: Heavy Fortification)
Bracer: 30% Healing Amp of Superior Parrying
Ring1: EE Ring of the Djinn
Ring2: Guardian's Ring (Yellow: 40 Cold Resist)
Boots: Epic Kundarak Delving Boots (Colorless: Vitality)
Belt: Skullduggery Kit 10% Dodge (Green: False Life)
Trinket: Planar Prowess +3 STR
Cloak: EE Jeweled Cloak (Green: 8 Resistance, Yellow: 8 WIS)
Neck: Jorgundal's Collar (Green: 8 CON, Colorless: 8 DEX)
Mainhand: Nightmare, The Fallen Moon
Offhand: Nightmare, The Fallen Moon

PRR:
24 item (Guardian's Ring)
15 Artifact (Planar Conflux)
12 Master Earth Stance
15 Iron Skin
10 Epic Damage Reduction
10 Improved Parry
06 Damage Reduction (FotW)
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92 PRR = 39.2% damage reduction
15 Standing with Stone (instead of Momentum Swing)
---
107 PRR = 42.8% damage reduction

Dodge:
10 item
06 Monk levels
03 Dodge feat
02 Mobility feat
02 Spring attack feat
03 Acrobatic (Ninja Spy)
02 Improved Dodge (Kensei)
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28% Dodge (28% Dodge cap)

Positive Spell Power:
138 Augment
024 Implement
050 Heal skill
030 Shintao
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232 Positive Spell Power

Healing Amp:
15 Shintao
30 Item
05 Past Life: Paladin
10 Improved Recovery (Human)
10 Ship
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189%

Stats:
STR 16 (10 points) + 5 tome + 7 level ups + 8 item + 3 insightful + 1 exceptional + 5 primal + 2 yugo + 2 ship + 1 human = 52
DEX 16 (10 points) + 5 tome + 8 item + 1 exceptional + 2 ship - 2 stance = 30
CON 16 (10 points) + 5 tome + 8 item + 3 insightful + 1 exceptional + 5 primal + 2 yugo + 2 ship + 1 human + 3 stance = 46
INT 8 (0 points) + 5 tome + 1 exceptional + 2 ship = 16
WIS 14 (6 points) + 5 tome + 8 item + 1 exceptional + 2 ship = 30
CHA 8 (0 points) + 5 tome + 1 exceptional + 2 ship = 16

Weapon Profile: Nightmare, The Fallen Moon
29 Base Damage: 3.0[1d12] + A Dance With Flowers 1.5[1d12]
08 Enhancement
05 Power Attack
10 Deadly
21 STR bonus
04 Artifact (Planar Conflux)
04 Weapon Specialization (Kensei)
01 Whirling Blades (Tempest)
02 Weapon Specialization (feat)
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84 average base damage (mainland), 73 average base damage (offhand)

Crit Profile: 15-18/x2, 19-20/x3
100% offhand proc

HP
0025 Heroic Durability
0010 Improved Heroic Durability
0010 Draconic Vitality
0072 Monk 9
0080 Fighter 8
0024 Ranger 3
0080 Epic
0020 Vitality item
0035 False Life item
0100 Fury of the Wild
0020 Yugoloth HP portion
0504 +18 CON bonus
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980
0020 Barbarian Past Life x2 (optional)
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1000

Fo/Re/Wi
06/02/02 Fighter 8
06/06/06 Monk 9
03/03/01 Ranger 3
04/04/04 Epic 8
01/01/01 Competence (Eldritch Ritual)
02/02/02 Luck (Augment)
04/04/04 Morale (Greater Heroism)
01/01/01 Sacred (ship)
00/03/00 Agility (Ninja Spy)
00/02/00 Improved Reaction (Tempest)
18/10/10 CON/DEX/WIS
08/08/08 Resistance (augment)
04/04/04 Insightful (item)
00/00/-4 Yugo STR drawback
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57/50/39
00/00/02 Still Mind (vs. Enchantment)
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57/50/41

Props to Kazual for the build name and inspiration.

I LR20ed an old toon into a kensai monk greataxe thing and it's feeling pretty uninspired... maybe I'll try something like this in a LR. Keeping blitz up is just too difficult half the time, there's either too many doors or there's other competent DPS taking kills.

Munkenmo wrote on Sep 15^th, 2013 at 11:04pm:

I'm building within the confines of DDO.  Imperfection and disappointment abound.

Different class split . . . but this basically IS my fighter and it works out very well.

A guildie and I were wondering if the upcoming woo gems from mabar will "stack" with the woo inherent in Nightmare. The woo gem is on a 20, and the Nightmare is on crit. If it DID stack, that'd be pretty cool, when you roll a 20.

rest wrote on Sep 16^th, 2013 at 12:57am:


The more woowoo the better.

Did an EE WGU a few weeks are with 4 guys with dual-woowoo.  Somebody fraps'd it and I'm glad it never made it to YouTube and the inevitable Turbine nerfing machine.

Persiflage wrote on Sep 16^th, 2013 at 10:23am:


http://ddowiki.com/page/Life_Stealing

Limpgimp wrote on Sep 16^th, 2013 at 10:37am:


Yah, so basically "nothing" for a TWF build.  When I get around to a stick build, I'll probably try the woowoo stick while levelling 

rest wrote on Sep 16^th, 2013 at 12:54pm:


Er... "never"?

Took me a minute to figure out why you said that, but I guess my question would have been better phrased "Which weapons - apart from the Sacrificial Dagger, Grave Wrappings and Nightmare-or-anything-else-found-in-raids - have woo-woo properties?"

The answer is: "A stick".   

That'd be a plan I could go for, if only the ES challenge loot made some kind of sense  :/  Ditto on Obscenity, but I pulled a light hammer, I think; whatever it was, it wasn't something I could see myself using   

So, will on-crit WooWoo stack with on-vorpal WooWoo?

Carpone wrote on Sep 15^th, 2013 at 11:56pm:


This needs to be added to the feed!

How would you guys build a watered down first life version of this build using sacrificial daggers? I guess the same split as in the OP would work, but here's a twist: how about plugging in some decent heroic self-healing? or at least, direct access to cocoon at 20.

Bigjunk wrote on Sep 17^th, 2013 at 10:36am:

The analogy is full of win.

Mainhand (84) + 100% Offhand (73) is still behind Cleaver (121) + glancing blows (72), but like Bigjunk said it's "not terrible" for single target DPS.  Not affecting multiple mobs compared to a THF build is offset by the woo woo factor and Nightmare's crit range. I'd welcome a Woo Woo Woo build in any group compared to 95% of the builds out there.