harharharhar wrote on Aug 12^th, 2014 at 11:12am:


I will have to test that out later and see.

Lelouch wrote on Aug 12^th, 2014 at 3:47pm:


That is way too cool!

My current capped set up is below though I rarely use the stuff since I'm grinding towards Epic Completionist 

Head: Dragon Masque (Deception, Insight SA +6, Deadly XI, Shadow Spike, Yellow slot: Vitality, Colorless slot: Ins Wis +2)
Goggles: EE Shadowsight (Wis +11, Accuracy X, Green slot: Resistance +8)
Trinket: Interim use Litany of Dead or Manual of Stealthy Pilfering (Good Luck +3, other stuff, Green Slot: Insight Int +2)
Necklace: Mystic Eleidons (+4 Insight Dex/Con, Eid Summons, Ghostly, Deathblock, Green slot: SP)
Cloak: Jeweled Cloak (+10 Elemental Resists, Colorless slot: Globe of TIB, Green slot: Good Luck +2)
Belt: Battlerager’s Harness (Intim +20, Spiked, Raging Focus, Vengeful Fury, Spike Guard, Green slot:  False Life +40)
Bracers: Dumathoin’s Bracers (Dex +11, 30 PRR, Ele Resists 45, Nat Armor +10, Blue slot: Golem's Heart)
Gloves: Iron Mitts (Str +8, Vitality + 40, HAmp +30%, Colorless slot:???)
Boots: Con +9-10, Seeker 9-10 (Colorless Slot: Heroic Insp)
Ring1: Ring of Avithoul (Dex +7, SA +5, Insight SA+3, Improved Deception)
Ring2: Seal of Dun’Robar (Con +7, Dodge 8, Tendon Slice +10) or Omniscience (Heightened Awareness 4, Except Reflex +2, Except Fort +25%)
Armor: Shadowscale (Shadow Phase, From Shadows, Fort 130%, Armor +10, +11 enhancement, Deathblock, Ghostly, +3 Profane Concent, Profane +1 Tactics, Blue slot: Crushing Wave, Green slot: Protection +8) or Black Dragonscale
Mainhand: TF Shuriken (Orange slot: Meteoric, Colorless slot: Int +8)
Offhand: TF SS (150 Pos, Dragon’s Edge 35% armor piercing, Spell Lore 17%, Orange slot: Ins Str +2, Colorless slot: Concentration +15)
Quiver: Quiver of Alcracity

Vendui wrote on Aug 12^th, 2014 at 2:04pm:


I find myself using stalkers less and less, but very hard t ogive up Avithoul for 8 SA damage and Improved Deception. That ID proc is very important for maintaining SA damage if you're not wearing Backstabbers/Golden Guile. Did I miss something?

Also, why not Claw set? +4 Artifact damage is no joke. I didn't notice if you were using Black scale set for +2 Artifact damage or not.

harharharhar wrote on Aug 13^th, 2014 at 1:51am:


http://postimg.org/image/ymhxoo1t7/

Can see in effects window, i also went around killng giants while the buff is active and noticed the increase in dshoot

/had to reset enchas since i had killer from ranger, but wasnt a big deal since i was about to etr anyways to shadowdancer version so even on mobs it showed i actually had the buff, also procd to offten to be the ship buff alone

Thats awesome, good to know.

Fuck my life i need a harness now.

I hate that raid.

hate unfilled space on bar, had to put smthn heh and yes i do swap stanced when needed for that extra fort.
Im weird and a clickie addict

harharharhar wrote on Aug 13^th, 2014 at 1:50am:


Avithoul is easy to give up, im wearing Ring of Deciet (Has improved deception)

Claw set requires Bracer or Glove + Trinket.. Bracers are a no chance in hell, Gloves are situational, but ill use 10% dodge over +4 dmg, Trinket is mostly just a filler, its helpful for skills, but nothing else which is where i can put Planar conflux trinket, if i get a decent one.

ChewyOoeyGoOey wrote on Aug 12^th, 2014 at 5:09pm:


I personaly do similiar setup, difference my cloack is the evening challenge one for 5 stacking seeker and dodge as i got dodge capped since i have more monk/rogue levels and 3 shadar plifes. Boots i use fot ones since im running a ranger splash and got more then enough pos spp for selfheals, tho would swap to claw set if i had a t3 shortsword.
Rings, anvi seal and ee consuming. My setup is more crit focused since i have perma 15-25 archer focus stacks so damage is higher and crit plays a bigger role.
To you i would suggest a little tweak, why dont you slot 30% striding in some slot and use ee quiver of poison instead?


Also, directed at harr and all thrower fans, also 1 more thing to make you convert to ranger splash
Anyways. im playing constantly with the ideas i said,  scroll tensors and swap between archer /improved precise and use aimed shot for perma 20-25 archer foc stacks.
After using up around 600-700 tensors scrolls after i came back from break /honestly so far in shuri build its way over 2000 scrolls in total since i bought a full inv tab for scrolls alone and had to restock ther today/, rebuff seems automatic and as i assumed no encounter lasts long enough for scroll duration beside boss fights.
Thing i noticed and i didnt realize last life, since it was a shiradi shuri (now its shadowdancer and so far its beyond better) life is that archer focus increases my sneak damage as well. Im assuming its coded as blitz is, increases all source damage bound to the coresponding style if it fits the rules set, aka ranged attack. Clear increase from 60-70 average to 100-120 per shuri when im fully stacked so it would be full benefit from archer for sneak as well. (only using tharnes since i just etrd and am testing sdancer). With full sneak gear it might be actually quite good

Also a interesting fact, can also provide screenie, you can bug out monk stances when leveling up to have 2 active at same time.
No idea how to correctly reproduce that, also clears on loging and stance swaps, but doable to be perma 2-3 stanced with feat swap tokens, when you pick master/gmaster stance upgrades. Was running with both air and water, and no wasnt a    display bug, i actually had benefit from both stances.
About aimed shot, as it adds up stacks and procs for every shuri its quite good, you can look at it as perma increase vs all mobs, issue that comes with ranger split for most players it requires to be swaping stances swap for af and keeping track of your tensers time,  most players might find this annoying.
I can agree with the fact that most dont want to bother with scrolling and stance swaping, it all boils down to playstyle tho. Il guess that older ddo players would have no issues with scrolling since formerly in older epics ddo was more about a bazilion clickies then its now.

About haste, i do have clickies but usually i skip on epic reflex and let imp evasion take care of those nasty 1-s to get blinding speed. But, i have a bard bot which can provide perma haste /yet again many players dont have that nor a artie bot so its unrealistical for most community since i can clearly add the whole warchanter damage increase to all my calcs and deadly.

In case archer focus will increase new palie light damage as well, i forsee monk/palie/ranger throwers in future as insanely fun.

Any idea if they will fix sting with named shuris?

Lelouch wrote on Aug 13^th, 2014 at 2:25pm:


First off, I appreciate all the feedback here to fine tune my capped gear which I intend to pay more attention to when I stay at cap.

Easy answer again is b/c I don't have an EE Quiver. I do have a EN or EH unbound one somewhere but I've been saving it for another toon who never gets played.

I think my biggest issue right now is I'm running out of bank space... With all my bound gear that I use while grinding for EPL's (including those that I kept from my heroic TR) and to *ahem* test xp stones, I'm reluctant to bind more gear at this time.

It's all good though. As my wife recently said on another issue, "First world problem", so in light of that I'm not gonna cry about much here.

Back on topic with this build, I want to emphasize how strong Dark Stars is (for those still wondering)... even at lvl 20 while running with 28's in EE (when they accept me), I'm often second in kills and rarely ever die.

In pugs, this build will often lead the kill count and I'm not all that great of a player.

These are my observations as I run this build through it's 4th Shadow Dancer life to cap.

All of this thrower talk has me interested (I love the build and play style diversity in this game) to roll up one myself.  Your latest builds have been halfling based, and I refuse to play them for... reasons.  Are there any good variants with other races?

I tend to favor the relatively clicky-free builds but I can keep up that juggling act if needed.

-RandomName

Munkenmo wrote on Aug 16^th, 2014 at 11:27am:

Boo! I was hoping for a better way around those two enhancements.  I guess I'll keep/make my ranged weapon user as a monkcher or something.  At least that makes the Colors/DoubleShot choice easy.

Thanks,
-RandomName