Trying to make ddo fun again for myself and I have 2 more arti past lives to do. The only weapon I have never actually used is a repeater/regular crossbow just because the sound they make is really fucking annoying, and you can put out more damage by just scrolling masters touch and swinging, that aside, trying to figure away to make pew pew worthwhile in heroics and maybe quick run to cap for etr->tr. Any ideas?

Or Arti with insightful damage. Can you double up INT damage with insightful + KtA?

Yeah harper is a no brainer, but my first arti life i played a caster, and it doesnt scale well in epics, bladebarrier farting is always nice, but i was thinking something more for max ranged dps with a repeater, i know ranger levels are a given, the rest however...

Yeah havent seen him online in a minute though, and i need the arti life.

Frankly, the biggest problem is that Arti currently sits pretty low on the list of toons that can handle Epic content. Heroic, it ROFLstomps. If you gots the skills, you don't have to worry about that, but still you might find the extra time in each quest annoying.


WelloveLLamas wrote on Feb 4^th, 2015 at 8:43am:

No.

That requires a host of feats and AP to match repeater Dps. Repeaters take a host of feats, too, but they are devastating right out of the gate.

WelloveLLamas wrote on Feb 4^th, 2015 at 8:43am:

Turn off game sounds.

Feynman wrote on Feb 4^th, 2015 at 12:12pm:

No.

Feynman wrote on Feb 4^th, 2015 at 12:12pm:

Yes.

Rubbinns wrote on Feb 4^th, 2015 at 5:29pm:

Holy Jesus, no.

Rubbinns wrote on Feb 4^th, 2015 at 5:29pm:

Yes.


With the Harper tree, you don't have enough AP to split between all the Dps enhancements. Ftr has a crossbow line, Rogue has one, and of course Arti. The Harper tree is IMO, better than either class tree for Artis, and solidifies INT as the Arti's main stat.

You don't have to fuck around with class splits anymore. But if you want weapon versatility, Ranger is a good splash. It can also give you some of your ranged feats, so you don't lose any net feats from skipped Arti levels. Rogue splash doesn't add enough, IMO, now that HArmor is better than evasion. SA damage is always nice, and the crossbow line from Mechanic, but an Arti just doesn't need anything else from either tree. Taking 5 Wiz for perma-tensor's can be nice, but again AP are tight, and you can get most of what Wiz offers out of UMD. If you were interested in SWF, a Bard split could be fun.

BF, Completionist +2 Ranger lives...

3Paladin/17Arti Max Int+Levels, Max Con, Dex 13 w/ tomes and w/e else doesn't really matter. 14 Feats+2 ED Feats.  3x SWF, Khopeshes, Precision, PBS, Precise Shot, IC Slash, Rapid Shot, Completionist, Quicken, Adamantine Body, Insightful Reflexes, OC, HellBall, PSWF.

Battle Engineer, Max Rune Arm Line, Max HRXBow line to Haste Boost plus extra Boosts, 2 Points of Int

BF-Just enough pts to get Communion of Scribing and some fort + asf.

Sacred Defender-Stance PRR/MRR saves.
Harper-Int to everything and KTA, 4 points of Int

In DC with Sense Weakness, LD Extra Action Boost, Uncanny Reflex Tumble thing from Magister.

Not an Epic Completionist but do have 2x Colors and 1 Sunelf PL.

Breaking the Ranks speed run for epeen? Nah....
Beating down a mini-boss to prove a point? NEVER!!!!

But it rocks. Rrrrreally, fucking, rocks....

I'm struggling to see why you wouldn't go elf, get racial AA, and stick with pure arti.

It'll get you blade barrier asap,  give you AA features you want, let's you make good use of flame turret when it's useful.

14Ap elf, get AA
32Ap AA,  get slayershot
14Ap Harp, get int damage /kta

Spend rest on Arti trees.

Rubbinns wrote on Feb 4^th, 2015 at 4:09pm:


This.

Also you need to use a great crossbow with fusilade, much higher base damage and greater threat range and fires at the same rate of a repeater when Fusilade is being used.

gawker wrote on Feb 5^th, 2015 at 3:14pm:

True, and yet I never do. This is a true min/max tactic, and the game just so rarely needs such effort.

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Lol

Alright, my fault, i initially planned on doing a 1-20 but i changed my mind, so I can understand your points.

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And this was the point, if i wanted to play smarter i would have just done swf and zerged the entire life, I wanted to try something else that im well aware is weaker as a challenge.