The mech tree has been updated on Lam. Seeing them now for the first time. Looks unimpressive. From a class split standpoint. Meaning that taking 18 rogue for competence bonus to multiplier seems weaker than just taking 14 levels of paladin and leaving yourself with a way better base than 18 rogue. I suppose some thrower build could take that and swashbuckler stance for the crit range and multiplier(all better than halfling). But back to xbow builds. Is the Mech tier 5 even worth taking over Slayer from AA? I dont think it is.

Compare some builds starting with the 14 paladin base for holy sword. Elf/Morn/Helf for AA racial tree. 4 arty for fusilade. Pretty much all the AP is spent in those 3 trees leaving around 10~ free to spend. The last class split would be 2 fighter levels, probably. Bypasses mechanic and rogue levels, wears heavy armor and self heals with high saves. Having a hard time seeing another xbow build performing better.

To get a comparable critical profile I would otherwise need to have at least 18 rogue levels. Then focus on doubleshot maxing because I cannot have slayer+fusilade. Rest of the ap goes into killer. I'm done. I dont even wanna play that anymore. Holy Sword beats the entire level 18 and 20 mech capstones. And the build only gets better from there.

Giving up the expanded critical range and multipliers and focusing on capping ranged speed and doubleshot. It cannot slayer. Can fusilade. Still not more appealing than paladin.


Mech appears to be better suited to thrower builds than xbow builds.

OldCoaly wrote on Apr 1^st, 2015 at 11:44am:

And "Overperforming on our test results"

Do a barb ranger druid xbow user, trust me on this one, de facto best xbow you can do.

I can if i have will put up a video of it if i get time during weekend.
Prolly wont, but its a plain stupid build.
The cirt rage, crit muli, reload speed shit on literally everything a mechanic can do or a palie split since you can .. borrow palie stuff anyways.


BUt there are other splits you can do, but barb/ranger si a good base, i prefer druid for fatal harrier since really it fucks up dps to be so high when you see 25% att speed on rep xbow with new reload mechanics.
Ap is enough but you cant get full cirtical rage, but still ahead of other ranged builds..
As i said, its sad that you can make a better xbow barb, then rogue or artie in ddo

Sev is proving on a daily basis that he knows nothing about Rogues or playing DDO.

He is a one trick pony.
"Lets see, give'em +1 to Crit range and multiplier, throw in some faster animations, done!"

*2 months later.
Nerf hammer drops.

"Our tests show Mechanics using Great Crossbow outperforming repeaters."

Tried PDK,Human,Helf,Elf,Shitty Kai so far.
18rogue/2arti
Pure
14pal/6rogue
In all destinies.
Great,Heavy Repeating,Thrower
The most fun i had was throwing philters just saying.

What's possible now with Barb (Crit Ragt)/Bard (Swashbuckle)/???(Rogue/Ranger/Fighter for Ranged Power feats) for throwers?

My thoughts would be Shuriken Expertise, and Maxed Doubleshot, +really good crit profile.

Haven't done any math or real planning just curiousv since I totally missed the Barb rebal

Lelouch wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2015 at 12:21am:


How is this done?

Lelouch wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2015 at 6:18pm:

15-20 x4 for holy needle.

15-20 x3 barb raged needle.

The doubleshot on druid and ranger killer is way higher, clearly. Both could manyshot. Paladin would need 2 ranger to do so. The barb gets it from 6 ranger. That level of doubleshot outperforms fusilade and higher crit profile from paladin.





 

Are mechanics going max-Int or Max-Dex?