Quote:As far as healing, the ranger levels plus hamp should have your healing sorted out for you even on a first lifer.
In what way? 4 levels of ranger nets you exactly 0 healing spells. There's hamp, sure, but that's about it. I see no self-healing on this build as is, unless you want to count the Curative Ad-Mixutre on the Artificer spell list.
There's always Want/Potion/Scroll healing, too which I say "eww". I've done that, it was easily the least fun I've had. Plus, you have to STOP firing arrows, and who wants to do that?
Asheras wrote on Oct 13
th, 2016 at 2:40pm:
With the latest gear from slavers and CC, most builds are seeing a 6-7 DC bump from where they were pre-U32. With no increase in mob DC's in the lastest content. DC's should check out just fine, assuming you are using +7 tomes and the latest gear. If not, then the DC's will probably not check out.
The loss of the human damage boost may be a concern. Otherwise, he is just taking the 5 AP in Human and needs 11 AP to get the full Scribing. Losing the Wis boost from AA and the top tier of BE Crossbow damage gets 4 of those points. So far your losses are +2 permanent wisdom, the damage boost, and the temp wisdom boost from the human action surge, and the +1 to hit, +2 to damage. That's not that much. The gear power creep more than replaces the DC benefits of the wisdom. And the damage isn't going to be that far off. It's going to be lesser, but given that most builds, with the new gear, will be getting DPS increases, it will offset to some degree. At this point, the trade off is workable. It is 95-97% the same, just with another source of self healing through scribing. But you only have two ranks.
You can go with the two ranks version of scribing or you have to give up one of the following: Endless Fusilade(6 seconds of auto-reload), Mechanical Repeater (+10 RP, +30% Alacrity), Sniper (3 SA Dice, +2[w], and vorpal on 19-20), or two ranks of Rapid fire (7% doubleshot). You only have to lose one of them, but I can't see any place else to find the 2 AP you need.
Getting that last rank of scribing to get the cool down from 15 seconds to 6 is going to be tough. You have to give up something that is going to cost you a fair amount of DPS. That's the big trade off. Is scribing worth, say 7% doubleshot?
That's the question you have to ask.
^This^ pretty well works out all the math behind what I was saying. You could even make do with rank-1 communion and get an extra point. A 300-second cool-down "fully heal yourself" spell is not so bad. Not as good as 6 seconds and quickened, but on a ranged build it may not be so important.
The action boost is also a reasonable trade-off. That one action boost alone cannot make or break the build.
The leveling progression is also favorable. The current stated is:
Level progression: 1Arty, 2-5Ranger, 6-16Rogue, 17-19Arty, 20Rogue.
So instead it'd be:
Level progression: 1pal, 2-5Ranger, 6-15Rogue, +1 heart, 16 rogue, 17-19Arty, 20Rogue.
Its alsmost custom-made for this switch-over.
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