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May 17th, 2016 at 3:35pm
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Never done one.  I know they rock. 

Best survivable and dps build? I run only EE/LE on the toon I'll do it on.  My main.  Tired of destroying stuff with my ranger build.  Want something different.
  
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Reply #1 - May 17th, 2016 at 4:51pm
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If your ranger's a melee, not much will change.
  
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Reply #2 - May 17th, 2016 at 5:51pm
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WeHaveLived wrote on May 17th, 2016 at 4:51pm:
If your ranger's a melee, not much will change.



Yeah he is melee.  I'm just bored.  Want something I haven't done as in builds.
  
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Reply #3 - May 17th, 2016 at 6:44pm
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there is the most common 9dr 6rng 4ftr for stance.

there is tilo's rogue wolf with very high dps and some defense

there is the monk wolf with the highest dps but worse defenses of the three
  

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Reply #4 - May 18th, 2016 at 1:09pm
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Reply #5 - May 18th, 2016 at 4:23pm
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5 Foot Step wrote on May 18th, 2016 at 1:09pm:

Lotta things wrong with that build, I think.

An example would be the kind of damage a toon does in Wolf form. If SWF with a scimitar in one hand and an orb in the other, it does slashing damage so your WF, WS, IWF and GWS should be slashing, not blunt.
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Reply #6 - May 18th, 2016 at 5:51pm
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From the wiki: "Feats that grant bonuses to Unarmed weapons, such as Weapon Focus: Bludgeoning will apply to your natural weapons."
  
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Reply #7 - May 18th, 2016 at 6:40pm
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Technomage wrote on May 18th, 2016 at 4:23pm:
Lotta things wrong with that build, I think.

An example would be the kind of damage a toon does in Wolf form. If SWF with a scimitar in one hand and an orb in the other, it does slashing damage so your WF, WS, IWF and GWS should be slashing, not blunt.


False. Wildshape always counts as unarmed, regardless of what you equip.
  

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Reply #8 - May 18th, 2016 at 10:02pm
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5 Foot Step wrote on May 18th, 2016 at 6:40pm:
False. Wildshape always counts as unarmed, regardless of what you equip.

Then why does the dummy take Slashing damage while I'm in Wolf form, hmm?
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Re: Soliciting a wolf build
Reply #9 - May 19th, 2016 at 7:34am
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Wolf: Transform into a wolf. While in Wolf form, your base attack speed is 30% faster, you gain a +3 bonus to attack while flanking, +1d6 sneak attack damage, and a +10% enhancement bonus to movement speed. While in wolf form, you gain access to a number of spells and enhancements that require Wolf form, but the cooldowns on your non-animal form spells are increased to 2.5 times their normal length.
Your natural attacks do 1d6 damage, do both piercing and slashing damage, and Critically hit for double damage on a roll of 19-20.
  
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Reply #10 - May 19th, 2016 at 7:38am
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The dummy takes slashing/piercing damage from white wolf as per his natural weapons. 

HOWEVER

All unarmed (includes monk, bear, wolf, tree) is coded as blunt for weapon feat purposes. 

So even though you have a scimmy (slash) that's over-rided when you enter wolf form (now dealing slash/pierce) and THAT is over-rided by your "unarmed status" and therefore only weapon focus bludgeon, imp-crit bludgeon etc will work. 

It's fucked up coding.  Welcome to turbine. 

That being said, if you want to test yourself, slot in improved crit slash and take a run with your wolf at the dummy and see what kind of numbers your crit on.   Gonna be 19-20 same as any base wolf.   Now try imp-crit bludgeon.  All of a sudden your 17-20. 

I didn't believe it till I tested it.   

Why don't you try some testing too?    Saves on online angst with idiots like me on the forums.
  

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Re: Soliciting a wolf build
Reply #11 - May 19th, 2016 at 7:49am
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ElGuapo wrote on May 19th, 2016 at 7:38am:
The dummy takes slashing/piercing damage from white wolf as per his natural weapons. 

HOWEVER

All unarmed (includes monk, bear, wolf, tree) is coded as blunt for weapon feat purposes. 

So even though you have a scimmy (slash) that's over-rided when you enter wolf form (now dealing slash/pierce) and THAT is over-rided by your "unarmed status" and therefore only weapon focus bludgeon, imp-crit bludgeon etc will work. 

It's fucked up coding.  Welcome to turbine. 

That being said, if you want to test yourself, slot in improved crit slash and take a run with your wolf at the dummy and see what kind of numbers your crit on.   Gonna be 19-20 same as any base wolf.   Now try imp-crit bludgeon.  All of a sudden your 17-20. 

I didn't believe it till I tested it.   

Why don't you try some testing too?    Saves on online angst with idiots like me on the forums.

Well said
  
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Reply #12 - May 19th, 2016 at 9:58am
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ElGuapo wrote on May 19th, 2016 at 7:38am:
Why don't you try some testing too?


Better yet, read the in game description tooltip of Improved Critical Budgeoning.
  

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Reply #13 - May 19th, 2016 at 12:18pm
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ElGuapo wrote on May 19th, 2016 at 7:38am:
That being said, if you want to test yourself, slot in improved crit slash and take a run with your wolf at the dummy and see what kind of numbers your crit on.   Gonna be 19-20 same as any base wolf.   Now try imp-crit bludgeon.  All of a sudden your 17-20. 

I just finished up some testing a few mins ago. With Improved Crit: Slashing, my crit chances, indeed, only happened on a 19 or 20. I then switched out Improved Crit: Slashing for Improved Crit: Bludgeoning. Crits ONLY happened on 18-20. My guess is when they changed the way Improved Critical worked, the Wolves' Unarmed was treated the way Monk's Unarmed was treated and only increased the threat range by one.  Angry

Every 17 rolled in the Combat Log read like an 11, 15, or 6...not a critical chance.


5 Foot Step wrote on May 19th, 2016 at 9:58am:
Better yet, read the in game description tooltip of Improved Critical Budgeoning.

Just did that. Yep, it seems only a one number increase in crit threat range was intended in Animal form. Ugh.
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Reply #14 - May 19th, 2016 at 1:34pm
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Yeah they broke that on release of the changes and it ain't fixed yet, iirc.
  
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Reply #15 - May 19th, 2016 at 3:16pm
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Technomage wrote on May 19th, 2016 at 12:18pm:
I just finished up some testing a few mins ago. With Improved Crit: Slashing, my crit chances, indeed, only happened on a 19 or 20. I then switched out Improved Crit: Slashing for Improved Crit: Bludgeoning. Crits ONLY happened on 18-20. My guess is when they changed the way Improved Critical worked, the Wolves' Unarmed was treated the way Monk's Unarmed was treated and only increased the threat range by one.  Angry

Every 17 rolled in the Combat Log read like an 11, 15, or 6...not a critical chance.


Just did that. Yep, it seems only a one number increase in crit threat range was intended in Animal form. Ugh.


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Reply #16 - May 19th, 2016 at 3:48pm
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12 Arti, 4 Sorc, 4 Druid

Shape-shift into a wolf, then just nuke everything to death with a combination of AT lightning SLAs, Sorc lightning SLAs, and druid call lightning SLA.

Air Savant 23 AP Electric Loop
AT 34 Lightning Motes SLA
NW 23 Call Lightning SLA

Run in magister > evo mastery,evo augmentation with Air dragon +3 caster levels, Air Dragon augmentation, cocoon twisted.

Add in some arcane augmentation and evocation augmentation from Abishai set and you will be good to go.

The -20 saves from air/evo augmentation means you should be fine regardless of caster stat of SLAs.
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Reply #17 - May 19th, 2016 at 8:00pm
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Why would wolf be necessary for that build? To pee on light crystals?
  
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Reply #18 - May 19th, 2016 at 8:12pm
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Thanks all.  I'll tr this weekend, maybe tonight.  Run to 7 and stone to 20.  A friend was nice enough to pass me a stone, due to the fact the bastards got my mule account with tons of them. 

I appreciate the help.  You guys are knowledgable and I respect you opinions on builds.  Especially something I've never bothered to do in 10+ years playing.
  
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Reply #19 - May 20th, 2016 at 1:01pm
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WeHaveLived wrote on May 19th, 2016 at 8:00pm:
Why would wolf be necessary for that build? To pee on light crystals?


I sorta want to make the bear version, so that I can stack bear form with CE and a shield for tons of AC.Plus the not insignificant bonus of out killing everyone else in the party on a bear.Plus I could make a WF character and heal with repair in heroics, and shapeshift to heal with cocoon in epics 20-29, and then swap back to master reconstruction at 30.
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Reply #20 - May 20th, 2016 at 1:19pm
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12 Arti, 4 Sorc, 4 Druid

Shape-shift into a wolf, then just nuke everything to death with a combination of AT lightning SLAs, Sorc lightning SLAs, and druid call lightning SLA.

Air Savant 23 AP Electric Loop
AT 34 Lightning Motes SLA
NW 23 Call Lightning SLA

Run in magister > evo mastery,evo augmentation with Air dragon +3 caster levels, Air Dragon augmentation, cocoon twisted.

Add in some arcane augmentation and evocation augmentation from Abishai set and you will be good to go.

The -20 saves from air/evo augmentation means you should be fine regardless of caster stat of SLAs.


have you ran this yet?  I saw you post this (at least I think it was you) on the mobo and thought it was one of those builds that looked good on paper, but wasn't sure how it would work in the "real world"
  
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Reply #21 - May 21st, 2016 at 9:22pm
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Nope, but I'm getting close to 20 to tr into it. Or a shuriken build. I want to run a terror shuriken build sometime.
  
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Plus the not insignificant bonus of out killing everyone else in the party on a bear.


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