How does SotEP work?

100 pts before scaling by ranged power is amazing on even first life capped toons.

Don't forget the debuff.

100 pts counting other sources of sneak attack?

Human DWS ranger, lv 30, running in LD, or whatever, not dependent on a specific ED, but I do enjoy the Blitz range power so I run with that most of the time currently.

23 ranks in hide
10 Epic ranks hide
5  Skill tome
3  DWS, stealthy
1 Rogue past life, sneak of shadows +1 all skills
5 Epic hide
3 Ship buff Danger room, +3 hide
5 Hiding in plain sight, ranger lev 17
15 twist, in the weeds
10 Camouflage spell, circumstance
4 Ghostly, enhancement available various items, I use TF armor for some reason only gives +4
4 Greater heroism
22 Competence
11 insightful
6 Quality
20 Shadow cookies, from my stock of 4k, +20 untyped buff.
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147 base
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23  Dexterity stat bonus, Dex at 57
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170 normal rolling around
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30 Sneak of Shadows past life, 3 X day at 1 min run time
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+4 Scion of Ethereal
204 For special heavy use

Currently I'm banging around with a 167/197 because I'm not sold on paying for that last 6 quality in Tier III and I keep forgetting to load my Imperial blood. 

Now I could go higher,

Consumables; I could use tensors, and Hezrou cookies, for more dex but I like to cast (so screw hezrou) and casting tensors gets on my tits pretty quickly, whereas chowing on the shadow cookies gives me the +20 hide, and 25% incorp, and I don't have to unequip my bow to eat it. So I use them, an additional benefit is the cosmetic change of the toon when I'm using the shadow cookies, I see the toon change back the moment they run out instead of tracking the tooltip at the top of the pages so I tend to keep shadow running a lot more consistently.   

Gear; I could squeeze in a +4 guild aug but waiting until after Cannith pass to look at that, I have skullduggery kit with +10 dodge which I do use from time to time, but it and the Manual of S.P. seem like wasted slots on my Ranger so I dont.

ED's; I usually run in LD, EA, or Crusader.  As far my sacrificing  use of ED's for this build I only use one twist for this build, that's it. At end game I can easily afford the one twist even a lev 4 twist. I could twist in SD's stealthy for another +6 but I tend to use my other slots to bump my Arcane Arrow's DC numbers, and use the last for utility. The +6 isn't worth it right now but I could add it.

Stats; I could definitely push my dex higher with Enhancements and feats but I tend to put my tree points into buffing my Wis for DC, and only use the level ups for Dex, so I kind of split the difference to keep the toon from being too one-sided.



So with all that I could buff up to a theoretical 234, but at that point it would have affected DPS, so why bother.

Keep in mind that it's still giving out 50% of hide, not the 30% the nerfers cried for.

Keep in mind that it's still giving out 50% of hide, not the 30% the nerfers cried for.

The funny thing is very few rangers use it on live, much less ranged ones. It really only shows up in rogue or rogue splashes even though it could help so many different kinds of builds.

Hey guys, me too!  Herpa derp.

http://www.ddovault.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1464380712/81#81

Hide
23 ranks
10 epic
41 dex
39 LGS (competence/insight/quality)
2 luck
2 completionist
1 profane
4 morale
4 scion of ethereal
20 shadow form
1 AP stealthy
6 SD stealthy
5 hide in plain sight (sometimes)
3 ship buff
31 sneak of shadows
5 inherent
=192-197 hide 

I forgot the skill tome on the build post so it's listed 5 lower there until I update it.


Cat's out of the bag, I guess I can update my published DPS calc now.