WonderfulFoppyBint wrote on Feb 26^th, 2019 at 7:10pm:



Better to dual wield or single+swash?

11 rogue / 6 ranger / 3 arti

AP
41 Inquisitor
12 Harper (KTA + Int to attack and Damage)
1 Mechanic (5m ranged sneak attack range)
11 deepwood stalker (sniper shot, 15m ranged sneak attack range)
11 assassin (assassin's trick)
3 thief acrobat (movement speed)

79 AP spent

Fusilade is so fucking expensive. I don't really see a way to fit it in without dropping KTA or some shit---and then you're ranged SA range is gonna be shit. If you want fusilade, might as well go for enough arti for int to damage from there.

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20 artificer or 14 rogue 6 artificer (or some mix)

AP
41 Inquisitor
8 Harper (KTA, int to hit)
25 Battle Engineer (Endless Fusilade)

74 AP spent

Trollero wrote on Feb 26^th, 2019 at 11:40pm:


You left out rogue, started testing tonight some neat data I'll wrap it up tomorrow

Trollero wrote on Feb 26^th, 2019 at 11:40pm:


Lock and Sorc at the very least have synergy with tiefling Inquisitive.

And sorcs on par with Wiz EK: arguably better die scaling due to savant.

Lock gives you the light damage on both hands which is decent and you can get the temp HP aura as well.

QuantumFX wrote on Feb 26^th, 2019 at 11:50pm:


That crit profile on Ratchatcher.  Dayum.

This new tree is inspired by the middle gif in your signature lol.

Trollero wrote on Feb 27^th, 2019 at 1:45am:


Iirc you don't get a stat to damage bonus on crossbows. (I could 100% be wrong though, I haven't played any sort of ranged let alone a plinker in years.)

You really only want to spend around 10-15 points in savant for some low hanging fruit bonuses. Likewise, you don't really want to spend that much in EK unless you want to go full retard on the spellsword die that you won't be getting the capstone for.

I'll grant you the caster feats. But to be honest if I'm playing an EK of either class I'm not being too serious about my casting and more about my damage while pumping spellsword die.

Edrein wrote on Feb 27^th, 2019 at 8:00am:


Not inherently but you can add int to damage via Arti (spell) Mechanic, Harper (Enhancement) I would imagine Falconry works fine too

yardarm_ wrote on Feb 27^th, 2019 at 9:31am:

put that 37 into mech and grab a volley.

dont like it so far, it looks neat as hell.

red name single target best time I could get on red name dummy was at least 34 seconds longer than my current live build and that was cheesing it using archers focus for more ranged power.

Now that is testing using the shitty anniversary xbow, compared to my live weapon set being optimized. With Sharn if there are better xbows could change the game.

The animation is cool at least.

I tested rogue builds, didnt try out artis/rangers/bards.

law dice and or chaos dice is garbage imo.

honestly imo if you want to use xbow go mech or arti and the great xbow, no huge selling points on the new tree other than the cool look of double xbows(best thing going for it).

again, all that said, sharn loot may change this.

the inquisitive fusillade is better than the arti fusillade, the animation seems alot quicker

Rubbinns wrote on Feb 27^th, 2019 at 2:27pm:


reloader is in the inq tree also

The build is still reliant on Int to damage and always needs the to hit. Rogue level 6 core, arty level 6 spell, or 12 harper ap. Int to hit is only in the harper tree at tier 1.

Rogue is probably still best as the ap spent to tier 4 are decent value, and Int to damage cannot be dispelled, and weapon swaps are completely unaffected.

Harper 12 ap, and Inquisitor tier 5 and capstones seem the only other way to structure the build while allowing any class shell. Occult Slayer critical modifier at 50% hit points seemed like the only real way to stack another critical modifier on the build. Harper 12 ap ensures that any other level 18 or 20 capstones cannot be selected in conjunction with Fusilade and Reloader.