So the challange is you need either amazing trash DPS with decent CC, or 5k HP and 300 PRR, or reliant instakills. And then for bosses you need more amazing DPS, and since they aren't CCable you either do geometry tricks or you need some beef & likely broken selfheals, unless you're using a healer. Not many builds can fall into all these roles decently without supports filling in;

Before reaper shiradis and volcano could do all these in all EE content, but they got the indirect nerf of the century; the only shiradi wiz i see working uses meteors, maybe even twisting some beef

Some broken mechanics still work, like healing ki or wiz spell ratio increases; but still, r10 is there for a while. I've seen many use monks, I get this feeling since the nerf their DPS is meh and their quivers wont land unless you build for it, and even then it won't be consistent


I've heared some crazy rumors about swashbuckler being viable, but I dont believe any of it; I didn't DPS test an optimized sorcerer since the new lvl 9 spells came out, people say it does more damage than gruin, so maybe their boss damage is viable now;

Personally I love my AA, though he does fall behind when it comes to solo boss DPS if it takes more than 1 unbrid fury to kill it

What are the best builds before inquisitor comes out for r10 lategame solos?

WonderfulFoppyBint wrote on Mar 6^th, 2019 at 1:25pm:



Whats your CC as thrower? Ranged mobs will throw stuff at you, unavoidable light damage will come its way, how do you stay through as a thrower, juke to death?

Do you think tempest with sap sword makes the cut late? How about artis?

Good Intentions is extraordinarily easy to solo on a ranged DPS with stealth.

Single-target charms and Soundburst. And turn undead. On a necro-specced barbarian to be safe.

Recently ran a rogue (18rogue/2monk) that did very well in high reaper. Ran a few hundred Ambers over the weekend and my solo times were around 5 minutes only skipping Raven, Traitor, and the clit card. Only other thing I did R10 solo was Madness of Crowds. Sneak speed made that really easy. Running in Ultimate Water Stance for boss fights gave me 46% dodge, +50 from Improved Uncanny Dodge, and of course the 100% from Meld. Those 2 were enough for boss fights when running with a group and no tank. Pain main hand, Dust offhand, and reapers are a non issue as long as you have spell absorb swaps for the famine variety. Assassinate dc was 100 properly geared with a tenser scroll running.

One of the keys to melee soloing is definitely Shadowdancer. Sneak speed boost from Shadowtraining is retarded, especially on a build that's already getting 2 sneak speed enhancements. Shadow Manipulation is also amazingly powerful as it seems to not have a save, at all, for either the domination or the instakill effect.

Stealth is only broken for retards.

Should also point out that while running Ambers I only skipped the 3 cards mentioned, but never skipped pw locations. The only one that can get dicey is having to go into the southern crypts where flameskull champs with true seeing and dots would occasionally tag me as I got through the door. The western location through the portal that everyone seems to hate is a easy pickup and the second place I'd check. Just don't attack any of the skulls before the portal and none will follow you through. Once through the portal it was easy to get a cheap kill most of the time by assassinating the skull that spawns by the pw location there. Occasionally it was a deathwarded champ but np, grab your shit and ddoor.

Also forgot to mention that Shadow Manipulation isn't affected by EDF and definitely works through terrain, so probably works through walls/doors too.

Dps Sorc is now doable