This is just a theory craft build, figuring out how to maximize Crit profile with great crossbows as well as have decent auto-crowd control on the vorpal adjustments (not sure if it causes them helpless as I haven't gotten around to hop on LAM, but 5% on hit no save CC is pretty swell)


EDIT: Trading the 19-20 vorp to get endless fusillade action boost


Core mech:

Expert Builder: You gain a +1 Competence Bonus to Critical Multiplier with bows, crossbows & thrown weapons. Great Crossbows instead gain +2 Competence Bonus to Critical Multiplier. (18 rogue req)

T5 Mech:
Sniper: You gain 1 extra Sneak Attack die with bows, crossbows, and thrown weapons. Non-repeating crossbows increase this to 3 Sneak Attack dice and also gain +2[W]. Great Crossbows now vorpal on a 19-20.

Inquisitiver:

Master Inquisitive: +2 to all Ability Scores. +10 Ranged Power. While wielding a Light or Heavy (non-repeating) Crossbow, your Vorpal hits will knock down targets hit on a natural 20 + confirmation for 6 seconds without a saving throw, as a Great Crossbow. In addition, you gain +3 Damage dice with Law on your Side

Base great crossbow crit profile:  18-20/x2

With the competence bonuses: 17-20/x4

With keen:  14-20/x4

With Pulverizer "Works for Blunted Ammunition ranged weapons" : 13-20/x4

With Overwhelming critical and Devastating critical: 19-20/x6


Once im finished on deciding the last 2 levels I'll elaborate on the action point usage

I think you could argue going either Gnome (For the crossbow damage) or aasimar (For the layonhands)


But race only make a difference if you got action points from past lives since you need basically all 80 for your classes and sub-classes (Inquisitive and Harper)

So what do you guys recommend for the last 2 levels?




EDIT:

Action point spread:
Inquisitive: 41 (get T5 and cap)


Mechanic: 31 (Expert builder) (Youll get int to damage here)

Harper: 8 (Know the angles) (Youll get int to hit T1)

Rubbinns wrote on Mar 6^th, 2019 at 2:28pm:


Yeah this path makes sense to get max dps, guess only take t5 mech if you got severe survivability problems. (just for the vorpal knockdown on a 19)

Do you got any recommendations for the last 2 levels tho?  I was thinking pally just to get more saves, or pure for 1 more feat and sneak attack dice :3 (or fighter for 2 feats and base kensai)

pinkpuff wrote on Mar 6^th, 2019 at 3:01pm:


The Sharpshooter enhancements from Mech give +1 damage +1d6 SA per tier over what it gives repeaters/great crossbows.

froggy wrote on Mar 6^th, 2019 at 1:59pm:


I'm going with Artificer as bonus feats (Rapid Reload, Magical Training, Runearm use for the Imbue) and a spare item slot (Runearm) are always a good deal.

I'm seeing some 1 Barbarian (for Furious Rage) and 1 FvS (for ???) on the YouTube.

19 Rogue + 1 Ranger can net you 2 more SA dice.  (1 from the rogue level, 1 from the first core of Deepwood Sniper.)

Rubbinns wrote on Mar 6^th, 2019 at 2:28pm:


I'm seeing a lot of "your Light or Heavy (non-repeating) crossbow" in the descriptions of the Inquisitive enhancements.  I realize this is SSG, but the Lammaland build is unfinished, so it may not be a good idea to pin hopes on all this stuff working with great crossbows.

I'd go Gnome over Aasimar for IPS reasons. 

QuantumFX wrote on Mar 6^th, 2019 at 3:37pm:

1 Barb also nets you 10% run speed without spending 3 AP in Thief Acrobat for Fast Movement.  AP looks tight enough for it to matter:

41 Inquisitive
27 Mech
8 Harper for KtA
1 Furious Rage
3 TA Fast Movement

If you can live with 10% run speed instead of 18% for an 18/x build, put the 3 in Harper for +1 INT and +2 hit/dmg from the cores.

Carpone wrote on Mar 6^th, 2019 at 5:48pm:


Id have to disagree if you got racial points to spend, Ive never had problems getting IPS to work properly due to height difference, gonna go look up an article to double check if it actually makes a difference.


Carpone wrote on Mar 6^th, 2019 at 5:48pm:


You actually need 31 in the mech tree to benefit the 1 additional multiplier.  (Even tho you get 2 sources of critical multipliers, the highest one takes effect so you'll want to trade the 3 action points for 1 multiplier)




From the WiKi
"Race height matters. Tall races, such as Bladeforged, shoot their projectiles from a higher elevation. When targeting smaller enemies, projectile travels downwards and often harmlessly flies above the head of nearby enemies. Targeting is easier for smaller races, particularly Halflings."


Welp, nevermind lol.  Im just gonna hate to lose all of the self heals from aasimar, guess if you rae running reaper 10s, its not like youll have any self heals anyways :3  (even tho its better for your group)

Good stuff in here.. I have nothing to add .. only range I have is my crafter...

Carpone wrote on Mar 9^th, 2019 at 12:03am:


10/6/4 for Volley is more like

36 Mech
27 BE
11 kensei
6 harper

Dropping some doubleshot ap for longer kta duration. Sniper's 2W, 3 sneak dice beat out 4% doubleshot. And 19-20 vorpal knockdown against trash.

Got it.  I conflated some comments earlier about Inquisitive/Volley.

The 18/x Inquisitive direction feels a bit wanting with only 9 boosts/rest (5 + 1 guild + 3 ED).  Hoping for itemization with +boosts in Sharn is probably fruitless.  Perhaps there will be a compelling reason to break Adherent set so you can use Legendary Precision Lenses for +3 boosts.  Cue Benny Hill music as gear tetris ensues.

You could go 18 Rogue/2 Arti or 18 Rogue/1 Fighter/1 X for +3 boosts, but you'd have to cannibalize Mechanic T4 goodies for it.  Bleh. I hate to give up Leg Shot.

QuantumFX wrote on Mar 6^th, 2019 at 3:37pm:

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Curious Inquisitives can transform any light or heavy crossbow into a pair of hand crossbows and excel at both shooting first, and asking questions.

…  btw......it reads      not bad 1ap get a couple ac n x2 weapon attack from fvs.

I think you would lose too much DPS by going Medium armor as it would lock you out of Silent Avenger or Wallwatch sets as well as KTA/doubleshot from AP. It also means you lose evasion which may not be a big deal in the current raid meta but it is a consideration for other content.

Digimonk wrote on Jun 17^th, 2019 at 3:26pm:


forgot about silent avenger