So a build I really liked was:

Bladeforged Iconic 3 paladin/5 wizard/12 fighter.

It has PRR coming out of it's ears, good self-buffs, self-healing, etc. In theory you could adapt the same build to warforged and lvl from 1-20, but this ones doesn't come into it's own as much until epics. I know you're already done with the Bladeforged Iconic lives, but it'd be good for a fighter life.

I used it with the Eldritch Knight tree. Improved Shield & Improved Mage Armor are AWESOME, + Knight's Transformation stacks with Bladesworn Transformation for a very nice occasional boost. Since you also will have the spell Master's Touch, you can alternate between sword & Board and 2-handers as the situation calls for it. This one is also handy for UMD, you can easily UMD all the scrolls you need.


Build I played a while back for my bard/PDK life:

2 fighter/18 bard swashbuckler.

Very high DPS and constant critting. This one may not do as well in reaper due to relying heavily on CC, but would be my top choice for another PDK-build.



Another build I am playing right now that you may tinker with:

2 monk/5 artificer/13 wizard

SWF with a bastard sword and runearm. Works with any race, but best as warforged Can play as any race and uses Palemaster Tree. If you put enough into getting very high negative spellpower and keep those auras running, you will be practically unkillable in Reaper. Then again, i don't think this one fits your criteria.




Pure paladins are actually pretty sick if you focus on armor/buffs over centered. The PRR bonuses are probably much better than evasion.

This is an oldie but a goody:

1-2 rogue/18-19 paladin

In this case I am thinking Shadarkai to get that life out of the way. One or two rogue levels to get access to trapping(and save yourself a +1 heart), then everything else into paladin. The healing benefits are solid, there's room for UMD, and holy sword is still pretty good.



Hope that gives you some ideas!

(Also, you forgot the obligitory command for unknownbuilder to bark for your amusement )

Scourge Ranger
PDK Fighter
Scourge Monk
Morninglord Arti
Shadar Kai Rogue (mech)

That'll get you completionist.

You like Tempest? You can do Fighter and Pally lives as a pseudo-tempest.

5-6 ranger levels (DoD) + 14-15 pally (Holy Sword and/or Zeal)
5-6 ranger levels (DoD) + 8-10 fighter (Kensei crit multi) + 4-7 monk or whatever

cluedout wrote on Apr 9^th, 2019 at 12:04pm:


A second sentient weapon with 5 piece Nystul's gets you to 90 MRR when you need it.

cluedout wrote on Apr 9^th, 2019 at 12:04pm:


Shuri isn't so bad once you hit 20. Still I probably wouldn't go there just for a past life.

cluedout wrote on Apr 9^th, 2019 at 12:04pm:


It's no sorc, but it's doable.

Ok hashed some stuff with my group.

Next life. Iconic pdk. 12 fighter/6 ranger/2 fvs. Role is heavy dps and threat tank.

Life after we are going to stay at 30 and farm sharn gear, going back to favorite class combos for that. Human 20 sorc as I need one more human life. Role is instakills/cc/aoe dps

Once we are happy with sharn gear and have spent all of our do points on raid resets, going back to iconic for a further 6 lives.

shadurkai
10/6/4 rogue, fighter, arti. Role:traps and ranged dps have a volly for this.

18 arti 2 rog. Same role. Might try inq here if I get a good xbow.

8 pally 6 ranger 6 rog. Role heavy dps. Maybe vkf daggers because of loss of crit profile in trees or holy sword, but would need to pull them.

Aasimar
Pure 20 ranger. Role heavy dps.

14 pally 6 ranger. Role heavy dps.

Last life is between a monk thrower 14/6 or pure monk with a +1 heart of wood.  Leaning to thrower as I have a spite but no duality. This may change as it's a couple months down the road and sharn gear.

This will net completionist and 3x pally lives

Back to racial after that, won't have morninglord done but next time we break for those I can do some of the classes I want 3x in with splashed cleric without a problem.

noamineo wrote on Apr 9^th, 2019 at 3:19pm:


Saves a heart of wood and adds evasion for the few traps that need it, not apposed to pure arti if you think it's worth it though.

alright, got a few recent lives i will leave a review for.

racial life: human. played as a test for EK. pure wizard 20.

started out slow, ended up just using spell dps and web/hold person for cc. ended up taking feats for single weapon fighting with an orb. level 12 was a game changer. the cleave in t5 is good. specced into long swords as I had 5 schisms burning a hole in my pocket for the late game. this was around the time when the festival event started so i ran it for some coffee and a couple lowby casting sticks, nothing else looked good.

damage from spellsword is great as a pure wizard but feats are borked because of the low bab. at level 30 the only spellpower items I could equip were the hat from mem and a ravenloft belt. on r1 spellsword damage was about 800 per hit. ended up not using undead tree at all becuase of our healing setup for high reapers. EK and harper tree with sprint boost and hp from falcon. you have to cast spells to keep your melee power up and you have to melee to keep spellpower up. ended up using acid most of the time unless a mob was weak to ice/electric and then all i had to do was swap belts. bread and butter were acid well/meteor swarm cast a mass hold at my feet (ended up with DC of about 85 on enchant) used soulrazor as main weapon.

I would not recommend this build for high reaper. just stick to a cc/instakilling wizard, people will like you more. the dps is shit teir even with the best gear compared to any of the power builds now.

this build is amazing for farming r1 quests for loot. you get great buffs and spell utility and the damage is all in a wonderful AOE for taking out large groups at a time.

I ran this build in a lot of destinies and ended up liking fury the best. Just adrenaline shot the EK t5 cleave. It will crit for over 60k on r1.

gear highlights are KT mountain set, ravenloft spellpower belt, mem spellpower hat, book of strahd, ring of nightfall, echo of ravenkind, molten silver gauntlets. ended up making a slave lords necklace for seeker and quality int that i could not fit any ware else with the gear I had. 

level 30 hp was 2400 in reaper. this is low accounting for a 2 peice lgs opp set. reaper trees are a nightmare, needs points from all 3, ended up with 21 defense tree, 21 offense tree and rest in caster tree.

DPS: C
r10 group capable: D
r4 solo capable: F
Raid capable: C
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third assimar life. wisdom tempest. pure ranger 20

this build starts is great, had lots of help from the my shitty tempest thread.

grabbed the Nightforge Avenger Blade long swords at level 8, after taking IC:slash 14-20x3 crit. wow. after level 12, 14-20x4 crit. and dance of death even wower.

didn't use deepwood stalker, just falconry and a few extra into aasimar, this resulted in lower boss dps but higher trash dps as we had great mass hold cc this life. made a dust longsword this life, that made soulrazor start basehitting for over 900 and saw crits when rolling 19-20 with a whelm in offhand for over 14k attack speed of course is amazing and party utility is high, plenty of feats to take empower heal and quicken for some real good cure serious and cacoon action, also wisdom based aasimar hands could even allow me to self heal all the way to r8 or so.

main problem was to-hit. I could only hit about 125 to hit and had to swap from ring of nightfall to a band if insightful commands often in boss fights.

ended up with 2800 HP this life in reaper and lots of dodge options. this build survives, dps is high, took epic reflex and even being wisdom based had a no fail reflex save in the r10 lost at sea traps.

gear highlights consist of silent avenger set, adherent set, ring of prowess, age of rage wisdom hat. unable to slot insightful wisdom due to heavy armor and trinket options only. I find it hard to give up the echo of ravenkind on a melee LGS shroud HP set on goggles/boots. took blinding speed to make up for the lack of a speed item.

DPS: A
R10 group capable: A
R4 Solo capable: B
Raid capable: A
I highly recommend this as a low past life character if just starting out, go dex based with scimitars, they are easier to get than a soulrazor. The dps will still be great, if not better on bosses with the deepwood stalker tree.

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next we have my first ever iconic life. just pulled a tremor so what the heck, str based 8 druid/6 cleric/6 fighter PDK.

take feats for mauls, t5 in kensai.

This build is very high on DPS and STR and thats about it. With my gear i got to about 106 STR and dire charge DC was about 108. had 3200 HP in reaper mode as I was animal domain. ended up threat tanking r10's as long as i had good healers and had my first experience pulling aggro from some of my servers best tanks in killing time. don't forget -threat for those situations  dodge options are worse than ranger, only meld and flight for staying alive in a pack of R10 mobs, however this is the quickest ive ever seen rednames go down. self heals are a no-go, only getting the PDK full heal once per shrine. prr 240, mrr 130, melee power 270
not a solo build, but a great group build.

gear highlights include silent avenger set, LGS 2 peice opp set, age of rage STR hat, and an adherent set. again took blinding speed to make up for a lack in speed item

DPS: A
R10 group capable: A
r4 solo capable: D
Raid capable: A

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pally past life: PDK

I'm new to dps, the above posted build are the first melee dps builds ive ever done, started playing in 2008 stopped in 2013, started again in 2018 always done divine/arcane till now. im enjoying it so far, starting with the wizard i thought was great and then setting up an amazing ranger that can only get better with experience and now ive got a crazy dps wolf out of the way, i should be great at this by now right?

well lets keep the longsword thing going as I have a dust longsword and a nice prowess soulrazor as well.

cant you center a monk with longswords? yeah lets give it a go. evasion too, lets rock!~

12 pally/8 fighter/2 monk

fire stance. str based, divine might, level 30 can self buff to 103 Str. grandmaster stance and twf with knights training. main weapons are LGS dust in offhand and Soulrazor in mainhand.

base hit 800 with soulrazor, crit for over 9000 on 19-20
all t5's taken in kensai, took some extra LOH and defender stance, 200prr 50mrr 2600 HP 200 melee power in reaper. dodge at 31% with extra threat from defender stance. saves all near 100. I can threat tank effectively on targets that only hit for physical damage, die very fast to spellcasters.

can toss LOH for emergency party healing, however they do not hit me very hard even with a large amount of heal amp.
50 mrr makes this very unreliable in high reaper. the damage is ok (dont get the aoe or attack speed from tempest)

gear is the same as the wolf build but with robes instead of light armor. 105 dire charge,

DPS: C
R10 party capable: C
R4 Solo Capable: D
Raid capable C

cluedout wrote on Apr 9^th, 2019 at 7:53pm:


Was this an Iconic Aasimar Scourge or just a from lvl1 regular Aasimar?

I ask because the Nightforge Avenger Blade is VERY easy to get, and if it's still viable at lvl 15 it would be well worth it. I've been contemplating spinning up an Iconic Aasimar Scourge pure ranger as a farming alt, but not willing to invest heavily in gear.


I'd also be interesting in hearing about your leveling gear setups. You mostly mention at-or-near cap gear configurations, but I'd like to know what you're pulling out of the TR cache/shared bank and when.

Thanks!

Was thinking of leveling a scourge from 15 to 20 and stalling out somewhere in early epics. Not specifically as a challenge farmer, just generic loot farmer that can crush low-level content(of course, that's practically any self-sufficient class). I also do happen to enjoy pure ranger for a variety of reasons, but not enough to ever play one again on my main.

I'd love to theory-craft low-level gear with you sometime. Twink gear is probably my favorite thing ever(in case I haven't mentioned it), and am currently trying to put together the perfect "Fresh off the boat" set to grab before running korthos. I have an ML1 feather-falling ring fitted with a Master's Gift that comes out of the TR cache before I run a single quest, and since I'm already grabbing stuff, why not a few more items to provide the best "bang for buck" at lvl 1?

misterkatz wrote on Apr 16^th, 2019 at 1:47pm:


I generally did it as a bladeforged Iconic and simple took the levels in order(for my own sanity more so than anything else):

Paladin
Paladin
Paladin
Wizard
Wizard
Wizard
Wizard
Wizard
Fighter to 20.

A big part of what I liked about this build was self-healing through Bladeforged Communion of Scribing, but there's no reason you couldn't adapt the level split to any non-iconic race. You won't have anywhere near as nice of self-healing though. As for the level order, I'd invite anyone to chime in with a better progression.

For feats, I focused on two-weapon fighting, weapon specialization, etc for max DPS. You will want warforged Adamantine Body so your docents are treated as heavy armor, and if you can spare a little DPS, you can take the heavy armor feats for tons of extra PRR and AC. I also usually found room for Bastard Sword proficiency, but that's more a personal choice; I liked being able to switch to sword-and-board  for added defense.

I actually found that I did fine without cleave and great cleave, as you get enough cleave attacks out of Eldritch Knight, but others may be more inclined to stick with them. Plus once you hit 20 you can take all the cleaves out of destinies.

For enhancements, a very few points into Sacred Defender nets you a TON of PRR. Most of my points went into Eldritch Knight. Back when I played this build, it was a permanent-effect Tenser's Transformation, but they've since overhauled the tree to create "Knight's Transformation", which is arguably better. At the very least you want enough points in EK to get Improved Shield for that extra 10 PRR.


For weapons, I believe you still get follower of the lord of blades(wiki is busted so can't say for sure), which provides a bonus ti greatswords. Greataxes are also an option, as is sword and board. All depends what you want to do, build can go a lot of directions. the best balance of survivable and DPS i found to be greatswords.

cluedout wrote on Apr 18^th, 2019 at 9:20am:


Sadly a lot of the best early-level gear in there is no longer available(Maelstrom is now lvl 8, and that crazy good cosmetic mask was pre-order only ) but there's still a lot of good suggestions in there. Looks like I've got some farming to do

noamineo wrote on Apr 8^th, 2019 at 7:11pm:


Can you expand on this?

noamineo wrote on Apr 25^th, 2019 at 6:21pm:


Yes I was just wondering about the "doubling up" on past lives thing, wondered if I had missed something haha.