past lives.

Almost done with the 3 tiefling racials and will be starting Scoundrel grind before next week.

I figure if all else fails, I'll just be a 1 bard, 19 warlock and when I get to epic just do my normal.
1. Maybe catch a Grim Necromancer for 1 millionish
2. Orchard for an 1 hour for 2 millionish
3. Barovian for 1-2 hours for 2 millionish
4. Thunderholme for another 2 millionish
clean up with the dailies.

But if there is any intriguing build, I'd be happy for a change of pace.

17 Whatever/3 Bard Inquisitive.  You can Swashbuckle with a light crossbow, which will net you +7 dmg and 11% doubleshot. 

15 Rogue/3 Bard/2 Fighter for +3 action boosts, and because I'm not interested in any other Rogue Special Ability besides Opportunist and Improved Evasion.

Cripey wrote on Apr 11^th, 2019 at 1:28pm:

Not sure how you're giving up 15' PB range...?  I was only ever planning on 11 AP in Mechanic for a total of 2 SA dice.  Here's the breakdown:

41 Inquisitive
7 Kensei - Extra Action Boost x3
7 Harper - INT-hit, KtA
11 Swashbuckler for 7 dmg, 11% doubleshot
11 Mechanic for INT-dmg, +15’ point blank range
3 Thief Acrobat for 15% movement
= 80

+ racial AP
+ universal AP

1 Bard 1: Point Blank Shot
2 Fighter 1: Rapid Reload
3 Bard 2: Rapid Shot
4 Bard 3:
5 Rogue 1:
6 Rogue 2: Precise Shot
7 Rogue 3:
8 Rogue 4:
9 Rogue 5: Insightful Reflexes
10 Rogue 6:
11 Rogue 7:
12 Rogue 8: Improved Critical: Ranged
13 Rogue 9
14 Rogue 10: Improved Evasion
15 Rogue 11: Improved Precise Shot
16 Rogue 12:
17 Rogue 13: Opportunist
18 Rogue 14: Sneak of Shadows
19 Rogue 15
20 Fighter 2: Precision
21 Epic   : Combat Archery
24 Epic   : Overwhelming Critical
26 Destiny: Holy Strike
27 Epic   : Watchful Eye
28 Destiny: Doubleshot
29 Destiny: Harbinger of Chaos
30 Epic   : Epic Damage Reduction / Completionist
30 Legend : Scion of Arborea

I'm going to fill in some barb lives since you have to be non-lawful. (And I usually go lawful on past-life/leveling builds, because...reasons.)

I took the Scoundrel 15 Rogue/3 Bard/2 Rogue build to 20 last night.  If I do another Scoundrel/Rogue PL, I'm going to drop Fighter for Barb and dump the 10 AP from Kensei and Thief Acrobat into Mechanic.  I never ran out of No Holds Barred in heroic, and in epic 9 boosts should be enough.

Watchful Eye isn't needed since it's the same as Inquisitive core 3.  It's a pretty awesome quality of life feature while heroic leveling, especially if you haven't run a trapper life in a while.

Ash Imprisonment is incredible if you have the racial AP.

bob the builder wrote on Apr 15^th, 2019 at 5:08pm:


Actually a lot of parties appreciate if you hang back and hit the traps for that extra 15% XP boost. Nobody cares enough to wait for it, but its handy.

Be kind of interesting if DDO had more quests that were either impossible or much more difficult to complete without trapping.

I am considering
Scoundrel Bard 3 / Ranger 6 / Rogue 11
41 inq
7 harper
11 swash
11 mech
11 DWS
= 81

Also considering swapping ranger and rogue levels if said character has bad dex tome

does someone want to dumb down the Scoundrel
15 Rogue
3 Bard
2 Fighter
build and include all the enhancements (exactly how the
41 Inquisitive
7 Kensei - Extra Action Boost x3
7 Harper - INT-hit, KtA
11 Swashbuckler for 7 dmg, 11% doubleshot
11 Mechanic for INT-dmg, +15’ point blank range
3 Thief Acrobat for 15% movement
= 80
were spent (the 41 inquisitive) I can probably figure it out, but man I'm lazy these days.

Annnnd it's time to respec my rogue again.

I started running this build yesterday (finally after spending an hour with Cannith Crafting Planner to spec gear for this build).

Pretty fun so far... stuff dies fast and I'm a freaking turret!

Will have to see what happens when I get to Epics though.

bob the builder wrote on Apr 19^th, 2019 at 9:08am:

Swashbuckling requires a "light" weapon.  You'll want to stick with light crossbows if you're using that.

bob the builder wrote on Apr 19^th, 2019 at 3:07pm:



Mookie is right.  It's one of those oddball things because crossbows light or heavy aren't part of swashbuckling.  But in inquisitive:
Dashing Inquisition: You can Swashbuckle while wielding a Light (non-repeating) Crossbow.