This build came forth from Carpone and I tossing ideas around. It started with him going to HW on the ranger splashed throwers. And I asked why not hybrid? This is the answer.

I know this is the highest possible ranged dps in the game unless you got a mega cheat for another ranged. Otherwise this is it. No cheats, nerf proof, shit on your ranged, ranged build.

Why nerf proof? Because no one is going to go around and keep misty stepping 5 times and weapon swapping 4 times every minute to just do some reaper xp and raid loot farming.

This is something only highly skilled motherfuckers will do when raid pushing. Which means only I will be using this and not in the immediate future since we aren't raid pushing atm. Though if you are and you need a ranged, you bring this.

Why 14/6? Because Sniper + Hunt edges out pure 20 monk shuri over time, and this gives the build a "fuck you" combo for random trash deletion. And that I cannot bow hybrid on the pure 20 without taking a lot of feats that I don't think it can realistically spare. Even if it could it is behind the 14/6.

Don't do the 8/6/6 shitter builds. Whichever bad convinced you other bads to be bad together should just anoint me the ranged lord god emperor, and shower me with praise for posting this. YW btw.

Now the build :

Same feats you always take on a shuri. There. That was easy. If you can't figure this out ask me or give up on the build. Choice is yours. Hint : Zen Archery because it is better to spare a feat than it is to burn ED ap for it.

AP : Tier 5 + capstone in HW. Halfling race tree for +1 critical threat range.



ED AP : 33 Shiradi, 16 SD, 14 GmoF.

You run in fire stance and have 100 dex in reaper while drinking both dex potions and using the following filigree set in your (shuriken only) :

3 shattered set 3 dmg 3 dshot
rp rare 5
rp rare 5 ( artifact )
+1 attack/damage

2 wildhunt set 5 rp
sneak damage 2 rp 2
rp 5

4 Spines set; 2 damage 3 deflect 10 rp
raid 10 rp
raid 10 rp ( artifact )
rp
+1 hit/dmg
2 wreath 5% fire absorb

3 treachery set; 5rp 1 sneak dice
raid treachery 2 dex
raid 2 dex ( artifact )
treachery dex
2 cloak +2 reflex

dance/next fall raid 2 dex
dance/next fall raid 2 dex ( artifact )
5% deflect +2 dmg

62 rp
9 dmg
9 dex =4dmg or 6 damage after trance for a total of +15 dmg
1 sneak dice
2 sneak damage
3 dshot


gear :

Goggles ~ Tinkers (set 1; rp/Fort) all sneak attack. 2 slots = hamp/dodge

Helm ~ Final Watcher ins ds/seeker/accuracy/q deadly. 2 slots = festive dex 2/doubleshot augment set 1

Neck ~ Golden Guile 4 fili /imp deception/+14 dex. 3 slots = deathblock/swiftness/doubleshot augment set 1

trinket ~ Gem of Many Facets. resistance/true sight/ins accuracy. Dual set vulkoor chosen and might. 1 slot draconic.

Cloak ~ Silver Scale ins dex/ins shelter/dodge. 2 slots =  dark diversion/festive wisdom

Belt ~ Slaver belt wis/bypass/spot/q wis slot = doubleshot augment set 1

ring ~ MA acid. 2 slots ; litany/prr 30 augment set 1

Gloves ~ Tinkers (set1: RP/Fort) all seeker/q dex/reflex. 2 slots ins wisdom 5/cracked core

Boots  ~ Slavers shelter/Deception/tendon/q con. prr 30 augment set 2

ring ~ Lionheart action boost/ins bypass/ins con. 1 slot accuracy

bracers ~ Claw con/parry/fort/false life. 2 slots ; festive con/ins dex

Armour ~ RDA 2 slots = prr 30 augment set/rp 10

Quiver ~ Dynamistic doubleshot 8

Offhand Legendary Sting (set 3: sneak/dex/con). 1 slot globe


Bow Filigree : TBD.


Notes : if you have reaper helm +2 stats you can change the dex node in VKF and pick up FE damage in DWS. Also you can drop a monk level and grab 1 rogue for trapping + nimble finger feat. AKA the Carpone ranger splash shuri. I refuse to trap and aint giving up 5% dshot. But if you're a team player then do this.

How to play it : Use 10k stars. Swap to bow when 10k stars is on cooldown and spam bow attacks for 30 seconds until 10k is off cooldown. You now utilize the best aspects of both ranged builds.

Eat your heart out, Tilo. You will never be better builder than I. Never

Rubbinns wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2022 at 12:02am:


Assuming at least one you bow or shuriken is keen...then it's just Zen Archery and Manyshot, isn't it? And you can pick up ZA in GMoF. You say burn the feat instead, but whether that is worth it will depend on how many destiny points you have and what feat you are giving up.


Rubbinns wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2022 at 12:02am:

Sting just for the set bonus? When you're going to be swapping to a 2handed bow for 30 seconds of every 60? 

Rubbinns wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2022 at 3:08pm:


Pure monk has enough feats.

Level 1: Point Blank Shot
Level 1(M): Shuriken Expertise
Level 2(M): Precision
Level 3: Precise Shot
Level 6: Rapid Shot
Level 6(M):10K Stars
Level 9: Completionist
Level 12 : Improved Critical

By level 15 your best option is what? Weapon Focus? So right there you can use 15 & 18 to get Zen Archery and Manyshot without even dipping into epic feats.

I guess the problem is a pure halfling monk isn't proficient with longbows. So barring a trick to gain proficiency (which there are, but might not be worth it), you're looking at spending a feat on proficiency too. So you're giving up your least favorite epic feat or taking it at 15 and relegating ZA to GMoF points.

Rubbinns wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2022 at 3:08pm:


For pure I think you'd still want nerfed DI instead of Hunt's End. (Guessing on how the next incarnation of DI turns out from discord chatter.)

Rubbinns wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2022 at 3:08pm:


You're saying taking RP boost from DWS and NS gives you 2 different pools of boost? That's fascinating, but if you need more than 1 pool, you're not using Draconic Reinvigoration, and if you're not reinvigging at this level of play, then you're not doing it right.

Rubbinns wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2022 at 3:08pm:


Umm, why not go t5 HW + NS capstone? What do you lose? 2 manyshot charges?

Rubbinns wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2022 at 7:08pm:



Rub doesn't lack confidence.

I like the cycle. This is more than decent for ranged.

Head-Meat wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2022 at 7:17pm:


The Master Pimp must keep his hand strong vs the baby pimps.

I think I was bow swapping bow for manyshot and shuri for 10k back in like, 2016?17? (pre-MS nerf). The idea was to use Shuri in between manyshots to regen adrens (high procs) while still doing good dps, with a bubba burst bow that was worth swapping to for unbridled or just to burn a few adren on a meat bag

back then it was AA or DWS T5, pre HW, and pre VKF. good times

that's a lot of changes in a year or so

A work of art.

For quests there is no need for melee. It's all casters now. It's always been this way for leveling and low reaper. But since u51 caster can just lolCrit doom reapers down.

Melee is only pretty much needed in high skull raiding. Caster dps is insanely high right now, but they would need to drink a lot of potions to sustain that dps in a high skull raid. If you can wallet warrior the pots or have an infinite stash then go ahead and blast through whatever content you're running. If not then melee dps shines. EK, Assassin, Wolf are all top notch dps for that setting. Melee can still quest but why would you when you can critical everything at like 75%-100% rate on your spells and heal yourself, and cc various things.

As for ranged the benefit is dying less and not needing action boosts. So for raids where you can't shrine much and are stuck in small area with a red name that has huge bag of hit points, or raids that deal stupid damage like Wild Hunt, and having to babysit souls is where ranged has its edge.

Gunga wrote on Mar 28^th, 2022 at 11:44am:


Not too sure what you mean.

MS = manyshot. 3 second cooldown. 12 second recharge rate when not in use.
Hunt = Hunt's End 8 second cooldown 12 second duration.
DI = dark imbue ( that was to illustrate differences between a pure 20 monk hybrid using DI versus a 6 ranger splash without DI ).

So the first 2 minute cycle is for pure 20 monk hence the DI in there. And the second 2 minute rotation is for the 6 ranger splashed hybrid without DI.

1ms = the 1st charge of 3 for manyshot. 2ms = 2nd charge. 3ms = 3rd charge. 4th ms = ms charge regenerated and fired.


For the ranger splash the rotation is different due to having 5 ms charges instead of 3, and not having Dark Imbue cut into the cooldown and use of Hunt's End.

Gunga wrote on Mar 28^th, 2022 at 6:31pm:


I have not even tried bow since the revamp. Shuri also has some issues, sometimes it dry fires, sometimes a small bump on the floor in the terrain blocks the shuri, sometimes if a mob moves to the sides of your character it will miss. I don't recall having any issues on dagger throwers before they got nerfed.

Don't use my shuri ap posted above, it's made for macro to cycle through sniper and aimed shot while attacking, so I don't have to press hundreds of keys per minute. I would suggest taking Merciful Shot and Leg Shot. Mercy shot's 500 damage scales with everything on ranged builds. All 5 stars, 400 ranged power, and 175% Hunt's End. It ends up doing like 30k+ just from the 500 damage alone when combining all those, excluding front number or sneak attack.

Anothersock wrote on Mar 28^th, 2022 at 6:24am:


Has anyone posted a caster build with new EDs?

Head-Meat wrote on Mar 29^th, 2022 at 9:26am:


The "dry fire" usually happens when switching targets. The first shot often doesn't register. Not a new issue.

Gunga wrote on Mar 28^th, 2022 at 6:31pm:


The glitchy part of the bow since they did the animation work on it (or whatever that was) is that autoattacking interferes with active attacks.

Most fighting style, when you use an active that doesn't have a specific animation, it just gets added to the current/next auto attack. Very slick.

With the new bow autoattack animation, when you hit an active, it is delayed. It never adds to the current attack, it adds to the next attack or not at all. You have to hammer the Manyshot button 3+ times to make sure that it actually goes off. This of course means that Nubbinns's theoretical DPS rotation that is micromanaged down to the split second is impossible to actually do.

Rubbinns wrote on Mar 28^th, 2022 at 9:35pm:


LOL @ "Here's how to do the highest ranged DPS in the game, seriously guys." & "No, I have not even tried it."