Inquisitive build reaching 30 something imbue dice. 6 arty levels for +1 dice, rune arm for dread set gearing, and 6 ap saved from harper tree.

The dino rune arm is amazing with the skeleton raid optional 3% doubleshot augment. A 2d6 profane sneak dice augment, and it can augment the Fire Attuned proc. Its own rune arm damage proc scales at 200% RP. Just such a sick item.

Feats :


Class AP :

ED AP : You're in Shiradi for this one since hunt's end works for both attack rolls on xbow.
33 shiradi/23 SD/16 Draconic

Gear : same as the repeater gear set. Just swap weapons.

Vinci's gear set :

Googles: Legendary Lenses of the Dark Depths (Ins Dodge, UMD, Blindness Immunity) Profane Experiment 1
Helm: Watcher helm (Ins DS, Accuracy, Q Deadly, Seeker) Perfect Silence 1
Neck: Legendary Pendant of the Sea (Insight Ice/Elec, Deception) Curse 1
Trinket: Legendary Hurricane Insignia (Speed) Temple Tempest 1
Cloak: Cloak of the Hunter (Relentless Fury, Exc Healing Amp, Q Deception, Q Seeker 3)
Belt: Legendary Belt of the Ram (Ram's Might, Con, Speed) Perfect Silence 2
Gloves: Dinosaur Bone Gloves (Int 15, Deadly, Armor Piercing) Curse 2
Boots: Legendary Spectre Boots (Doubleshot, Ghostly) Profane Experiment 2
Bracers: Legendary Sunken Chains (Insight Seeker, Q Int +3) Perfect Silence 3
Ring: Legendary Signet Ring of the Sea (Resonation 149, Magnetism 149) Curse 3
Ring: Legendary The Earth and the Sky (Insight PRR) Temple Tempest 2
Armor: Legendary Researcher's Leathers (Healing Amp, Fort, PRR, False Life) Profane Experiment 3
Weapon: Attuned Bone Heavy Crossbow (Icescale, Meltfang, +2 Exc Int, Ash) Curse 4
Rune Arm: Attuned Rune Arm (Iridescent Scale, 3% DS, Goldfang, Flamefang) Curse 5
Quiver: Epic Quiver of Alacrity (Insight Deception)


filigree

filigree

artifact spines raid 10rp/electrocution 9 electric power/shattered device 5rp/long shadow 5rp

weapon

spines raid 10rp
set : 2 dmg
total : 20 rp/2dmg

long atk/dmg
long 5rp
set : 5rp/2 dice
total : 15rp/1 dmg/2 dice

electrocution 9 electric power
nystul-electrocution 10mrr
set : 50 electric power/2 dice
total : 68 electric/2 dice

reverberation 10 universal sp
reverberation 4 usp
set : 2 dice
total : 14usp/9 sonic power/2 dice

shattered 5rp
shattered atk/dmg
shatter armor piercing
set : 3dmg/3dshot/10 prr-mrr debuff
total : 10rp/4 dmg/ 3 dshot/ -10 prr-mrr proc

Imbue Dice :
4 Wizard levels
3 Assassin ap
4 AA ap
7 Inquisitive ap
3 Draconic ap
1 Hunt augment
1 Offhand feat
1 Imbue feat
3 Scion feat
2 Harbinger feat
3 gear set
6 filigree
1 elemental weapon spell
= total 39 dice

WonderfulFoppyBint wrote on Nov 17^th, 2022 at 11:39pm:

This and the repeater build both sit at around 900-1k electric power. Both xbow builds can burst up to 450-500~ ranged power. I prefer the spell scaling dice because spell power is just sitting at 900-1k 100% uptime.

It's nice when the cycle of changes makes an old build relevant again. Cheers, will have some fun tinkering with this.

Is there any difference in attuned bone weapons other than the W+? I mean, aside from the fully customizable part of the rune arm. There's no rune arm blank for sale from the vendor. That had me confused for a second. What does the dino bone rune arm blank look like? Do you know if a bone arm drops from chests or the mountain chest?

Are you taking ISWF just for the HP?

Do any vendors sell the greater elemental weapons scroll to get an extra imbue die? Wiki says not but it seems odd that alchemists can buy it but arti's can't. especially as we can get the regular elemental weapons to scroll.

move over bard buff bots, we need arti buffers now!

Is there a reason to take Arti to 6 since Elemental Weapons is a level 2 spell? If you drop Arti to 3 you could still have it, bump Wiz to 15 and pick up 1 more imbue from Wiz levels, a metamagic feat, and 2 level 8 spells. Something to do with the rune arm damage?

Rubbinns wrote on Nov 21^st, 2022 at 9:01pm:

Got it. I saw you said first off that 6 Arty levels saved ap but I couldn't get there. It's only now dawning on me that you only take the first rank of KTA. Not a lot of fat left on this one.

Binkey wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2022 at 11:19am:

22 ap in AA gets 6 dice. Drow is 2, 15th level of wizard is 1, core 4 ek is 1. So it's down 2 imbue, up some spell power and has a longer kta.

All of these versions are fine. They're close in dps because they share the same shell and, like 85% of ap. 30 second kta is annoying to some, me included, so i can see people opting in on that set up.

one thing i dislike about these imbue builds is that they have a hard time picking up extra fuse/NHB charges. Which is still the best thing xbow builds can do.

Rubbinns wrote on Nov 17^th, 2022 at 5:14pm:


I think it's 3 from Wiz levels (lvl 6, 9 and 12)? Still, if going all-in on filis and having a friendly arty around, it's easy to get to 42 dice and another extra d77 proc damage from shiradi. Very enjoyable build!