Elf Bow Ranger
By: Soulein
Elf ranger
Start 3 cons TaN
In Game runes
Glad
Archer
BW
Commy
10dex 40con
145dex
140con
61int
Skills
Max xbow (or Bow)
Max archery
100% MA
115% Beastmastery
40 - Zeal
40 - Power
40 - Wolfskin
40 - Wolf's Vigor
1 - Heal
1 - Turn steel
40 - Race the Hare
20 - Find Weakness
20 - Plague (ratcatcher) or artillerist w/ siege buff
Extras can go into other discs. At GM Race the Hare lasts for 2 minutes and has a 2 minute recast timer. It's a 65% movement buff. On an elf xbow ranger Vigor is PHAT. I'd much rather be running around with 65% movement speed and 250% stam regen than a 2min long atr buff from glad or 2min long 10 to resists from glad. And definitely would recommend it over GM grasp of thorns. It's nearly a 5 second cast and we aren't hurting for snares with 2 bards, the aoe spec will have even more. Not to mention your xbow will get a rank 30 wep pwr snare.
Start 3 cons TaN
In Game runes
Glad
Archer
BW
Commy
10dex 40con
145dex
140con
61int
Skills
Max xbow (or Bow)
Max archery
100% MA
115% Beastmastery
40 - Zeal
40 - Power
40 - Wolfskin
40 - Wolf's Vigor
1 - Heal
1 - Turn steel
40 - Race the Hare
20 - Find Weakness
20 - Plague (ratcatcher) or artillerist w/ siege buff
Extras can go into other discs. At GM Race the Hare lasts for 2 minutes and has a 2 minute recast timer. It's a 65% movement buff. On an elf xbow ranger Vigor is PHAT. I'd much rather be running around with 65% movement speed and 250% stam regen than a 2min long atr buff from glad or 2min long 10 to resists from glad. And definitely would recommend it over GM grasp of thorns. It's nearly a 5 second cast and we aren't hurting for snares with 2 bards, the aoe spec will have even more. Not to mention your xbow will get a rank 30 wep pwr snare.
Elf Xbow Ranger
By: Mourne
This is the template for Elf Xbow Ranger (or bow). This is for an offensive build not a stance dancer.
Elf
Fighter
Ranger
Creation:
All 3 con runes, Tough as Nails
Discs:
Archer
Bladeweaver
Gladiator
Ratcatcher OR Artillerist
Stats:
145dex
140con
61int
Skills:
90 Xbow
90 Archery
60ish MA (100%)
75ish Beastmastery (115%)
40 - Braialla's Zeal
40 - Braialla's Power
40 - Wolf's Vigor
1 - Heal
1 - Turn Steel
40 - Wolfskin
20 - Find Weakness (BW)
1- Feint (BW)
20 - Plague (ratcatcher)
20 - Siege buff (artillerist)
As far as Wolf's Vigor, some might not want to train this, I consider it to be an awesome spell to have when you're a bow or xbow ranger. That weapon drains a lot of stam, especially since this is an elf with no access to athletics. Once you're in GvG and having to use powers on top of just shooting, your stam will drop pretty damned quickly. Having GM Vigor counters that decently and when you get a chance to sit for stam it helps a lot.
Gear:
4/4/40 armor, 4/4/dex gloves, 4/4/windlords
Con jewelry/hood
PoR Xbow
Elf
Fighter
Ranger
Creation:
All 3 con runes, Tough as Nails
Discs:
Archer
Bladeweaver
Gladiator
Ratcatcher OR Artillerist
Stats:
145dex
140con
61int
Skills:
90 Xbow
90 Archery
60ish MA (100%)
75ish Beastmastery (115%)
40 - Braialla's Zeal
40 - Braialla's Power
40 - Wolf's Vigor
1 - Heal
1 - Turn Steel
40 - Wolfskin
20 - Find Weakness (BW)
1- Feint (BW)
20 - Plague (ratcatcher)
20 - Siege buff (artillerist)
As far as Wolf's Vigor, some might not want to train this, I consider it to be an awesome spell to have when you're a bow or xbow ranger. That weapon drains a lot of stam, especially since this is an elf with no access to athletics. Once you're in GvG and having to use powers on top of just shooting, your stam will drop pretty damned quickly. Having GM Vigor counters that decently and when you get a chance to sit for stam it helps a lot.
Gear:
4/4/40 armor, 4/4/dex gloves, 4/4/windlords
Con jewelry/hood
PoR Xbow
TarrenBane the Dual Axe Ranger
By: Durell
Human Female Fighter Ranger
-5 from all take dex to 50 take ambidex and tough as nails
lvl 75 stats
Str - 130 (+25 valkyr +5 str rune)
Dex - 50
Con - 130 (30 con rune)
int - 58 (just enough to train beastcraft to 115%)
Spi - 35 (base)
Discs - Valkyr, Gladiator, Blademaster, Bezerker
Gold Axe
Gold Axe Mastery
100% MA
GM Brialla's Power
GM Brialla's Zeal
GM Fleet of Foot
GM Wolf's Vigor (this char uses stam heavily)
GM Wolf Skin
JM Signy's Eye
JM Unleash the Rage
JM Find Weakness
5 trains Grasp of Thorns (to ground non natural fliers)
1 train Turn Steel (for the +5 resists)
1 train Race the Hare (good for escaping if wolfskin or sprint is down)
1 train in Feint
1 train Mend Wounds
All remaining points (about 50) are dumped in parry, you could trim wolf's vigor down to 20 trains to allow 70 points into parry.
Gear Morlochs of Dispatch Infernal 1h Axes (x2) (Warlords of Alac if you cant get the elite enchantments), 20 Con hood, Halidor of the Shaper Rings and Ammy, 442 MA (recommend pierce suffix), except 44 10 str gloves and 44 WL boots.
This character hits extremely hard, extremely fast, fully buffed around 520 top end damage each hand (that's honed). It is also a character built around health recovery. When you go into a fight you want both the gladiator health recovery buff and herb lore active on you. When fully buffed and raged you are looking at having around 5500 hps, nothing to sneeze at on a ranger. Bezerker rage is normally a meh power as it doesn't heal you like barb rage, but between a good priest and your insane recovery you will fill up the hps plenty fast. Due to the characters heavy stam usage its a good idea to be running wolf's vigor during fights, and switching to walk mode whenever you are attacking someone stationary. Another way to make up for the stam usage is to use Morlochs of Ruin (or warlords of slaughter) axes. This will lower your dps, but will give you very high high end damage probably closer to 550 or 560 a hand, good for screenshots and stam conservation, not so good for dps.
-5 from all take dex to 50 take ambidex and tough as nails
lvl 75 stats
Str - 130 (+25 valkyr +5 str rune)
Dex - 50
Con - 130 (30 con rune)
int - 58 (just enough to train beastcraft to 115%)
Spi - 35 (base)
Discs - Valkyr, Gladiator, Blademaster, Bezerker
Gold Axe
Gold Axe Mastery
100% MA
GM Brialla's Power
GM Brialla's Zeal
GM Fleet of Foot
GM Wolf's Vigor (this char uses stam heavily)
GM Wolf Skin
JM Signy's Eye
JM Unleash the Rage
JM Find Weakness
5 trains Grasp of Thorns (to ground non natural fliers)
1 train Turn Steel (for the +5 resists)
1 train Race the Hare (good for escaping if wolfskin or sprint is down)
1 train in Feint
1 train Mend Wounds
All remaining points (about 50) are dumped in parry, you could trim wolf's vigor down to 20 trains to allow 70 points into parry.
Gear Morlochs of Dispatch Infernal 1h Axes (x2) (Warlords of Alac if you cant get the elite enchantments), 20 Con hood, Halidor of the Shaper Rings and Ammy, 442 MA (recommend pierce suffix), except 44 10 str gloves and 44 WL boots.
This character hits extremely hard, extremely fast, fully buffed around 520 top end damage each hand (that's honed). It is also a character built around health recovery. When you go into a fight you want both the gladiator health recovery buff and herb lore active on you. When fully buffed and raged you are looking at having around 5500 hps, nothing to sneeze at on a ranger. Bezerker rage is normally a meh power as it doesn't heal you like barb rage, but between a good priest and your insane recovery you will fill up the hps plenty fast. Due to the characters heavy stam usage its a good idea to be running wolf's vigor during fights, and switching to walk mode whenever you are attacking someone stationary. Another way to make up for the stam usage is to use Morlochs of Ruin (or warlords of slaughter) axes. This will lower your dps, but will give you very high high end damage probably closer to 550 or 560 a hand, good for screenshots and stam conservation, not so good for dps.
Irekei Fighter Ranger (Bow)
By: Nobuo
Startup:
Drop all points from everything, bring CON to 50
Take: Lucky, Tough as Nails
Endgame:
STR: min
DEX: 165 (+35 applied)
CON: 115 (+25 applied)
INT: 60
SPI: min
Disciplines:
Archer, Gladiator, Prospector, Commander/Artillerist (pick one)
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Trains
Armor: 90 trains (MA or LA)
Bow: 90 trains
Archery: 90 trains
Bestiality: 115%
40 Dmg Buff/Alac
40 Dex/STR Buff
40 Wolf Skin
40 Wolf's Vigor
40 Turn Steel
20 Precision - Archer
20 Resist Buff - Gladiator
20 Siege Dmg Buff - Artillerist (if applicable)
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If you use MA, you'll have higher resists and lower DEF. Recommended gear: +24 con jewels, +DEF/HP armor and helm, PoR Sapphire Bow. This is designed to be a stance dancer. If you dont want to mess with stance-dancing, just leave off Lucky at creation, take a higher CON rune in game, and use resist MA and a +24 CON hood.
You'll have some extra points, I recommend putting them in Leadership (if you take Commander) so it goes faster when you are PLing my noobs.
** Updated to include Turn Steel. Leave it at 1 train if you arent stance dancing.
Drop all points from everything, bring CON to 50
Take: Lucky, Tough as Nails
Endgame:
STR: min
DEX: 165 (+35 applied)
CON: 115 (+25 applied)
INT: 60
SPI: min
Disciplines:
Archer, Gladiator, Prospector, Commander/Artillerist (pick one)
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Trains
Armor: 90 trains (MA or LA)
Bow: 90 trains
Archery: 90 trains
Bestiality: 115%
40 Dmg Buff/Alac
40 Dex/STR Buff
40 Wolf Skin
40 Wolf's Vigor
40 Turn Steel
20 Precision - Archer
20 Resist Buff - Gladiator
20 Siege Dmg Buff - Artillerist (if applicable)
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If you use MA, you'll have higher resists and lower DEF. Recommended gear: +24 con jewels, +DEF/HP armor and helm, PoR Sapphire Bow. This is designed to be a stance dancer. If you dont want to mess with stance-dancing, just leave off Lucky at creation, take a higher CON rune in game, and use resist MA and a +24 CON hood.
You'll have some extra points, I recommend putting them in Leadership (if you take Commander) so it goes faster when you are PLing my noobs.
** Updated to include Turn Steel. Leave it at 1 train if you arent stance dancing.