PVP Ranger template - seeking insight

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  1. Delstrudo

    Delstrudo Well-Known Member

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    Well met! I'm creating a new PVP toon and am looking at making an archer / tank mage. I'm aware archery is less than ideal as far as kill potential, however I think it would be fun to play. Anyhow I've got two templates currently I'm thinking about, one more archer-centric and one more mage-centric:

    Archer-Centric
    Tactics - 100
    Anatomy - 100
    Healing - 80
    Archery - 100
    Magery - 90.1
    Resist - 100
    Eval - 80
    Meditation - 49.9

    Mage-Centric
    Tactics - 80
    Anatomy - 80
    Healing - 80
    Archery - 90
    Magery - 90.1
    Resist - 100
    Eval - 100
    Meditation - 79.9

    With both builds the magery should cover max success rate on lvl 6 spells, and I'd like to incorporate healing since it's just so darn good. I am open to possibly dropping healing to go straight 7x style but figured would seek some input from the community as I've never tried 8x. I'd probably go 90s/45d/90i or something close to it with either build.

    Constructive criticism and considerations much appreciated!
  2. Pirul

    Pirul Well-Known Member
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    In my very humble (and likely wrong) opinion, the simple fact of having unfinished skills gimps a template.

    Ultimately a gimped build leads to frustration. Frustration leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.[/Yoda voice]

    Heal is nice and all, but takes waaaaaaaaaaaay too long with 100 Dex. With 45 Dex you’ll be long dead before it sticks.

    The reason I don’t PvP anymore is the speed of the action. I just can’t keep up. Healing was fine in 1998, but it is way too slow for the speed of PvP in 2018.
  3. POTHEAD

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    There are two pvp builds. if you want to play some form of tank mage you will do just fine, just not as well.

    1.
    Mage Stun Punch Healer:
    Magery
    Med
    Eval
    Resist
    Wrestling
    Anatomy
    Healing

    2.
    Mage Stun Punch Scribe:
    Magery
    Med
    Eval
    Resist
    Wrestling
    Anatomy
    Inscription

    3.
    Basic Tank Mage:
    Magery
    Med
    Eval
    Resist
    Anatomy
    Tactics
    Weapon Skill(I.E. Archery)

    Remember with 100 eval and 100 anat ppl will have a 50% chance to hit you. Just as if you had 100 wrestling (defensive wrestling).
  4. Delstrudo

    Delstrudo Well-Known Member

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    @Pirul thank you for the insight, hadn't thought about the bandage timers.

    @POTHEAD familiar with those builds, was interested in whipping up something different. Looks like meta builds are meta for more than one reason :/

    Thanks!
  5. Andrakus

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    Del, I logged in to the test center to try out archery with a similar template as you got above a few weeks back. The damage done with a crossbow was decent but it was so slow. A halberd is about twice as fast.
  6. wylwrk

    wylwrk Well-Known Member

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    Test is not patched to live. Archery did get a boost recently and afaik you can't test the changes on test.
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