random110 wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2011 at 5:23pm:


Depends on what your playstyle is, and what gear you have available.  If you only want the past life, then 12 ranger/8 anything else works.

If you want to get your own traps, then the exploiter is fine.  For just getting a past life, however..  There isn't much reason to go past level 11 or 12 ranger, unless you are going to be playing it at cap for a while.  12 ranger/ rogue works. 

For my wife type person's ranger life, we did some horrible mashup.  I think it ended up being 14 ranger/2 monk/4 fighter, or something like that.  We loaded her with toughness feats, and then whatever other fighter feats she wanted for extra dps/to hit bonuses.

If you enjoyed a Monk life already, you could also pretend to be a Monk again.

6 Monk/6 Ranger in a combination that makes sense early (Maybe 1 Monk/3 Ranger/1 Monk/3 Ranger/4 Monk), lots of fun with TWF and handwraps and a huge number of feats to play with.

6 levels of Fighter after that gives even more Feats to enjoy and then hold 18 until you have the XP for 20 and take your last two Ranger levels to get the past life.

It might not be the most bestest character ever, but you get a bajillion feats, fast attack speed and you can pew pew with a nice Paralyzing bow from level 10 through Vale if you feel like it.

You actually get so many feats, that I'd even consider taking the AA prestige for Ranger and Ten Thousand Stars - just because you can.  Grab a couple of junk ToD rings before you TR and you can get Holy Burst and [whatever] Burst on your handwraps for that last million-ish XP.

Downside: no Rogue skills or full ranks in UMD.
Also, if you bought Artificer, then I'd absolutely take 1 level of Arti instead of 1 level of Rogue if you go the traditional Exploiter route.

random110 wrote on Dec 4^th, 2011 at 4:21pm:


It's really not that worthwhile for leveling, without any real sacrifices to your dps you'll have an ok ish ac (stop ~ 1/2 the incoming damage for you're elite quests all the way through to the vale) 
I've found being able to mitigate dame through umding resists / blurs / fireshields / stoneskin and decent healing (heal scrolls) has made TRing far easier / faster than persuing max ac.

That considered, a 1 level artificer splash gets you better healing / scrolling than a 1 level rogue splash, + your badazz box hunter pup.

Epoch wrote on Dec 4^th, 2011 at 8:09pm:


Dispel's going to be so pissed you don't think him the smartest one