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Equipment:
Full Radiant Armor. As for runes, I recommend a Marksmanship Mask and a Major Marksmanship Rune with a Minor Expertise Rune. The other runes are up to you, more energy might be nice on the off chance you hit a LONG battle with no spell casters or enchantment users.
Weapons:
I personally prefer a Hornbow. Mine is a Req 8 Hornbow, so I get a wee bit more damage off of Melandru's Shot than most, but mine isnt Customized, so if you do that, you should find the numbers work out about the same, probably a bit better in fact.
Usage:
Fairly Straight Forward Build. Well Before Battle, use I am the Strongest. I am Rank 10 Norn, so I get 8 attacks of +20 damage. And with waiting, my energy refills, and I have it ready to go again when I need it.
Right before the battle there is a chain of skills that seems to work best. Given the duration of Read the Wind, put that on first. Then use Mindbender and then target your foe and use Asuran Scan. At rank 10, Mindbender is 16 seconds of 33% speed boost and HCT. Which is useful, because Asuran Scan is a 2 second cast. And for us physical damage dealers, that is a long wait. Asuran Scan at Rank 10 does 75% extra damage.
Now to attack. I reccomend to use Needling Shot First, this will do 105 damage. Armor Ignoring. Well wow, that's NICE.
And then the fun part. Melandru's Shot does +35 damage normally, but with everything layered like this, you can hit for up to 248 damage in one shot. (My Max on a 60 AL opponent. Max on a 100 AL opponent is 240 Once, but more often than not this will be about 180 damage.)Then there is a good chance they are below 50% health. If not, fire off a regular attack for about 70 damage. NOW use Needling shot and spam them to death. Trust me, they die fast.
The whole process on one enemy can kill them in about 7 seconds. (May be shorter with a different bow, since I use a Hornbow and it is the slowest bow in the game). And that is with a 100 AL warrior. Can go faster with a Cast I would imagine with critical hits and other such factors thrown in.
Variants:
Swap out Melandru's Shot for Prepared Shot. You're sure to get back energy, but the bonus damage is a tad bit lower. About 10 damage without bonuses, so thats about 17 damage less when using this skill. I haven't tested it with Prepared Shot, but I am thinking this will be the better way to go. It may lower damage a bit, but Needling Shot does the majority of the damage, and in the case of a drawn out fight with few spell casters, it's the safer option.
Swap out Power Drain. I just brought it for an Interrupt and Energy. I was still toying around with it when I chose it. It makes up for if I cant get Melandru's Shot off. If you bring Prepared Shot, you should be fine. Maybe switch in Serpents Quickness instead.
Weakness:
This build does not rely on spell damage, nor does it do degen. So it is especially susceptible to anti melee builds. But you can't protect against everything. besides, if you do it right, they die fast enough things like SS or SV dont bother you much.
Final Comments:
Wow. I just made this for the fun of it, and I love it. It is currently the fastest damage dealing build I have ever made or played with as a ranger. Only downside is you need to have EotN titles. Would work well enough at low ranks too, though. Just gets better with age.
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Max Damage now is 260 on a 60 AL. But those seem to be critical hits. And I doubt it will get much higher than that.
