User:WhiteAsIce/Build:R/Rt JQ Splinter Barrage

Uses Barrage along with weapons spells to cap shrines in Jade Quarry. Do not move to public view!

Attributes and Skills

Ranger / Ritualist 8 + 1 Expertise 12 + 1 + 1 Marksmanship 10 Channeling Magic Barrage Core Ranger. Marksmanship 14 Barrage Elite Bow Attack All your Preparations are removed. Shoot arrows at target foe and up to 6 foes adjacent to your target. These arrows strike for +19 damage if they hit. 1 3 Distracting Shot Core Ranger. Expertise 9 Distracting Shot Bow Attack If Distracting Shot hits, it interrupts target foe's action but deals only 10 damage. If the interrupted action was a skill, that skill is disabled for an additional 20 seconds. 10 ½ 3 Savage Shot Core Ranger. Marksmanship 14 Savage Shot Bow Attack If Savage Shot hits, your target's action is interrupted. If that action was a Spell, you strike for +27 damage. 5 ½ 6 Optional Core No Profession. Unlinked Optional Optional Optional. Splinter Weapon Factions Ritualist. Channeling Magic 10 Splinter Weapon Weapon Spell For 20 seconds, target ally has a Splinter Weapon. Target ally's next 4 attacks deal 35 damage to up to 3 adjacent foes. 5 1 5 Lightning Reflexes Core Ranger. Expertise 9 Lightning Reflexes Stance For 9 seconds, you have a 75% chance to block melee and projectile attacks, and you attack 33% faster. 30 6 Optional Core No Profession. Unlinked Optional Optional Optional. Optional Core No Profession. Unlinked Optional Optional Optional. Template code

First optional should be an attack to deal with other players:

• Hunter's Shot
• Debilitating Shot
• Pin Down

Second optional should be a utility skill:

• Whirling Defense for additional anti-spike
• Antidote Signet
• Nightmare Weapon
• Throw Dirt to deal with annoying sins
• Bloodsong, Destruction, or Agony. Note that binding rituals are affected by Expertise.

Third optional should be an IMS stance:

• Storm Chaser
• Dodge/Zojun's Haste

Equipment

• Survivor, above runes, Vigor, Vitae
• Vampiric 15^50 Flatbow of Fortitude for capping shrines
• Vampiric 15^50 Recurve Bow of Fortitude for skirmishes
• Defensive spear/shield set

Usage

• Take out shrines with Barrage and Splinter Weapon.

• Get on higher ground when approaching shrines.
• Target the center NPC of the five, and precast Splinter Weapon.
• Fire Barrages, or recast Splinter Weapon as needed, until the NPCs are dead, then move on to another shrine.

• Use DShot and Savage Shot to interrupt.

• Important skills to use DShot on are Ray of Judgment and Death Nova.

• Use Lightning Reflexes as an anti-spike and as an IAS.
• Deal with other players as you see fit.

Counters

• Anti-melee counters apply.
• Diversion hits on Barrage.
• Healers tending shrines, often keeping just one NPC alive.

See also

Build:R/any Barrage Ranger