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No - as I said you can do both. There's nothing wrong with a ranger who uses quick switch to fire his guns quickly and then uses a hunting bow to finish the job. I doesn't really matter if DEX is 18 or 15 or if INT is 12 or 15. You don't need to minmax stats to build a good ranger. But if I should name a certain ranger build "best", then I would say it's the Stormcaller ranger with min CON and RES, max MIG, DEX and PER and rest in INT. Wear no armor (or don't suffer from recovery penalty, to be precise), take Driving Flight, Stunning Shots and Twinned Arrows to maximize proc chance for Returning Storm and build your pet into a DPS machine with Predator's Sense, Merciless Companion, Vicious Companion and Resilient Companion. This is one of the most impressive chars I ever played. It's high DPS combined with good CC and not too much micromanagement. It's all about the bow, but that's OK. You can then build the rest of the party around the fact that Stormcaller lowers shock DR by 6.

Wounding Shot, -30 to all defenses from Disorienting (Scon Mica's Roar), Wounding from Persistence, Binding Roots, all scroll related buffs or DoT spells, Stunning Shots, Combusting Wounds from Ring of Searing Flames, Consecrated Ground from Shod-in-Faith and so on. DEX is more important for bow rangers for sure. For gun rangers with quick switch it's not so important. Here high INT can be more useful - depending on your gear and tactics. For melee rangers it also depends.

Shod in Faith do trigger CG when you get a crit hit. Every time. So you will have two CGs at the same time that heal you quicker. It stacks. That's not a bug, it's a feature. Frenzy however does not stack and so the second one is wasted. But this mechanic is known and it's OK for me. You can work around that: switch to shield once you got a crit so that it's more unlikely that you get a second one while Frenzy is up.

Whoa! I didn't know that. Thanks for that info. Still learning new stuff.

Depends on the weapon choice. For a bow DEX > INT.

Maybe her defenses are not good enough for a PotD solo playthrough. I can't say. I tried the Nalrend bounty with her alone and also the Thorfen bounty - and it worked. But that doesn't mean that she could do a whole solo playthrough. Instead of dual wielding stilettos one could try stiletto plus small shield. With a durgan refined shield the attack speed wouldn't suffer much while your deflection and reflex would be higher.

Right! I have the exact same wish: That they make it a modal ability and remove spellcasting while shifted.

I used a rogue with Badgradr's Barricade which has bash and limitless spell strikings of Thrust of Tattered Veils when you crit. This shield profits from high crit chance and you will still have high defenses. There's a bug though: Two Weapon Style doesn't apply to bash - but it's in the bug database and should be fixed soon.

Ah, OK. Now I got it.

Maybe the key binding is messed up? Did you take a look at the game options?

I can't find it anymore. Can somebody else remember? It featured killing the adra dragon solo on PotD.

Best dragon hunter race there is on Eora.

Spiritshift is cool - it's just too short.

If you can geht it early, try The Golden Gaze rod on your wizard. It has 2 projectiles instead of one and they fly separately - meaning that it not only looks nice, but also causes 2 penetrating blasts instead of one per shot. If you have Ryona's Vembraces and Penetrating Blast your 2 blasts may have 13 DR bypass each. It also has a spell chance of 5% per projektile to cause Expose Vulnerabilities AoE. I tested this on a wizard build I'm playing around with and found it to be pretty cool - especially if you cast Combusting Wounds first. I really liked the setup. If you use Dangerous Implement you might want to try Veteran's Recovery + Trollhide Belt. It negates the raw damage from firing the implement. Your health will still go down, but your endurance will not drop (as long as the health pool is bigger).

I don't know. In 2.03 the animal companions can hit really hard. Predator's Sense combined with Merciless Companion is a +80% damage modifier. I used a wounding weapon once (Persistence), together with Predator's Sense plus Vicious, Merciless and Resilient Companion. My wolf was hitting for 70 to 90 against high DR targets. You could do that with quickswitching guns, too. Just apply the wounding effect with the bow so that Predator's Sense cicks in, then cycle through your guns and back to the bow. I developed that build further to a melee version with Tidefall and Shod-in-Faith boots, so that you and your pet both get healed while you flank one enemy. Don't know if it's viable for solo, but the DPS and survivability was really good. Pets have no health pool, so Consecrated Ground is really great to turn them into tanks.

It got fixed! If you watch the combat log, be sure that your burn damage is able to overcome the DR. Sometimes, when you only have one or two wounds and your weapon damage is not very high,the burn damage gets completely eaten up by DR and will not show up in the log.

There are three one-handed weapons for you that have higher interrupt rating: Vile Loner's Lance and Shatterstar have 1 sec, Godansthunyr has 0.75 sec. It's no enchantment, it's just there.

It is. There's a mini-guide in the charbuild section from somebody who did it. He said it was relatively easy.

AI will look for the weakest members of your party. With weakest I mean low defenses and DR. They will try to rush them. Best example: Penhelm fight on PotD.

Great. So Slicken is an option.

Another problem that you may encounter when you stop playing and try to come back later are the patches. Some of them changed combat mechanics and abilities - what used to work doesn't anymore and so on.

^ Not for everyone. If you want to rest after each encounter, they are very powerful - like priest and druids, too. I hate to rest a lot - so they seem to be quite ungodly to me. I have to admit that lvl 9 solves this problem. I like chanters. Easy to play and low mainteneance. They perform better on PotD because all fights tend to last longer. And as soon as you can get "The Dragon Slashed, the Dragon Wailed" they turn into great damage dealers. 6 of them is actually a very strong party.

If you're looking out for a support priest that casts fast, but will not be squished quickly, have a look at AndreaColombo's support preist build: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/83506-class-build-support-priest-or-how-i-buffed-the-others/ I think it's optimal if you want to cast fast without being interrupted. He uses no (or light) armor for fast casts combined with high deflection so that the foes are not very motivated to attack him (most of them try to target low deflection chars first).

Nice. Just two things: - Fampyr - Supper Plate (although it's suuper nice) I didn't do this fight for some time. Are the fampyrs or Raedric immune to afflictions like prone?

I did that and it was awesome. Check out my class built "Riptide" in this section. But I didn't do a solo run. And my RES was dumped. Maybe it would work with some changes. You could still use arbalests or arquebuses for opening.