Dragavon rebuild

[Dragavon]

The nice thing about DDO is that there is always something new to learn.

Since I got completionist on Dragavon and levelled him up in what I thought was his final life I have for example learned how good and useful Dire Charge is.

So now I am thinking I want to get 2 more fighter lives on Dragavon for extra tactical feat DC and then rebuild him with what I have learned in mind.

I have for the first time tried Ellisdee’s character builder lite, to post it here for you all to critizise if you want. I have probably made a few errors.

Please take a look 🙂

New Build
13/6/1 Rogue/Ranger/Fighter
Chaotic Good Human

Level Order

1. Rogue 6. Ranger 11. Rogue 16. Rogue
2. Rogue 7. Ranger 12. Fighter 17. Rogue
3. Ranger 8. Ranger 13. Rogue 18. Rogue
4. Ranger 9. Rogue 14. Rogue 19. Rogue
5. Ranger 10. Rogue 15. Rogue 20. Rogue

Stats
36pt Tome Level Up
—- —- ——–
Strength 13 +6 4: INT
Dexterity 13 +6 8: INT
Constitution 14 +7 12: INT
Intelligence 18 +7 16: INT
Wisdom 8 +6 20: INT
Charisma 12 +6 24: INT
28: INT

Skills
Rg Rg Rn Rn Rn Rn Rn Rn Rg Rg Rg Fi Rg Rg Rg Rg Rg Rg Rg Rg
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
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Heal 6 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 23
Disable 4 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 23
Open Lo 4 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 23
Search 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 23
Spot 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 23
Listen 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 23
Bluff 4 1 1 1 2 2 5 3 1 1 1 1 23
Diplo 4 1 1 3 5 5 3 1 23
Balance 4 1 1 3 5 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 23
Hide 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 23
Move Si 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 23
UMD 4 1 1 1 1 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 23
Swim 4 1 1 2 5 13
Tumble 4 1 5
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52 13 11 12 12 12 12 13 15 15 15 10 16 16 16 17 17 17 17 18

Feats

1 : Insightful Reflexes
1 Human : Power Attack
3 : Exotic Weapon: Khopesh
3 Ranger : Favored Enemy: Elf
6 : Precision
7 Ranger : Favored Enemy: Human
9 : Improved Critical: Slashing
12 : Cleave
12 Fighter: Great Cleave
15 : Dodge
17 Rogue : Opportunist
18 : Improved Critical: Ranged
20 Rogue : Crippling Strike
21 Epic : Overwhelming Critical
24 Epic : Greater Two Weapon Fighting
26 Destiny: Perfect Two Weapon Fighting
27 Epic : Epic Reflexes
28 Destiny: Epic Spell Power: Positive
29 Destiny: Dire Charge
30 Epic : Epic Damage Reduction
30 Legend : Scion of: Ethereal Plane

Spells

Ranger
1. Ram’s Might, Camouflage

Enhancements (80 AP)

Harper Agent (41 AP)
• Agent of Good I, Intelligence, Agent of Good II, Intelligence, Agent of Good III
1. Harper Enchantment, Strategic Combat
2. Versatile Adept III, Know the Angles III
3. Highly Skilled III, Versatile Adept III, Strategic Combat, Intelligence
4. Vigor of Life, Versatile Adept III, Intelligence
5. Harper Enchantment: Righteousness, Versatile Adept III, Magic of Patience

Deepwood Stalker (24 AP)
• Far Shot, Sneak Attack
1. Stealthy III, Tendon Cut III
2. Survivalist, Faster Sneaking III
3. Survivalist, Thrill of the Hunt III, Favored Hunter III
4. Killer III

Tempest (15 AP)
• Shield of Whirling Steel, Tempest
1. Improved Defense III, Whirling Blades
2. Improved Parry III, Whirling Blades
3. Critical Mastery III

Destiny (24 AP)

Divine Crusader
1. Bane of Undeath, Interrogation, Purge the Wicked, Charisma
2. Consecration III, Flames of Purity III
3. Sacred Ground, Blessed Blades
4. Crusade
5. Heavenly Presence, Celestial Champion
6. Strike Down

Twists of Fate (31 fate points)
1. Sense Weakness (Tier 4 Fury)
2. Critical Damage (Tier 3 Dreadnought)
3. Rejuvenation Cocoon (Tier 1 Primal)
4. Dragonhide (Tier 1 Draconic)
5. Impregnable Mind (Tier 1 Magister)

[Molfein]

Hey Dag,

Looks like a nice build. I’ve not seen Dire Charge in action, but it sounds good for melee.
I have to admit I enjoyed using Snowslide when running a Druid, affecting several enemies.

The Char builder seems fine, although I didn’t quite follow the “:INT” against all the stats.

Cheers,
Molf

[Furiyen]

Hi Dag,

Fully understand the Int-basis for the build, but can you elaborate on a few other design choices?

The one that has me scratching my head is the enhancement choices, and all the AP in Harper including choosing the Harper Tier 5s. But I don’t see the Capstone or Moment of Clarity.

Other things that stick out is that you have a lot of sneak attack damage, but no Exposing Strike from DWS, and chose the Good weapon enchantment from Harper instead of the Deception proc?

What kind of DC will you be rocking on Dire Charge? You have the feat, but your missing some easy DC from Legendary Tactics from LD or the Tactician Epic Destiny feat.

Also, the other thing that sticks out to me is your missing out on the Crit bonuses from either Assassin or Tempest/DWS by going full in to Harper.

I don’t want to wade in and say “You’re doing it all wrong!”, because everyone likes there own build and you may have reasons for building your character your way, but I would love to hear more about why you made these particular choices.

– Matt

[Dragavon]

Dragavon is a harper. Simple as that 🙂

But I do not consider either harper capstone or MoC particularly useful, with the 5 minute cooldown and all.

I have improved deception on the epic golden guile, I do not think the enhancement would stack with that.

Missing exposing strike and crit damage in tempest is an oversight in an attempt to get more sneak attack dmg than he currently has.

As I say I have only just started using dire charge, and has only tried it on Fernweh. Her DC at the moment is 110, I think I should be able to reach 115+ on Dragavon once I got a couple more fighter lives done and twisting in legendary tactics is also something I would do.

And if you where to tell me I am doing it all wrong I would tell you to shut up 🙂

Both Thambar and Fernweh are in the middle of getting some past lives, but Thambar is my tempest ranger and Fernweh is a deepwood stalker, so I have characters using those abilities too. And when I play any of these characters I do miss abilities from the other two. I just can not get it all on one character 🙂

[Furiyen]

OK, cool, Harper, I can get with that 🙂

I double checked and the Harper Deception enhancement specifically states Improved deception applies to the Weapon, and as far as I know you can stack that with an Accessory with Improved Deception for two seperate chances to proc. Further, if you have a basic Deception item, such as Strange tidings, all three stack with a seperate chance for each to Proc.

So the only suggetion I would say is try that stacking deception out, and free up 1AP to take Exposing Strike. That way you’ll be able to immediately turn any mob with Exposing Strike and then keep it turned with the three Deception Procs going off!

Other than that, rock on 😉

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