User:Shadowsin/R/Mo General Utility

The Utility ranger can be adapted to your party's needs. You can inflict pressure on spell casters with Magebane Shot or Broad Head Arrow. You can inflict general pressure with Crippling shot or Burning arrow. All builds use Apply poison as a second form of pressure. The build can also be adaptaded to cause bleeding. The build has very good survivability using the monk line mending touch as well as the ranger line troll ungent.

Attributes and Skills
[build prof=R/Mo name="General Utility Ranger" exp=12+1+1 mar=9+1 wil=9+1 pro=3][Optional][Distracting Shot][Savage Shot][Apply Poison][Natural Stride][Mending Touch][Troll Unguent][Resurrection Signet][/build]


 * slot
 * (Note: Use any other elite and you're on your own pal.)
 * (Note: Use any other elite and you're on your own pal.)
 * (Note: Use any other elite and you're on your own pal.)
 * (Note: Use any other elite and you're on your own pal.)
 * (Note: Use any other elite and you're on your own pal.)

Equipment

 * Preferred bow combinations (although really, any bow can be used):
 * Crippling Recurve Bow
 * Poisonous Recurve Bow
 * Crippling Longbow
 * Vampiric Flatbow
 * A Recurve Bow is usually preferred, for maximum accuracy and minimum flight time. The Flatbow is for speeding up NPC kills.
 * An Expertise headpiece, and Runes of Minor Wilderness Survival, Minor Expertise, Minor Marksmanship, and Superior Vigor.
 * You may wish to take a +5 Energy main hand and a -20% Cripple duration Shield for Flagging and/or escaping from enemies.

Usage

 * For Magebane Shot
 * Target casters; primarily those that will have long-casting skills or will be a danger to your success, and begin hitting them with your attack skills.
 * Do not spam the interrupts randomly, no matter how tempting it may be. Wait until the target is using a skill before interrupting it, otherwise you could be left with them recharging when an opportunity comes up.


 * For Burning Arrow


 * Deal damage and apply heavy degeneration through Burning and Poison.


 * For Crippling Shot
 * Snare enemies using Crippling Shot. Remember that this can be used both for offensive purposes (slowing down fleeing targets) and defensive purposes (slowing down foes chasing you or your team


 * For Broad Head Arrow
 * Inflict Dazed with Broad Head Arrow. Because of the increase in Arc angle, it has an increased chance of being dodged by moving targets, so you may wish to close in on the target before firing.).


 * General Usage
 * Constantly maintain Apply Poison.
 * Interrupt enemies with Distracting Shot and Savage Shot. Note each interrupt's side bonuses.
 * Use Troll Unguent to counter degeneration and for a self-heal.
 * Remove conditions with Mending Touch.
 * Natural Stride can be used when running flags, as a defensive stance, or simply for a speed boost.
 * Resurrect fallen party members with Resurrection Signet.
 * Scroll through and attack each target to spread Poison to the enemy team.

Counters

 * Standard anti-attacker counters
 * Damage on-attack hexes like Empathy, Spiteful Spirit, Insidious Parasite
 * Unless you have hex removal, this build can be seriously hampered by anti-melee hexes
 * Constant blinding can be hard to prevent, even with Mending Touch
 * Diversion

Variants

 * Distracting Shot can be replaced by another attack skill, but is not advised because of its skill disabling effect.
 * You can swap Apply Poison for Read the Wind to make interrupts easier, and arrows more likely to hit.