User:Krschkr/A-R Barrage

Ranged damage assassin combining critical strikes with Barrage.

Attributes and Skills
[build prof=A/R CriticalStrikes=12+1+3 Marksmanship=12][Barrage][Sloth Hunter's Shot][Savage Shot][Critical Eye][Way of the Master][Ebon Battle Standard of Honor][Critical Agility][Technobabble][/build]
 * Variants
 * Replace [[Technobabble] or [[Ebon Battle Standard of Honor] with a different utility skill.
 * – quickly dispatch priority damage dealers.
 * – if knock down immunity is required.
 * – bypass blocking and blind.
 * – only if supported with [[Great Dwarf Weapon].
 * – only with multiple bow users in your team. Try to bring this on a primary or secondary ritualist instead to make use of [[Summon Spirits].
 * – party-wide resurrection.
 * Replace [[Sloth Hunter's Shot@12] with a different attack skill.
 * – only if supported with [[Great Dwarf Weapon].
 * – additional hardrupt.
 * – 3 beast mastery. Only use this if you need to level a pet. Keep the pet passive.
 * Replace [[Critical Agility] with a different IAS source.
 * – preferably with alcohol. Use if enchantment removal is a concern.
 * – if having a pet with you for leveling purposes.
 * – if having a pet with you for leveling purposes.

Equipment
Weapon sets
 * Zealous Anniversary Shortbow "Whispers" of fortitude with "strength and honor!".
 * Staff of of enchanting in case you're low on energy but need to use one of your non-attack skills. Also grants a chance of 20% for PvE-only spells to recharge 50% more quickly.
 * Shield set with a shield of fortitude and a silencing spear of fortitude.

Armour
 * 5 blessed insignias.
 * Rune of superior vigor.
 * Rune of clarity.
 * 2 runes of vitae.

Usage

 * Maintain [[Way of the Master@16] and [[Critical Eye@16] to increase your damage output and stabilize your energy management.
 * Maintain [[Critical Agility] to improve your attack speed and gain an armour bonus.
 * This enchantment is prone to enchantment removal. Whenever it is renewed, it will be placed on top of your enchantments and can thus hardly be covered.
 * Due to the way effect stacking works a weapon of defense won't grant its armour bonus while critical agility is active, unless a different skill effect reduces your armour rating.
 * See the notes section for explanations on the interaction of IAS and [[Barrage@12].
 * Place an [[Ebon Battle Standard of Honor] in the area of where you intend to stand while attacking.
 * Your attack range with a shortbow is similar to that of bone fiends, making it easy to support bone fiend minion masters in your team.
 * Only improves the effectivity of at least partly armour respective damage packages.
 * Spam [[Barrage@12].
 * Prefer balling foes to deal area damage.
 * Once no balling foes are left, alternate between it and auto attacks on remaining single targets. Whenever available, use [[Sloth Hunter's Shot@12] instead of an auto attack.
 * Interrupt actions with [[Savage Shot@12].
 * Apply dazed on casters with [[Technobabble].
 * Dazed interrupts spells upon infliction, causes spells to be cast twice as long and to be interrupted if the caster is hit by a weapon attack while casting.
 * Ideal to shut down a group of casters as you can interrupt them yourself with Barrage.

Counters

 * Enchantment removal slightly reduced the build's effectivity.
 * Blind/block. Respond with [[Asuran Scan].
 * Obstructed targets.
 * Skills which punish attacks, especially if they trigger on each arrow of [[Barrage], such as [[Empathy] and [[Insidious Parasite].
 * General anti-physical.
 * Quickly moving targets. Shortbow attacks are likely to miss due to a relatively low projectile velocity.