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Stealthy ranged characters

Ang_Rui_Shen

By Ang_Rui_Shen,
Posted on: 2011-12-07 10:35 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion

 

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Originally Posted by Lazarillo View Post
Following up on the "Bane Spiders" idea, going a Huntsman path on an Arachnos Soldier, using the initial primary powers but the Bane Spider secondary powers would be very effective.
As discussed in useful detail in this thread.

 

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Originally Posted by Rieze View Post
I say fort. Not only do you have stealth, you get high def to all positions (mine is in the 50s with mind link on), mez and kb protection, a crashless nuke, and a confuse power that give total confusion a run for its money. Not to mention scaling res like sr, and leadership. I just wish forts got mental training.
Forts are great if you can stand the sound effects for psionic attacks. I personally find them rather annoying so I prefer a good old fashioned gun. I'll probably make a Fort at some point but it'll be a second build for my Night Widow if / when I ever level her up and I suspect I'll be in Widow mode most of the time.

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Forts are great if you can stand the sound effects for psionic attacks. I personally find them rather annoying
When im playing it and im on the phone, i get that same complaint lol.

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Speaking for myself, the stealthiest range character (which is a preference of mine as well) that I have played is my Illusion/Trick Arrow. Not only is it one of the more versatile sets but you really can't beat Superior Invisibility. I think it's almost as much of a sweeper if not more then a Bot/FF. Not only are you talking about stealth but stealth that even while suppressed, after flash arrow, rarely gets touched while having a multitude of options in the way of damage, aggro control, ect. Even at +2, once you have perm-phantom army, it's like putting the game on easy mode.


 

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A Trick Arrow Superteam's alpha strike is pretty inspiring.

I really do like my Huntsman, though; he doesn't even need Hasten to feel awesome.

 

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Originally Posted by StrykerX View Post
Forts are great if you can stand the sound effects for psionic attacks. I personally find them rather annoying so I prefer a good old fashioned gun. I'll probably make a Fort at some point but it'll be a second build for my Night Widow if / when I ever level her up and I suspect I'll be in Widow mode most of the time.
Feel bad admitting it, but thats a good deal of why mine is a Widow.

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If you want steath AND range go for a /energy blaster. Any AT can be made stealthy by combining the stealth power with a +stealth IO but only /energy has boost range. This is what I did for my stealthy ranged concept toon. I also added 3 dam/range HOs to each attacked for added excitment. Being able to out-snipe Nemesis snipers is fun!!

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Originally Posted by Straenge View Post
Even at +2, once you have perm-phantom army, it's like putting the game on easy mode.
Perma-PA is essentially immortality, since nothing is likely to ever actually attack your character. Too bad it also requires a several billion inf build...

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Originally Posted by StrykerX View Post
You can also grab Call Reinforcements if you want pets or Surveilance, and if you don't mind pulling out a mace for a second Build Up is nice.
I'm logged in as my Bane right this very instant and Surveillance does not pull out the Mace; it plays it off the wrist like the Blaster version, but with no mini-computer. I don't know if this is a goof or not, but for now the power doesn't make you draw a weapon.

It still de-draws the rifle, though.

 

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Perma-PA is essentially immortality, since nothing is likely to ever actually attack your character. Too bad it also requires a several billion inf build...
Not really, at least in my case. I don't think I spent more hen maybe 1b if that. I don't/can't farm for damn or know how the market works so I tend to make my cash through other means (cc's, hero merits, ect.) and in my build, even if my PA wasn't up completely all the time, Phantasm takes up the slack as well as Tarantula.

As for stealth, lets put it this way, I didn't need to touch a single longbow agent while doing one of the last SSA's. With Illusion/Trick Arrow/Mace, your basically a Mastermind on acid that has the capabilitys of a widow/bane.