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<blockquote data-quote="Zene" data-source="post: 6972165" data-attributes="member: 6863496"><p>My math may be wrong, and I'm only using AL-legal sources, but I recently crunched the numbers and found the following to be the best build I could find (with some specific quirks, noted below): </p><p></p><p>Battlemaster 11/Ranger 3/War Cleric 1/AT Rogue 5. Vhuman with Xbow Expert, picking up Sharpshooter at 4, then using the 3 remaining ASIs to max dex and then pick up lucky or alert.</p><p></p><p>Build progression goes:</p><p></p><p>-Battlemaster to 4</p><p></p><p>-then War Cleric 1 (because I have a staff of swarming insects, which requires a full caster class to use. But once I have it, I can use a setup round and one charge of the staff to create advantage for ranged attacks for the next 10 minutes, no concentration required. Meanwhile I can setup Divine Favor for more damage or Bless for +hit) </p><p></p><p>-then Battlemaster to 11 (for extra attack 1 and extra attack 2)</p><p></p><p>-then Ranger to 3 (for Horde breaker, plus hunter's mark is an upgrade from divine favor)</p><p></p><p>-then the rest in Rogue for the sneak attack dice. I decided to go with AT subclass for access to Minor Illusion, Shield/Find Familiar (not sure which), and an extra multiclass caster level. But YMMV, if you get a lot of surprise round opportunities Assassin would be a better choice.</p><p></p><p>The plan is to save sneak attack and maneuver dice damage for either the first crit or the last attack (if no crits) of the round. If I didn't need the caster level for the staff, I'd probably go fighter 5 --> hunter 3 --> fighter 11, to get Hunter's Mark and Horde Breaker earlier. </p><p></p><p>Going EK instead of Battlemaster was tempting, since I'd be able to Haste myself at L14. But when I crunched the numbers, the bonus damage of Maneuvers + hunter's mark was strictly better than the extra attack I'd get from Haste (and I may still get lucky and find a caster willing to hook me up with it), and required less Fighter levels, opening up more Rogue levels and more Sneak Attack dpr.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zene, post: 6972165, member: 6863496"] My math may be wrong, and I'm only using AL-legal sources, but I recently crunched the numbers and found the following to be the best build I could find (with some specific quirks, noted below): Battlemaster 11/Ranger 3/War Cleric 1/AT Rogue 5. Vhuman with Xbow Expert, picking up Sharpshooter at 4, then using the 3 remaining ASIs to max dex and then pick up lucky or alert. Build progression goes: -Battlemaster to 4 -then War Cleric 1 (because I have a staff of swarming insects, which requires a full caster class to use. But once I have it, I can use a setup round and one charge of the staff to create advantage for ranged attacks for the next 10 minutes, no concentration required. Meanwhile I can setup Divine Favor for more damage or Bless for +hit) -then Battlemaster to 11 (for extra attack 1 and extra attack 2) -then Ranger to 3 (for Horde breaker, plus hunter's mark is an upgrade from divine favor) -then the rest in Rogue for the sneak attack dice. I decided to go with AT subclass for access to Minor Illusion, Shield/Find Familiar (not sure which), and an extra multiclass caster level. But YMMV, if you get a lot of surprise round opportunities Assassin would be a better choice. The plan is to save sneak attack and maneuver dice damage for either the first crit or the last attack (if no crits) of the round. If I didn't need the caster level for the staff, I'd probably go fighter 5 --> hunter 3 --> fighter 11, to get Hunter's Mark and Horde Breaker earlier. Going EK instead of Battlemaster was tempting, since I'd be able to Haste myself at L14. But when I crunched the numbers, the bonus damage of Maneuvers + hunter's mark was strictly better than the extra attack I'd get from Haste (and I may still get lucky and find a caster willing to hook me up with it), and required less Fighter levels, opening up more Rogue levels and more Sneak Attack dpr. [/QUOTE]
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