Dragon 374: Arcane Options - Character Concepts
- Thread starter Shroomy
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I see a lot of Arcane Power 2 nuggets.
The new Bard (Virtue of Prescience) build has Wisdom as a secondary, and favors Ranged attacks.
Combat Virtuoso, a "neat Bard feat", allows the use of Charisma for multiclass attack rolls.
Paragon feats: Armor Specialization, Mettle, and Disenheartening Shot.
Also Quickened Spellcasting (Not sure if it's Epic or not).
Warding Curse (Warlock) feat grants +2 to defenses vs. Cursed foes.
New At-Will: Jinx Shot.
Various tidbits about some powers' effects, particularly ranged attack powers.
As a side note, it annoyed me that the guy writing the article is just "All I want is damage damage damage". Yeah, but what about being a bard? Where's the arcane part of the "Arcane Archer" he set out to make? Dude comes off more as an archer who carries a tune, than doing the leader thing, or anything arcane-related. The way I read this, it feels like the guy would have been better served to just take the Ranger class, and multi-class, instead of going the Bard route, since he's far happier with high-damage ranger powers than Bard powers.
Also, he never picked up more than two first level rituals? What the hell?
The new Bard (Virtue of Prescience) build has Wisdom as a secondary, and favors Ranged attacks.
Combat Virtuoso, a "neat Bard feat", allows the use of Charisma for multiclass attack rolls.
Paragon feats: Armor Specialization, Mettle, and Disenheartening Shot.
Also Quickened Spellcasting (Not sure if it's Epic or not).
Warding Curse (Warlock) feat grants +2 to defenses vs. Cursed foes.
New At-Will: Jinx Shot.
Various tidbits about some powers' effects, particularly ranged attack powers.
As a side note, it annoyed me that the guy writing the article is just "All I want is damage damage damage". Yeah, but what about being a bard? Where's the arcane part of the "Arcane Archer" he set out to make? Dude comes off more as an archer who carries a tune, than doing the leader thing, or anything arcane-related. The way I read this, it feels like the guy would have been better served to just take the Ranger class, and multi-class, instead of going the Bard route, since he's far happier with high-damage ranger powers than Bard powers.
Also, he never picked up more than two first level rituals? What the hell?
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Fallen Seraph
First Post
There certainly is a ton of different tidbits from Arcane Power in this. I wonder how many Rangers may multiclass into Bard now.
RefinedBean
First Post
You know, I had trouble reading this as nothing more than a gigantic advertisement for Arcane Power. Here's some feats, who give obvious benefits. Oh, and you should take all these powers from the Arcane Power book we're releasing.
I'm willing to say I'm not the target audience for the article. Are there tons of fans of arcane archers and hellbound wizards out there?
I'm willing to say I'm not the target audience for the article. Are there tons of fans of arcane archers and hellbound wizards out there?
Kobold Avenger
Legend
Personally I think that Artificer is still probably a better Arcane Archer option. I seem to remember the Battlesmith Build having a bunch of ranged attack powers, including an at-will that applies force damage to ranged attacks and gives an ally an attack bonus. As well as quite a few energy damage ranged weapon attacks, which certainly fits a lot better into my image of an arcane archer.
Aye.
And, RefinedBean, I think the "Arcane Archer" is an interest of some people. I just think the article does it badly.
RefinedBean
First Post
Fair enough. Like I said, guess this article just wasn't for me.
"This article examines two ideas made more feasible by the recent release of Arcane Power. "
Looks like it simply was moved up to better serve as advertisement.
Charwoman Gene
Adventurer
Man, yeah that really sucked when that happened. Back in 1999!
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