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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5190694" data-attributes="member: 82106">Hmmm, I guess I'm not sure how effective you are going to be with ranger powers with a 10 and a 15 in its attack stats. 15 isn't terrible but its not great. Personally I'm not sold on the Ranger|Shaman as an effective hybrid. Rangers can benefit from wisdom and constitution isn't a bad stat for some builds but the stat synergy overall is marginal at best. If it were me I'd concentrate entirely on 2 stats. Dex and Wis would be the logical choices with maybe Con as a tertiary or possibly Int. It seems like the character is going to be pretty much 100% missile weapon/ranged power focused. I wouldn't even bother with things like Axe feats and such as melee/heavy thrown stuff is all going to rely on Str and its inadvisable for a character as squishy as a shaman hybrid to get ANYWHERE near melee.Given that you don't have a spirit boon my feeling would be the best sort of strategy with this type character would be use your SC as a blocker (and take the at-will that lets you OA with it). Use a bow, take a flying or similar BC that can let you HQ anywhere on the battlefield and use Twin Strike liberally, then concentrate on mobility enhancing powers, stuff that debilitates enemy movement (to keep them away from you) and maybe buffs/debuffs you can combine with archery.The OA based beast master tricks sound cool in theory but I think they're not really a good basis for building a character's combat capability around. The DM always has the choice to provoke or not and any strategy that relies on the enemy to be stupid is bound to mediocrity.Of course I haven't seen anyone play anything close to this build, so its hard to say how accurate my estimation is. It sounds like you're not totally married to a specific build, but character concept trumps mechanics IMHO so do what will be fun. As for race I think human isn't bad. The extra at-will can be REALLY handy for a character that has so many powers to choose. Razorclaw Shifter wouldn't be a bad choice either though, mobility and ideal stat boosts...</blockquote>

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