[Demson]

I was building my L22 ranger to go for shattering stance and scatter shots with a bow for the speed, but I understand it has been nerfed recently. I expected a nerf, since it seemed just too powerful, but it seems it has little chance to proc at all now? More like a neat extra than something you can rely upon?

I expect crossbows to be dealt with soon, as they strike me as overpowered. I don't know when they'll address item balance, but bows fancy me more anyway. I prefer the speed.

I'm looking at an hybrid focussing on the DoTs and AoE. Here is what I came up with:
http://feats.goonheim.com/ranger#t0a...d1e1f1g1h3j3m2

My main concern now is, how often does the shattering stance still shatter the shots? Was it only the knockdown that was affected?

And has anyone tested if the the shattering shots are able to inflict any of the DoTs from the Puncture feat? It says 'all ranged attacks' so...

I doubt it'll work, but it's worth trying out, no?

[DarkovTFC]

Totally crippled the crossbow build, hope it's not as bad as the forum implies or I may have to respec to Sharpshooter like everyone else.

[auser]

Originally Posted by DarkovTFC Totally crippled the crossbow build, hope it's not as bad as the forum implies or I may have to respec to Sharpshooter like everyone else.

DON'T respec to sharpshooter. it's even worse! the dmg has been reduced and you will miss the aoe of the coloumn attakcs so you will be ****ed up against multiple foes at higher level without shatter-stance, wich now is very bad.

well, and i hate x-bow so much. it's so boring slow.

[Drakeyas]

A build safe from re-balancing would be nigh impossible at the moment. To do such a build you would need some constants. With re-balancing the constants become variables, variables which you can't really predict.

[Fridgi]

This is a Build, which is Safe from Rebalancing and Nerfs etc:

http://feats.goonheim.com/ranger#t0t...n1o3p3q1r3s1u2

Thats Right, no Damage Talents = you wont notice any Nerfs or Balancing and people cant whine about you being OP since you wont use any Skills