First Thread on punishing Shot Spike?

aV ran this yesterday with heavy conditions, tainted flesh and Victory is Mine on their monks. They steamrolled everyone and lost the hall to an edge bomb.

Basic Ranger Build:
14 Expertise required

Dual Shot
Punishing Shot
Distracting Shot
Savage Shot
Tiger's Fury
Kindle Arrows or Ignite
Favorable Winds
Winnowing(if your using Ignite this works)

How it works is basically just a spam of nearly instant attacks. Dual Shot should hit for 75+ damage and Punishing for another 50 or so 1/2 a second after, then Distracting for about 30 and Savage for up to 50ish again if they are using a spell. 4 Ranger's doing this drops people hard. It's easily repeatable with a Zealous Bow and 14 Expertise..

Yes I had a Pug go to halls 3 times last night and lose all 3x to that build, they cap alter and interupt the ghostly's so they cant cap .. SOO annoying.

I run a similar build and it's quite effective in both pve and pvp

It sounds quite awesome and I suppose I'll give it a shot if I ever cap punishing shot. However, if you have 4 rangers running this build, is it really neccesary to have 4 favorable winds and 4 winnowings?

That was just a list of the necessary skills. You can spread the Favorable's and Winnowing's.

Why not go R/W for frenzy? With high expertise, marksmanship, and wilderness, I can't imagine you have many spare points for beast mastery, let alone spare energy for constant tigers...you can run whirling defense for stance cancel if you don't bring both those spirits.

Quote: Originally Posted by Arathorn5000

ah, good point

Quote: Originally Posted by Pharalon

A few comments:

Looks to me like you're gonna run into energy problems if you're spamming all those 10(4) energy skills.

I'd put serpent's quickness in there, it'll be more beneficial to you than tiger's fury (and no disgusting points in beastmastery). Then you could probably also drop savage shot (which punishing shot outperforms) for debilitating shot, which is excellent for energy denial.

I ran a similiar build except I use quickshot savage shot quickshot distracting shot repeatedly while using horn bow... while instead of tiger's fury, I went with conjur flame. The rest is to keep people alive and ritual. In comparison... I wonder which did more damage in a short time? It is probably better if a team consist of 2 or so quickshot and 1 or 2 punishing shot.

But you aren't actually spamming them. It is more of a spike, so you don't have to keep the damage up. You only end up spending about 2+4+4+2+4 = 20 energy anyway. With full druid's you have 32 so I don't see a problem there.

Threw a group together tonight for this build with some guildies, friends, and a random monk. Went pretty well. After an initial run to work some kinks out, we saw some success.

Here's us completely steamrolling a smite PUG in underworld

And kicking some IWAY tail....

Taking out a korean ranger team, possibly running the same thing just with necros.

And unfortunately not being able to take out the defending HoH team

Overall definitely a fun build, and not too bad for this being the first time running it for everyone, and my first time target calling

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Greedy Gus

Well you dont need spirits on all the rangers so I recommend throw dirt and/or debil on each of them.

debil ftw

just like to add that TF is totaly useless for this, i use kindle, not ignite. i would also use 4 ranges, 1 necro, 3 monks. i would spread pin down, storm chaser, fav winds, and winnowing on the 4 rangers and have them all take the standard 7 skills.

then you have the necro call on ts/vent, and it works just like the old spike teams did

Ignite instead of kindle to take advantage of winnowing. What is your necro for smurf? If it's orders, then you don't want him in the midst of the battle calling and counting, you want him as far away as possible

Quote: Originally Posted by Arathorn5000

necro = lingering - defile flesh - rigormortis = dead target.

when your build only uses a few hexes, it's pretty hard to count on them to do anything...