There's so many ways to set up a plague/bow that I'd like to get a few people's builds to add to it, to show some variation in more plague vs more bow. Please add in what variations you make and I'll change the guide then post up a final to be stickied.


Lvl 30 Plague/Bow
The plaguer can be a very very powerful character if built and used correctly, it can also be abused very easily by being massively defensive. This character also does especially well in tvt. The general skillset is plague and poison javelin, with 1 pt light bolt and/or guided arrow to finish the blow. Depending on how you like to play, you can gain more bow damage or make changes in frw and life. It all comes down to play style.

Higher bow damage setup:

Stats
Strength: Enough for gear (58 for rogues)
Dexterity: See below *
Vitality: Rest
Energy: None

*I like to have 109 dexterity, this allows the use of +4 ceremonial javelins for more damage, also allows me to use eth harpoons and gets more bow damage and still allows for high life

Skills
Crit strike and Jab depend on gear (crit) and choices (jab)


Gear
Socketing: Depending on how you make the character, the choice will be between damage and life (pruby) and rep (pskull)
What I use will be star'd *

Helm choices:
*Pcrown with:
*24 maxer
-15res 15 max jewel
-PSkull
-Pruby
*+1 zon 30 frw circlet (look for one with life/mana/damage/2OS), same socket choices as pcrown

Armor choices:
-Peace <-more plague. crit does not have to be skilled
*Spirit Shroud (I socketed with 6str/8dex/13max jewel) <-cbf,+1 skill, 10 rep life, 11 mdr. hard to beat. Requires crit to be skilled
-lifer armor with maxers <-more bow. requires crit to be skilled

Shield:
*I use 30/20 bone shield with life/mana/res/dtm 1OS. Eth'd for mana regen (2OS would be ideal ofcourse)
-Rhyme
-Akod ed/dex'd or maxered.

Javelins:
-4 jav/10-30 ias maiden javelins
*4 jav/10-30 ias ceremonial javelins (ed is a huge plus on these)
*high damage eth/rep harpoons

30 ias total is a good bp to have, could be gotten between javs and gloves. I do fine with 20 ias. This mainly comes down to LB throw speed and jab damage, since plague has a time delay.

Bow:
*60% Rogues bow with 17+ed/15 max
-3 shael robo ashwood (63 ias for 9fpa)
-2 shael robo ashwood (37 ias for 10fpa)

Rogues auto hits 9fpa so there is no need for more ias on gloves or anywhere else. 3 shael robo would require 10ias on gloves, but no ias on 2shael robo ashwood is required.

Gloves:
*+2 jav/0-10% ias gloves with stats/rep/res. Make choice depending on jav ias requirements, and bow you choose.

Belt:
*str/life/mana/trires belt (fhr not needed)
*string of ears (good swap)
-deaths belt (may need to be used if you don't use spirit shroud)

Boots:
*30frw/5dex/trires boots
*Sanders boots

both are great boots, I use the trires boots most of the time, sanders when res is not needed.

Rings:
*Sojs

I also prefer to have 2x swap rings for pure bow swap. 5 rep, 80+ mana ring and manald work great together. Better min/dex/life/rep/mana rings can be used

Amulet:
*+1 zon amulet with additonal stats (life/mana/res/rep/dr)

Inventory:
*enough 3/xx/3's to fit your needs (100-130 is good)
*3/xx/15's
*choice of 15/5's or 3/5's to fit res needs
*If mana isn't enough, choice of life/mana or frw/mana.

personal preference:
10 fpa with robo ashwood
life/max plate
1 in crit

gets excellent bow damage while still maintaining very usable plague damage (8K), great life as well

that works, but have some max poison gear in stash.

peace rune word and other poison gear works better in some duel match ups (like vers es sorcs) and you are basicly set with what he said.

This post was edited by WarlocksDad on Aug 20 2010 09:10pm

I'm currently sitting at ~500 GA 9fpa dmg with ~840 life. Rogues and Spirit shroud. 26 life rep at all times ^^. I may get a lifer/max plate at some point, I would need to restat though since I'm dependent on stats from spirit shroud.

couldnt disagree more

That's why I wanted to ask, I know you, paul, david, and andy all have different builds even from mine.

I'm sorry I'm just a drunken asshole making worthless post's

tomorrow I'll make up for it

my personal build consists of

perf peasant crown w/ p skull
peace mp
24 fhr / 60 life / 3 life rep / 5 mana / 13 psn res rare belt
sanders boots
bloodfists (until i get a 2 jav / 10ias gloves)
1 zon / 2 min dmg / 10 life rep / 40 light res / 3 dmg reduce amulet
2 jav / 20ias / 2 max dmg / 1-6 light dmg / increased stack size maiden javs
15 ed / 13 dura / 35 def rhyme bone shield
60 ed / 17-41 dmg / upped rogue's bow

inventory is horrible. lol.

i hit 18k psn jav / 6.5k plague
651 life / 248 mana (both low...due to crappy charms)

Make a strat part! I can help with that, I usually just use the builds people but infront of me.

i 5-0 this zon np with my zon brights oln lad
afk