Hi guys,

Taking a break from Skyrim atm.

Im back to GD after a year or so. So gar I have played only 1 toon and I took her all the way through legendary - piercing Blademaster and she is an abslute beast :)

I have decided to try something different this time, and since she is all about malee, close range I decided to roll a ranged toon, with Fire Strike as main attack. But he feels so slow as compared to the baldemaster....hence my questins:

1. is Fire Strike a viable option for a ranged build (v. 1.0.0.7) Generally, whats your opinion of it and do u use it?
2. I have absolutely no idea as what 2nd mastery I shall take - soldier looks nice BUT I have already used this mastery and no resistance reductio is making me wander...considering Ocultist and Arcanist
3. is a ranged FS based too heavily item dependant - I do not have a lot of uber gear. The 2h rifles I collected with my bladeaster are: vortex of souls, hellborne, harbinger of eternal suffering, thunderclap, empowered eye, sharpshooter bolt rifle - I want to have a 2h ranged build btw ;)
4. Granado would be viable late game, with some cooldown reduction? Shall I even bother building a too around it? I read someplace that granado /jacks can be a good caster...?


Generally - Fire strike is not awesome atm - clvl 20ish, act 2 veteran - 1 point in FS, max explosive strike; some support from flashbang with searing light (which I love). Demo mastery almost pumped.

I respecced to Granado and I was purely amazed at the dmg and clearing speed, with some cooldown reduction it looks tempting.

Generally Demo looks pretty wellrounded and selfsustainable.

Lots of questions but I do not have much time these days and there are so many build out there...which is way i ask :)

Cheers guys!

1.Yes, firestrike is viable, but not the first skill itself. Its secondary skills let you clear fullscreen in two shots. Explosive strike and brimstone
2.Go arcanist for survivability
3.I recall that dual pistol is better due to having more slots for shards, and yes, item-based damage dealers are heavily depend on items.
4.Granado doesn't scale well and fails short arount the end of elite. Democaster builds are based around canister bomb and stun jacks,

ok, thx :)

and how would you compare for this build (2h ranged FireStriker, most probably Hellborne as it dropped finally):

- OFF vs CoF for the - fire res

- inner focus vs EoD? for the OA?

cheers!

I dislike relying on magical damage from autoattacks in both TQ and GD because of the mechanic which demands maxing Spirit/Int to increase magical damage, while you need Cunning/Dexterity for your OA (chance to hit, crit damage and crit chance) and to actually equip your weapons.

For autoattackers debuffing enemy is waste of time, do second shot.
OFF is worse than CoF because you need to be in melee range.

Inner focus is better than BoD because you would have high base OA from cunning anyway (500+ to equip best weapon or so)
Mirror is the I-win button, Maiven sphere is amazing, and elemental balance is icing on the high crit.