A/R Critical Barrager

The Critical Barrager uses the Assassin primary Attribute of Critical Strikes, and the skill Critical Eye to increase the chance of critical hits. Coupled with a zealous bow string, this character has to hit just 2 enemies per Barrage (on average) to recover the energy cost.

Attributes and Skills

Equipment

• A zealous bow is required, a Flatbow like the Ironwing Flatbow or Chkkr's Flatbow is generally preferred for Barragers.
   

Usage

• Set up with Favorable Winds.
• Aim Barrage in the middle of tightly packed groups to maximize damage and condition spread.
• Keep Critical Eye and Sharpen Daggers up constantly and spam Barrage.
• Use Shadow Refuge to maintain your health and to counter Health Degeneration.
• Distracting Shot and Savage Shot are used to interrupt enemies, particularly ones that spam a single skill, allowing for easy interrupts through the spamming. The increased recharge time imposed by Distracting Shot is especially useful against Wurms using Wurm Siege.
   

Variants

• Antidote Signet for condition removal.
• Barbed Trap and Serpent's Quickness are optional skills. Set the trap under Serpent's Quickness right before engaging the foes.
• Way of Perfection can be used for impressive self-healing when Barraging into clumped foes.
• This build can be adapted for a Barrage/Pet group. Take Charm Animal and Comfort Animal instead of Favorable Winds and Shadow Refuge.
• Critical Defenses for extra defense.
• Keen Arrow to deal additional spike damage
   

Notes

• A Barrage ranger deals more consistent damage with higher levels of Marksmanship. However, this build allows for more frequent spike damage thanks to a much higher chance of critical hits, which also inflict bleeding.
• A zealous bow string greatly helps with energy management, as hitting just two foes on average per Barrage is enough to fully recover the energy cost of Barrage.
• Without the Zealous bow string, each Barrage must hit about 2 enemies (provided the hits are criticals) to completely regain the cost of Barrage and also stay a little on the up-side. This can be done with Critical Strikes at 13+ when you get 3 per each critical hit and 1 more from Critical Eye.
   

Templates

 Template Guide

The Skills Template for this build is:
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See also

• R/any General Barrager
• Team - Barrage/Pet (Tomb Ruins)