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Oct 23, 2012 -- 12:05PM, GelatinousOctahedron wrote:

I would switch out healing strike, probably for mighty hew. 

You might consider weapon of astral flame over moment of glory.

And I would do divine power over attacks on the run.  You will probably hit more enemies with that and it gives you a nice boost for the encounter.

Word of vigor is probably better than enter the crucible, escpecially since you have battle clerics lore and its a +2 to hit for a round each encounter.

I admit that moment of glory does not well fit a action hungry striker-like build like mine, but its effectiveness in the first levels of the game is ridiculously high. But i definitively will consider switching out from it and into astral flame eventually, point noted.

You've sold me on Divine Power over Attacks on the run though.

Word of Vigor is definitively a nice utility, and it's encounter long over just daily, so point taken there for sure. I think I'll chose it over enter the crucible, even though I'm big on damage prevention/resistance, you make good points.

Not sold on Mighty Hew over Healing Strike yet. In a pinch, I'd rather heal myself + hit (then get a to hit bonus for a minor attack), but I don't know, maybe the immediate interupt is better to save actions, but if I have snarling wolf stance active, it won't be as useful for example.

Oct 23, 2012 -- 10:30PM, DanMathMan wrote:

I would definitely stick with Axes. Axes have tons of striker support. I looked at the hobbling strike chain that looks good especially with minor action attacks and off turn attacks. That means I agree with Mighty Hew as your cleric power. Since that is 1^st level you might also look at Disruptive strike for a ranger power. As it stands now you have 4 minor action attacks and only 1  off action (unless you are in your stance, but that is a daily) That switch will give you 3 minor action and 2 off action attacks.  When you get Battle awareness (and you should probably at 12, you can retrain back to off hand strike. Also you take battle awareness, you can get the 2^nd level power bonus to damage fighter power to stack on more damage until you spend a surge.

 As far as your to hit, you should be about level +6 most of your career  (maybe depending on when you get magic items level +5 at 7^th) which isn’t too bad (ok level +5 is bad). Also you will typically have combat advantage against your prone targets, so that also is a benefit.

 

Gotta say I agree with this seeing as how my minors could be filled up with healing and whatnot. I'm assuming you counted hunter's quarry as one of my minor attacks on top of Sohei Flurry, Off-hand strike and Ruffling Sting? I can see Disruptive Strike + Mighty Hew is a good combo.

Yeah Axes are more striker oriented with axe expertise making all axe attacks brutal 1-ish (not just MBA), the hammer of victory common magical hammer enchantment was very enticing with the idea of burst 1 proning upon killing an enemy (if I ever get to Paragon, the PP Paragon of Victory also pushes enemies in a burst 2 upon killing a non-minion, prone+push burst is a nice crowd scatterer, but that's a ways off).

Anyway I'm made the adjustments with the suggestions in this thread and decided to replace the Snarling Wolf Stance with Two-Wolf Pounce, here's the new version:

Argan The Bloody, level 1
Mul, Ranger/Cleric

Oct 23, 2012 -- 10:30PM, DanMathMan wrote:

As far as your to hit, you should be about level +6 most of your career  (maybe depending on when you get magic items level +5 at 7^th) which isn’t too bad (ok level +5 is bad). Also you will typically have combat advantage against your prone targets, so that also is a benefit.

Eh, level+6 is pretty low by CharOp standards, as you're only hitting 65% of the time on even-level enemies before CA.  You should definitely strive for more accuracy beyond that.