Build:R/A Border Patrol

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Contents 1 Attributes and Skills 2 Equipment 3 Usage 4 Counters 5 Notes

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This build is not favored by the GuildWiki community. The general consensus among users of GuildWiki is that this build is not viable.

Border Patrol is a Ranger/Assassin build focused on independent, lightning-fast kills, and is especially effective in Random Arenas.

[edit] Attributes and Skills

Ranger / Assassin	Attribute Rank
Beast Mastery	12 + 1 + 3
Expertise	3 + 1
Dagger Mastery	12

Ferocious Strike

Jagged Strike

Fox Fangs

Horns of the Ox

Falling Spider

Twisting Fangs

Charm Animal

Resurrection Signet

[edit] Equipment

• Either Barbed or Vampiric daggers of Dagger Mastery.
• The armor is up to personal preference.

[edit] Usage

• Pick your target carefully. A lone melee/caster target is choice.
• Open up with Jagged Strike and Ferocious Strike, then immediately follow with Fox Fangs.
• Continue to use Ferocious Strike as often as possible.
• Save Horns of the Ox until your target begins to flee, allies approach, or your target uses a skill you wish to interrupt.
• Immediately follow with Falling Spider as long as the knockdown was successful.
• Save Twisting Fangs until the opponent is at less than 25% health, as it is primarily intended for Deep Wound spiking.

[edit] Counters

• Blindness, such as Throw Dirt, if it hits both you and your pet.
• Evasive stances, such as Bonetti's Defense and Escape.
• Degeneration conditions and hexes as it has no way to heal itself.

[edit] Notes

This build was designed around the maxim that the best defense is a good offense. Because there are neither defensive nor healing skills, you must be careful when using it. It is very important to know when to run, and often one opponent will follow you away from the crowd, which is the ideal combat condition for this build. Additionally, most anti-attacker hexes cast on you, such as Empathy and Spiteful Spirit, will not affect your pet, allowing you to continue dealing damage as long as you stay close enough to your target.