Been gearing up myself the last year or so, learning from my experiences of template creation during my DAOC adventures. *grins* Been involved with UO since late Alpha.
I aquired a great gear template that's been working nicely for my play style. I RP a ranger/stalker type on catskills. Just finally hit 120 archery in Magincia so this character has been in the works for oh about 8 years or so. *laughs* I didn't want to mess with Chiv or Bush with this character. Ninja is a distant, remote possibility as it fits his playstyle the most, however I don't really want to change anything else except perhaps 120 swords someday, which would have me drop Anatomy or Healing 5 pts most likely. I've always liked having the flexibility to jump right in and melee, or shoot and scoot depending on the situation! I'm really happy with this character, he's my favorite and allows me to express my inner ranger archtype.
Skills(real):
Archery-120
Swords-115
Tactics-100
Anatomy-100
Healing-95
Hiding-100
Stealth-90
Stats(total w/gear)
Str-120-126hp
Dex-140-144stm
Int-40-44mana
Using:
-Mace and Sheild Glasses
-Voice of the Fallen King
-Stormgrip
-Heart of the Lion
-Fey Leggings(human version)
-Primer on Damage Removal
-Crimson Cinture
-Quiver of Infinity
-Ring of the Vile
Then I found and currently use:
-Crafted Barbed Leather Sleeves
---Stm-4
---Mana-4
---MR-2
---Reflect-15%
---Physical-6
---Fire-18
---Cold-7
---Poison-8
---Energy-8
Bracelet with either +5 Anatomy, +7 Tactics, +5 HCI, +9 DCI, +13 DI
or +4 INT, +5 DEX, +11 HCI, +12 DCI, +16 DI
Still looking for that perfect bracelet and a bit better sleeves to fill little holes in fire and poison resists and would love to max HCI and DI of course. The result without weapons yet:
30 HLD
49-52 DCI
20-26 HCI
58-61 DI
9-HR
9-SR
2-MR
Luck-220
Reflect-15%
All Mage(Med) armor
and of course the 10% quiver Damage Mod. (where does that come into the equation anyway?)
Resists:
70-Physical
55-FIre
70-Cold
55-Poison
70 Energy
My weapons cover the rest of the DI and usually look for/prefer some HLA/HLD/HCI in them with Leeches and a DD like Fireball or Lightning. (hehe who wouldn't?) I carry a few extra jewels to swap if I need 115 steath for a sensitive stalking job or some magery to mark runes, stuff like that. And what would be complete without carrying lots of enhanced bandies, potions of all kinds, petals, apples, trapped box, all that fun stuff.
I love regular bows for the mortal strike and para, shortbows for the lightning special and machine gun abilities, a heavy crossbow for dismount/moving shot. I like elven machetes for the bladeweave special, bone harvesters for melee para/mortal, a butcher knife for some poisoning/disarm, and usually carry a nice vanq/mystic plain ole axe for the melee dismount. (UOA needs more weapon slots!)
