User:Khomet/Burning Barrage

Burning Barrage
This gives about 50dps along with AoE burning and party-wide damage resistance from ToF and TNTF, and if you add Splinter Weapon, Great Dwarf Weapon, Orders, etc. from other characters the damage can be very impressive. Variants: replacing Barrage with Volley frees up your elite slot for something else... perhaps Anthem of Guidance, Anthem of Fury, Soldier's Fury, Angelic Bond...

Splinter Weapon or Great Dwarf Weapon is a must-have. The build benefits greatly from Orders and/or Mark of Pain, and you should bring additional barrage rangers or paragons to multiply the damage; put Burning Refrain on all of them as well. Aside from the things mentioned already, I like to bring a Smiting Prayers monk hero with the skills Ray of Judgment and Judge's Insight... RoJ causes armor ignoring damage and burning, which has good synergy with They're On Fire, and Judge's Insight makes your Barrage do Holy damage and have 20% armor penetration. Holy damage means that you can't use Orders or Mark of Pain but it absolutely destroys the skeletal forces in Fissure of Woe and Dhuum's skeletal minions in the Underworld, and holy damage with armor penetration increases the damage against any kind of foe. I haven't decided which one is better yet, both options are very good.

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