The build
http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.htm.....dsR.Vxx.-5

The Rotation
ap3= attack point macro til 3 attack points
fb = fiery burst
ebsb = earthburst/stormburst
* = potential weapon master proc

AP3 *
FB
AP3 (weapon master proc goes off)
ebsb
AP3 *
FB
AP3 (weapon master proc goes off)
ebsb
AP3 *
FB
AP3 *
FB

repeat

Macros
*If you dont have the 4 peace HK set bonus along with the RB crystal, dont put the Riftwalk in your AP builder macro.

AP Builder
#show rift strike
suppressmacrofailures
cast riftwalk
cast Soul Sickness
cast rift strike
cast frost strike
cast searing strike
cast path of the raptor
cast stonespear
cast flamespear
cast path of the wind

FB Finisher
#show Fiery Burst
suppressmacrofailures
cast freeze armor
cast Fiery Burst

ebsb Finisher
#show storm burst
suppressmacrofailures
cast Rift Storm
cast storm burst
cast earth burst
cast Dire Blow

Buffs
Avatar of the Rift
Storm Blade
Way of the River
Focus of Strength (is overwritten in a raid environment)

How things work
*If you have the gear, you will fire off rift walk as soon as it's off cooldown and all your single attack abbilities will have a 10$ damage increase.
*With the FB macro, if you double tap the key, you will trigger freezing armor and your Fiery Burst damage will hit harder.
*For aoes, use Thunder strike for your builder and ebsb macro for your finisher. With the way it's designed, Earth Burst and Storm burst will fire leaving Rift storm to do your major damage. When all are on cooldown, Dire blow will trigger.

Pretty easy build to use. mainly 3 keys for single target and 2 for aoe.

I have no HK weapons and parsed 2800 on Murdantix and parsed 3200 on Sicaron (But I was a little out of it by then and forgot to buff alot of the time) so I'll give a more accurate parse on Sicaron next week.

The spec is really easy, but with ANY lag or no fervor (FERVOR, not Living Energy)+ tablet you should be using blazing Strike on 4 CP NOT 5 CP. With the murdantix parse the only time I went to five CP was when it used a 2CP power to get from 3-5. Make sure you keep fiery spike up it's where a lot of your damage comes from. Well alot considering that it's free.

I do not use expose weakness and still find that unless fervor and tablet is up I am still not hitting evert GCD.

Remember NB has some kick ass defensive CD's You have Twilight Shelter and Twilight Transcendence. One gives you 80% Damage Reduction and one basically heals you a shitload and gives you 50% Damage Reduction. Remember, you don't DPS when you're dead.

Opener is Conceal (Stealth) >Dark Malady > Builder Macro >Scourge of Darkness > Fiery Spike > Ebon Fury Macro Spam.
Regular Rotation is: Builder Macro and Finisher Macro... If for some reason Fiery Spoke is going to drop, apply it manually.

AOE: AoE Button > Finisher > Keep Fiery Spike on main target.

Like I said, this build is easy, and straight forward, no confusing Impale, 3xFB, one this, make sure you blink. And you don't blink into a tail swipe 😛

Nightblade Guide -
Build : 49nb/17sin - http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=0M...x0b.iItRhqgRss
HK Nightblade Crystal

Macro 1:
#show Puncture
cast Dusk to Dawn
cast Puncture
cast Dusk Strike
cast Twilight Force
cast Fiery Chains
cast Primal Strike
cast Fiery Spike
cast expose weakness

Ebon Fury Button
#show Ebon Fury
cast Puncture
cast Dusk Strike
cast Ebon Fury

NB Finisher
#show Scourge of Darkness
cast Scourge of Darkness
cast Blazing Strike
cast flame thrust

AoE madness
#show Fiery Chains
cast Fiery Chains
cast Weapon Flare
cast Fiery Spike

The first thing that I'm going to do is direct you to this post on the Rift Forums written by VooDoo's Rantology. It is an excellent guide to the use of DoL Hybrid Raid Healing Builds and mentions virtually everything you need to know. There is also macros and explanations to each of the builds, potential rotations (for the DPS heavy variants) and other useful changes to the builds.

http://forums.riftgame.com/rif.....acros.html

The first thing to note is your individual play style when selecting your 'basic' build and to look at the needs of the raid.

You will be needed for one of the following reasons:

-Raid Healing and possible contribution to tank healing. (Senticar)

-DPS and a Spiked raid healing. (Inquisicar)

-Battle Rezzes during progression and Decent Raid Healing. (Traditional Senticar - even Sent/Justicar - This spec is less needed once people don't die to mechanics)

For me, Shamicar is not really an optimal spec for use in raiding, despite it's ability to regain mana. For DPS you'd chose Inquisicar, and for Healing you'd chose Senticar.

This is where the different specs come in.

Personally I have 3 different icar specs for many different versions and use them for different situations (Both PvP and PvE)

$$ But my go to spec is still the 38/17/11 Inquisicar Spec. It puts out some pretty beast heals and I usually manage to keep DPS around 1K depending on the fight. I've tried almost every spec out there, and for me, this is the money spec. I also change between Mein of Honor and Aggression depending on the fight or even change mid fight if I find they need more heals/DPS.

On unforgiving/progression fights where people need Brez's I have the traditional Senticar spec. And I also have a 1brez deep Senticar spec which I use for Experts and some of the bosses in 10mans where we use two raid healers and we need the extra heal or two on top of raid healing.

In terms of mana usage some people have been mentioning that they're going through their mana like there's no tomorrow, this should NOT be happening. It either means you're spamming DoL  (not in the good 'DoL spam' way, you're literally spamming aimlessly) or you're not using your mana return abilities and Mana Tonics to regain your mana. Do not be scared to move into melee to hit the boss to use Purpose, and with Aggressive Renewal use it early on when you are about 75% mana and then use it on CD.

If I use Purpose when needed, I rarely use Mana Tonics, (And I have no Aggressive Renewal in that build) and I never run out of mana. The only time I use a Tonic is if I am unable to get to melee for some obscene reason (or if I'm ranged on Murdantix) I can't think of another boss off the top of my head where you have a reason NOT to take a few steps into melee to use purpose.

In Inquisicar I have Agressive Renewal and no Purpose, I use Agressive Renewal early on (About 75%) and then on CD and if I get to 10% I use a tonic. Between Archon (Mental Flare), Warden (Cascade) if you have one, Bard (Verse of Joy), Consumables (Heroic Mana Tonic and if you're rich and struggling, Elder Tablets), you should NEVER run out of mana. Even if you have died and recieved a battle Rez, you should be able to manage your mana and healing through the above that you should not run out of mana and if you do it should be brief.

And I know that there is a potential to say 'But look at me topping heals' But both myself and other people are very competitive in their healing with the 38/17/11 Inquisicar and don't have mana issues. It's about learning where you're making mistakes or bad decisions and working on that. Whether that be spamming too often, not knowing when to use DoL and when to simply continue to use Reparation to top up and things like that.

Remember, it's your responsibility to manage your mana, you can't depend on the Bard's Verse of Joy, or Mental Flare or the chance that you might have a Warden. These restore a minimal amount of mana and Verse of Joy is NOT your personal mana refreshment. It is used for mass benefit and is actually predominantly a DPS boost, it other resources and should NOT be used for a single person who has mismanaged their mana.

TL;DR? (Warning: This is bound to be blunt)

38/17/11 Inquisicar is great if you don't need Battle Rezzes, if not, Traditional Senticar is probably what you are looking for.

If you are running out of mana, (for inquisicar: move another point into Justicar for Purpose).... Stop being a pansy/lazy, move into melee and use purpose when you need it, or stock up on Heroic Mana Tonics. If you are still running out of mana, and choose not to use Purpose, you are letting people die.

Welcome to HK.

Any further question? Ask me on Kata or Eviil.

Ignore spelling or grammar mistakes... It's after 2am...

51marksman / 14 ranger guide / 1 riftstalker - This the current top ranged dps spec for the rogue calling
http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.htm.....udR.VRsb.z
4 piece blighted ranger crystal -> HK 2 piece ranger crystal  (or just keep your normal 4pce)-> 4 piece HK marksman crystal

Macros for Ranger Crystal:

Use Deadeye Shot, use of Quickshot leaves you energy starved and results in a large DPS loss.

Builder Macro -

#show swift shot
suppressmacrofailures
cast shadow fire

cast Splinter shot
cast Crippling Shot
cast swift shot

Finisher Macro -

#show rapid fire shot

suppressmacrofailures

cast Rapid Fire Shot

cast Deadeye shot

cast hasted shot

#show Lightning Fury

suppressmacrofailures

cast shadow fire
cast Lightning Fury
cast Fan Out

The rotation -

Quick Shot > Builder Macro > Builder Macro > Head Shot
Quick Shot > Strafe > Finisher Macro
Quick Shot > Builder Macro > Builder Macro > Builder Macro >Builder Macro > Finisher

Basically continues to be get to 5CP. Finisher. Get to 5CP. Finisher. Use Strafe on CD.

Pro tips -
(Using Shadow Fire on CD is NOT a DPS loss with the ranger crystal. It hits harder and is an instant cast - thus, it is in builder macro)

1. Quick Shot at the beginning of every cycle to add the bleed dot, i also use it before ever strafe to ensure 100% up time. Quick shot also has a delayed bleeding tick, hence the reason i don't spam it.
2. If your standing still, and need to move, cast strafe... it will lock in your "standing still" damage buff until you get into position, or until strafe ends.
3. If you are fighting a boss that moves, use barbed shot... If you don't know what barbed shot is, you don't pvp!

Macros for MM Crystal:

(No deadeye shot, becuase it results in a loss of your electrified munitions.)

Builder Macro -

#show swift shot
suppressmacrofailures
cast empoweredshot
cast Crippling Shot
cast swift shot

Finisher Macro -

#show rapid fire shot

suppressmacrofailures

cast Rapid Fire Shot
cast hasted shot
cast empoweredshot

#show Lightning Fury

suppressmacrofailures
cast shadow fire
cast Lightning Fury
cast Fan Out

The rotation -

ShadowFire > Quick Shot > Builder Macro > Head Shot
Quick Shot > Strafe > Finisher Macro
Quick Shot > Builder Macro > Builder Macro > Builder Macro > Finisher

Pro tips -

1. Shadow Fire last 25 seconds, has a 20 sec CD. Using it on CD is a DPS loss. Don't be lazy and do it manually!
2. Quick Shot at the beginning of every cycle to add the bleed dot, i also use it before ever strafe to ensure 100% up time. Quick shot also has a delayed bleeding tick, hence the reason i don't spam it.
3. If your standing still, and need to move, cast strafe... it will lock in your "standing still" damage buff until you get into position, or until strafe ends.
4. If you are fighting a boss that moves, use barbed shot... If you don't know what barbed shot is, you don't pvp!

Ranger crystal doesn't compare, it will have you energy starved w/o a tablet, and the same build and concept of the rotation runs 200-300dps lower.

As seen in Zyzyx's Rogue Bible on the rift forums.

RE: Clipping Quick Shot's buff.

I'm lazy and Half the time I clip it.

RE: Barbed Shot.

I've never personally tried to do it, however I have no doubt that it would result in higher damage if the target is moving (eg, Murdantix, Grug at times, etc,)

RE: Overall

This spec is super easy, and is the top ranged DPS Spec, You should also have Predatory Soulstone in your Sigil (SF: +100 AP).