In DDO ALWAYS take Undead as your first favoured enemy. In the low to mid level quests you'll face more of them than anything else.
Update - finished the outside elites. Not going to do Misery without an opener. I just can't see myself running that garbage quest 3 times. Once more will be punishment enough. Went to the harbor and knocked out a couple quickies, which got my Coin Lords tier.2 outsides on elite still to run plus Miseryx3.
Lower right corner, the "dots" that turn purple as you gain ranks. When you reach a level, all 5 "dots" turn blue. I heard someone (jm, I think) call them bubbles once and the term stuck with me.What bubbles ?
Agreed. Wouldii took goblinoid next (actually used my free feat swap to change it to constructs later in the game), then elementals, then giants, then evil outsiders. Going undead/elementals/giants/evil outsiders/constructs matches up fairly well with what you'll be fighting most at the time without it becoming wasted later in the game.In DDO ALWAYS take Undead as your first favoured enemy. In the low to mid level quests you'll face more of them than anything else.
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You'll face a lot of goblinoids in that 3-7 range, but not so much later, so I'd probably skip that in favor of the elementals. My list in the previous post was "as taken", so undead at level 1, elementals at level 5, giants at level 10, evil outsiders at level 15, and constructs at level 20.
with the perpetually bugged, annoying to flag for, and no one actually runs anyway Abbot raid.
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You always think in terms of raids…This list is pretty much spot on; Rangers have a bit lower dps than Fighters or Barbarians, so you want the extra help against foes you'll find constantly at 20. In the raids list, a whopping 6 of them have an Evil Outsider of one sort or another. Elementals are scattered throughout the game, and also cannot be critted, you face constructs in four raids, as well as the portals in the Shroud, and pillars in VoN.
Giants and Undead can be optional though, as there are only two low-level raids (Reaver's Fate and Tempest's Spine) have Giant bosses, and the only high-level quest with any undead worth speaking of is Stealer of Souls (a lich) or Epic Wizard King (another lich), with the perpetually bugged, annoying to flag for, and no one actually runs anyway Abbot raid. Undead is invaluable while leveling however.
With a couple of packs and a raid featuring Abberations, that might make a good swap later; I believe Fireflash did so. She was short one being an Exploiter build (18/1/1 that could handle traps, dps roles, and was very survivable). However the list was largely identical: Evil Outsiders, Constructs, Elementals, and Abberrations. I don't know if two favored enemy bonuses stack, so I don't know if taking Lawful Outsiders would stack with Evil Outsiders (Devils are Lawful Evil), or Chaotic (Demons, like Mariliths, are Chaotic Evil). I doubt they do.
You always think in terms of raids…
Taking giants picks up trolls and ogres and you see those kinds of critters in every worthwhile quest pack from level 7 to level 14 (other than the desert). It's a bang-for-the-buck choice, much like undead.
The level 20 choice was a toss-up between constructs and aberrations, to me. There are a lot more constructs to kill, but there are more opportunities to get gear boosts against constructs (smiting, greater banes) and beholders really suuuuuck. Again, I went for most opponents (or, more accurately, will go for).
I seem to remember looking at my damage once and finding that "double favored" did not stack, but I don't remember what kind of critter I was fighting where that would have applied.
We were told we were getting a new race this year, but since we're just a couple of weeks from the end of the year, I doubt we will see one. Maybe U13 will bring one in February.