I reached 100M exp totals with my secondary character Tohelo and decided to use the reinc pendant from Santa. As I got also Torso Maker and Paingiver from Santa, I decided to create ranger with beastmaster guild as secondary.

Since full beastmaster on top of ranger means 80 levels, this reinc turned out to be even more inflated than my previous monk+tarmalen reinc. I have more than 60% of my totals in levels. This means less than 40M exp in skills.

Luckily, ranger “works” with any totals, so I could take the beastmaster levels. However, I had to be pretty careful what to take from ranger, squire, and beastmaster.

Since I had a good axe and good longsword, I left out pretty much all beastmaster and squire skills except Herding, Riding, Ride undeground, Tame mount and Heel. The rest of the exp I spent on ranger skills.

This turned out to be pretty ok choice as I can make relatively decent exp with the mount and ranger skills and then train the beastmaster skills with the exp I gain.

Equipments and item usage in solo exp

My tank equipment set, while covering (almost) all slots, is somewhat modest:

Your equipment [brief mode]:
Rig: Bandolier of the hellish warrior <red glow> [85% full]
Head: Crown of Sorrows..  The Blood Crown <green glow>
Neck: Amber necklace labeled as |infra|
Cloak: Black shadowy cape <green glow>
Both hands, upper body and legs and feet: Silver Battlesuit <purple glow>
Bracelets: Shimmering bracelets of adaption labeled as |tohelo| <christmas glow>
Wielded in left hand: The Paingiver axe <christmas glow> <purple glow>
Wielded in right hand: The Torso Maker sword <christmas glow> <purple glow>
Finger: Magical Damage Ring [Made by: Thelo] labeled as [4dam1spr] <blue glow>
Finger: Damage Bonus Ring [Made by: Thelo] labeled as [4dam1spr] <blue glow>
Belt: Black spiked leather belt <green glow>

Basically, SBS and some +dam stuff in addition to the weapons. To make the solo exp go smoothly, I rely heavily on Regeneration potions and Str and Dex salves.

Regeneration potions almost double my hit point regen and the salves give +20 stat bonuses. Thankfully my primary is alchemist, which can make the potions and the salves easily, so the usage doesn’t cost me a lot.

Weapon damage

With Torso Maker in my right hand and Paingiver in left hand, my hit message statistics are following (one day sample with 232 Str):

barely graze         0
solidly slash        0
gash                 0
lightly cut          0
cut                  0
tear                 0
incise               8
shred                154
horribly shred       193
slash                94
incisively cut       20
incisively tear      0
slit                 0
cruelly tatter       0
savagely shave       0
rive                 0
cruelly slash        2
uncontrollably slash 3
quickly cut          1
savagely rip         3
BRUTALLY TEAR        0
SAVAGELY SHRED       0
CRUELLY REND         0
BARBARICALLY REND    0
DISMEMBER            0
CRUELLY DISMEMBER    0

According to heft command, Paingiver is somewhat unbalanced for ogre (size 88), so I am considering switching it to (less heavy) Axe named ‘Bane’, which I bought for 400k.