I personally love my WF FvS, a bit of a mutated Soul Survivor build.

My playtimes are odd enough that I have to solo a lot to make up for lack of groups.  This build excels at that.  I maxxed STR + CON, basically dumped WIS and put enough into CHA + INT that I can UMD fireshield scrolls and cast 9th level spells.

I have been able to solo everything in Amrath on normal so far at lvl 18.  I just hit 19, so I'll be going back out to try and solo on Hard as well.

I have solo healed parties running Shroud (no biggie there) as well as ToD/VoD/HoX.  Was luck on ToD as Horoth and Sully tanks were WF and we had 3 casters, so I only had to worry about the party.

I'm not all tricked out with gear yet, but iirc @ +/- 505 HP and 2400 SP at lvl 19, not awesome but without a doubt survivable.

I frequently see my BB hitting for 150-200 in Amrath, again not awesome, but it helps while soloing and bringing an air ele along for the knockdown "easy button" melee.

Once I cap him and grind a bit more Epic gear, I'll TR into a wiz once or twice for the DCs and go back to FvS for last life.

p.s.- also a 34 point build currently

Soul wrote on Sep 28^th, 2011 at 3:22pm:


And thankfully, Wizard and Sorc lives are the easiest lives to power through (IMO).  That is still 20 million+ XP just to get DC's that a Wizard with Cove gear can beat the instant they hit 20, though.

Arkat wrote on Sep 17^th, 2011 at 5:38pm:


Is this some sort of exploit? Using a CON tome to boost CHA? 

Gawna do you need any more advice or all set?

Felgor has been 20 WF FvS for a little bit now so I am kinda okish in a maybe roundabout way to give possible decently helpful advice. Possibly maybe.

Felgor wrote on Feb 16^th, 2012 at 8:24pm:

I think I'm good!  The only thing I can't decide on is if I want to make the investment for the second level of PrE.  She is melee specced (just hit level 12 so I got my Min II GS out of the bank wooooo!) and the word on the street is that it's not really worth it?  But we all know that I love balls on my chin, especially glowy ones that shoot things at my enemies.  I am torn. 

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cool. do you enjoy fvs melee? I like mine a lot, more than any other toon I have.

t2 pre is ok, but the ap is better spent on healers friend or scroll mastery 4.

stainer wrote on Feb 24^th, 2012 at 9:37am:


I love my WF FVS melee tier2 PRE. I am always main healer I just make sure to keep my auto attack on keep my melee buffs up and alternate through heals and damage spells. My favorite thing is to let great cleaving barbs die from their own critsm. I only have 3 mass spells CCW/CSW/ MHeal and heal loaded so sometimes if the party is getting shit kicked I cant heal fast enough (all spells on timer) this can happen in edeeps in the pit if I dont focus on heals

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I respecc'd my wife melee fvs from 18/2 FVS/Monk to pure FVS.  Just ended up ditching all of the two handed fighting feats.  She's going with just the tier I enhancements right now, and not really missing the tier II at all.

Edit:  I think I need to expand on this a bit. 
If you are going to be primarily running end game raids at cap, you're not going to miss it. 
If you are running epic non raids, it can be useful in places. 
While leveling, it sucks up a lot of action points, but it's also reasonably useful.

Tobril wrote on Feb 24^th, 2012 at 3:12pm:


Yea I didn't exactly follow the Soul Survivor build...but most WF FvS are going to be similar anyway.

I took Brute Fighting 1 just because I had 1ap leftover. 675hp with a yugo pot and rage. If I got a head start to triple stack DP (even with Max only) I could tank. Already get agro with esos+clawset+DP on mini bosses if I try.

But why when there are better options for tanks like defenders or ac builds.

I considered the monk splash too initially, but just went 20fvs. The DR, saves and inherent resists coupled with red scale docent and UMD or cloak of ice are almost as good as evasion vs aoe spells. Easy to farm up a PLIS now too.

Where does everyone have their Hvy Fort and GS? I have triple air SP goggles I swap to Tharnes, and triple earth HP belt I keep on.

Felgor wrote on Mar 7^th, 2012 at 1:22am:



Anathema ring FTW.  I'll tank things like sulu or turgulon when we are full of thieves and WF barbs or whatever.  Otherwise I agree that it's best to let someone better at the job do it. 

Unfortunately Sirgog stressed tanking so much that every nublet out there thinks they can hit 20 on one of these and tank anything.   Ding!


Here's my layout:  http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=323358

He's mostly the same today, except has more +3 tomes and way more HP.

People like Matuse/Sirgog don't like my gearing, but fuck them it works for my needs. 

I wanted him to be a mostly no-swap character, especially for UMD so I can fire off fire shield and such without dying due to crippling gear-swap lag.

Tobril wrote on May 8^th, 2012 at 3:06pm:


Mine is no swap for the most part.  I can swap around trinket if I want the spyglass or arrowhead.

I went with eMask of Comedy in the helm and then I use eRing of the master artifice (which I really need to tier up).  I like the potency and major healing lore on the mask, that way if I forget to swap to green blade/cove dagger setup before casting a bb i'm still getting decent damage.  The reconstruction proc on the ring has saved me a couple times in DQ runs.

Right now, I probably spend 50% of the time running around with terror, 50% running around with green blade/e ornament blade.

cdr wrote on May 8^th, 2012 at 8:37pm:



I got a few in the AH lately, but yeah they can be a bit a of a pain to get.