Saecru wrote on Aug 25
th, 2013 at 12:58pm:
Bladeforged 8 Fighter/6 Monk/6 Paladin - Lawful Good
I was looking at fleshing this out to possibly give it a go as a fun side project. The problem I'm running into is that the sp's look extremely limited. Assuming you fit in at least 4 paladin levels before 15 you're still looking at a very small sp-pool even with items (assuming no greensteel). Even with greensteel though it looks like you'd be turning to pots quite a bit and unlike with Cocoon we can't rely on magical training to regen enough sp's to use our primary heal/repair.
Also, if you decide to pick up Magical Training it fits great as a level 1 feat (in our required Paladin level assuming they keep that mechanism when we can TR or assuming you're starting one now). That allows you to take Power Attack as a Monk feat (probably at character level 2) and THF as a monk feat (probably at character level 3) which opens up a lot of options about when to take the rest of the levels and feats. You've still got Toughness available for Monk 6 which means that you don't have to take any monk 'filler' feats like Deflect Arrows. Given that I can think of at least 16 heroic feats I'd like to fit in here (PA,Clv,gClv,iCrit,THF,iTHF,gTHF,Quicken,Master of Forms,GMoF,Dodge,Toughness,WFoc,WSpec,gWFoc,Magical Training) being able to avoid those filler feats seems important. Out of those 16 feats I'd probably drop GMoF's. It's hard to fit in as it has to be taken with the level 18 feat or later and since we'll be in Earth stance almost all the time it's just giving 3PRR, 1con, and 5% more ac from armor. That further eases level/class issues in fitting in all the feats.
If I were making this character fresh right now I'd start with 16+levels/12/16/12/6/14 on a 32-point build and get it a +5 con tome from Mabar to qualify for Epic Toughness. The rest of the tomes you could fill in later but other than a +1 dex tome to qualify for Dodge and a +2 str tome to qualify for Overwhelming Critical at 21 (or +1 str tome to qualify at 24) you don't need any other tomes.