Personal opinion on it,  but it's mostly theory,  from looking at things as I haven't tried to build it yet.

WF for self repairing.
16wiz, 2 rogue (evasion and trap skills), 2 fvs

Wizard take the normal stuff and make sure to grab insightful reflexes duh.

2 rogue for the evasion and trapskills

2 fvs for just reward in the angel of vengence tree.  Which is on crit 10 spell points

Then pick up every crit enhancement for force you can and the best lore items you can.

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FVS is also additional force spell power.
I think I'd rather go 2 Monk in favor of 2 Rog - more HPs, and better saves and dodge via Water stance, provided you have a useful Quarterstaff you want to use (eg Twilight, EE Ingot, some nice Thaumaturgy item). If you know which non-monk weapons you want to use, then 2 Rog might still not be enough.

Regarding Trapskills - I LR'd my 18wiz/2rog recently and I found a number of skills which were more important to me than traps, namely spellcraft, repair, perform, UMD, balance.

1st core of henshin mystic also provides +5 force and fire spellpower and 1% crit chance force and fire.

When in doubt - add monk.

spathic wrote on Nov 20^th, 2013 at 10:12am:

Too few caster levels you get the max for chain missiles.  You need 19 for max 16 drops you by 2,  dropping to 12 would be a loss of four potential procs per cast which would just be too many imo.

Thanks for the input guys. After thinking about it, I think I'm just going to stay a Pale Master but I'll TR into a Drow a few times to get the +4 to Int and +2 to Cha as well as the +3 to DCs for 3 past lives.

My gear is more suited to a PM anyway.

I've tested the Shiradi build cdr wrote up here and on the main forums; I don't think you're going to get much better than that. Only thing to keep in mind is that you won't be centred and therefore unable to take advantage of Water Stance while using clubs and scepters. With Twilight past it's used by date, it might take a while to find a lootgen quartertaff with the appropriate mutations.

Cdr's build is pretty much the gold standard for wizard.  I still prefer sorc tho

hgm-chi wrote on Nov 20^th, 2013 at 1:16pm:

On the Final Life, I suppose not.

There's an interesting discussion thread on Drow vs. Sun Elf here:

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/430913-Wizard-Drow-or-Iconic-Elf

Will have to mull it over to see whether it's really worth it to me.

They missed a golden opportunity to introduce aasimar as the cleric iconic. I would TR into that IMMEDIATELY on my FvS.

Astraghal wrote on Nov 20^th, 2013 at 1:15pm:


The arcane augmentation on Twilight is nice and hard to replace for a splashed Shiradi caster.

cdr wrote on Nov 24^th, 2013 at 7:46pm:


where or craqft kinetic lore, then it's like 3% or 4% behind on crit

cdr wrote on Nov 24^th, 2013 at 11:05pm:


So you don't use Sage cuffs I presume?
You'd rather have it with the random lootgen?

Math on 24 more spell power:
Are you simply counting the 144 impulse (random) vs 120 impulse (twilight)?
There is also the +30 vs. 24 implement bonus of +10 stick vs. +8 twilight,
To be fair to Twilight, its usually (and is best) used with Planar set for another +15 psionic spell power.

Total on "maxx" random gen combo: 30implement+144impulse= 174

Total on tier4 Twilight set combo: 24 implement+120impusle+15psionic= 159

Difference between both: 15 spell power

Assuming that kinetic lore is already covered and one's not afraid to be redundant by slotting 138 impulse ruby in the Twilight, it actually comes out on top by 3 spell power, additionally that's where arcane augmentation comes in handy 


I consider it to be a great constitute while one's on the hunt for the best c-c-combo stick.



PS.: Best random gen I found so far: +9 thaumaturgy 27 implement, 144 glaciation, 144 resonance, 19 spellcraft, Red Slot: 138 impulse ruby. Loving it a LOT