Looks like it could be fun, it might fade a little levs 23 to cap but all in all some good stuff and nice flavor.

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I will, of course, carry an Insanity around in public areas, for the look.

Does the BF Recon work in undead form?!

Ahh, thanks - thought I'd missed a trick there!

For arcane melee I am really enjoying the WF 18/2 wiz/rog. As a first life toon it really suffers from lack of spell penetration. The spell DC's are not EE quality, but I have no problems on EH.

I have something like this as a heroic challenge farmer, stuck at level 15.

Original post = https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/423615-Challenge-Farmer?p=5084429&view...

How about a melee based bladeforged wizard?

11 Wiz / 2 Pal / 2 Ftr

Take SLA reconstruct from Bladeforged tree for self healing.

This will give a BAB of 9, so ICrit: slashing can be taken at 15 for use with the greatsword.

6 base feats, 2 fighter, 3 wiz
PA, Cleave, GC, ICrit, Dodge, THF (str 15), iTHF (BAB 6, str 17), WF: Slashing
Wiz Feats: Extend, Eschew Materials, Quicken

Fighter Bonus Feats: iTHF, Improved Crit: Slashing (lvl 13, 14)
Feats by level: PA, Cleave, GC, Dodge, THF, WF: Slashing
Take Pld 2, Wiz 10, ftr 2, wiz 1 (to finish skills)

Skills:
Repair - 18 ranks + 13 (goggles) + 2 (int) = 33 Repair spell power
Concentration
Jump (to 10)
Balance

Enhancements: (56 points)
Bladeforged: 23
(1) Improved Fort (core)
(1) Inscribed Armor
(6) Mechanist 3 - 20% Improved healing from repair, +3 repair
(6) Communion of Scribing 3 - 25 SP Reconstruct, 6s cooldown
(6) Improved Power Attack 3
(1) Weapon Attachment - +.5[W]
(1) Communion of Handling - Racial Seeker 2 and grants Adamantine
(1) Power of the forge - Action boost
Kensai: 23
(1) Core I - Focus Greatswords
(6) Extra Action Boost III
(4) Weapon Spec: GS - II
(3) Haste Boost III
(6) Improved Dodge III
(3) Reed in the wind III
48 Points Spent, 8 left undecided
-- Can grab some Archmage SLAs maybe though very low spellpower / dcs

Reconstruct will heal for 150 * 1.2 (enhancement) * 1.1 (item) * ~2.05 (72 repair item, 33 skill)
~405 healing / 25 SP / 6s - unsure if this is doubled from Tenser's
-- probably overkill, can work on enhancements more later

Stats: With default gear:
Str: 14 (6) +3 lvls +5 gear = 22
Dex: 13 (8) +4 gear = 17
Con: 16 (6) + 5 gear = 21
Int: 12 (4) = 12
Wis: 6 +4 gear = 10
Cha: 15 (8) +5 gear = 20

lvl ups in Str - 17 Str to qualify for THF line

uneven con, can shift points some

Saves:
3/0/0 - Paladin lvls
3/0/0 - Fighter lvls
3/3/7 - Wiz lvls
5/5/5 - Divine Grace
4/4/4 - Greater Heroism
2/2/2 - parrying gear
4/4/4 - resistance gear
7/0/0 - con (w/tensers)
0/3/0 - dex
2/2/2 - paladin aura
-----------------
33 / 24 / 24

HP: (w/tensers)
-- 84 base + 105 con + 43 feat + 50 enchanted
= 282 HP

Spell points: 691

Greatsword:
1.5[2d6] + 3, Bloodletter IV, True law
+.5[W] from

Str - 17 + 5 (item) + 4 (tensers) = 26

Dmg/swing: 1.5[2d6] + .5[2d6] = 14 + 12 (str) + 16 (power attack) + 3 (enhancement) + 3 (kensai II)
= 48 avg dmg per regular hit

Crit: 17-20x2, with seeker 2

8 Haste boots + 8 power of the forge boosts, which may be stacking, along with melee alacrity and a lot of glancing blow dmg + cleaves

Overall, should be a fine Melee fighter, decent saves, great self-healing, doesn't need an initial set of components for wiz spells. No Monk run speed or wings, but can't have everything.

Spells:
As above, except take fox's cunning as a lvl 2 spell to be able to cast lvl 6 spells

I don't have a slot free to roll this up yet, so I don't know HP / SP totals. Will try to update later tonight.

Gear:
goggles: +13 spot, 13 repair
head: +75% fortification, +72 repair spell power
neck: deathblock, wis +4
trinket: Cha +5, repair 10%
back: Prot +4, Greater False life
Waist: str +5, dex +4
finger 1: con +5, concentration +13
hands: melee alacrity 10%, attack bonus +2
feet: striding 25%, dodge 2%
finger 2: Parrying IV, intim +13
bracers: resistance +4, doublestrike 3%
docent: +4, vit +20, greater thorn guard

ChewyOoeyGoOey wrote on May 11^th, 2015 at 2:41am:


That build made sense before the pally pass. If I made a challenge farmer today, I would go bladeforged 15 pally and summon Mikayl for the challenges where Ddoor helps.

kum-gulp wrote on May 10^th, 2015 at 11:26am:


This is my thoughts as well, not great, but fun and different and just neat.  I decided to go heavy, though, since I've spent so many lives in monk jammies on this character already, and haven't really done anything in heavy armour in epic levels since MRR was added.

I ran around a bit, and the damage is about where I thought it would be, but my burst healing from Negative Energy Burst isn't.  Does anyone know if the Pale Master neg energy heal amp is working properly, or if there is something screwy with heal amp from past lives, ship buffs, or WF heal amp penalties?  I'm not a math guy, but I can give data if someone would care to check it out for me.

Starkjade wrote on May 11^th, 2015 at 9:25pm:



Do you like long walks on the beach as well?

So, after a while playing, (currently sitting at 26) I find myself liking this, but not as much as some other lives.  I decided upon a 12/4/4 split to fit all the feats I wanted.  Most of my points went into EK (it really is a trap, eh?) for doublestrike and arcane spell failure reduction.

It's the lack of healing that prevents me from really enjoying it, and needing to shrine quite a lot more than with other characters.  ~240 neg spell power, aura ticks for 40-50 and burst hits for 180-200.  Not great, especially with a couple of stacks of the light DoT on me.

Damage is okay, mostly because Thunder-forged.  I made a lvl 22, 24 and 26 because why the hell not.  Getting around 240 per swing with a full Blitz on with the lvl 24 version, critting for ~1100 sometimes.

So I can burn through EH without any difficulty (duh) but EEs (solo, anyway) take a bit of attack/retreat and heal up kind of strategy, which was not my intention; I was picturing sweeping in and cleaving the crap out of everything.  I was thinking about maybe swapping out my current twists for Shiradi, to see if my aura or the EK burst damage triggers the procs for some extra DPS. (If anyone can tell me if they do or do not, that would be appreciated!)  I won't likely tackle any of the higher-level EEs without a group.

My gear is sub-par, mostly the same stuff I wear every life.  I'm in Black Dragonscale, and will likely remain in it until cap, since I find the lvl 26 TF armour kinda crappy, since I don't need fort and I'm already ghostly.  The 28 would be neat if I intended to spend more than six minutes at cap though.

So, anyway, flavour build for sure, sub-sub optimal, but an interesting diversion.

I'd love to see another tier of EDs that are mutli-sphere, for use from 26-30.

Arcane + Divine = Arch-necromancer; make a real lich (thx Epoch for inspiration)
Arcane + Martial = Battlemage; Shield & Staff equipped at once, channel spells through melee attacks
Arcane + Primal = Shaman; super control spells
Divine + Primal = Hierophant; Dragon form?
Divine + Martial = Chosen One; Evangelical power!  (faith-based charms and smites)
Martial + Primal = I dunno, some sort of super ranger or something.

That would be neat.  Let's turn power creep into a power blitz.