Simple build. Lots of tankyness, self healing, and AoE damage for leveling as a first or multilife character.

Halfling first life starting stats:
Str 15 Dex 13, Con 12, Int 13, Wis 8 Charisma 8, 2 levelups in str, rest con

1 Fighter Feat PA (str 13) Cleave
2 Fighter Feat THF
3 Bard Dragonmark of Healing*
4 Barb
5 Barb
6 Barb Great Cleave
7 Fighter
8 Fighter Feat THF#2 (str 17) (tomes +2)
9 Fighter IC:S
10 Bard
11 Fighter Feat Dodge (dex 13) (tomes +3)
12 Fighter GTHF
13 Fighter Feat Mobility
14 Fighter
15 Fighter Feat: Spring Attack Combat Expertise (int 13, Tomes +4)
16 Fighter
17 Fighter Feat  Whirlwind Attack   (tomes +4)
18 Magical Training
19 Fighter Feat Weapon Focus: Slashing 
20 Barb
21 OC
24 Weapon Specialization: Slashing
26 PTHF
27 Greater Weapon Focus: Slashing 
28 PTWF
29 Deific Warding
30 Scion of Arborea, Heavy Armor Master

Gear of Note:
Level 4 Carnifax
Level 8 Theurgic Staff
Level 10 SoS
Level 14 Riftmaker
Level 20 EAGA, ESoS
Level 28 Epic Riftmaker

Enhancements by level


1-3 12 Points in Halfling for Dragonmark healing*
4-7 16 Points in FB for free Supreme Cleave**
7-10 11 Points in Kensai for 1 Crit Multiplier
10-12 8 Points in SB for En Pointe
12-15 13 Points in StD for defensive stance 20% HP
15-20 26 points wherever you want

Twist Consecrate/Sacred Ground + Endless Faith in Epics

*You can take dragonmark enhancements out at 20 if you have ED healing, and feat swap Dragonmark to Emp. Healing.
** You can take the 10 HP cost reduction for Supreme Cleave out once your HP pool gets large enough it doesn't matter.
*** Depending on enhancement requirements you may need to drop a heavy armor feat for weapon specialization if you want to go deep into Kensai.

crunch wrote on Apr 30^th, 2016 at 10:10am:


With SoS and Kensai it will be a double AoE hit at 3-20x3, since you can't crit on a 2.

Riftmaker will be double hit at 6-20x4 in heroics,

It seems to work well with Kensai. But non-tree Kensai as a whole is weak so I dunno how well it will work in practice.

If you end up dumping the 26 extra AP in Kensai you will end up with power surge +mass con. If you put them in StD you will end up with +con. Should be fine either way, or you could get both, for a ludicrous amount of HP. You have blood tribute as well.

The bard levels are spaced out so the build has solid UMD as well. Honestly I do this just for teleport scrolls.

That crit range is only with En Pointe sadly, normal cleaves are just normal. But En Pointe is going to be a fighter's new besty.