I have a monk who I am planning to level to level 30, then ETR and TR into a PDK warlock for the PRR and MRR. Because this is my melee toon, I was thinking a warlock 14/fighter 6 Bastard Sword Single Weapon Fighting build, with points in both enlightened spirit and kensei. It would be CHA and CON focused, because of the PDK cha-to-hit and dmg enhancement, and would wear heavy armor.

What kind of gear would I need to perform well in EE with this toon?

Other notes: I'm grabbing the cleave feats, not the ES bursts. I'm also planning on using this life to level up a few epic destinies, though I'll immediately ITR on reaching 30.

14 Warlock is giving you a trivial benefit over 8Fighter/12Lock

I did a SWF with Khopesh and Orb,Str based 1Barb/4Fighter/15Lock (GOO)  before the Kensai changes.

It was a themed build around run speed. 10% Barb/10% Swift Defense/15% Feeding Frenzy.

With Lock Aura/ES 34ish pts for T5 Displace and Shining Through, +6 STR/20%HP in SD with Medium Armor, 7 in SE and the rest in Kensai for Action Boosts etc etc.

Was damn near un-killable and ran fast af.  I like fast travel  for getting from here to there but even faster travel over very short distances while battling mobs adds a shit-ton of survivabilty.

I did SWF x3, PA Cleave/GCleave, Khop, IC Completionist, Stunning Blow and Fighter Tactics maybe +6 one.

If I did this again I'd do 8Fighter/12Lock Only go to T4 and Core 4 in ES, 7 in SE and Split the rest to get T5 Kensai and T4s in SD.  Strength, Con>Int for KTA. 

Sailias wrote on May 8^th, 2017 at 12:09am:


Um, fighter?

Arganthonius wrote on May 6^th, 2017 at 12:24pm:


Probably the best way to do well in EE would be to go pure lock.  Or maybe 1 fighter if you go pdk.  But with a good set of past life feats you can make this or any other flavor build work.

Sailias wrote on May 12^th, 2017 at 10:28am:


If by 'synergize' you mean it takes level 4, 20 asp in the tree, no path to heavy armor unless you still spend the feat for medium armor (and you might know, is this a bug?  Seems that way since medium armor proficiency via feats gives access to heavy armor proficiency via feats, and buying the med via enhance points should count the same.  You now know how to wear med armor, grats!  It's just one step up to heavy, oh except it's not) and 2 ap, then sure.  But Fighter auto grants the heavy armor feat and yeah you have to spend those points and more eliminating the asf, but it is worth it for most burst builds (i.e. ES builds) who are in the middle of the action and can use the PRR and AC more than blasters.

Sailias wrote on May 16^th, 2017 at 8:43pm:


Ok, so not a bug and "working as intended," but still a logical fail.  When a person learns how to wear medium armor and cast spells in it their next step up is learning how to wear heavy armor and cast spells in it.  An enhancement that both grants med armor proficiency and eliminates all medium armor asl is objectively better than the medium armor feat.  So saying that the specific warlock ES path to medium armor fails to provide the same step up to heavy armor as the medium armor feat just makes no sense at all.  Logically.  In a discussion about a game that has dragons and wizards which break the laws of physics casually and twice on Sundays...  But I'm sure you get the point regardless.

I love how there is always some asshole who thinks Arcane casters have some expectation of wearing full plate....

Personally, i'm fucking grateful 'locks can wear medium for breastplate and not fail  every fucking cast and blow through my SP in 15 seconds