FFS (v2.0)
10 Bard/9 Ranger/1 Favored Soul
Neutral
Aasimar Scourge

Stats:
8   Str
16 Dex
16 Con
8   Int
10 Wis
18 Cha (+ levels)

Iconic: RRRR RRBR BRBB RBBB FBBB

Feats:
1 Single Weapon Fighting
3 Weapon Finesse
6 Improved Single Weapon Fighting
9 Improved Crit Blunt
12 Greater Single Weapon Fighting
15 Sap
18 Completionist
21 Overwhelming Crit
24 Precision
26 Perfect Single Weapon Fighting
27 Epic Reflexes
28 Evasive Target
29 Dire Charge
30 Sneak of Shadow
30s Scion of Ethereal


Enhancements:

Swashbuckler: 35 AP
Core 3/6
On Your Toes 3/3
Tavern Shanties 1/3
En Pointe 2/3
Deflect Arrows (2 pts)
Double Strike AB 2/3 (4 pts)
Resonant Arms 3/3 (6 pts)
Dashing Scoundrel
Slap in the Face
Battering Barrage 1/2 (2 pts
+1 Cha
+1 Cha
Exploit Weaknesses (2 pts)
Coup de Gras
Thread the Needle (2 pts)

Deepwood: 7 AP
Core 2/6
Stealthy 3/3
Improved Empathy 1/3
Improved Weapon Finesse

Warchanter: 23 AP
Core 2/6
Poetic Edda 1/3
Rough & Ready 3/3
Iced Edges 3/3
Sprint AB 1/3
Frozen Fury 3/3
Ironskin Chant 3/3
High Spirits 2/3
+1 Cha
Northwind 3/3

War Soul: 4 AP
Cores 1/6
Divine Presence 3/3

Tempest: 4 AP
Cores 1/6
Improved Defense 3/3

Racial: 19 AP
5/5 core (Cha)(7 pts)
Scourge Weapons
Improved Recovery (6 pts)
Improved Scourge Weapons
Divine Purpose
Greater Scourge Weapons
Destroyer of the Dead (2 pts)


Epic Destiny: Divine Crusader

Purge the Wicked
Bane of Undeath
Interrogation
Endless Turning 1/3

Consecration 3/3
Confront Any Foe

Sacred Ground

Crusade
No Regret

Celestial Champion
Castigation
Heavenly Presence

Strike Down

Twists:
4 Sense Weakness
3 Reign
2 AB Damage
1 Rejuvenation Cocoon
1 Legendary Tactics


Gear: 14-20x4 Light Mace, 14-20x5 Skullsmasher, 12-20x4 Drow Light Mace

Used to work. Did they change it with the tempest nerf?

It's somewhat easy to test if you're setup to record gameplay video.

Step into an archer heavy mission (ToEE, Slave Lords, Chains of Flame, etc.), kill all the melee mobs then just stand there while archers shoot at you for a bit.

Then play back the video in slow motion, nothing the timestamps on the deflections.  If you get deflections more than once every 6s, it works. 

harharharhar wrote on Nov 30^th, 2017 at 4:40pm:

Um, sure. 

Getting the timing precise will be lots of fun when you're being spammed with arrows and all the miss, dodge, incorporeal, concealment messages are queuing the text up and scrolling everything.

Yes, you could take all that gear off, but then you won't be able to take nearly as many hits to test it.

Named support for light mace is light, that's fair. Since it has to be iconic 1-14 isn't a problem though. Skullsmasher is the best of the bunch crit-wise and the drop rate on it is really high. Also Mournlode is an easy short farm for t1, and t2 TF you can just buy mats for on the cheap. So I would focus on those.

Of course, nothing is preventing you from kicking ass with any other keen swash weapon in a pinch: Balizarde, Agony, Letter Opener, Razorend, Tiefling Assassin Blade, Sky Pirate's Dagger, etc.

Rubbinns wrote on Nov 28^th, 2017 at 7:17pm:


Finally got around to testing it properly.

Fresh iconic, leveled to 2 bard/1 ranger, no gear except weapon. Went in KA, up to the perch, tested Deflect Arrows with both SWF and THF. (Scourge animations for THF are pretty cool BTW.) Without Improved Defense, DA went 6 secs min between procs. With Imp Def and either long sword or a great sword equipped, it indeed went down to 2 secs.

Note this is with DA from swash. I also remember it working properly with the feat as a monk. Presumably, the version of DA you can get in Tempest actually requires you to have 2 weapons, since it says it requires you to have two weapons. It's possible that if you have it from the Tempest cores and also from another source that the 2w requirement will take precedence and screw you over. Maybe that's where the confusion is coming from?