User:Arek/Toons/Arek F. Dorun
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Race: Half-Elf, Subrace: Half-Guardinal
- Stats
- (starting/after subrace/L60 w/gear):
- STR 18/22/74
- DEX 10/14/26
- CON 14/14/36
- INT 12/14/32
- WIS 12/10/22
- CHA 8/10/28
- Alignment
- Nonlawful Evil
- Class Progression (pre-LL)
- 4Ftr/1Bard/10BlkDD/4Ftr/1Brd/20BlkDD
- Special
- Before taking Level 4 (3RDD), I went to the RDD Color-Change secret and changed my color to Black.
- Feats
- *= Fighter Bonus Feat
- Pre-Epic
- Luck of Heroes
- Weapon Proficiency (Exotic)*
- Power Attack*
- Lightning Reflexes
- Cleave*
- Iron Will
- Great Cleave
- Blind-Fight
- Weapon Focus (Scythe)
- Improved Critical (Scythe)*
- Toughness
- Weapon Specialization (Scythe)*
- Epic
- Epic Prowess
- Epic Toughness 1-9
- Epic Weapon Focus (Scythe)
- Epic Toughness 10
- Legendary
- Legendary Weapon Focus Scythe
- Epic Armor Skin
- Epic Overwhelming Critical Scythe
- Epic Devastating Critical Scythe
- Legendary Luck
- Legendary Fortitude
- Legendary Will
Skills:
- 8 lore at Level 5 (your first bard level)
- 30 Tumble (max on bard levels, finish out in LLs)
- Max Discipline
- Max Craft Armor
- Max Craft Weapon
- Max Listen
- Max Parry
- Remainder goes in Concentration at L60 (22 points, 11 ranks with this build).
Equipment notes:
- Armor - Medium armor is what you want. I, personally, use the Rona medium armor Breastplate of Hiraikos. Dance of Blades, Halomesh Hauberk, or Links of Binding would also be good.
- Shield - When I first took this build to the hells, the dex AC limit on shields had not been implemented. It got implemented right before I did nessus, but it never really affected me, since I always used the Ever Watchful Eye shield (medium). That is the shield I would recommend you find and use until you get a BUR medium shield.
Other Notes:
- Pre-Epic skills are not necessarily listed in the correct order. This is due to me populating the extra feats gained from going fighter from memory.
- Upon reflection, I would drop Legendary Luck for ESF: Listen, since the lowest save in this build is 65 (I'd have done this, but miscalculated my saves and didn't notice until I was already in the middle of Tia). You could also drop Luck of Heroes, but I'm not sure what I'd take in its place.
- I took Fighter at first level so that I wouldn't have to take 11(12) CHA at character creation, leaving me with more points for other things. You can gain 8 skill points by going Bard, but you'd have to lower WIS for CHA, which probably isn't worth it, since you'd only gain 4 concentration (11 should be enough with conc gear).
- Speaking of Figher...why not Paladin instead? Because this toon is a reincarnation of my old "Evil Dragon", he uses the INT arty, which renders Paladin mostly useless. The other option - Blackguard - is a non-option due to needing 5 bard levels pre-epic to qualify for RDD, or 8 to qualify for BG. Either option nerfs my AB.