![]() ![]() Meanwhile, swordsage offers me skill points and immediate actions, but is also primarily a Wis and Dex class, both of which I was planning to dump.Duskblade gets plenty of spells that need a saving throw, and those are based on INT. ![]() My duskblade side doesn't really benefit from a higher Int at all. Hmm.The archivist would require me to actually put high points into my Int, since all those inflict spells allow saving throws. ![]() So the question becomes, is the archivist's out-of-combat usefulness (including healing) better for me, or is the swordsage's immediate action using and higher skill points/better list more useful to me? Though, in the end, I would probably still end up using the majority of my standard actions for channeling duskblade spells. Clerics do get an obscene amount of touch spells.Okay, that seems like a legitimately nice idea. ![]() Just two levels until I can start dishing out vampiric touch. Jade Phoenix Mage is a dual-progression PrC, which are pretty banned and frowned upon in Gestalt, and I'm not going to push that any.Īnd yes, dragonfire adept would be pretty inappropriate in my build. Unless of course you choose to make your character dragon themed, in which case I guess you could take a level of dragon shaman or the dragon lord PrC for that healing aura, to keep you at half health. You also get a better version of arcane strike.Ī level of dragonfire adept gets you that invocation that gives you +6 to knowledge skills, but it doesn't fit very well with the theme. Duskblades mostly use damage dealing spells, and JPM gets you metamagic feats that you can't normally use. I recommend Jade pheonix mage on the warblade side. If it's at higher levels, just get a few belts of healing. Suggestions? What other class has some pretty good Str/Con/Int synergy but more passive abilities and better skill points for me to take advantage of?Ī solo game, you say? If it starts at low levels, then you'll need a way to get healing. So I'm going to go a different direction with this character and drop warblade, and pick another class for that side that might be less martial and more skillful (not a rogue). Okay, so after all that build up, I realized that I was being stupid and warblade doesn't get to strike while I Channel. (If you guys still think a wizard would be appropriate here, I'll hear your argument and consider it).Īny suggestions for a prestige class, by the way? With the intended build, I think duskblade is pretty inescapable, since you don't get Greater Arcane Channeling until 13th anyway, but warblade is a pretty dippable class. I want to be casting relevant spells in melee, I don't want to just walk into battle with a bunch of buffs and be invincible while I Greater Insightful Strike everything to death. So, what do you guys think? Any advice for a build like this? The two classes aren't set in stone, and I know a wizard would probably be better than a duskblade, but wizards just don't blend melee and magic as seamlessly as duskblades do, at least not without some serious Quicken shenanigans. I'm playing a gestalt solo game here pretty soon and, as it's going to most likely be combat-heavy, I was thinking about this class setup for my character (No matter what I choose, my character has to be somewhat martial in order to fit the premise of the game). The duskblade gives the warblade a ton of extra damage, as well as the Arcane Strike and Knowledge Devotion feats, which allow for a good deal of accuracy, while the warblade gives the duskblade a continuous source of bonus damage (allowing him to save Arcane Channeling for BBEGs and lieutenants), higher hit points, and extra skill points, allowing you to cap on your knowledges more easily and pick other skills as well. You pretty much only need Str, Con and Int, and Int is really a tertiary score for both classes, seeing as the duskblade doesn't really use spells that allow a saving throw. So the duskblade and the warblade seem like a match made in heaven when it comes to Gestalt. ![]()
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