BGTSCC - Epic dodge with High AC and Decent AB

This build could be better improved. But should be a good tanker in most of the cases.

Need Will save gear.


http://nwn2db.com/build/?317113

A white dragon solo build.

For the dragon solo, before the fight, you can get buffed up by your teammates,

but in the boss fight, no one could help you (guard from lord to share damage, bards encourage, or defense are all prohibited). You lose all the teammates when you actually are facing the White Dragon.

Here is the buffs I think to buff on before the solo.

For AC:

Wiz's IMA +6 armor AC

Wiz's Spider skin  +5 Nat AC

Cleric's shield of faith +5 def AC

Cleric's magical vestment +5 shield AC

Recitation 2-3 AC (60 round by a decent caster)

For AB:

Cleric :  Bless 1, Aid 1, GMW 5, 

              recitation 2-3, prayer 1 (60 round) 

Bard/Wiz: Great Heroism 4

                  Haste 1

For dmg:

The best is Holy Sword by an extended caster Paladin. (2d6 holy)

The acid is good (only AK has acid weapon I assume)

He is immune to fire and frost, so druid might not work well.

Will work on the build later.

   

A guild to EDM favored Souls.

Cleric and FS are strong, because of their healings, protections and good damages. Here provides a general idea of how to build an EDM cleric/FS.

1. Classes: clerics need 15 wisdom plus the +4 helm or amulet to cast the 9^th divine spell, and add other points to Strength and Charisma (will talk it next time). FSs could devote all the points to Charisma and strength but they need a turning undead class (BG, Paladin or Cleric). So basically FS build should be like FS/turning class/classes with extra benefits (Tumble, UMD) and cleric build should be like cleric/ with extra benefits.

2. Casting level: 30CL is the best, which means you can spare 4 levels with other classes without spell progression.

Hierophant class provides extra 3CL if you take the 3 divine spellpower feats. But it needs 19 base Wisdom for cleric that is hard for EDM clerics (FS can’t go with hierophant, not discuss here). For my suggestion, I would prefer to have 28-30CL in this build to make it less dispellable.

3. Feats: All the feats are pretty solid. Before epic class, you have 7 feats (8 for human) if you don’t have extra classes provide extra feats. Must-taken feats are 1-Power Attack, 2-Divine Might, 3-Divine Shield (let me know if someone knows there is a gear provides this feat), 4-Practised caster, 5-Extend Spell, 6-Blind Fight, strongly suggested ones are 7-Tougness and 8-steadfast determination (Prevent you from roll 1 failure)

4. Example:

Let’s take 24FS/3cleric/3Rogue for example, human is the best choice in this build, you can switch to Aasimar when 100% RCR is available. Rogs provide your way to evasion (Later expose weakness), UMD, tumble and some lock picking and spot skills. A total of 28CL is decent in some epic areas.  For this build, cleric domains could provide you 2 extra feats, for human it is 10 total before epic levels. You can pick deities providing feats above together with Luck and pick a good deity weapon. FS has weapon focus and weapon specializatjon (Scimitar, Rapier are the best critical range for EDMers but it is hard to find good ones). In Epic levels, Epic Prowess, expose weakness and epic divine might are the 3 feats you need to take. You will have 3 extra epic feats to use, which I would like to put in Charisma.

To start from human of 18/14/8/8/8/16, put 14 Dex (with +4 dex glove and mirthful chainmall 6/4) for the light armor to fit evasion. Put 3 points in strength and 4 points in charisma in your regular points. That is 21 Strength and 20 Charisma, 3 extra epic feats could be 2 extra charisma and Epic Mass heal (or great strength if you want 1 more ab and damage). For 100% RCR build, Aasimar could start with 17/14/9/10/10/18, 3 extra feats can go to Charisma to reach 24, 2 more divine damage and duration with EDM. That is 18 divine damages with Eagle. Or you can start with 16 strength to put more points into either Int to have more skills or Con to have more HP or even take CE or ICE for more ACs.

There is a very interesting and alternative build with human above, because you have extra one feat to spare for human and some people say I could easily find a toughness ring and I don’t believe steadfast determination (sometimes you have to believe, I had been slayed by a vampire feast in 1 second casted by dragonlich with a roll 1 even my Fort save together with spellcraft reaches 40 or stoned by the Medusa in the temple with a roll 1).

The alternative way is to take the fey heritage background feat, fey skins provide extra DR/cold iron which will stack with the 10/Cold iron DR in 20^th level FS. For instance, cleric with Mask deity gives you Luck and Darkness domain (Lucky Hero and blindfight,) and the weapon is Longsword (not bad, you can find good ones in epic shops). Instead of taking toughness and steadfast determination, take another 2 crappy fey feats (including fey skin) to have a DR13/Cold Iron. And some people say, I don’t like Divine shield. Then switch to get DR14 (well, divine shield is crying in the bathroom). BG nerfed the planning domain which provides extend spell feat as far as I remember. In this case, you could have picked darkness/planning domain and drop lucky hero for 1DR (That’s 15DR if you drop DS and planning domain is not nerfed). Image a 20 Barb with 3 epic damage reduction feats could reach DR14, FS is 13-14DR/CI without taking any epic feats (XD).

A little tips:

Divine power has been nerfed which compensates for non-cleric classes. Deathward won’t provide ability damage, when facing sneakers or non-caster bosses, you can switch to heavy (medium) armor with damage immunities and cast stone body to yourself (you still have 14 dex after casting stone body). So a mirthful FP still can still give you 10AC (But you lose evasion, oh, I ready said non-caster bosses). In this case, you will have 13DR/Cold Iron and 10/DR adamantine and immunity to critical hits. Image Balor can only hit me with 10-12 dmg per hit? Yes!

Spell list pick will be here, Thanks to Karond:

https://bgtscc.net/viewtopic.php?f=149&t=51748&p=655858&hilit=conviction#p655858

For 30CL FS is pretty easy, either with 26FS/4Cle or 24FS/3Cle/3Dragon slayer

The first one loses UMD and ACs, the second one wastes 2 extra feats but it provide you tumble and tower shield. Both of the 2 builds should take water domain. Evasion is more important than expose weakness. Evasion is more important than expose weakness. Evasion is more important than expose weakness.

Finally, EDM Cleric/FS AB caps at 52-53 depends on your build. And compared with EDM paladins, they have less damage and less ab. Paladin can hit a maximal AB of 62-65 if there is an Epic bard in the team and usually they have a selfbuffing AB at 55 and they deal more dmg than FS.

See you next time!