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#1 saethone Aug 12, 2010 22:25:59	here's a build i made for an evil campaign designed to help empower the party necromancer (wiz/urpriest/mystic theurg) - i threw it together today at work so im sure theres room for improvement Aasimar Bard 1/Marshal 2/Warblade 2/Dirgesinger 5/Suel Archanamec 2/Jade Phoenix Mage 8 Feats: combat casting, iron will, skill focus diplomacy (free), force of personality, song of the white raven, requiem, undead leadership (not in that order), ??? Stats: (32 point buy) STR: 14 +4 tome +6 belt = 24 Dex: 10 +6 gloves = 16 Con: 10 Int: 14 Wis: 8 +2 racial = 10 Cha: 18 +2 racial +5 level +5 tome +6 cloak = 36 AC 29 = 10 + 9 (+5 mithral midnight chain) + 7 shield (+5 mithral animated arrow deflection heavy shield) +3 dex   -- uncanny fort 13 = base 13 reflex 13 = base 8 +3 dex +2  +2 insight (from int) will 16 = 14 base +2 iron will        +13 more against mind affecting   +2 in white raven stance +2 more against death/fear effects BAB 15/10/5 +5 adamantine greatsword (wounding keen spellstoring) +1 marshal aura +7 str +1 inspire courage full attack: +29/+24/+19   damage 2d6+15 (+1 inspire courage) attacks enhanceable by burning archanamech caster slots (which you have tons of b/c of the high cha) all FLANKING allies gain an additional +13 damage to EACH ATTACK bardic music 6x a day (bard + warblade + dirgesong)    countersong    fascinate    inspire courage    song of sorrow    song of bolstering    song of grief    song of horror    song of awakening free empowered/quickened spells whenever yuo succeed martial strike the key here is to maximize your flanking damage by attracting a necropolitan thrikreen beefed up on multiweapon feats and if possible using dirgesong to help as well as long as your cohort is flanking at level 17 (with full bab progression) he'll be attacking 16 times around w/ bonuses higher than yours...each of these attacks doing +13 damage - thats 208 damage a turn from the flank bonus alone! if your dm allows it, you could use gentle repose to store maralith corpses and use dirgesong to activate this, and use it for more flank damage. you can't use spells with this active, but you can expend spell slots to power your firebird stance and arcane wrath. If you continue to epic levels you get an awesome "im exploding now see you next week" ability as well :p the character also makes a formidable diplomacer with good access to social skills, lots of skill points, and high charisma
#2 phaedrusxy Aug 13, 2010 14:44:12	Off topic but... did you ever play Dark Age of Camelot? On the "bors" server?
#3 saethone Aug 13, 2010 15:16:18	yes, saeth a celt hero, saethrar a sylvan valewalker. and on lamorak too - saethrar a troll savage and saethrawr a luri bainshee :P
#4 phaedrusxy Aug 13, 2010 22:09:46	yes, saeth a celt hero, saethrar a sylvan valewalker. and on lamorak too - saethrar a troll savage and saethrawr a luri bainshee :P lol, holy crap dude. I was Esus EagleEyes on there.
#5 saethone Aug 14, 2010 16:14:49	LOL! Long time no (chat?) hah! It's been quite some time since I've played but a lot of us still post at borsboards.com very regularly :P
#6 lormador Aug 14, 2010 21:24:47	Dragonfire Inspiration? I doubt all those minions are going to have Power Attack.
#7 angellusmortus Aug 16, 2010 22:09:36	I'll say Dragonfire Inspiration as well...hard for me to think of any sort of buffer bard not using it! Not sure how to fit it into that build...flaws allowed? It's relatively easy with items and feats (Words of Creation) to boost that Inspire Courage to a beastly level, even if the base is only +1.