Undead Ranger V 2.0 (21Ranger/3Bard/16Palemaster)

Race Human NE
Stats (Starting/Ending)
STR 16/22
DEX 8/8
CON 18/22
INT 8/8
WIS 8/8
CHA 12/12
Stat Progression
4CON, 8 CON, 12 CON, 16STR 20STR, 24STR, 28STR, 32STR, 36STR, 40 CON

Level/Feat Progression
1BRD- Power Attack, Cleave
2BRD-
3BRD- Exotic Weapon Prof
4RNG- Fav. Enemy I, Duel Wield I
5RNG-
6RNG- Knockdown
7RNG-
8RNG-
9RNG– Weapon Focus, Fav. Enemy II
10RNG-
11RNG-
12RNG- Improved Knockdown
13RNG- Duel Wield II
14RNG- Fav. Enemy III
15RNG- Improved Critical
16PM-
17PM-
18PM- Toughness
19PM-
20PM-
21PM- Damage Reduction I
22PM-
23PM-
24PM- Damage Reduction II
25PM-
26PM-
27PM- Damage Reduction III
28PM- PM Bonus Feat - Energy Resistance Fire I
29PM-
30PM- Epic Spell: Mage Armor
31RNG-
32RNG-
33RNG- Armor Skin
34RNG- Fav. Enemy IV
35RNG-
36RNG- Epic Weapon Spec
37RNG-
38RNG-
39RNG- Bane of Enemies, Fav. Enemy V
40PM - PM Bonus Feat – Epic Spell: Epic Warding


HP Formula
21*10=210
15*6=90
PM Bonus=40
Toughness=40
Con Bonus=240
Total=620hp

Pros
7 Attacks Hasted
Epic Mage Armor
Epic Warding
Epic Damage Reduction III
+7 AB to Fav. Enemies’
+5 +2d6 damage to Fav. Enemies
Insane AC
620hp

Changes to Undead Ranger-
Loses 20Ranks in Tumble = 4ac but picked 2 up with Armor Skin
Loses Epic Spell: Hell Ball
Quote: Posted 04/19/04 17:55:46 (GMT) -- Hediyoshi

+7 AB to Fav. Enemies’


I guess this doesnt apply. Its only +2ab to Fav. Enemies Interesting idea for a build. Unfortunately you need 3rd level Arcane spells in order to take a PaleMaster. These don't open up for the bard until 7th level.

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Quote: Posted 06/15/04 19:59:11 (GMT) -- georgel

Interesting idea for a build. Unfortunately you need 3rd level Arcane spells in order to take a PaleMaster. These don't open up for the bard until 7th level.

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Manual, as often is the case, is wrong. You just need 3 levels in an arcane class.
I like the build btw, but you could improve the ab a lot by replacing the PM lvls pre-epic with ranger levels. You would get +3 bab, ending with 29 bab instead of 26. Am I correct in guessing that this is a dual wield kukri build? I didn't see the weapon description on the build. Just out of curiosity, why did you start taking the palemaster levels at lvl 16 instead of 20, or somewhere in the epics? That would give you a higher AB, unless there's a reason you're doing it this way.

Btw: It can't be a dual-wield kukri build. No exotic weapon proficiency. It's not a dev-crit build though so as long as you have a good small weapon, anything would work. (I think )
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Level/Feat Progression
1BRD- Power Attack, Cleave
2BRD-
3BRD- Exotic Weapon Prof
He put it under the lvl 3 bard. So im guessing its the kukri. I have to agree that taking the palemaster levels all post 20 will yield you a higher BAB, at the cost of nothing.
Quote: 36RNG- Epic Weapon Spec

Epic Weapon Focus. Not specialization -fighter only feat

Take Epic PM Post 20, replace Bard with Sorc, and Toughness with Quicken.

Then you pick True Strike as your level 1 spells. You can then Quicken it also at level 5 (3 sorc +8 (1/2 16PM levels).

You should have 4 Quicken's True Strikes at otherwise Tossed magical ability. With Quicken you can get 1 off a round then still attack with Improved knockdown to make sure you can knock over those high discplined melee fighters.

It'll help the AB considering you reduced natural strength lower to get Epic DR.

That's my take on it. Otherwise not bad.

Crude scratch that. Cha too low to take level 5 spells.

Still could true strike! Which I think is more effective than a very small bard song.

Edited By Zyth on 06/30/04 17:48