Objective: You know him, you love him... he's Death! And he has a scythe. Was thinking about Weapons Master, but it's too many feats. In the end, I've got an epic spell-caster with decent melee that could (I think, forgot to test this bit) have up to three undead companions: Summon Undead, Summon Greater Undead, Mummy Dust. If I change the attribs at the beginning, I probably could have gotten Dev Crit. Oh, well...
Human True Neutral (best non-lawful alignment, IMHO)
STR 14 (25) DEX 12 CON 14 INT 12 WIS 10 CHA 15 (19) boost first
Feats: 1 - Luck Of Heros, Power Attack 3 - Weapon Prof (exotic), Weapon Focus (scythe) 4 - Cleave 6 - Great Cleave, Weapon Spec (scythe) 9 - Improved Critical (scythe), Still Spell 12- Toughness 15- Combat Casting 18- Lightning Reflexes 21- Epic Weapon Focus (scythe) 24- Great Strength I, Improved Combat Casting 27- Great Strength II, Epic Spell (Mage Armor) 30- Great Strength III, Epic Spell (Hellball) 33- Great Strength IV, Epic Spell (Epic Warding) 36- Overwhelming Critical (scythe), Epic Spell (Greater Ruin) 39- Great Strength V, Epic Spell (Mummy Dust)
Edited By griphook on 05/20/05 15:19
I understand the reasoning behind doing it this way, but surely you would be better off going wizard, that way you can have access to the spells , where as you are going to be extremely limited with the spells you can use here (remember you dont choose spells on a palemaster level).
Just an observation, you might feel it better to have the higher skill levels.
Objective: You know him, you love him... he's Death! And he has a scythe. Was thinking about Weapons Master, but it's too many feats. In the end, I've got an epic spell-caster with decent melee that could (I think, forgot to test this bit) have up to three undead companions: Summon Undead, Summon Greater Undead, Mummy Dust. If I change the attribs at the beginning, I probably could have gotten Dev Crit. Oh, well...
Human True Neutral (best non-lawful alignment, IMHO)
STR 14 (25) DEX 12 CON 14 INT 12 WIS 10 CHA 15 (19) boost first
Feats: 1 - Luck Of Heros, Power Attack 3 - Weapon Prof (exotic), Weapon Focus (scythe) 4 - Cleave 6 - Great Cleave, Weapon Spec (scythe) 9 - Improved Critical (scythe), Still Spell 12- Toughness 15- Combat Casting 18- Lightning Reflexes 21- Epic Weapon Focus (scythe) 24- Great Strength I, Improved Combat Casting 27- Great Strength II, Epic Spell (Mage Armor) 30- Great Strength III, Epic Spell (Hellball) 33- Great Strength IV, Epic Spell (Epic Warding) 36- Overwhelming Critical (scythe), Epic Spell (Greater Ruin) 39- Great Strength V, Epic Spell (Mummy Dust)
Yup wizard would definately suit you better I have to concur. You lose tumble and UMD, but 40 skill points is a lot for 8 AC when you will have a substantial AC from those palemaster levels anyways. Palemaster casting is bugged with bards and sorcerers in NWN so you won't gain new spells, but with wizard, you do gain the spell slots. you just need to take a late wizard level is all.
You have some wasted feats in this build as well. Mummy dust is a big waste as your greater undead will be a much stronger demilich. Anything that can kill that will shred your mummy in no time. Still spell as a bard is ok to get more use out of each of your spells, but if you go wizard you want to look into autostill to wear heavy armor. Lightning reflexes and luck of the heros could be replaced. If you drop down to 27 PM and take another wizard level, you can take that wiz level pre epic and push your last fighter level out toward level 38+ to max discipline.
Thanks for the feedback. You can tell I don't play spellcasters.
Quote: Lightning reflexes and luck of the heros could be replaced.
Suggestions here with the replacements? I know Mummy Dust is crap compared to Greater Undead Summoning, but it seemed like a decent RP fit. Beside, I can't summon a demilich unless I get 30 PM levels, which costs me Epic Weapon Spec and the late discipline boost.
Objective: You know him, you love him... he's Death! And he has a scythe. Was thinking about Weapons Master, but it's too many feats. In the end, I've got an epic spell-caster with decent melee that could (I think, forgot to test this bit) have up to three undead companions: Summon Undead, Summon Greater Undead, Mummy Dust. If I change the attribs at the beginning, I probably could have gotten Dev Crit. Oh, well...
Human True Neutral (best non-lawful alignment, IMHO)
STR 14 (25) DEX 12 CON 14 INT 12 WIS 10 CHA 15 (19) boost first
Feats: 1 - Luck Of Heros, Power Attack 3 - Weapon Prof (exotic), Weapon Focus (scythe) 4 - Cleave 6 - Great Cleave, Weapon Spec (scythe) 9 - Improved Critical (scythe), Still Spell 12- Toughness 15- Combat Casting 18- Lightning Reflexes 21- Epic Weapon Focus (scythe) 24- Great Strength I, Improved Combat Casting 27- Great Strength II, Epic Spell (Mage Armor) 30- Great Strength III, Epic Spell (Hellball) 33- Great Strength IV, Epic Spell (Epic Warding) 36- Overwhelming Critical (scythe), Epic Spell (Greater Ruin) 39- Great Strength V, Epic Spell (Mummy Dust)
Ok, a few things. First of all, adjust your starting stats. Knock that Charisma down to 8. Get Int up to 19. Get Str up to 26 and get Dev. Crit. Take Wiz rather than Bard. Get rid of Luck of Heroes, Combat Casting, Lightning Reflexes, Improved Combat Casting, Mummy Dust, and probably Hellball as well. Toughness is OK since you won't have a lot of health with this character, but you could get rid of that if you needed to, and although Epic Mage Armor is nice, I don't think the bonuses stack with magical bonuses from items that you are wearing.
Check out the Undead Lord build on the Bioware site. The build is very similar to yours, it's Fighter 4/Wizard 6/PM 30. I don't think it has Epic Weapon Spec, but it gets 9th lvl spells and auto-still spell 3, so it's probably worth it IMHO. Since you're wielding a Scythe, you won't be wearing a shield, so it might be a good idea to start with a little Dex, wear light armor, buff up with an Empowered Cat's Grace, and use the feats you save from auto-still spell to buy a few more points of Strength. With 30 PM lvls your AC should be pretty decent.
