I remember once upon a time I came across a dwarven crossbow user... I believe it was a Fighter/Rogue of some sort. Too bad I had to reformat and lost all my bookmarks, not to mention the searche engine never helps as much as you would think it would.

So, anyone either want to link me or suggest a new build? I'm pretty much open besides the requirement it be a dwarf or gnome and use a crossbow. Crossbow is not the best of weapons per se. You get just 1 apr no matter your BAB. Rapid reload grants you one more apr (not the same as with a bow as stated). Haste and DP are the only other ways to get additional attacks. Therefore, you should be exploting DP and have access to Haste (Travel domain) or permahaste items.

I'll give it a tought, FTR/Cleric/something (Rogue?) sounds good.
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Edited By Kail Pendragon on 01/03/07 21:36

Hm... So the best you could do is +1 rapid reload, +1 divine power, +1 haste, +1 rapid shot? Crap, do I have to have a +15 BAB to get the +1 from Divine Power?

Are they all at full BAB, then? Yep, that's the only plus. Out of those 4 listed attacks, at least 3 are at full AB. All except the Rapid Reload one.
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Sons of Odin fights to die and live again I don't know if this might be something for you.
Undead Xploit Xbow by Vulcano is an exploit build that gets 5 attacks per round with x-bow.
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-- BG courtesan Ah... Rapid Shot excludes crossbows, dammit. Okay, so... Looked at the Xploit Xbow and I'm going to take a crack at this. Please excuse the lack of formating as it's just an outline at this juncture.

Race: Dwarf

Starting Stats
STR 16 (+8 RDD) (+1 GSTR) (25 STR)
DEX 8
CON 12 (+2 RDD) (14)
INT 12 (+2 RDD) (14)
WIS 15 (+9 levels) (24 WIS)
CHA 12 (+2 RDD) (+1 level) (15)

Pre Epic
8 Cleric/8 Bard/4 RDD
1 - Power Attack
3 - Weapon Focus (Heavy Crossbow)
6 - Zen Archery
9 - Rapid Reload
12 - Cleave
15 - Improved Critical
18 - Great Cleave

Epic
15 Cleric/15 Bard/10 RDD
21 - Great Str I
24 - Overwhelming Critical
27 - Devastating Critical
30 - Epic Weapon Focus
33 - Armor Skin
36 - Epic Prowess
39 - Curse Song

Skills (135)
Perform 25 (24), Spellcraft 39 (40), Tumble 40, UMD 43 (42), Concentration 31 (35)

Unbuffed AB w/ Crossbow: +36/+31
+1 Bless
+1 Aid
+1 Prayer
+5 Divine Power
+5 Divine Might
+2 Battletide
+2 Bard Song
+2 War Cry
+1 from some other source
Buffed AB w/ Crossbow: +56/+51/+56/+56
+12 Wis: +62/+57/+62/+62

Dev Crit DC: 37
Max Dev Crit: 43
Quote: Posted 01/05/07 11:08 (GMT) -- Ariel Thomas

Okay, so... Looked at the Xploit Xbow and I'm going to take a crack at this. ....

Pre Epic
8 Cleric/8 Bard/4 RDD
This will give you BAB 15 at lvl 20, and Divine Power will only give you one extra attack.

The point with the exploit build is to have a BAB of 10 at lvl 20, so Divine Power will grant 2 extra attacks.

That will give you 1 base x-bow attack, + 1 attack from the reload feat, +1 attack from Haste and +2 attacks from Divine Power.
4 of these attacks will be at highest AB.
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Quote: Posted 01/06/07 15:02 (GMT) -- Mick Dagger

Quote: Posted 01/05/07 11:08 (GMT) -- Ariel Thomas

Okay, so... Looked at the Xploit Xbow and I'm going to take a crack at this. ....

Pre Epic
8 Cleric/8 Bard/4 RDD
This will give you BAB 15 at lvl 20, and Divine Power will only give you one extra attack.

The point with the exploit build is to have a BAB of 10 at lvl 20, so Divine Power will grant 2 extra attacks.

That will give you 1 base x-bow attack, + 1 attack from the reload feat, +1 attack from Haste and +2 attacks from Divine Power.
4 of these attacks will be at highest AB.

Yes, but this fellow trades one attack for +10 AB, making the likelyhood of confirming a crit increase significantly. The max AB from the exploit build just seemed way too low to me. The Divine Power will make the AB par with that of a fighter type.

The only problems I see is the limited duration of the spell and that you will easily hit the AB bonus cap in mid/high magic worlds.

Anyway, it's the only x-bow build I have seen with 5 attacks per round.
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The curve is more powerful than the sword
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