I know, from the title, it sounds so simple but I'm looking for a dev build that uses a longsword and has the best AB you can get. Up until now I've been using the cookie cutter dev build and I was looking for something a bit more impressive.
It can't have any caster levels, but semi-caster (bards, palis, and cot) are fine. Human or Half-Elf would be the best race. _________________ "He was happily married.. but his wife wasn't"-Victor Borge
Edited By Honer Nerd on 05/24/08 11:53
Why not try this one: Click Here
Just follow the second posted build (about 8 posts down from the top) and adjust for longsword instead of Scythe. To do so, just lose exotic weapon proficiency at the first level and take your choice in its place (Great fortitude or luck of heroes are two good choices). _________________ -4SakN
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Quote: Posted 05/24/08 11:24 (GMT) -- Honer Nerd
I know, from the title, it sounds so simple but I'm looking for a dev build that uses a longsword and has the best AB you can get. Up until now I've been using the cookie cutter dev build and I was looking for something a bit more impressive.
It can't have any caster levels, but semi-caster (bards, palis, and cot) are fine. Human or Half-Elf would be the best race.
*sigh. At this point in nwn history, "the best" ab build IS a cookie cutter. To do it, you MUST take either wm or aa (no other options for best ab). Take 29 wm leaves 11 other lvls = cookie cutter.
A non-cookie cutter would be a bard/rdd/pm set for longsword! But that would kill the ab oh wait... thats cookie cutter too! This is a tough problem to solve... Maybe griz has the answer! _________________
There aren't many ways to have a permanent high AB: AA for ranged, WM for melee. The others relies on buffs or special conditions like Smite Evil
Nice build but the AB would've dropped for me by 6 or 7 points. All I really want to do is tweak the build I have to pull out those extra few points of AB and whatever else I can, or so I have been told. Here's my build (which you've probably seen before). So I think I'll let you experts have at it. 14 Fighter, 25 Weapon Master, 1 Bard
Vitals: AB with Mundane Scimitar: 50/45/40/35 Damage: 1-6 + 16 (13-20 x3) AC Naked 21, Mundane Tower/Shield (32) AB with +5 Scimitar, +12 STR: 61/56/51/46 Damage with +12 STR and Keen Scimitar: 1-6 + 22 (10-20 x3) AC with +5 Equip: 57 HPs Max base: 598 HPs with +12 CON: 838 Devastating Critical DC: 46
I know I can get an extra point of AB if I make my starting Str 17 and take Great Str instead of epic fortitude at level 30... but that's about where my knowledge ends. _________________ "He was happily married.. but his wife wasn't"-Victor Borge
Edited By Honer Nerd on 05/26/08 12:44
Quote: Posted 05/26/08 12:24 (GMT) -- Honer Nerd
I know I can get an extra point of AB if I make my starting Str 17 and take Great Str instead of epic fortitude at level 30... but that's about where my knowledge ends.
Well. 3 more WM levels give you another point, but you'll loose another feat. Going H-Orc and starting with 19 STR(or 20 if you wanna keep a feat) will increase it, but that will cost you hitpoints and Fort save, since INT will cost more. Also, dropping the two CON increases will of course increase it by 1. That's it, pal.
A H-Orc with 30 BAB, 36 STR and 28 levels of WM gets the best STR melee-AB out there (without buffs). AB will be 54, with +12 to STR and +5 weapon, it will be 64.
Why didn't you just post that build right from the start? _________________ We are sons of Odin, and the fire that we burn inside is the legacy of warrior-kings who reign above in the sky I will lead the charge, my sword into the wind Sons of Odin fights to die and live again
Edited By Grimnir77 on 05/26/08 13:49
I wasn't thinking. _________________ "He was happily married.. but his wife wasn't"-Victor Borge
Best you can do is +53 AB with a mundane weapon, I think. So your +50 AB isn't that far off.
If you go with FTR 11 (or 10)/Bard 1 (or 2)/WM 28, starting with 17 STR and take all 7 Grt STR feats, you'll end with 34 STR, +4 AB from WF, EWF, and Epic Prowess (the latter two are WM epic bonus feats), for a total of +30 (BAB) + 4 (WF, EWF, EP) + 12 (STR) + 7 (WM levels) = +53 AB. You miss out on Epic Weapon Specialization this way though. If you really want EWS, then start with 16 STR, take 6 Grt STR feats, and you can grab EWS by taking FTR on a feat level in epic. You lose 1 AB for a final AB of +52. _________________ It's rogue, dammit, ROGUE!!!
Not entirely true. Bard destroys the possibility of getting EWS while 2 more fighter levels easily make it possible.
Quote: Posted 05/31/08 23:22 (GMT) -- Saints of Apocalypse
Not entirely true. Bard destroys the possibility of getting EWS while 2 more fighter levels easily make it possible.
Bard does not do any such thing. All you need to do is take your FTR 11 on a general epic feat level, and you can grab EWS. _________________ It's rogue, dammit, ROGUE!!!
oh wait... thats cookie cutter too! This is a tough problem to solve... Maybe griz has the answer!
Not entirely true. Bard destroys the possibility of getting EWS while 2 more fighter levels easily make it possible.