Build frustration: Am I trying to do too much with too little?

[Nauthiz]

Having re-thought this build four or five times, and always feeling I'm coming up short, I hereby leave my first post, and open it for scrutiny and ridicule. Perhaps you can iron out some of the wrinkles, or perhaps save me from investing a lot of time into a poor idea. With three other builds I'm currently trying to get capped, I fully expect to be still leveling when they increase the cap to 16. Planner data included to 14.

Theory: Dragonmarked Halfling Heals, Rogue ability, Bard buffs, two-weapon finesse fighting.

Conundrums:
**8 Bard/6 Rogue, which gives me Way of the Mechanic, Or 9 Bard/5 Rogue? I chose 9/5 to get three third level spells: Good Hope, Haste, and Displacement. Also, 9 Bard yields Inspire Greatness and longer spell duration. I'm open to arguments to the contrary.
**Extend spell, Improved Crit, or Improved Two Weapon Fighting? I have room for two of the three.
**Also, I didn't really want two fighter levels, but didn't see another way to get the combat feats I wanted. I don't expect this build to be brutal, but don't want a complete pansy, either.
**With the AC and HP I've calculated, will I spend half my time as a soulstone?

Already in Inventory: +1 Tomes of INT and STR, +6 Charisma ring, +6 Intelligence Goggles, +4 Mithral Chain Shirt, +5 Items for everything, one spare Planar Gird, and a multitude of piercing finesse weapons including greater bane and wounding/puncturing pair. Equipment included below is generally already on hand or readily obtainable. I'm not opposed to having to work a bit to collect equipment, though, so let's shoot for the stars a bit.

Build at 16:

Stats//With Equipment
STR 10 // 16
DEX 22 // 28
CON 14 // 18
INT 18 // 24 + 2 Favor Tome 26
WIS 10 // 14
CHA 16 // 22

Skills//With stat modifiers:
Balance 10 // 19
Bluff 4 // 10
Concentration 18 // 22
Disable Device 19 // 27
Haggle 4 // 10
Hide 10 // 19
Jump 14 // 17
Move Silently 10 // 19
Open Lock 19 // 28
Perform 12 // 18
Search 19 // 27
Spot 16 // 18
Tumble 8 // 17
UMD 19 // 25

Feats:
Least Dragonmark of Healing
Lesser Dragonmark of Healing
Greater Dragonmark of Healing
Weapon Finesse
Two Weapon Fighting
Improved Two Weapon Fighting
Improved Critical: Piercing
Extend Spell

HP: 188
20 Heroic Durability
54 Bard 9
30 Rogue 5
20 Fighter 2
64 CON +4 Bonus

SP: 376 + PoP or WizII Crimson Gemstone = 426 or better.

Saves: Base and stat bonus only, excluding save bonuses from equipment, etc.
Fort 12
Reflex 20
Will 10

Rogue Skills: Assuming +13 items and Favor-granted tools with available self-buffs.

Open Lock 55
*19 base +9 DEX +13 item +6 tools +2 enhancement +2 Good Hope +1 Focusing Chant +3 Skill Boost
Disable Device 54
*19 base +8 INT +13 item +6 tools +2 enhancement +2 Good Hope +1 Focusing Chant +3 Skill Boost
Search 48
*19 base +8 INT +13 item +2 enhancement +2 Good Hope +1 Focusing Chant +3 Skill Boost
Spot 22
*16 base +2WIS +2 enhancement +2 Good Hope (Because we don't walk around boosted all the time.)

To-hit:BAB 11/11/16/21, +9 Dex, -2 TWF, +6 Inspire Courage/Greatness, +2 Weapon = 26/26/31/36

AC: 30 (Yikes!) = 10 base, +1 size, +8 (+4 mithral chain shirt), +6 Dex (limited by max bonus), +4 Protection, +1 Natural (Invaders Ring)
or
31 = 10 base, +1 size, +6 armor item, +9 Dex, +4 Protection, +1 Natural (Invaders Ring)
**Wish list: +5 Mith CS with Chaosguardes, +5 Protection; Now looking at 34/36 with Barksking potion/37 with haste. Possibly something like low 40s with all the right raid gear.


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Level 14 Chaotic Good Halfling Male
(2 Fighter \ 4 Rogue \ 8 Bard)
Hit Points: 140
Spell Points: 316
BAB: 11\11\16\21
Fortitude: 9
Reflex: 16
Will: 8

Starting Ending Feat/Enhancement
Abilities Base Stats Base Stats Modified Stats
(32 Point) (Level 1) (Level 14) (Level 14)
Strength 8 9 10
Dexterity 16 18 21
Constitution 14 14 14
Intelligence 16 18 18
Wisdom 10 10 10
Charisma 14 14 16

Tomes Used
+1 Tome of Strength used at level 1
+1 Tome of Intelligence used at level 1

Starting Feat/Enhancement
Base Skills Modified Skills
Skills (Level 1) (Level 14)
Balance 7 13
Bluff 6 7
Concentration 2 19
Diplomacy 2 3
Disable Device 7 22
Haggle 6 7
Heal 0 0
Hide 7 15
Intimidate 2 3
Jump -1 16
Listen 0 2
Move Silently 7 15
Open Lock 7 23
Perform n/a 15
Repair 3 4
Search 7 22
Spot 4 14
Swim -1 0
Tumble 7 11
Use Magic Device 6 20

Level 1 (Rogue)
Feat: (Selected) Least Dragonmark of Healing

Level 2 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Weapon Finesse

Level 3 (Bard)
Feat: (Selected) Two Weapon Fighting
Spell (1): Cure Light Wounds

Level 4 (Rogue)

Level 5 (Bard)
Spell (1): Remove Fear

Level 6 (Bard)
Feat: (Selected) Lesser Dragonmark of Healing
Spell (1): Focusing Chant

Level 7 (Bard)
Spell (2): Blur
Spell (2): Heroism

Level 8 (Rogue)

Level 9 (Bard)
Feat: (Selected) Extend Spell
Spell (1): Otto's Resistable Dance
Spell (2): Rage

Level 10 (Bard)

Level 11 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Improved Critical: Piercing Weapons

Level 12 (Rogue)
Feat: (Selected) Greater Dragonmark of Healing

Level 13 (Bard)
Spell (2): Cure Moderate Wounds
Spell (3): Good Hope
Spell (3): Haste

Level 14 (Bard)
Spell (3): Displacement
Enhancement: Rogue Skill Boost I
Enhancement: Rogue Skill Boost II
Enhancement: Bard Extra Song I
Enhancement: Bard Extra Song II
Enhancement: Bard Inspired Attack I
Enhancement: Bard Inspired Attack II
Enhancement: Bard Inspired Damage I
Enhancement: Bard Inspired Damage II
Enhancement: Bard Lingering Song I
Enhancement: Bard Lingering Song II
Enhancement: Extra Dragonmark I
Enhancement: Extra Dragonmark II
Enhancement: Extra Dragonmark III
Enhancement: Halfling Dexterity I
Enhancement: Halfling Dexterity II
Enhancement: Rogue Disable Device I
Enhancement: Rogue Disable Device II
Enhancement: Rogue Open Lock I
Enhancement: Rogue Open Lock II
Enhancement: Rogue Search I
Enhancement: Rogue Search II
Enhancement: Bard Song Magic I
Enhancement: Bard Song Magic II
Enhancement: Bard Energy of the Music I
Enhancement: Bard Energy of the Music II
Enhancement: Bard Charisma I
Enhancement: Bard Charisma II
Enhancement: Rogue Dexterity I
Enhancement: Fighter Strength I

[Impaqt]

WHy focus on Dragonmarks when your playing a Healing capable build? Are you planning on being Primary healer in a quest along with everything else?

Seems to me the best way to take advantage of the healing dragonmark is if you have EMpower Healing as a feat as well.... Otherwise its no different than using a wand or scroll... WHich are plentiful.

[sigtrent]

Yeppers, no point in taking healing marks and bard at the same time unless you are shooting to be a super duper healing bard, and in that case all that other stuff would have to go anyway.

considering your starting int and all that you probably don't need more than 2 rogue levels to have decent skills, but your dipping into some of the non core skills so extra levels does help with that. You also don't need quite that much dex although it doesn't hurt certainly.

So basicaly I'd simplify a bit, drop the dragon marks, focus on bard levels, keep the combat stuff about the same.

[Geonis]

I agree with the other posters, if you want to cast Heal as a Bard, go get some scrolls. I would drop the Dragonmarks, focus on the Rogue abilities/combat, and you should be fine. I would say to lower the number of Rogue levels, probably to 2. Any more than that, and you're diluting the Bard abilities.

[Nauthiz]

As far as why... I thought the dmark healing would supplement the lackluster Bard healing, since the spellpoint pool would be low and largely devoted to buffing. I think, over all, it's probably a little too soft to let this build cross the street by itself.

I could also do essentially the same thing with Drow, except 10 Bard/5 Rogue/1 Fighter. It would start with 16 CHA and 8 WIS, instead of 14 CHA and 10 WIS like the Halfling did. The Drow version would have better HP and SP, pretty much same skills and to-hit. The big difference would be feats, replacing the 3 Dragonmarks of Healing with Toughness added in and an undecided selection for level 15, possibly Greater TWF or Mental Toughness, Nimble Fingers, Enchantment or a Skill Focus. It still risks swift death if I don't play it well, I suppose.

Anyway, a big thanks to Impaqt, sigtrent, and Geonis for amazingly fast responses. Even without the Dragonmarks, I may still go Halfling, so as not to birth another Drow, but I appreciate the advice. Anyone else who has comments may feel free to add them, since it's still a work in progress.

[Arianrhod]

As far as why... I thought the dmark healing would supplement the lackluster Bard healing, since the spellpoint pool would be low and largely devoted to buffing. I think, over all, it's probably a little too soft to let this build cross the street by itself.


A bard that wants to be a good healer will certainly not be lackluster at it. If spellpoints are an issue (my bard hasn't found it so, since it's offensive spells & not heals/buffs that really eat up spellpoints), can always throw in a sorc level &/or take Spellsinger (probably the easiest bard specialization enhancement to qualify for, since the requirements are things a bard often wants anyway). My 8/1 bard/sorc spellsinger has over 800 sp even though she started with a lackluster 14 cha (that's more SP than the pure wizard with the 20-something int she regularly runs with). The sorc level (if you go that route) also lets you use all wiz/sorc wands with no UMD check, which can be handy for repairing warforged & some buffing, at least at lower levels before UMD is as high as it can get.

[Geonis]

As far as why... I thought the dmark healing would supplement the lackluster Bard healing, since the spellpoint pool would be low and largely devoted to buffing. I think, over all, it's probably a little too soft to let this build cross the street by itself.

I could also do essentially the same thing with Drow, except 10 Bard/5 Rogue/1 Fighter. It would start with 16 CHA and 8 WIS, instead of 14 CHA and 10 WIS like the Halfling did. The Drow version would have better HP and SP, pretty much same skills and to-hit. The big difference would be feats, replacing the 3 Dragonmarks of Healing with Toughness added in and an undecided selection for level 15, possibly Greater TWF or Mental Toughness, Nimble Fingers, Enchantment or a Skill Focus. It still risks swift death if I don't play it well, I suppose.

Anyway, a big thanks to Impaqt, sigtrent, and Geonis for amazingly fast responses. Even without the Dragonmarks, I may still go Halfling, so as not to birth another Drow, but I appreciate the advice. Anyone else who has comments may feel free to add them, since it's still a work in progress.



Now, don't take my comment above wrong, Bards can be great Healers, but they don't need Dragonmarks to do it.

Bard -40% Wand/Scroll enhancement
Bard -UMD=40 ( 17 ranks + 10 Cha + 3 item + 4 Grtr Hero + 3 Skill Focus + 2 Rogue Skill Boost + 1 Focusing Chant)
Heal scroll - UMD DC-40 (No fail)

11th Caster Level x 10 pts per CL = 110 HPs/cast
add
40% (44 HPs) - 40% Wand/Scroll enhancement
________________

154 HPs per Heal scroll
which thanks to great Haggle skill are extremely cheap.


As far as the "Not going Drow", just don't go Dwarf. The last thing we need in Stormreach is another Dwarf "Battle-Bard"!!!!!:cool:

[Nauthiz]

Well, I decided to go Drow; though, I took one out of the world so this one could be born. =) I've decided I'll be perfectly fine with just enough healing for myself and for emergencies. Besides, I've got a level 11 pure bard and two clerics at 14 and 9. As for "battle-bard", I think this will play more like "rogue-who-brought-his-own-buffs," plus Fascinate, and ending Charisma of 26 for the occasionally serviceable spell.

While it seems quite a different character from what I originally had envisioned, I'm actually pretty excited to play it.

For those following along at home, my current plan is below. Thanks once again.


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Azulia
Level 14 Chaotic Good Drow Female
(1 Fighter \ 4 Rogue \ 9 Bard)
Hit Points: 143
Spell Points: 382
BAB: 10\10\15\20
Fortitude: 7
Reflex: 15
Will: 7

Starting Feat/Enhancement
Base Stats Modified Stats
Abilities (Level 1) (Level 14)
Strength 10 10
Dexterity 16 21
Constitution 12 12
Intelligence 16 18
Wisdom 10 10
Charisma 16 18

Tomes Used
+1 Tome of Intelligence used at level 1
+3 Tome of Wisdom used at level 20

Starting Feat/Enhancement
Base Skills Modified Skills
Skills (Level 1) (Level 14)
Balance 7 15
Bluff 3 4
Concentration 3 18
Diplomacy 3 4
Disable Device 7 23
Haggle 7 8
Heal 0 0
Hide 7 13
Intimidate 3 4
Jump 0 7
Listen 0 2
Move Silently 7 13
Open Lock 7 24
Perform n/a 16
Repair 3 4
Search 7 25
Spot 4 17
Swim 0 0
Tumble 7 11
Use Magic Device 7 21

Level 1 (Rogue)
Feat: (Selected) Two Weapon Fighting

Level 2 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Weapon Finesse

Level 3 (Bard)
Feat: (Selected) Extend Spell
Spell (1): Cure Light Wounds

Level 4 (Rogue)

Level 5 (Bard)
Spell (1): Focusing Chant

Level 6 (Bard)
Feat: (Selected) Toughness
Spell (1): Otto's Resistable Dance

Level 7 (Bard)
Spell (2): Blur
Spell (2): Heroism

Level 8 (Rogue)

Level 9 (Bard)
Feat: (Selected) Improved Two Weapon Fighting
Spell (1): Remove Fear
Spell (2): Cure Moderate Wounds

Level 10 (Bard)

Level 11 (Bard)
Spell (2): Soundburst
Spell (3): Good Hope
Spell (3): Haste

Level 12 (Rogue)
Feat: (Selected) Improved Critical: Piercing Weapons

Level 13 (Bard)
Spell (3): Displacement

Level 14 (Bard)
Enhancement: Rogue Skill Boost I
Enhancement: Rogue Skill Boost II
Enhancement: Bard Extra Song I
Enhancement: Bard Extra Song II
Enhancement: Bard Inspired Attack I
Enhancement: Bard Inspired Attack II
Enhancement: Bard Inspired Damage I
Enhancement: Bard Inspired Damage II
Enhancement: Bard Lingering Song I
Enhancement: Bard Lingering Song II
Enhancement: Improved Drow Spell Resistence I
Enhancement: Improved Drow Spell Resistence II
Enhancement: Elven Dexterity I
Enhancement: Elven Dexterity II
Enhancement: Elven Perception I
Enhancement: Rogue Disable Device I
Enhancement: Rogue Disable Device II
Enhancement: Rogue Open Lock I
Enhancement: Rogue Open Lock II
Enhancement: Rogue Search I
Enhancement: Bard Song Magic I
Enhancement: Bard Song Magic II
Enhancement: Bard Energy of the Music I
Enhancement: Bard Energy of the Music II
Enhancement: Bard Energy of the Music III
Enhancement: Bard Charisma I
Enhancement: Bard Charisma II
Enhancement: Rogue Dexterity I
Enhancement: Fighter Toughness I
Enhancement: Bard Wand Mastery I
Enhancement: Bard Wand Mastery II

[~Jules921]

Have you considered going with the Warchanter line. You would need to take a weapons focus instead of weapons finess - for drow take piercing.

Warchanter
Prereqs: Bard level 6, Bard Inspired Attack 1, Bard Inspired Damage 1, Bard Inspired Bravery 2, Power Attack, Any one of the following: Weapon Focus: Slashing, Weapon Focus: Piercing, Weapon Focus: Bludgeoning

Your studies into war have granted you a +2 bonus to your Intimidate skill. Your Inspire Courage song gains an additional +1 to attack rolls, +2 to damage rolls, and +1 to fear saves. If you possess the Barbarian Rage ability, you gain +1 use per rest. You also gain the ability to expend a use of Bardic Music to grant all nearby allies damage reduction 5/-.

Jules

[maddmatt70]

If you are going to be a healing bard such that you are the only healer in the party you pretty much have to go all out. The dragonmarks would help ease some of the strain, but I would either build a straight bard or a 1 sorceror 13 bard build. Take empower healing and quicken spell for feats, go all out with bard healing enhancements, get the scepter from the invaders or a nice sup devotion combo, grab the requist bard healing spells especially cure crit and mass cure lt, get your umd high enough so that you can never fail a heal scroll (never failing resurrection scrolls is also nice). My bard has kept up a 12 person reaver raid group as sole healer and done a few gianthold tor elite runs as sole healer.... Remember displacement is one of the best healing spells you have - clerics don't have it, you help the tanks dps so they kill things quicker with your bard songs; hence, the party takes less damage and you can also cc well thus keeping the dps off the tanks. If you insist on having rogue skills see what you can get away with less levels. 1-3 levels of rogue probably tops, but other then a few rogue skills everything should go into healing. Warchanter is nice for the 12 mans especially for the abbot raids (I have been debating building a separate warchanter bard for this purpose), but I like spellsinger for out and around town myself in the 6 mans unless your doing the battle bard thing which would be a whole different build.

hmm yeah read your post a little more closely... if you want to be a combat bard with a little healing and rogue skills maybe you should just go with the get your umd up there higher and have that be your healing. Displacement is pretty big for a combat bard especially if hp and ac could be an issue so I would definitely go there. See if you can be an adequate rogue with 2-3 levels take a couple of levels of fighter and warchanter is a good option, but I would get displacement for sure...

[Borror0]

Have you considered going with the Warchanter line. You would need to take a weapons focus instead of weapons finess - for drow take piercing.


Would still need Power attack
Needs weapoin finess to hit mobs when you got a base Str of 10. ;)

[Cordelia]

Skip the dragon marks, take a beefy class like dwarf or warforged, and throw in 2 lvls of fighter giving you 2 more feats including improved crit and/or improved twf, finishing at 9/3/2, Brd/Ft/Rog.

Take the Rog lvls at 1, 8 and 13, Fighter at 2 and 12.

Since your best spells are all buffs, Cha need only start at 15. Put all skill points in Dex and/or Str.

It'll work, trust me.

Alternatively, consider subbing The fighter lvls for barb. The increased run speed, speed boost enhancement, HP and rage are all very useful. The flop side is less feats. Remember... you can cancel rage now, you can sing raged, and all your spells/songs/ are done b4 a fight. A rage on the end stacks with everything. When displaced, those 2 weapons, raged, would be awesome.

Keep those Rogue skills decent, but focus on your melee. The 3 lvls of Rogue still provides 2d6 sneak attack dmg, which will kick allot since you're an off-tank.

Lastly, this is an expensive toon to lvl. Although it will have nothing to do with the build, be prepared be a healer for a few pugs b4 lvl 10.

[Nauthiz]

This should, hopefully, be the last modification, particularly since I've run up through level 3 so far. One of the biggest recurring suggestions was to see how few rogue levels I could get away with, so this version has only 3 of them. It still has rogue skills as high as I want; though it feels a bit light on some secondary skills like Hide, Move Silently, Jump, and Tumble, plus only minimal benefit from rogue enhancements. In any case, I can always throw a 4th rogue level or a 2nd fighter level in toward the higher levels if I'm not satisfied with performance.

I like your barbarian suggestion, Cordelia, but have already got the fighter level active. Barb would be a nice substitution, particularly with the Warchanter enhancement which gives you an extra use of rage per rest anyway, but the feat requirements for Warchanter are a little bit outside what I had planned. I have a 9/5 Bard/Barb Dwarf started out at level 1, but have never really gotten around to playing it. What has your ADD done for you lately, eh?

Anyway, here's my final update until I hit about level 12. At that point, I'll see what last minute adjustments feel right.


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Level 14 Chaotic Good Drow Female
(1 Fighter \ 3 Rogue \ 10 Bard)
Hit Points: 143
Spell Points: 391
BAB: 10\10\15\20
Fortitude: 7
Reflex: 15
Will: 8

Starting Ending Feat/Enhancement
Base Stats Base Stats Modified Stats
Abilities (Level 1) (Level 14) (Level 14)
Strength 10 10 10
Dexterity 16 18 21
Constitution 12 12 12
Intelligence 16 18 18
Wisdom 10 10 10
Charisma 16 16 18

Tomes Used
+1 Tome of Intelligence used at level 1
+3 Tome of Wisdom used at level 20
+1 Tome of Charisma used at level 20

Starting Ending Feat/Enhancement
Base Skills Base Skills Modified Skills
Skills (Level 1) (Level 14) (Level 14)
Balance 7 12 12
Bluff 3 4 4
Concentration 3 17 17
Diplomacy 3 4 4
Disable Device 7 21 22
Haggle 7 8 8
Heal 0 0 0
Hide 7 9 9
Intimidate 3 4 4
Jump 0 8 8
Listen 0 0 2
Move Silently 7 9 9
Open Lock 7 20 20
Perform n/a 16 16
Repair 3 4 4
Search 7 21 25
Spot 4 17 20
Swim 0 0 0
Tumble 7 10 10
Use Magic Device 7 21 21

Level 1 (Rogue)
Skill: Balance (+4)
Skill: Concentration (+2)
Skill: Disable Device (+4)
Skill: Haggle (+4)
Skill: Hide (+4)
Skill: Move Silently (+4)
Skill: Open Lock (+4)
Skill: Search (+4)
Skill: Spot (+4)
Skill: Tumble (+4)
Skill: Use Magic Device (+4)
Feat: (Selected) Two Weapon Fighting

Level 2 (Fighter)
Skill: Jump (+5)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Weapon Finesse

Level 3 (Bard)
Skill: Concentration (+4)
Skill: Perform (+3)
Skill: Use Magic Device (+2)
Feat: (Selected) Extend Spell

Level 4 (Bard)
Ability Raise: INT
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Disable Device (+1)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Open Lock (+1)
Skill: Perform (+1)
Skill: Search (+1)
Skill: Use Magic Device (+1)
Spell (1): Cure Light Wounds

Level 5 (Bard)
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Disable Device (+1)
Skill: Perform (+2)
Skill: Search (+1)
Skill: Spot (+1)
Skill: Use Magic Device (+1)
Spell (1): Focusing Chant

Level 6 (Bard)
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Disable Device (+1)
Skill: Open Lock (+1)
Skill: Search (+1)
Skill: Spot (+1)
Skill: Use Magic Device (+1)
Feat: (Selected) Toughness
Spell (2): Blur
Spell (2): Heroism

Level 7 (Rogue)
Skill: Disable Device (+3)
Skill: Open Lock (+3)
Skill: Search (+3)
Skill: Spot (+3)

Level 8 (Bard)
Ability Raise: DEX
Skill: Concentration (+2)
Skill: Disable Device (+1)
Skill: Open Lock (+1)
Skill: Search (+1)
Skill: Use Magic Device (+2)
Spell (1): Hypnotism
Spell (2): Cure Moderate Wounds

Level 9 (Bard)
Skill: Balance (+1)
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Perform (+3)
Skill: Spot (+1)
Skill: Tumble (+1)
Skill: Use Magic Device (+1)
Feat: (Selected) Improved Two Weapon Fighting

Level 10 (Bard)
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Disable Device (+1)
Skill: Open Lock (+1)
Skill: Search (+1)
Skill: Spot (+1)
Skill: Use Magic Device (+1)
Spell (2): Rage
Spell (3): Displacement
Spell (3): Haste

Level 11 (Bard)
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Disable Device (+1)
Skill: Open Lock (+1)
Skill: Search (+1)
Skill: Spot (+1)
Skill: Use Magic Device (+1)
Spell (3): Good Hope

Level 12 (Bard)
Ability Raise: DEX
Skill: Balance (+2)
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Perform (+3)
Skill: Spot (+1)
Skill: Use Magic Device (+1)
Feat: (Selected) Improved Critical: Piercing Weapons

Level 13 (Bard)
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Disable Device (+1)
Skill: Open Lock (+1)
Skill: Search (+1)
Skill: Spot (+1)
Skill: Use Magic Device (+1)
Spell (3): Cure Serious Wounds
Spell (4): Otto's Sphere of Dancing
Spell (4): Hold Monster

Level 14 (Rogue)
Skill: Disable Device (+3)
Skill: Open Lock (+2)
Skill: Search (+3)
Skill: Spot (+3)
Skill: Use Magic Device (+1)
Enhancement: Rogue Skill Boost I
Enhancement: Bard Extra Song I
Enhancement: Bard Extra Song II
Enhancement: Bard Extra Song III
Enhancement: Bard Extra Song IV
Enhancement: Bard Inspired Attack I
Enhancement: Bard Inspired Attack II
Enhancement: Bard Inspired Damage I
Enhancement: Bard Inspired Damage II
Enhancement: Bard Lingering Song I
Enhancement: Bard Lingering Song II
Enhancement: Bard Music of the Dead
Enhancement: Elven Dexterity I
Enhancement: Elven Dexterity II
Enhancement: Elven Perception I
Enhancement: Elven Keen Eyes I
Enhancement: Rogue Disable Device I
Enhancement: Rogue Search I
Enhancement: Bard Song Magic I
Enhancement: Bard Song Magic II
Enhancement: Bard Song Magic III
Enhancement: Bard Energy of the Music I
Enhancement: Bard Energy of the Music II
Enhancement: Bard Charisma I
Enhancement: Bard Charisma II
Enhancement: Rogue Dexterity I
Enhancement: Fighter Toughness I
Enhancement: Bard Wand Mastery I
Enhancement: Bard Wand Mastery II

[Lifespawn]

the halfling marks aren't a bad idea since your bard enhancments will enhance them aswell 9 bard 2 ftr 3 rogue your call but a build i've got going is a pally and people never know there isn't a cleric symbol next to my name.