Archano Titan (WF EK Evo Archmage)

[Trasak]

Archano Titan, what a crappy name for a build, who came up with that garbage.

Race: Warforge
Class: 20 Wizard
Point buy: 36
Stats: Str 16(26 w/+4), Con 16(21 w/+5 thank you mabar), dex 10(13), Int 16(20 +1 at lvl 4), wis 10(13), cha 10(13). Stats could be more min-maxed

The build is a Two Hand Weapon user with 6 different cleaves and reconstruct focusing on no save spells and buffs.

Notable enhancements:
44 points in EK ignoring all shield AP and picking up all 3 ranks of Arcane Tempest, TT and capstone
13 points in Evocation Archmage for MM and Chain SLAs for no save ranged damage and some spell crit
17 points in WF for -8/+16 power attack and weapon attachment
6 undecided

Skills: maxed Spell Craft, Concentration, Repair, UMD, Spot with 29ish points for tumble jump and balance

Feats: Warning the level layout is not leveling friendly as im looking at a lvl 21 +0 Lesser
1HD: Power Attack
1W: Maximize
3HD: Cleave
5W: Empower
6HD: THF
9HD: GCleave
10W:Extend
12HD: Adamantine Body
15HD: ITHF
15W: Quicken
18HD: Improved Crit: Slashing
20W: Up for debate between Mental Toughness, Enlarge and my personal favorite Escew Materials go go 9 inventory spaces
21EHD: Over Crit
24EHD: GTHF (questionable but I can't find anything better)
26EDF: Toughness, yah you heard me toughness
27EHD: Epic Toughness cause when you can extended haste yourself why take blinding speed
28EDF: Perfect THF because I felt odd taking another toughness

Twists:
Sense Weakness, Tunnel Vision(24/7 rage), Primal Scream, Or Lay waste, Momentum swing, Action Boost Haste or imp power attack if not enough fate

Gear:
stuff that hurts
Cleaver is the front runner for LD and I guess Esos for Fury but I don't have one so I am leaning LD

Let me know what you think and where I am wasting build points.

[DaSawks]

I am also working on a Warforged EK Wizard and have come up against some barriers. The first is BAB. With only 10 at level 20 and Power Attack the "to-hit" is weak. I like your layout but think I can see some issues.

1. Adamatine body. I know that you can lower the ASF from 35% but this will cost you AP that could be used elsewhere. I believe, and I may be wrong, but AC is not needed for this build. Displacement and some PRR should be enough. Maybe.

2. Insightful Reflexes. With Dex as a dump stat (mine is going to be 10 if I am lucky) this feat will give you awesome Reflex saves.

3.Heighten. This is a must have. Even if your DC's are not the focus of your build.

4. I love your idea about having many sources of Cleave. Momentum swing and Lay waste are awesome. I am also going to try Shiradi with all the free Magic Missiles from the AM line.

My level progression is also moot as I am going to LR+20 my WF FVS. The BAB problem came up when I was messing around with the builder. The BAB requirement for IC:Slash surprised me.

Here is the builder that I rolled up.

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/431265-Pure-Wizard-EK-test-build

[AtomicMew]

If you're going shiradi, why would you bother meleeing if you'd do more damage spamming spells? The whole concept needs to be rethunk. Your best bet would be to look at the old juggernaut build and make something along those lines.

[Trasak]

If you're going shiradi, why would you bother meleeing if you'd do more damage spamming spells? The whole concept needs to be rethunk. Your best bet would be to look at the old juggernaut build and make something along those lines.

My build is intended to be used with LD not shiradi. The BAB requirement of imp crit means it can only be picked up at 18+ for a pure wizard. I am almost done reinstalling Lamannia and will try the build there and see how it goes.

[Trasak]

I am also working on a Warforged EK Wizard and have come up against some barriers. The first is BAB. With only 10 at level 20 and Power Attack the "to-hit" is weak. I like your layout but think I can see some issues.

1. Adamatine body. I know that you can lower the ASF from 35% but this will cost you AP that could be used elsewhere. I believe, and I may be wrong, but AC is not needed for this build. Displacement and some PRR should be enough. Maybe.

2. Insightful Reflexes. With Dex as a dump stat (mine is going to be 10 if I am lucky) this feat will give you awesome Reflex saves.

3.Heighten. This is a must have. Even if your DC's are not the focus of your build.

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/431265-Pure-Wizard-EK-test-build

For this build you are in Tensers all the time so the BAB is 20. 0% ASF costs 7AP total but 10% could come from items reducing it to 5AP. Insightful Reflexes would be nice on a normal wiz but if you look again Int is just a little above dump stat for this build, starts at 16 but only gets to 20 which ends up being only 3 higher reflex save and I was not planning on using any Int gear.

Heighten suffers the same way Insightful reflexes. Without any SF feats, int items, spell focus items your saves are going to abysmal so might as well stick with no save spells and buffs so Heighten is out for this build.

Lastly and most importantly I have confirmed that Eldritch Strike and Eldritch Tempest can both reset Momentum Swing so you end up being able to chain 4 cleaves and every 3-6 seconds momentum swing. I very rarely got all cleaves on timer and lots more triggers of momentum swing and lay waste than my WF favored soul ever saw.

[DaSawks]

For this build you are in Tensers all the time so the BAB is 20. 0% ASF costs 7AP total but 10% could come from items reducing it to 5AP. Insightful Reflexes would be nice on a normal wiz but if you look again Int is just a little above dump stat for this build, starts at 16 but only gets to 20 which ends up being only 3 higher reflex save and I was not planning on using any Int gear.

Heighten suffers the same way Insightful reflexes. Without any SF feats, int items, spell focus items your saves are going to abysmal so might as well stick with no save spells and buffs so Heighten is out for this build.

Lastly and most importantly I have confirmed that Eldritch Strike and Eldritch Tempest can both reset Momentum Swing so you end up being able to chain 4 cleaves and every 3-6 seconds momentum swing. I very rarely got all cleaves on timer and lots more triggers of momentum swing and lay waste than my WF favored soul ever saw.

You are correct. Tensers is a big boost to this build. I forgot that it did not prevent casting.

Heighten and IR work well with some investment into INT.
Base 16+Enhancements4+Item8+Tome3+Yugo Pot1=32. Not a max number but respectable and only uses 1 item slot. Guess this is a personal choice. Either way is good.

Eldritch Strike and Eldritch Tempest along with Momentime swing and Lay Waste is why I made this build. Thank you for confirming the reset. This makes me even more confident in your build. I also will be trashing a Level 25 Warforged Favored Soul to make this build with a LR+20. If it does not work then I will TR.

Please keep us posted about the progress of the build.

[Rathic]

dump toughness and take ptwf, ek is all about the doublestrike. I did a similar build on lamannia last month and ran with the Skybreaker, it synergizes well with the amount of aoe