Gutsack Jack Street Fighter

[xberto]

I played an int base Assassin and enjoyed,although I never quite mastered the timing of using Assassinate and the whole sneak mode thing... I wanted to try something very rougish, good DPS, and shoot for top sneak attack damage, and utilize chain attack. This is perhaps more a theme build but would like to know how viable this is and maybe get some input. This is dex based and will not use Assassinate ability. Perhaps there is a similar build someone could link??

Gutsack Jack Street Fighter
Shadar-Kai
(17 Rogue \ 3 Bard \ 8 Epic)

Strength 10
Dexterity 20
Constitution 14
Intelligence 16
Wisdom 8
Charisma 8

Feats:
Precision
Toughness
Single Weapon Fighting
Improved Single Weapon Fighting
Greater Single Weapon Fighting
Improved Critical: Piercing Weapons
Dodge
(Rogue Bonus) Improved Evasion
(Rogue Bonus) Opportunist
(Rogue Bonus) Defensive Roll


Epic:
Overwhelming Critical
Improved Sneak Attack
Epic Destiny: Perfect Single Weapon Fighting
Epic Reflexes
First Blood or Elusive Target or Perfect TWF (although the off hand bonus is wasted)

Key Enhancments:
Swashbuckler:
Swashbuckling
Doublestike boost
Dashing Scoundrel

Assassin:
Knife Specialization IF it would stack with Swachbuckling Dagger bonuses (I'm told it doesnt)
Killer
Crit Damage
Sneak Attack Training x4

Shadar-Kai:
Guile
Ghostly Essence
Chain attacks

[nirm]

I am using this idea of a build but i changed the intelligence and con around and took weapon finesse instead of dodge. I have confirmed the idea that you cannot stack the dagger specific enhancements. will update on performance.


I played an int base Assassin and enjoyed,although I never quite mastered the timing of using Assassinate and the whole sneak mode thing... I wanted to try something very rougish, good DPS, and shoot for top sneak attack damage, and utilize chain attack. This is perhaps more a theme build but would like to know how viable this is and maybe get some input. This is dex based and will not use Assassinate ability. Perhaps there is a similar build someone could link??

Gutsack Jack Street Fighter
Shadar-Kai
(17 Rogue \ 3 Bard \ 8 Epic)

[xberto]

Hey Nirm, I completed Gutsack up to 28 and he's good fun. The DPS is OK. I'm seeing lots of 600-900hp crit damage numbers go by using that CiTW dagger. I know its been reported how underwhelming the chain attack is but I just had to try it anyway. I'm here to testify that it just isn't that useful. I won't include it in any future revisions.

I'm weighing some different options now, as a friend suggested going 7 Bard for the lvl 3 spells and tier 5 Swashbuckling. I agree the 13/7 split will be much better.

What is really interesting to me however is a 13Rog/5Bard/2Bard utilizing an ear smash/Coup de Grace 1-2 punch. Ear smash seems very street fighter like :)