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mechanicalpear
11-28-2017, 09:47 AM
I know I'm late in the game on this one, but I just picked up Warlock. Though up a build that seems to have some synergy. This may have already been tried out, I dunno. If it has, please give me pointers.

12 Favored Soul
4 Fighter
4 Warlock

Race is Purple Dragon Knight. (could also work with Bladeforged, if you sub the Fighter with Paladin. In fact, it would work better, but I don't have Bladeforged, so I won't build for it :p)

Most every attribute point goes into Constitution and Charisma.

I can Raise Dead, cast Heal....the good level spells, up to level 6. Favored Soul gives CHA to hit and damage with Mauls and gives the special feats that give a Maul better crit profile. So already, since CHA is a main stat, not horribly shabby with dps.

But not a dps build. Fighter (through Stalwart Defender) gives +6 stacking CON, +20% hp, good resistance and heavy armor. Now I'm tanky. If you went Bladeforged, and used Paladin levels instead, you still get all this, plus amazing saving throw bonuses.

With Warlock, I can UMD scrolls of teleport (I'm spoiled on teleport). But more importantly, I can use my Enlightened Spirit aura to give myself and my allies temp HP equal to my high CON score, every five seconds. When I cast any spell (like Mass Aid or Heal) on my allies, it also (through Tainted Scholar) gives temp HP equal to my CHA score.

In epic, will run as a Unyielding Sentinel.

This is a healer/buffer/tank who is fairly hard to drop, in theory.

I almost always just stick with playing ranged dps classes, so this is new for me. But here is the enhancements:

War Soul (32)
1 Smite Foe
1 Resilience of Battle
1 Sanctuary
1 War Domain: Blur

3 Divine Presence
2 Toughness
2 Righteous Weapons

2 Smite Weakness
3 Wall of Steel
2 Righteous Weapons
1 Inflame
1 Inflame: Saving Throws

2 Righteous Weapons
2 CON

2 Ameliorating Strike
2 Righteous Weapons
2 CON

2 Divine Intervention

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Enlightened Spirit (19)
1 Eldritch Aura
1 Aura of Courage

3 Resilience of Body
3 Spiritual Defense
2 Resilience of Soul

3 Spiritual Bastion
2 Shield

3 Spiritual Ward
2 Charisma

1 Brilliance

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Stalward Defender (24)
1 Toughness
1 Stalwart Defense

3 Durable Defense
3 Stalward Defensive Mastery

3 Resilient Defense
3 Armor Expertise

3 Hardy Defense
3 Shield Expertise

3 Tenacious Defense
1 Swift Defense
1 Inciting Defense

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Tainted Scholar (4)
1 Tainted Spellcasting

3 Feigned Health

Vish
11-28-2017, 10:30 AM
I would go 12/5/3
Fvs lock pally
Pally gets cha saves
Unless you need the feats
7 feats
Empower heal
Quicken
Thf
Ithf
Gthf
Pa
Ic blunt
Something like that?
3 fighter would get you cleave, gcleave
3 pally no cleaves but +11 saves
Go grace of battle, stout of heart
Then go tier5 es for shining through and displacement
Got tier3 for sacred or stalwart d
Tho you may have issues going thf due to str needs.
So cha con str
If you went bastards swords that's 13 str too
Then you could go sword and board
But 12 fvs is needed for heal
I would stay out of war soul tree, until pass
Just 4 ap for divine grace

That would give you high hp healer with some dps
Hope this may help some

mechanicalpear
11-29-2017, 08:44 AM
I was probably going to stick with Maul because the Blessing of Silvanus.

Paladin would be better, by far. If I had Bladeforged unlocked, I'd go that route instead. Or even if I had a +1 heart somewhere.

I was just gonna use this build for some epic TR's and stuff.

While I'll be overflowing with hit points (especially with Unyielding Sentinel), making +20% max hit points look great, I think I agree with you about Shining Through. It's better. Will rework the build.

Zoink
12-12-2017, 02:19 PM
I'm considering a similar heroic build.
8 Fvs, 5 Pal, 7 Warlock

8 Fvs for utility spells and self heals. CHA to hit/dam.
7 Warlock for Shining through and ddoor (utility)
5 Pal for general surviability

Max CON, 14 Int, the rest CHA.

DPS would start to be lackluster in Epic due to no crit modifiers in the base build so... the alternate to this is
8 Fit, 5 Pal, 7 Lock. Missing out on the self heals but you get DPS in addition to being nearly unkillable.

unbongwah
12-12-2017, 03:34 PM
Enlightened Spirit (19)
1 Eldritch Aura
1 Aura of Courage

3 Resilience of Body
3 Spiritual Defense
2 Resilience of Soul

3 Spiritual Bastion
2 Shield

3 Spiritual Ward
2 Charisma

1 Brilliance
You've added something wrong, as Brilliance costs at least 21 APs. You might as well spend 3 more on Spiritual Retribution for the extra 3d4 light dmg.

A FvS 12 / war 6 / ftr 2 split would have faster auras and tier-5 ES for even more survivability (Displacement SLA, Shining Thru, etc.); a FvS 12 / ftr 6 split would have significantly better melee DPS thanks to tier-5 Kensei + SwNT (+1 crit range & multiplier, +20 Melee Power). 12/4/4 seems like it's missing out on the best aspects of both your splashes without gaining enough extra to make up for it.

mechanicalpear
12-14-2017, 12:33 AM
Okay. I thought about it, and I'm changing this for a Bladeforged. I'll just wait til I unlock it, then I'll go with this build.

This will be for my main, who is tomed and has several past lives.



Bladeforged
LG

5 Warlock (Fey)
3 Paladin
12 Favored Soul (Silvanus)
Unyielding Sentinel

Class Progression:
(1 Paladin, 2 Warlock, 2 Paladin, 7 Favored Soul, 3 Warlock, 5 Favored Soul)
Ability Score Increases
(+7 CON)

STR 9
DEX 8 -2 Racial
CON 18 +2 Racial, +7 Level
INT 11
WIS 8 -2 Racial
CHA 18


FEATS
1 Adamantine Body
3 Skill Focus (UMD)
6 Force of Personality
9 Quicken Spell
12 Improved Critical (Bludgeoning)
15 Power Attack
18 Mental Toughness
21 Improved Mental Toughness
24 Epic Mental Toughness
26* Toughness
27 Epic Toughness


Grace of Battle
Stout of Heart
Energy Resistance: Fire

SKILLS
UMD
Heal
Repair
Jump
Concentration

Favored Soul
1
- Divine Favor
- Cure Light Wounds
- Remove Fear
- Nimbus of Light
2
- Sound Burst
- Find Traps
- Cure Moderate Wounds
- Resist Energy
3
- Aid, Mass
- Protection from Energy
- Cure Serious Wounds
-
4
- Death Ward
- Restoration
- Freedom of Movement
5
- Protection from Elements
- Break Enchantment
6
- Heal

Warlock
1
- Jump
-
2
- Invisibility



War Soul (22)
1 Smite Foe
1 Resilience of Battle
1 Sanctuary
1 War Domain: Blur

3 Divine Presence
2 Toughness
2 Righteous Weapons

2 Smite Weakness
3 Wall of Steel
2 Righteous Weapons
1 Inflame
1 Inflame: Saving Throws

2 Righteous Weapons
2 CON

2 Ameliorating Strike

---------------------

Enlightened Spirit (35)
1 Eldritch Aura

3 Resilience of Body
3 Spiritual Defense
3 Resilience of Soul

3 Spiritual Bastion
2 Shield

3 Spiritual Ward
2 CON
3 Fortify Summons

1 Brilliance
2 CON
3 Imbue Summons

2 Displacement
2 Shining Through

---------------------

Sacred Defender (15)
1 Holy Bastion
1 Sacred Defense

3 Durable Defense
1 Sacred Armor Mastery

3 Resilient Defense
1 Bulwark Aura

3 Hardy Defense

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Tainted Scholar (4)
1 Tainted Spellcasting

3 Feigned Health

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Bladeforged (7)

1 Improved Fortification

4 Healer's Friend

2 Communion of Scribing

mechanicalpear
12-14-2017, 12:37 AM
With this build, I'll be swinging a 17-20/x3 two-handed weapon with Power Attack. I can cast Heal. I can scroll Teleport (I'm spoiled on 'port scrolls).

And I'm kinda invincible. And consta-buffing/healing my allies.


Once my UMD gets high enough, I can retrain Skill Focus (UMD) to something else.

unbongwah
12-14-2017, 10:59 AM
12 Favored Soul (Silvanus)
Bladeforged are an Eberron race and restricted to Lord of Blades only. Only PDK, SDK, Scourge, and DG can pick Silvanus.