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[unbongwah]

I'd really like class and build advice for a First Life Warforged that would be easy to moderate in difficulty for solo play. I feel like the classes have changed so much that I have no idea what Warforged excel at anymore! >_<

Warforged have been eclipsed by Bladeforged for almost everything. WF still make good arcane casters, but you want a melee build, which is a trickier proposition, since BF pally is practically Easy Mode these days.

Still, a couple of options:

• WF pure barb: the one uber melee DPS build you can't do with BF without a lot of TPs spent for at least two LR +Xs and an alignment change! The heal amp penalty makes self-healing harder, but with enough APs invested in Healer's Friend and barb heal amp, it's manageable. [Basically, use Mechanist + Repair pots until you get to lvl 12, then switch to heal amp & tier-5 self-heals.] And Zoda is easy to convert to any race; basically you trade the extra feats & burst DPS of human for WF immunities.
• This is a more advanced build concept and works best if you have Harper, but you could try a bard / wiz hybrid. Swashbuckler is the most front-loaded of the melee PrEs, IMO, in the sense that you can access most of its DPS bonuses with only 3-6 bard lvls, letting you invest more into wiz lvls. With Harper, you can go INT-based and it becomes your to-hit, dmg, Reflex, and wiz DC stat all in one.

Anyway, quick-n-dirty conversion of Zoda to first-life WF using greataxes in LD:

WF Ravager
Barbarian 20
True Neutral Warforged


Stats
               28pt     32pt     Level Up
               ----     ----     --------
Strength        18       18       4: STR
Dexterity       10        8       8: STR
Constitution    18       20      12: STR
Intelligence     8        8      16: STR
Wisdom           6        6      20: STR
Charisma         6        6      24: STR
                                 28: STR

Feats

 1        : Power Attack
 3        : Cleave
 6        : Adamantine Body
 9        : Improved Critical: Slashing
12        : Two Handed Fighting
15        : Improved Two Handed Fighting
18        : Greater Two Handed Fighting
21 Epic   : Overwhelming Critical
24 Epic   : Great Cleave
26 Destiny: Perfect Two Handed Fighting
27 Epic   : Stunning Blow
28 Destiny: Perfect Two Weapon Fighting
29 Destiny: Dire Charge
30 Epic   : Epic Damage Reduction
30 Legend : Scion of: Arborea


Enhancements (80 AP)

Frenzied Berserker (41 AP)

Die Hard, Frenzied Toughness, Frenzy, Frenzied Toughness II, Death Frenzy, Storm's Eye    

Extra Rage III, Power Rage III, Athletics III
Angry Arms III, Blood Tribute III, Extra Action Boost III, Sprint Boost III
Mad Munitions III, Blood Trail III, Supreme Cleave III, Constitution

Ravager (39 AP)

Furious Rage, Pain Touch, Demoralizing Success, Pain Touch II, Subsiding Fury

Do You Like Pain? III, Barbarian Power Attack III, Hardy Rage II
I Like Pain III, Cruel Cut III, Melee Power Boost III
Festering Wound III
I Hit Back! III, Dismember III
Blood Strength, Uncanny Balance, Critical Rage II
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Leveling Guide

FB0 Die Hard; FB1 Extra Rage I, II
FB1 Power Rage I, II; FB1 Extra Rage III
FB0 Frenzied Toughness; FB2 Sprint Boost I; FB3 Supreme Cleave I, II
FB3 Supreme Cleave III; Rav0 Furious Rage; Rav1 Barbarian Power Attack I; Rav1 Do You Like Pain? I
Rav1 Do You Like Pain? II, III; Rav0 Pain Touch; Rav2 I Like Pain I
FB0 Frenzy; Rav2 I Like Pain II, III; Rav1 Barbarian Power Attack II
Rav0 Demoralizing Success; Rav1 Barbarian Power Attack III; Rav1 Hardy Rage I, II
Rav2 Melee Power Boost I, II, III; Rav2 Cruel Cut I
Rav2 Cruel Cut II, III; Rav4 I Hit Back! I, II
Rav4 I Hit Back! III; Rav3 Festering Wound I, II, III
Rav4 Dismember I, II, III; (Bank 1 AP)
Rav0 Pain Touch II; Rav5 Blood Strength; Rav5 Critical Rage I
Rav5 Critical Rage II; Rav5 Uncanny Balance
FB2 Angry Arms I, II, III; FB2 Blood Tribute I
FB2 Blood Tribute II, III; FB0 Frenzied Toughness II; FB3 Blood Trail I
FB3 Blood Trail II, III; FB1 Power Rage III
FB2 Extra Action Boost I, II, III; FB2 Sprint Boost II
FB0 Death Frenzy; Rav0 Subsiding Fury; FB3 Mad Munitions I, II
FB3 Mad Munitions III; FB2 Sprint Boost III; FB1 Athletics I, II
FB1 Athletics III; FB3 Constitution; FB0 Storm's Eye    


Destiny (24 AP)

Legendary Dreadnought

Legendary Tactics III, Extra Action Boost III, Strength
Momentum Swing III, Imp. Power Attack
Lay Waste
Anvil of Thunder
Advancing Blows, Devastating Critical
Master's Blitz, Headman's Chop

Twists of Fate (15 fate points)

Sense Weakness (Tier 4 Fury)
Hail of Blows (Tier 2 Flowers)

EDIT: tweaked the leveling guide to prioritize getting Supreme Cleave ASAP, then focus on Ravager, then back to FB.

Ideally, these are the weapons you use for leveling (excluding crafted or GS):

• Carnifex (lvls 4-9)
• Whirlwind or Bloody Cleaver upgraded to Vampiric @ lvl 12 (lvls 10+)
• Insurrection slotted w/adamantine handles most of your construct-bashing duties
• Riftmaker (lvls 13+)
• eAntique Greataxe or eGreataxe of Fire (lvl 20+)

[Stinkdog]

Warforged have been eclipsed by Bladeforged for almost everything. WF still make good arcane casters, but you want a melee build, which is a trickier proposition, since BF pally is practically Easy Mode these days.

Thanks for the swift response! I'll give that barb build a try. I don't have a very good track record of playing casters, but if there's a decent Warforged arcane build that's relatively easy to use, then I'd give that a try too.

My main concern with Bladeforged (aside from spending real money on it) is that I think I'd be rather lost if I jumped in at level 15 and I don't exactly have any mid level gear squirreled away.

-SD

[martryn]

OK, thread, design me a character (that doesn't suck) using these parameters:

Required
1. Half-elf
2. Tier five Paladin Sacred Defender Enhancements

Character stats
1. Three past lives: rogue, cleric, druid
2. Tomes used: +2 Str, +5 Dex, +2 Con, +2 Int, +5 Wis, +1 Cha
3. Access to Harper Agent tree
4. Obviously 36 point build

Other than that, I don't care. Multi-class, splash other trees, etc etc. I play in a static party and it's my turn to play the tank, but my last two builds have been a bit untraditional. Kinda. Whatevs. I love you guys.

[Theolin]

OK, thread, design me a character (that doesn't suck) using these parameters:

Required
1. Half-elf
2. Tier five Paladin Sacred Defender Enhancements

Character stats
1. Three past lives: rogue, cleric, druid
2. Tomes used: +2 Str, +5 Dex, +2 Con, +2 Int, +5 Wis, +1 Cha
3. Access to Harper Agent tree
4. Obviously 36 point build

Other than that, I don't care. Multi-class, splash other trees, etc etc. I play in a static party and it's my turn to play the tank, but my last two builds have been a bit untraditional. Kinda. Whatevs. I love you guys.

How about this one lots of cleaves & defence, have to make a bit of a mod for helf though should be easy to do

[unbongwah]

Other than that, I don't care. Multi-class, splash other trees, etc etc. I play in a static party and it's my turn to play the tank, but my last two builds have been a bit untraditional. Kinda. Whatevs. I love you guys.

Did you want a traditional S&B build - in which case, I would recommend pure paladin (see my Sacred Vanguards thread) - or did you want something more unconventional, in which case I would consider a HE variant on Steel Shrine (pal 15 / FvS or cleric 4 / ftr or wiz 1 works if you don't have monk and/or don't need Evasion).

Of course, you could just play a regular pure (THF/TWF/SWF) pally, just with T5 SD instead of T5 KotC, but that gives me less opportunity to flex my build-fu.

[unbongwah]

My main concern with Bladeforged (aside from spending real money on it) is that I think I'd be rather lost if I jumped in at level 15 and I don't exactly have any mid level gear squirreled away.

The Iconic starter gear is sufficient to get you going quickly; see my Iconic Builds thread. That said, I don't blame you for wanting to relearn the game before jumping into the mid-teens.

[martryn]

Oh, I should mention that we play through to 20 and then reincarnate. We're not messing with epic stuff, just running the 1-20, so any build needs to be viable from the get-go and shouldn't rely on abilities acquired after level 12 or so.

Theolin: That looks fun. I enjoy cleaving. How would you adapt it to half-elf?

unbongwah: I like the idea for that build, but I want something that uses Tier 5 Sacred Defender enhancements. I don't really care if it's something traditional or not, I just like playing things other people have created every other life because I sometimes wouldn't make the same choices and like playing something outside of my comfort zone.

[unbongwah]

unbongwah: I like the idea for that build, but I want something that uses Tier 5 Sacred Defender enhancements. I don't really care if it's something traditional or not, I just like playing things other people have created every other life because I sometimes wouldn't make the same choices and like playing something outside of my comfort zone.

Okay, let's see if we can come up with a HE Steel Shrine variant w/T5 SD focused on heroic leveling. I've only planned to lvl 21 for obvious reasons. I'm also not bothering to list EDs since presumably you won't be there long enough for it to matter. Just jump into Dreadnought or Crusader until you're ready to HTR.

Valenar Shrine
15/4/1 Paladin/Favored Soul/Wizard, Epic 1
Lawful Good Half-Elf


Level Order

1. Paladin         6. Paladin        11. Paladin        16. Favored Soul
2. Paladin         7. Favored Soul   12. Paladin        17. Favored Soul
3. Paladin         8. Paladin        13. Paladin        18. Favored Soul
4. Paladin         9. Paladin        14. Paladin        19. Wizard
5. Paladin        10. Paladin        15. Paladin        20. Paladin


Stats
               36pt     Tome     Level Up
               ----     ----     --------
Strength        17       +2       4: STR
Dexterity        9       +5       8: STR
Constitution    16       +2      12: STR
Intelligence    10       +2      16: STR
Wisdom           8       +5      20: STR
Charisma        16       +1


Skills
          P  P  P  P  P  P  F  P  P  P  P  P  P  P  P  F  F  F  W  P
          1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
         ------------------------------------------------------------
Intim     2  2     2     2     3     2     2  1  1  1  1        1  3  23
Heal                              1  1  1  1  2  2  2  1  3  3        17
Balance   2     1     1     1     1     1                              7
Concent                                                         1      1
Tumble    1                                                            1
         ------------------------------------------------------------
          8  2  2  2  2  2  2  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3
          8  2  2  2  2  2  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3


Feats

 1        : Single Weapon Fighting
 1 HalfElf: Half-Elf Dilettante: Warlock
 1 Deity  : Follower of: Undying Court OR Sovereign Host
 3        : Exotic Weapon: Khopesh
 6        : Improved Single Weapon Fighting
 6 Deity  : Undying Call OR Unyielding Sovereignty
 9        : Improved Critical: Slashing
12        : Greater Single Weapon Fighting
15        : Precision
17 Deity  : Child of: Undying Court
18        : Empower Healing Spell OR Stunning Blow
19 Wizard : Quicken Spell
21 Epic   : Overwhelming Critical


Enhancements (80 AP)

Sacred Defender (39 AP)

Holy Bastion, Sacred Defense, Divine Righteousness, Redemption
Extra Lay On Hands III, Durable Defense III
Bulwark Aura III, Inciting Defense III
Resistance Aura III, Resilient Defense I, Tenacious Defense III
Spellshield Aura III, Swift Defense, Strong Defense III
Harbored by Light III, Reprisal III, Hardy Defense III

Warpriest (22 AP)

Smite Foe, Resilience of Battle
Divine Might III, Sacred Touch III
Smite Weakness, Wall of Steel III, Inflame III, Inflame: Saving Throws I
Inflame: Energy Absorption III
Ameliorating Strike

Knight of the Chalice (14 AP)

Slayer of Evil, Courage of Heaven, Slayer of Evil II
Extra Turning II, Extra Smite II
Exalted Cleave III, Melee Power Boost III
Divine Sacrifice I

Half-Elf (4 AP)

Versatile Nature, Human Strength, Human Damage Boost

Eldritch Knight (Wizard) (1 AP)

Eldritch Strike

Leveling Guide

SD0 Holy Bastion; SD1 Extra Lay On Hands I, II, III
(Bank 4 AP)
SD1 Durable Defense I; SD0 Sacred Defense; SD1 Durable Defense II, III; SD2 Bulwark Aura I, II; SD3 Tenacious Defense I, II
SD3 Tenacious Defense III; SD3 Resistance Aura I, II; SD2 Bulwark Aura III
SD3 Resistance Aura III; SD2 Inciting Defense I, II, III
SD4 Swift Defense; SD0 Divine Righteousness; SD4 Strong Defense I, II
War0 Smite Foe; War1 Divine Might I, II, III
SD4 Strong Defense III; SD4 Spellshield Aura I, II, III
SD3 Resilient Defense I; KoC0 Slayer of Evil; KoC1 Extra Smite I, II
KoC1 Extra Turning I, II; KoC2 Exalted Cleave I, II
KoC2 Exalted Cleave III; KoC0 Courage of Heaven; KoC2 Melee Power Boost I; KoC3 Divine Sacrifice I
KoC0 Slayer of Evil II; KoC2 Melee Power Boost II, III; (Bank 1 AP)
SD0 Redemption; SD5 Harbored by Light I, II, III; SD5 Hardy Defense I
SD5 Hardy Defense II, III; (Bank 2 AP)
War1 Sacred Touch I, II, III; (Bank 3 AP)
War2 Smite Weakness; War2 Wall of Steel I, II, III; War2 Inflame I, II
War2 Inflame III; War0 Resilience of Battle; War3 Inflame: Energy Absorption I, II
War3 Inflame: Energy Absorption III; War2 Inflame: Saving Throws I; War4 Ameliorating Strike
EKw0 Eldritch Strike; SD5 Reprisal I, II, III
Hlf0 Versatile Nature; Hlf0 Human Strength; Hlf0 Human Damage Boost

I took warlock dilly because honestly I can't think of a better choice than +1d4 fire dmg. If you don't have FvS, substitute cleric. Wiz splash is for free Quicken and extra Cleave. Normally I don't backload my DPS enhancements so far, but it's what you wanted. Also I usually prefer to max UMD on all my toons, but since this build is a little tight on skill pts and you're in a static group, I presume someone else will be handling UMD duties. Deity choice basically boils down to which ability you want: free Rez or free Heal.

Gameplay is about what you expect: jump in, hit Intim, spam your Cleave(s), mop up the rest with regular atks - rinse, repeat. At lvl 18 you'll gain Ameliorating Strike: free AoE heals every 15 secs.

http://ddowiki.com/page/Category:Khopeshes

I like the Bloody Hooked Blade (decent DPS + Bodyfeeder), Bleeding Edge, and the higher-lvl versions of Elemental Khopesh of Water (Paralyzing + Icy Burst + Crushing Wave).

[Theolin]

...

Theolin: That looks fun. I enjoy cleaving. How would you adapt it to half-elf?

...

I would change the feat order & kinda ignore the THF feats (its mostly splash damage anyway) & move everything else up
& do fighter up front ... hopefully I didn't mess up the feat change from doing on the phone without looking at everything

1. . . . : Power Attack
1 Fighter: Cleave
3. . . . : Exotic Weapon: Bastard Sword
.6. . . . : Great Cleave
.9. . . . : Shield Mastery
11 Fighter: Two Handed Fighting
12. . . . : Improved Shield Mastery
12 Wizard : Extend Spell
15. . . . : Improved Critical: Slashing
18. . . . : Improved Two Handed Fighting
21 Epic . : Overwhelming Critical
24 Epic . : choicce
26 Destiny: Perfect Two Handed Fighting
27 Epic . : Epic Damage Reduction
28 Destiny: Perfect Two Weapon Fighting

[martryn]

Excellent. I'm looking forward to taking it for a spin. It's always exciting to play something new.

[Discpsycho]

Martryn, I remember unbongwah saying something about THF feats being backloaded in value, so you'll probably want GTHF as your level 24 feat. I don't have the math to support this, but my hunch is that it's not worthwhile to take it at 21 and bump OC to 24.

[mduncan50]

So yesterday I TR'd myself into a dwarven artificer, and I'm just not feeling it. Luckily I'm only a few levels in so I can reset myself with everything but my race. So what I'm looking for is a self sufficient solo build that can take care of traps/locks and a little bit of healing wouldn't be a bad thing. I'd prefer not to be a caster as I don't feel like dealing with dozens of spells, but I'm open to just about anything else. A ranged option would be nice, but not a must. I have 36-point build, +5 supreme stat tome, access to all classes, a monk and a warlock past lives, and access to the Harper tree. Thanks for your time, I appreciate the work you do for everyone.

[wasu]

havent played in 2 years looking for a caster warlock build first life vip though so all races dont mind multi classing

[unbongwah]

Plenty of `lock builds to choose from:

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...ld-Blast-Build
https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...-focus-warlock
https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...layer-Friendly

[Sarzor]

So, I have to bang out the three iconic gnome lives, and three classes to clear out.

Looking for:
- Iconic gnome build with a fvs, arti, or warlock icon. Less keen on warlock since so many better builds elsewhere, so pref fvs or arti builds, but hey Warlock if it's a solid build.
- Not suck. I don't want to be sitting there frustrated with how weak I am. I tend to run EE and EH, but can knock it down to reliable EHs for the purposes of these lives.

[Phantasmas]

Grrreetings wise ones;

I'd like a build that's part tank and part healer (EDIT: it'll be first life, free to play build, please). I'll be adventuring with a Rogue and will be required to keep him alive during combat as his meat shield and as a patch'em up during and after. I don't have access to Drow or Gnome as Races, but I do have access to Favored Soul as a Class.

Thank you for your time. Take care and be well.

[gimpsonson]

I have been out of the scene since before the last expansion, so a bit behind. I am a very avid solo player so curious as to what is strong in terms of solo viability.

[Discpsycho]

I have been out of the scene since before the last expansion, so a bit behind. I am a very avid solo player so curious as to what is strong in terms of solo viability.

It really depends on what difficulty you'd like to solo epics (pretty much anything can solo heroic stuff these days, Amrath quests excepted). If you're looking to solo EE, your options are gonna be cut down pretty drastically and particularly dependent on gear. It's also limited by your particular preferences in playstyle and what races/classes you've got access to. Since you haven't specified anything in particular, I'll throw out a few builds of each type. Feel free to respond to this with some specifications and I'll see what I can do.

Casters:
- Pure or mostly pure Warlock. It's unimaginative but incredibly powerful. 41 points in Enlightened Spirit gives you tons of HP and some stellar AOEs. Fiend pact grants you a free, ridiculous instant-kill (paralysis on a save). Great Old One give you Knock and makes your pact damage Acid, which is great for extra blast damage. Fey doesn't have alignment restrictions (if you want a Pally splash) and synergizes well with Bards 'cause of the sonic pact damage. I recently ran a 18 Fiend Warlock / 2 Rogue and waltzed through everything without any trouble until Epics, where I was able to hold my own in EE due to the build's power rather than my gear or playing prowess.
- The Pale Trapper is pretty straightforward. DCs won't be great in EE because DC casting is a little screwed up, but you should be fine in EH.
- Gingerspyce makes a mean tanky pure druid. Incredibly versatile caster. Not a whole lot else to say, as the 6 SLAs and the potential for healing speak for themselves.

Ranged attackers:
- Rogue recently got revamped so a pure Rogue Mechanic is very solid these days. Also not very imaginative, it relies on Great Crossbows, of which there aren't a whole lot of named ones (not that it matters all that much). On a similar note, Artificer 20 is fine, provided you stick to repeaters and don't try to melee. They don't hold up as well in epics, sadly.
- Ranger also got revamped, so if you prefer a bow, you could stay pure in this class as well. Arcane Archer and DWS are both solid choice, I'd say your playstyle preference is probably more important than which does 1% more DPS. Splashing 1 Fighter / 1 Rogue gives you a haste boost, a feat, and trapping skills, which will be sufficient until 20 if you can track down good enough gear. According to Unbongwah, 14 Monk / 6 Ranger has higher dps thanks to 10k Stars + Manyshot (I can track down a build if you're interested in this one)
- Thrown weapons are made a lot more powerful by LD/Shiradi, but they're fine in heroics. Monk 20 is a pretty straightforward option, though I think DWS is powerful enough that it's a better option now, so something like 12 Ranger / 6 Monk / 2 Rogue (can you tell I like having trap skills?)

Melees:
- Pure Barbarian, pure Paladin (especially Bladeforged), pure Bard (Count of Monte Cristo is a bit old, but still solid) are all pretty straightforward and pretty powerful. Dex-based Tempest/DWS Ranger is also great now, which is probably also best pure.

[LexxRC8]

Looking for a decent first life elf paladin build for an old character that's not been used in years. I made her lesser reincarnate but realised I had no clue what I was doing.

[unbongwah]

Looking for a decent first life elf paladin build for an old character that's not been used in years. I made her lesser reincarnate but realised I had no clue what I was doing.

If you wanted a S&B build, see my Sacred Vanguards thread. Otherwise, consult ED37's build index: https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...=1#post5759360