Help, Struggling with Feat Choices

[Shroonith]

Hi, I'm planning on making a 18PLD/2FTR - Warforged - Defender of Siberys.

Heres my dilema:
I will have 9 feats available, and free tower shield proficiency.
I want to be able to hate-tank while S/B, with all the new enhancements.
I want to be able to THF well when not tanking again utilizing the new enhancements.

I am really struggling to decide which feats to take.

Candidates: (help pick 9 which work well towards my goals)
Toughness
Adamantine Body (question here: does daggertooths MDB work on this? does it stack with DoS's bonuses?)
Power attack
Combat Expertise
Cleave
Great Cleave
Dodge/Mobility/Spring Attack(3) - really helps glancing blow
THF
ITHF(2)
GTHF(3)
Extend
Improved Crit: Slashing
Improved Crit: Bludgeon
kopesh proficiency
SF:intimidate


Also, what should my starting Stats be?

[Dark-Star]

1. Toughness
2. CE
3. PA
4-6. GTHF (GTWF is a better choice)
7. Icrit
8. Body
9. Extend

[Junts]

I have one of these (not wf, but otherwise), I have:

khopesh
power attack
dodge
ce
improved critical
toughness
sf: intim
sf: umd
extend spell



I recommend you drop sf: umd (lower cha, you wont be a sideline umder like I am more likely than not) and take your body feat.

[Shroonith]

Dont WF get new enhancements to THF?

Are u sure TWF's better? It would mean a lot of points into dex.

I was thinking of stats like :
16
10
16
12
6
14

I would be hard pressed to get the dex for TWF

[Junts]

If you want a high-damage melee alternative, thf is ok, or I would strongly consider dropping to 12 cha, putting the 4 in dex and, with a +3 tome someday, you have the dex for the twf line if you want it.

Even if you do not do that, I do recommend the 12 cha, and going to 12 dexterity: your max dex will be 1 +2 daggertooth +2 enhancement line, so you want a modified 20 (12+2+6) to hit it.

[Shroonith]

+4 tomes will be available in mod9. so 10 base +4 tomes + 6 item reaches that goal of 20

[Junts]

Thats true, but its also like saying "+3 tomes were available in mod4"

what are the odds you're going to pull the one +4 tome you want from the new raid in 20 completions or less?

Do you really want to build for so far in the future, when it may take you 80-100 completions of the raid to see the appropriate tome?

its not like you have multiple sources of +4 tomeage coming out: you have raid loot drops (and we know how frequent those are) and 20th rewards.

[Shroonith]

+2 dex tome in the meantime would only be 1 ac less. whereas putting a ton of stats into dex would be a permanent waste.

[Dark-Star]

For now TWF is superior on a pali due to getting double DS/ES on swings.

Remains to be seen which parts of all the additional damage palis do gets included in the new glancing blow effects.