Drow/warchanter Advice

[markusthelion]

I'm fairly new to DDO, and I've played a few tanks. I just rolled Drow/bard and I want a warchanter. I'm dex based, I took wep finesse, and TWF (for rapiers). I'm currently lvl 4 with 3bard/1 fighter, and was wondering what other feats/enhancements I should take. Any feedback, negative or postive is good. Also I wondered if I should keep using light armor or switch to medium?

[Noctus]

Stay in light armor, or you will get arcane spell failure.


Feats:
ITWF
GTWF
Thoughness
Extend (Haste, Displacement, Focusing Chant)
IC:Piercing.

[Freeman]

Stay in light armor, or you will get arcane spell failure.


Feats:
ITWF
GTWF
Thoughness
Extend (Haste, Displacement, Focusing Chant)
IC:Piercing.

Even with two fighter levels, there's not room for all of those feats on a Warchanter, since he'll also need Weapon Focus and Power Attack. I'd wait until level 18 to take GTWF myself.

[Noctus]

Even with two fighter levels, there's not room for all of those feats on a Warchanter, since he'll also need Weapon Focus and Power Attack. I'd wait until level 18 to take GTWF myself.

6 base feats
2 fighter bonus feats


Feats to take:
- WF:Piercing
- Power Attack
- Thoughness
- TWF
- ITWf
- GTWF
- ICiercing
- Extend

8 feats used.
1 more feat to freely spend at the 18th level.

So where is there not enough room?

[Freeman]

He's also taking Weapon Finesse. Without seeing his stats, I don't know if he could do without it, but he did say he is Dex-based.

[markusthelion]

He's also taking Weapon Finesse. Without seeing his stats, I don't know if he could do without it, but he did say he is Dex-based.

My starting stats were, str 10
dex 18
con 14
int 12
wis 8
char 12
I think, I may have missed a point here or there, but I did need wep finesse.

[Noctus]

He's also taking Weapon Finesse. Without seeing his stats, I don't know if he could do without it, but he did say he is Dex-based.

Ah, okay.
Then i´d leave out Extend.


DEX-Warchanters are worse than their STR brothers, exactly for that reason. Costs a feat on a feat starved build. And you get less from being perma-raged. And deal less damage.