Build Critique: The Boulder

[Fleebag]

Here's my tank/melee build.

Made for survivability, self-sufficiency, and abilty to switch melee or tank as needed.
Also, I optimized for cheap cost as an alt. I don't want something that will be a hassle to equip. This build should preform quite well even with mostly-crappy gear.

Anyways take a look and give me your comments. I think I might have goofed with the shield/armor stuff. Im assuming mithril plate and tower shield, but I'd like to take max advantage of the dex bonus with about a 24 modified dex (+7 dex bonus). If thats hard I'll probably drop the gear for +dex and fill it with another slot, since I also need charisma, con and str anyway . My gear knowledge is pretty weak.

Here it is:

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Boulder 
Level 20 Lawful Good Dwarf Male
(12 Fighter \ 6 Paladin \ 2 Rogue) 
Hit Points: 374
Spell Points: 10 
BAB: 19\19\24\29\29
Fortitude: 20
Reflex: 16
Will: 10

                  Starting          Feat/Enhancement
Abilities        Base Stats          Modified Stats
(32 Point)       (Level 1)             (Level 20)
Strength             16                    24
Dexterity            15                    18
Constitution         16                    18
Intelligence         12                    13
Wisdom                8                     8
Charisma             10                    12

Tomes Used
+2 Tome of Dexterity used at level 7
+1 Tome of Intelligence used at level 7

                  Starting          Feat/Enhancement
                 Base Skills         Modified Skills
Skills           (Level 1)            (Level 20)
Balance               6                    12
Bluff                 0                     1
Concentration         3                     4
Diplomacy             4                     8
Disable Device        n/a                   n/a
Haggle                4                     5
Heal                 -1                    -1
Hide                  2                     4
Intimidate            4                    30
Jump                  7                    24
Listen               -1                    -1
Move Silently         2                     4
Open Lock             6                     8
Perform               n/a                   n/a
Repair                1                     1
Search                1                     3
Spot                 -1                    -1
Swim                  7                    11
Tumble                6                     9
Use Magic Device      4                    22

Level 1 (Rogue)
Feat: (Selected) Two Weapon Fighting


Level 2 (Paladin)


Level 3 (Paladin)
Feat: (Selected) Toughness


Level 4 (Paladin)


Level 5 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Oversized Two Weapon Fighting


Level 6 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Shield Mastery
Feat: (Selected) Weapon Focus: Slashing Weapons


Level 7 (Paladin)


Level 8 (Fighter)


Level 9 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Combat Expertise
Feat: (Selected) Improved Two Weapon Fighting


Level 10 (Paladin)


Level 11 (Paladin)
Enhancement: Fighter Armor Class Boost I
Enhancement: Dwarven Armor Mastery I
Enhancement: Dwarven Armor Mastery II
Enhancement: Dwarven Axe Damage I
Enhancement: Dwarven Constitution I
Enhancement: Dwarven Constitution II
Enhancement: Dwarven Shield Mastery I
Enhancement: Dwarven Spell Defense I
Enhancement: Unyielding Sovereignty
Enhancement: Follower of the Sovereign Host
Enhancement: Fighter Armor Mastery I
Enhancement: Fighter Tower Shield Mastery I
Enhancement: Paladin Bulwark of Good I
Enhancement: Paladin Resistance of Good I
Enhancement: Paladin Extra Lay on Hands I
Enhancement: Racial Toughness I
Enhancement: Racial Toughness II
Enhancement: Paladin Charisma I
Enhancement: Paladin Charisma II
Enhancement: Fighter Strength I
Enhancement: Fighter Toughness I
Enhancement: Fighter Toughness II


Level 12 (Fighter)
Feat: (Selected) Greater Two Weapon Fighting


Level 13 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Improved Critical: Slashing Weapons


Level 14 (Fighter)


Level 15 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Improved Shield Mastery
Feat: (Selected) Power Attack


Level 16 (Fighter)


Level 17 (Rogue)


Level 18 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Greater Weapon Focus: Slashing Weapons
Feat: (Selected) Iron Will


Level 19 (Fighter)


Level 20 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Weapon Specialization: Slashing Weapons
Enhancement: Fighter Armor Class Boost II
Enhancement: Fighter Stalwart Defender I
Enhancement: Fighter Stalwart Defender II
Enhancement: Fighter Tower Shield Mastery II
Enhancement: Fighter Dwarven Waraxe Specialization I
Enhancement: Fighter Item Defense I
Enhancement: Racial Toughness III
Enhancement: Rogue Sneak Attack Training I
Enhancement: Fighter Intimidate I
Enhancement: Fighter Intimidate II
Enhancement: Rogue Dexterity I
Enhancement: Fighter Strength II
Enhancement: Fighter Strength III
Enhancement: Fighter Toughness III

[Fleebag]

Oh I forgot to mention.

For DPS this build will use dual Dwarven Axes.
For surviving, this build uses tower shield and dwarven axe or whatever.

It is optimized for high saves and immunity, evasion and good shield DR when turtling.

IU dont know enough about gear to make an accurate breakdown or estimation about endgame saves, damage, or ac. Hopefully someone in the know can help.

thanks

[Fleebag]

Okay, just realized this:

With the enhancements, assuming +5 mithril full plate and +5 mithral tower shield, they have a max dex of 6. So you'd want to use only a +4 dex enhancement for this character and not the full +6. Which is fine, as it turns out. Just walking around normally with regular gear they will reach ~60 AC and can reach over 70 with some effort. Plus evasion, very high saves, immunity to fear, disease and such.

I may drop OTWF for something, but I'm not sure what.

[Irinis]

Does evasion work in medium armor or does it have to be light armor?

[Fleebag]

You're right - I had forgotten that.

So you'll need a mithril breastplate or mithril brigandine.

With 2 armor enhamcements, and 3 tower shield enhancements, you can use +7 dex bonus to AC, which allows you to fully use a +6 dex item. So given this gear:

+5 Mithril Brigandine
+6 Dex Ring
+5 Cloak of Protection
+5 Mithril Tower shield
Chaosgarde Bracers
Parrying Weapon

Your regular no-buffs AC is:
---
10 Natural
+7 Dex bonus
+10 Armor
+9 Shield
+5 Deflection from cloak
+5 from Combat Expertiese
+1 from Paladin Aura
+2 from Chaosgarde
+1 Parrying Weapon
+3 Stalwart Defense
+2 Blocking
---
Total: 55

Did I get that right?

Add on barkskin, haste, fighter AC boost, etc and it goes up a bit more.

Im no expert on endgame, but that seems like a pretty decent AC for some pretty crummy gear.

[Narzic]

what would the saves be with usual gear/buffs?

[Raegoul]

Mithral Breastplate or Mithral Chainshirt is what you mean.