Wiz or Sorc

[wenthorde]

I'm about to tr my drow pally and i want to make a arcane caster. Should i go with a wizard or a sorc? (I have little to no experience with combat casting, except for pally self-buffing.) any imput would be greatly appreciated

[Syntax42]

What are your goals for the build? Both classes have their advantages.

[AyumiAmakusa]

Go with Wizard. Since you have no experience whatsoever, that's the best choice.

[wenthorde]

Well at this point I'm pretty open to ideas. I want to have a active roll in combat. I'm toying with two ideas. First one is bard/2 wiz/18 wearing some armor and enchant/necro focus (may go pale master) total cc. The other one is bard/2 sorc/18 and going total nuke. I'm going drow for my race atm because i don't have wf and it seems the best choice. I've done some research here and on the wiki the bard/wiz cc build looks pretty solid. Kinda weak at low lvls but looks good in high lvls. I haven't looked much into the sorc though. Is that a reasonable build?

[Merlocke]

I think the more important question is

are you going WF :P

[wenthorde]

I think the more important question is

are you going WF :P

no I like drow. just cause thats my flavor

[Merlocke]

if you end up going sorc be sure to take max ranks in umd and concentration so you can heal scroll yourself.

[Kumorijin]

if you're going to go drow, you'll have less survivability than a WF. i think the 2 viable builds you'd want to look for would be wiz 18/rog2 (good rogue skills) due to your +2 to both int and des as advantages. also the sorc18/monk2 (better melee than the 1st) since you'll have +2 in char and dex. either way you're going to want to splash at least 2 of rog or monk for the evasion.

personally i'd go with the wiz/rog

str 10
dex 10
con 16
int 18
wis 8
char 10

feats: maximize, quicken, extent, empower spell, highten spell, spell pen, gtr spell pen, mental toughness,
improved ment tough, toughness x 2