Segovia the Virtuoso

[Irinis]

While building the Bard Love Guide and reading many wonderful builds, I noticed we don't have many famous Virtuoso builds, so I decided to build one inspired by a famous real Virtuoso! Without further ado, I introduce the Master of Fingerpicking:

Segovia
Dwarf TWF
True Neutral Bard20

Unfortunately DDO doesn't suit the true Segovia concept of finesse fingerpicking, so we'll go with dual Heavy Picks via Master's Touch for this tribute build. (I'm sure he had a lot of STR in those fingers as well as DEX!)

Why Dorf? Well... they get spectacles!


36pt

STR 38 (17 +5 levels +4 tome +7 epic +3 exc +2 rage spell)
DEX 26 (15 +4 tome +7 epic)
CON 28 (15 +4 tome +1 Dwarf +6 item +2 rage spell)
INT 8
WIS 18 (8 +4 tome +6 concopp)
CHA 32 (14 +3 tome +3 Bard +2 cap +7 epic +3 exc)


34pt

STR 36 (16 +5 levels +3 tome +7 epic +3 exc +2 rage spell)
DEX 24 (15 +2 tome +7 epic)
CON 26 (14 +2 tome +2 Dwarf +6 item +2 rage spell)
INT 8
WIS 16 (10 +6 concopp)
CHA 30 (14 +2 tome +2 Bard +2 cap +7 epic +3 exc)


32pt

STR 34 (16 +5 levels +2 tome +7 epic +2 exc +2 rage spell)
DEX 24 (15 +2 tome +7 epic)
CON 26 (14 +2 tome +2 Dwarf +6 item +2 rage spell)
INT 8
WIS 16 (8 +1 tome +6 concopp +1 exc)
CHA 30 (14 +2 tome +2 Bard +2 cap +7 epic +3 exc)


Feats:

Toughness
"Extend"ed practice
Skill focus: Perform (swap for Power Attack later in the career, once amplification is needed to reach larger audiences)
TWF
ITWF
IC: Pierce (to pierce the heart of listeners and improve critical response!)
GTWF

Skills: The usual Bardic skills such as Perform, Balance, Concentration, Use Magic Guitar - er, Device: UMD not UMG! (With some points into Tumble, Jump, etc.)

This Virtuoso should tear up any musical challenge you present to him.

Enjoy the concert!
~Aelunira the Diva~

PS: You could go Human quite easily as well which would further justify the use of Picks over Dwarven Axes, since a powergamer would almost always choose Dwarven Axes for this kind of build. If you did, add OTWF to the feats.

[Valindria]

Dwarf TWF
True Neutral Bard20

Unfortunately DDO doesn't suit the true Segovia concept of finesse fingerpicking, so we'll go with dual Heavy Picks via Master's Touch for this tribute build. (I'm sure he had a lot of STR in those fingers as well as DEX!)

Why Dorf? Well... they get spectacles!




Feats:

Toughness
"Extend"ed practice
Skill focus: Perform (swap for Power Attack later in the career, once amplification is needed to reach larger audiences)
TWF
ITWF
IC: Pierce (to pierce the heart of listeners and improve critical response!)
OTWF
GTWF

This build is Not posisble. You have too many feats selected to be a dwarf. Obvious choice is to drop OTWF

1. Extend
3. Toughness
6. TWF
9. PA
12. ICrit
15. ITWF
18. GTWF

[Gunga]

This looks a lot like Rocka's build....

[Irinis]

Valindria - oops you're right. I was looking at the Human version in the planner.

Gunga - Thanks, I'll take another look at Rocka then, especially for gear layout. Been looking at a LOT of Bard builds lately because of making the links section of the guide.

EDIT: Oh, Roq Star final TR stats. Yeah that would be similar unless she has another TWF Bard I didn't know about. 32pt version I went for more CHA and less STR than she did, and kept up the CHA throughout theoretical TRs.

[Irinis]

First Life 32pt:

STR 34 (16 +5 levels +2 tome +6 item +3 exc +2 rage spell)
DEX 23 (15 +2 tome +5 spectral)
CON 26 (14 +2 tome +2 Dwarf +6 item +2 rage spell)
INT 8
WIS 16 (8 +2 tome +6 concopp)
CHA 30 (14 +2 tome +2 Bard +2 cap +7 epic +3 exc)

First Life Gear:

Helm: GS HP ConcOpp
Trinket: HOGF/Bat
Neck: Torc/Silverflame
Cloak: Epic Silver Concord (Fort)
Belt: Ravager
Bracer: Glacier/Epic Claw
Gloves: Perform15/Eternity/Spectral/Glacier/Epic Claw
Boots: GS SP chaskills/Anchoring/Balance15
Ring1: CHA+3
Ring2: Ravager STR+9

[Irinis]

Heh, someone registered the name Segovia on all servers but never logged in.

[Irinis]

Would a forum mod please add the Bard prefix to this thread since I can't add it myself? Thank you!