Batman Meet Half Orc - Revisiting the 18F/2R

[Ganak]

TRing my old school drow batman 18/2 build (Xanak the Irregular) into a Half Orc 18/2.

Xanak was originally built as a high ac evasion melee about four years ago and morphed into a pretty effective TWF Kensei over the years. The original concept was a fast, mobile, versitile and survivable warrior--high jump, balance, umd...and tumble (31+). Yes, tumble for no other reason that it looked cool and I'm glad **** I did because it was gnarly

However, he needs a TR badly and after much consideration I am going Half Orc 18 Fighter/2 Rouge Kensei.


The concept is a deadly evasion TWF Half Orc Kensei with great self sufficency and survivablility.


The challenge with this type of build is the -2 int and -2 chr conflicts with skill points and umd. I do have a +4 chr tome from tod 20th which helps. The compramise with this build is having only umd maxed, with about 13 points in jump, and little OL or other skills.

I've been waiting 4 years for half orcs. I think a pure 20 half orc kensei works out a little easier, but I also like the old school half orc fighter-thief concept, and I like my toons to be a bit against the grain.


This build was put together by hand with an absence of half orcs in character generators at this time. Errors could exist.


Here are the starting basics:

18 Fighter/2 Rogue

Str: 20
Dex: 15
Con 15
Wis: 8
Int: 8
Chr: 6

I have a +3 Con and +4 chr tome. Add +2 tomes in other stats.

Level ups in Str.

Skills
UMD maxed. Jump about 13 skill points invested.

Taking rogue levels at 1 and 10 to max skill point assignment.


Feats

1 Stunning blow
2 TWF
3 Toughness, OTWF
5 WF:S
6 Toughness
7 WS:S
9 ITWF, IC:S
12 SF:UMD, GTWF
14 GWF:S
15 Toughness
16 GWS:S
18 Toughness (maybe iron will), PA
20 SWF: S



I hate taking power attack so late, could not find a better alternative tho. Will be capped in 3-4 weeks so no biggie.



Feedback or questions please!

[Bracosius]

Could take power attack earlier in place of the second toughness feat. Being a TR with decent con and gear I doubt the addittional hp will be better then power attack from lvl 6+.

[EKKM]

Could switch OTWF with PA, i doubt you will need the to-hit with all that STR until epic.

Looks pretty solid.

Are you sure your reflex save will be high enough to make good use of evasion?Will saves are not as important as they used to be but yours will pretty horrendous, I would seriously consider Iron will or luck of heroes and never take off a resist 5 item.

[William_the_Bat]

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Psst: it's not a Batman without the pally levels for divine grace and enough cha for it to matter.

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