The Skillfull Raging Kensai

[Pivotalia]

So, I have been looking at a THF melee build using the Horc (yes like everyone else) and I wanted to see if this combination could be sucsessfull. I have no experience in creating builds, for ddo, but I do have alot of experience for pnp d&d.

So the things that we aim for here are:

High, sustainable strength along with burst dps from fighter alacrity (quite alot of burst with all the action boosts)
High HP
High enough UMD
Evasion


Drawbacks:
Going to be limited to one kind of weapon
Tight on AP
low on skillpoints

Starting Stats:
Str 20
Dex 12
Con 16
Int 8
Wis 8
Cha 6

With a +2 tome to at least int on lvl 7 this allows for almost full ranks in both UMD and Balance. The first rogue level also allows for a little bit of tumble and other skills can boosted to usefull levels in other ways.

STR Calculations

Standing Strength:
20 - Starting
5 - level-ups
7 - Item
3 - exceptional
3 - tome
2 - Orcish Str II
3 - Fighter Str III
2 – FB Tower of Despair set
Total 45

Rage:
4 - Rage
2 – Barb Power Rage IV
2 – Orcish Power Rage II
Total 8 (53 Cumulative)

Other easily Sustainable Buffs:
2 – Frenzy
2 – Rage spell or potion
2 – 1x Madstone Boot buff
8 - Power surge

Total 14 (67 Cumulative)

Burst Strength:
2 – 2nd Madstone Buff
6 – Titan Gloves (or other psionic bonus)
2 – House D Alchemy potion
2 – Orcish Fury I
Total 12 (79 Cumulative)



Con Calculations
16 - starting
6 - Item
3 - exceptional
3 - tome
2 - enhancment
2 - rage spell
2 - yuguloth
4 - madstone
8 - rage
= 46


HP
20 Base
120 Fighter
72 Barb
12 Rogue
360 Con
45 Shroud
10 Agent of Argo
30 GFL
20 Toughness item
20 Yugoloth
Total= 699hp



Low power on laptop, will finish this later :P Please leave comments and tips

[Deaths_ward]

If you're trying to use barbarian power rage from the Half-Orc enhancements without actually having barbarian levels you're going to be sorely disappointed when it wont let you take them as they all have a minimum barbarian level they require.

Though I was looking at something similar, along the lines of Fighter 12/Barbarian 6/Rogue 2. Going for some of the good ole'fashioned Rage+Power Surge loving on a Kensai's specialized weapon. Though I was thinking of Dual wielding Khopies, a Half-Orc with a two-handed sword would be kind of wicked, a Falchion on that build might make for some ridiculous levels of crit love.

[richieelias27]

Edit: nevermind. With no class breakdown I didnt notice you'd included Rogue levels until after a second pass.

[Ereshkigal]

From the hitpoint breakdown looks like he's going 12 fighter, 6 barb, 2 rogue.