My quest of Damage Reduction.

[purdyaw]

These will not be changed: Warforged, Fighter 20.

My quest for Damage reduction has been painful. At first I thought, well... if I just get mineral II and block, it will all stack, right?

WRONG! I casted Stoneskin on my Wizard, put on a +5 Heavy Wooden Shield. The DR in my blocking from inventory shows 13. Stoneskin is supposed to be 10/adamantine. I block for 16... What the heck?

My Level 4 Warforged Fighter had DR 4/Adamantine and Blocking DR of 14. He blocked for 18 total. Total stacks.

If you can explain this away through formula, please do.

I'm not going to tell you which feats I will take. I am dead set on taking them. YOU CAN'T STOP ME. If you read the thread title, I bet you can tell exactly which 1+5+1 feats I'm going to take (stalwart defender).

No, I don't care about uber leet dps. I just want to make a warforged tank. And yes, I will take power attack to not be completely useless when tanking doesn't work.

Sincerely,
A man about to make a warforged tank.

-- update. My findings of 16 DR with 13 blocking and stoneskin were against a ranged attack. This was probably glitched. I got a regular attack and absorbed 23 before taking any.

[MrCow]

I casted Stoneskin on my Wizard, put on a +5 Heavy Wooden Shield. The DR in my blocking from inventory shows 13. Stoneskin is supposed to be 10/adamantine. I block for 16... What the heck?

Were you hit by a ranged projectile? They follow a different formula for shield blocking Damage Reduction.

[purdyaw]

I really want to invest in this character. That mean's I'd be getting a mineral II if I didn't take what i was going to take... What I initially wanted to do is use my regular feats to achieve a permenant DR 10/adamantine. Mithral for 2, Improved Damage Reduction 5 times for 7/Adamantine. 3 Enhancements for 10 adamantine.

But now that I know stoneskin works like it should. . .

But fighter does get so many feats. . .

I just thought it would be cool to make the build as an innate Adamantine Warforged Defender. I left one feat out for toughess. I didn't multiclass into Monk, because active DR would just decrease by 1 negating where it really counted; the idea was that monk martial arts feat would give me toughness. So full 20 Fighter it is.

I know it seems like I just don't want stoneskin casted on me, but I just thought the concept of making this was cool.