Well Schooled Favored Soul

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The Well Schooled Favored Soul

Well, we have the healing spec'd FvS, we have the melee spec'd FvS, we have BB spec'd FvS...

But why not a FvS that can be good at casting ALL spells? Divine spells aren't just heals and BB, aren't they?

Enter the Well Schooled Favored Soul.

In short, you kill/cc with your spells, and can do a pretty decent job in the healing department at the same time. You have a high UMD (equipment included). You have ~500hp and ~2300sp endgame. You have solid DC's because of your wisdom and schools, ranging from 36-40, depending on your gear/pots.

- 18 FvS/1 Wiz/1 Mnk
- Human
- 34pt, past life Cleric in my case (32pt is fine too) build
- 10 feats:

Spell Penetration, Greater Spell Penetration, Spell Focus: Necromancy, Greater Spell Focus: Necromancy, Spell Focus: Enchantment, Greater Spell Focus: Enchantment, Maximize Spell, Quicken Spell, Heighten Spell, Toughness

1 Wiz = extra metamagic feat
1 Mnk = toughness feat
Human = extra feat

- Base stats: 8 str, 8 dex, 16 con, 10 int, 18 wis, 14 cha.
- End stats:

Str, Dex, Int are irellevant, +6 items and +2 tomes...

Con: 16 base + 6 item + 2(,3,4) tome = 24

Wis: 18 base + 1 Human Adaptability + 2 FvS Wisdom + 2(,3,4) tome + 2 Ocean Stance + 5 Levels + 6 item + 3 ToD ring = 39

Cha: 14 base + 1 Greater Human Adaptability + 3 FvS Charisma + 2(,3,4) tome + 6 item = 26

*you can drop the charisma adaptability bonus and go for constitution

- Enahncements:
All toughness lines, spell pen, stat bonuses, diplomacy and/or human skills boost, life magic, energy of the scion

*you can take Sovereign Host heal enchancement and drop it later , it's a free early game heal spell with 10 min cd, kinda useless later

- Skills:
Diplomacy, Concentration and UMD

- Spells:
It all boils down to Heal, Mass Heal, Greater Command (your mass CC), Destruction (your killer), Mass Cure Critical Wounds, Mass Cure Serious Wounds, Blade Barrier (maximized killer/kiter). And every possible buff spells. Other are per your liking.

*you only have 1 lvl 9 spell, so it's either Mass Heal or Energy Drain, you can heal pretty good without the Mass Heal if you have the right equipment, plus there is probably another healer nearby with the capacity to cast it. Implosion is just weak in my opinion, especially with it's cooldown.

- Equipment:
Feet - Gyroscopic Boots or any +30% speed boots

Left Ring - ToD ring +1 Exceptional Cha/Con, upgraded to Greater Devotion VIII

Right Ring - ToD ring +1 Exceptional Wisdom, upgraded to +2 Exceptional Wisdom

Bracers - any +6 strength

Gloves - Gloves of the Glacier for Efficient Metamagic: Maximize II

Cloack - any Charisma +6

Belt - any Constitution +6

Armor - Dragontouched Robe with Greater False Life, Wisdom +6 and Greater Spell Pen VIII

Necklace - any Superior Potency +6 from ToD

Head - Minos Legens for Toughness and Fortification 100%

Trinket - Stormreaver's Napkin

Weapon - Staff of the Petitioner for +2 Necromancy, +2 Enchantment and Spell Penetration 8

Random items: Bauble, Ring of Spell Storing, Torc, Twisted Talisman, Eardweller, Big Top, Golden Cartouche...

*this setup may wary, you can get +7 stat items with epics, you can get littany, and those new item sets from fens etc. Point is, you can push the limits even further.

Any comments are welcome.

[blitzschlag]

2 enchantment foci for just

greater command
symbol of stunning
symbol of persuasion

not my cup of tea i'd always go with capstone if i have the choice...

[chat_nick]

Think of it as a healer and a nonconformist

[Steveohio]

Theres just no way you cannot take empower on an evoker.

[MsEricka]

Nice idea, but the loss of empower and the dr10 silver/cold iron really hurts. Literally

Plus the loss of the capstone takes away 2cha for that extra point of UMD.

But if you don't want to go pure that's your choice, so here's what else I see.

No concordant opposition in this build. Why? disease/blindness immunity, +6 wisdom, +5 cha skills and 150SP are rather nice to have.

I would drop Greater Spell Focus enchant and take empower. Your blade barriers will thank you.

Trinket - Stormreaver's Napkin <--?? The napkin is a cloak, not a trinket. Of course it doesn't stack with the +2 necro/enchant DC's on the staff of the petitioner so it should only be used situationally. I doubt it really needs to be used at all.

Also for a 34 point build, you don't have a greensteel HP item included which is odd. A MinII HP item will get you +5 prot, heavy fort, 45HP and +6 to con skills which means a higher concentration and fort save.

[chat_nick]

This build is sort of a work in progress, I gave my current ideas about it.

I was more interested in peoples' opinion about the build style itself

Concordant can fit in just fine.

I skipped the empowered BB and it's school, because you are messing around with Destruction and Greater Command spells, and it's still a high DC maximized BB is not that useless. This leans towards the Evoker builds, but yes, you can drop one school line and go 1 evocation focus and empower... I just wanted to do something "fresh".

And I meant littany or head of good fortune instead of napkin

Goggles should be greensteel with +sp and +hp, I forgot about them.

UMD is quite high as is, with cartouche, big top, skills boost, and the mentioned goggles fit in nice...