Build critique

[DoNotFeedTheRocks]

Hello. I am planning on TRing my ranger into a fighter soonish and I would just LOVE some ciritque on the build. Around lvl14 I got stuck not knowing which feats to take Thank you in advance for taking time to love over the build and leave constructive critisism

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tanend 
Level 20 Lawful Good Half-Orc Male
(20 Fighter) 
Hit Points: 384
Spell Points: 0 
BAB: 20\20\25\30\30
Fortitude: 16
Reflex: 9
Will: 5

                  Starting          Feat/Enhancement
Abilities        Base Stats          Modified Stats
(34 Point)       (Level 1)             (Level 20)
Strength             20                    32
Dexterity            15                    17
Constitution         16                    18
Intelligence          6                     6
Wisdom                8                     8
Charisma              6                     6

Tomes Used
+1 Tome of Strength used at level 3
+1 Tome of Dexterity used at level 3
+1 Tome of Constitution used at level 3
+2 Tome of Strength used at level 7
+2 Tome of Dexterity used at level 7
+2 Tome of Constitution used at level 7

                  Starting          Feat/Enhancement
                 Base Skills         Modified Skills
Skills           (Level 1)            (Level 20)
Balance               2                     3
Bluff                -2                     1
Concentration         3                     7
Diplomacy            -2                     1
Disable Device       n/a                   n/a
Haggle               -2                    -2
Heal                 -1                    -1
Hide                  2                     3
Intimidate           -2                    19
Jump                  9                    16
Listen               -1                    -1
Move Silently         2                     3
Open Lock             n/a                   n/a
Perform              n/a                   n/a
Repair               -2                    -2
Search               -2                    -2
Spot                 -1                    -1
Swim                  5                    11
Tumble                n/a                   n/a
Use Magic Device     n/a                   n/a

Level 1 (Fighter)
Feat: (Past Life) Past Life: Ranger
Feat: (Selected) Toughness
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Weapon Focus: Slashing Weapons
Enhancement: Fighter Attack Boost I
Enhancement: Fighter Haste Boost I
Enhancement: Fighter Critical Accuracy I


Level 2 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Power Attack
Enhancement: Fighter Strength I
Enhancement: Fighter Toughness I


Level 3 (Fighter)
Feat: (Selected) Two Weapon Fighting
Enhancement: Fighter Armor Mastery I
Enhancement: Orcish Extra Action Boost I
Enhancement: Orcish Strength I
Enhancement: Racial Toughness I


Level 4 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Weapon Specialization: Slashing Weapons
Enhancement: Fighter Attack Boost II
Enhancement: Fighter Critical Accuracy II


Level 5 (Fighter)
Enhancement: Fighter Haste Boost II


Level 6 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Exotic Weapon Proficiency: Khopesh
Feat: (Selected) Oversized Two Weapon Fighting
Enhancement: Kensei Khopesh Mastery I
Enhancement: Fighter Kensei I


Level 7 (Fighter)
Enhancement: Fighter Strength II


Level 8 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Improved Critical: Slashing Weapons
Enhancement: Fighter Khopesh Specialization I
Enhancement: Orcish Strength II


Level 9 (Fighter)
Feat: (Selected) Greater Weapon Focus: Slashing Weapons
Enhancement: Racial Toughness II
Enhancement: Fighter Toughness II


Level 10 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Improved Two Weapon Fighting


Level 11 (Fighter)
Enhancement: Fighter Attack Boost III
Enhancement: Fighter Critical Accuracy III


Level 12 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Greater Two Weapon Fighting
Feat: (Selected) Greater Weapon Specialization: Slashing Weapons
Enhancement: Fighter Kensei II


Level 13 (Fighter)
Enhancement: Fighter Haste Boost III
Enhancement: Fighter Critical Accuracy IV


Level 14 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Quick Draw
Enhancement: Fighter Attack Boost IV


Level 15 (Fighter)
Feat: (Selected) Two Weapon Defense


Level 16 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Superior Weapon Focus: Slashing Weapons
Enhancement: Fighter Strength III


Level 17 (Fighter)
Enhancement: Fighter Extra Action Boost I
Enhancement: Kensei Khopesh Mastery II
Enhancement: Fighter Khopesh Specialization II


Level 18 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Power Critical
Feat: (Selected) Toughness
Enhancement: Fighter Kensei III
Enhancement: Orcish Power Attack I
Enhancement: Orcish Power Attack II


Level 19 (Fighter)
Enhancement: Kensei Khopesh Mastery III


Level 20 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Dodge
Enhancement: Fighter Haste Boost IV
Enhancement: Fighter Weapon Alacrity
Enhancement: Fighter Armored Agility I
Enhancement: Orcish Brute Fighting I

[Wraith_Sarevok]

Hello. I am planning on TRing my ranger into a fighter soonish and I would just LOVE some ciritque on the build. Around lvl14 I got stuck not knowing which feats to take Thank you in advance for taking time to love over the build and leave constructive critisism

* Change alignment to Chaotic Neutral or True Neutral (I honestly prefer Chaotic for tanking epic Hezrou and Lailat).

- There are many monsters in the game that deal EVIL damage to good aligned characters (2-12 per shot). Choosing a neutral nature makes you immune to those kinds of attacks. There is no downside beyond not being able to use Pure Good weapons at low level, which honestly I never do. Pure Good is completely worthless at endgame.

- There are several extremely good end-game items that give you a negative level if you try to wear them with a good alignment. Neutral negates this effect.

- True Neutral cuts the damage of alignment spells: Chaos Hammer (Hezrou + some Tiefling casters) and Order's Wrath (IQ and DD casters + some Marut), in half and negates their stun/daze effect. It also allows you to use items of Stability, which are semi-useful at low and mid-levels.

- Chaotic Neutral gives immunity to Chaos Hammer, raid boss Queen Lailat's Pure Chaos damage on her swords (1d6 x 6 swords per attack), and allows you to use items of True Chaos, which are semi-useful at low and mid-levels.


* If you're TRing for a planned long-term life, you can easily collect a full set of +2 tomes and factor those into your ability plan. Try and make all your ability scores even, and count on eating all +2 tomes at level 7, which is what I am doing. Later, when you get Litany of the Dead, you can plan on TRing again to include those stat bonuses and fit in your enhancements and equipment as you see fit. Always, always end with an even ability score if you can help it.


* Skills:

- Balance = MAX (Extremely useful for getting up quickly after Overrun effects and Air Elemental knockdown)
- Tumble = 1 rank (Allows you to use Tumble, which can help you escape certain rare slowdown situations)
- Jump = 10 ranks (I always put 10 ranks into this to be safe. It's hard to calculate what Strength I'll end up with and Jump effect maxes out at 40. Spell gives you +30 ranks and even without that, it's still useful at low levels).
- Spot = 5 ranks (Useful for spotting and attacking hidden monsters before they can get you. 5 ranks and wearing Tharne's Goggles later on gives you at least 20, which is enough for most quests. Hidden monsters aren't very common. Even without, it's useful to have ranks at low levels to spot wights, kobolds, and hobgoblins).
- Intimidate = EXTRA (Fit what you can in here. You're going to be a tank later and you want to draw as much attention away from the weaker classes to you as you can. Even if it fails the check, you still gain some aggro with the new U9 changes. Also useful for Intimidating NPC's in some quests.
- Haggle = LAST (Any leftovers go here. You can make some more cash selling things, which is always helpful.)


* Enhancements:

- Orcish Strength is trash. You'll never be able to sustain it, because it requires you to stay at low HP levels where you can easily get 1-shot by a lucky disintegrate. So it's effectively wasted AP's on a prerequisite you can't use. Put prerequisite AP's into the Orcish Extra Action Boost enhancement line. You'll get more Haste Boosts out of it.

- Orcish Brute Fighting is also pretty much trash. You can easily hold all aggro in the game with your massive DPS, incite gear, and Intimidate, so it's not needed. You're wasting an AP on it. Better spent elsewhere, even on an extra skill point.


* Feats:

- Dump Dodge, Power Critical, and Two-Weapon Defense. AC is for newbies, gimmick tanks, and people who don't understand how combat works in this game. Physical damage is mitigated in THIS game primarily by Damage Reduction, Hit Points, and Movement Speed in that order.

Damage Reduction is absolute protection from the indicated number of damage points per hit and shields amplify that effect even further when blocking with the block key. Even a single point of damage reduction adds up over the course of 20 enemy hits and extends your life by the few seconds it takes a healer class to heal you.

Hit points keep you alive against everything, including disintegrate effects that bypass AC and kill off such tanks.

You can directly control the movement of your character and can dodge most ray-based attacks, as well as physical swings with practice and Haste buff active.

Replace all the above feats with Toughness, which raises HP and indirectly protects you as well as allows you to function as the main tank.



The rest looks pretty solid, without diving too much into it.

[DoNotFeedTheRocks]

Thanks for the feedback. Just wanted to say that Orcish Strength increases your strength score. You were thinking of Orcish fury. Plus all the feats you told me to drop for toughness were all fighter bonus feats. Toughness is not a fighter bonus feat sadly.

[Wraith_Sarevok]

Thanks for the feedback. Just wanted to say that Orcish Strength increases your strength score. You were thinking of Orcish fury. Plus all the feats you told me to drop for toughness were all fighter bonus feats. Toughness is not a fighter bonus feat sadly.

Yeah, sorry about that. I'm poor with names so I tend to get the enhancements mixed up.

Easily fixed. Just set the fighter bonus feats to take the requirements for TWF, Khopesh damage, etc. Set all the general feats you can fit to take Toughness. Just requires some careful planning. I ended up with 6 Toughness feats on my Fighter 18 / Rogue 2, which translates into 120+ HP at level 20.

[DoNotFeedTheRocks]

Yeah, sorry about that. I'm poor with names so I tend to get the enhancements mixed up.

Easily fixed. Just set the fighter bonus feats to take the requirements for TWF, Khopesh damage, etc. Set all the general feats you can fit to take Toughness. Just requires some careful planning. I ended up with 6 Toughness feats on my Fighter 18 / Rogue 2, which translates into 120+ HP at level 20.

Thanks, I'll work on that now.

[DoNotFeedTheRocks]

New and (hopefully) improved.

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Tanend 
Level 20 Chaotic Neutral Half-Orc Male
(20 Fighter) 
Hit Points: 482
Spell Points: 0 
BAB: 20\20\25\30\30
Fortitude: 16
Reflex: 9
Will: 5

                  Starting          Feat/Enhancement
Abilities        Base Stats          Modified Stats
(34 Point)       (Level 1)             (Level 20)
Strength             20                    32
Dexterity            15                    17
Constitution         16                    18
Intelligence          6                     8
Wisdom                8                     8
Charisma              6                     6

Tomes Used
+1 Tome of Strength used at level 3
+1 Tome of Dexterity used at level 3
+1 Tome of Constitution used at level 3
+2 Tome of Strength used at level 7
+2 Tome of Dexterity used at level 7
+2 Tome of Constitution used at level 7
+2 Tome of Intelligence used at level 7

                  Starting          Feat/Enhancement
                 Base Skills         Modified Skills
Skills           (Level 1)            (Level 20)
Balance               4                    12
Bluff                -2                     1
Concentration         3                     7
Diplomacy            -2                     1
Disable Device       n/a                   n/a
Haggle               -2                    -2
Heal                 -1                    -1
Hide                  2                     3
Intimidate           -2                     1
Jump                  5                    14
Listen               -1                    -1
Move Silently         2                     3
Open Lock             n/a                   n/a
Perform              n/a                   n/a
Repair               -2                    -1
Search               -2                    -1
Spot                 -1                    -1
Swim                  5                    11
Tumble                n/a                   4
Use Magic Device     n/a                   n/a

Level 1 (Fighter)
Feat: (Past Life) Past Life: Ranger
Feat: (Selected) Toughness
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Weapon Focus: Slashing Weapons


Level 2 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Exotic Weapon Proficiency: Khopesh


Level 3 (Fighter)
Feat: (Selected) Toughness


Level 4 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Weapon Specialization: Slashing Weapons


Level 5 (Fighter)


Level 6 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Power Attack
Feat: (Selected) Toughness
Enhancement: Fighter Attack Boost I
Enhancement: Fighter Attack Boost II
Enhancement: Fighter Haste Boost I
Enhancement: Kensei Khopesh Mastery I
Enhancement: Fighter Critical Accuracy I
Enhancement: Fighter Critical Accuracy II
Enhancement: Fighter Kensei I
Enhancement: Fighter Flanking Mastery I
Enhancement: Orcish Extra Action Boost I
Enhancement: Orcish Strength I
Enhancement: Fighter Strength I
Enhancement: Fighter Toughness I
Enhancement: Fighter Toughness II


Level 7 (Fighter)


Level 8 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Improved Critical: Slashing Weapons


Level 9 (Fighter)
Feat: (Selected) Toughness


Level 10 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Greater Weapon Focus: Slashing Weapons


Level 11 (Fighter)


Level 12 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Greater Weapon Specialization: Slashing Weapons
Feat: (Selected) Toughness
Enhancement: Fighter Attack Boost III
Enhancement: Fighter Attack Boost IV
Enhancement: Fighter Haste Boost II
Enhancement: Fighter Haste Boost III
Enhancement: Fighter Haste Boost IV
Enhancement: Fighter Critical Accuracy III
Enhancement: Fighter Critical Accuracy IV
Enhancement: Fighter Kensei II


Level 13 (Fighter)


Level 14 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Two Weapon Fighting


Level 15 (Fighter)
Feat: (Selected) Toughness


Level 16 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Improved Two Weapon Fighting


Level 17 (Fighter)


Level 18 (Fighter)
Feat: (Selected) Greater Two Weapon Fighting
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Superior Weapon Focus: Slashing Weapons
Enhancement: Kensei Khopesh Mastery II
Enhancement: Fighter Kensei III
Enhancement: Fighter Khopesh Specialization I
Enhancement: Orcish Strength II
Enhancement: Racial Toughness I
Enhancement: Racial Toughness II
Enhancement: Fighter Strength II
Enhancement: Fighter Strength III
Enhancement: Fighter Toughness III


Level 19 (Fighter)


Level 20 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Oversized Two Weapon Fighting
Enhancement: Fighter Extra Action Boost I
Enhancement: Fighter Weapon Alacrity
Enhancement: Kensei Khopesh Mastery III
Enhancement: Fighter Armored Agility I
Enhancement: Fighter Khopesh Specialization II
Enhancement: Orcish Power Attack I