Feedback: Favored Soul 101 (Work in Progress)

[Alektronic]

Right on Sirgog, that's exactly the mix of 3 I'd suggest as the reference FVS builds right now (pure 20)

(1) WIS-high Evoker (toughness, heighten, quicken, maximize, empower, sf, gsf)
(2) WIS-dumped non-DC caster (toughness, empower, quicken, maximize as the core w/ additional melee or shield mastery 2nd focus)
(3) WF Melee (yours is a great reference w/ the changes suggested)

I'd phrase them like this"

1) Evoker (same as you listed)
2) Beacon of light/ Healbot (same as you listed, I've seen hi charisma on this kind of build, but never played one. Sirgog seems to hint at lvl ups in con, which sounds like a great idea.)
3) Melee* (excells at signature weapon)

*There's been a lot of heated debate about this category. For the sake of the newbie guide, I think this category should be constrained to pure class (20 fvs) and using the signature weapon. As such, WF with greatswords/lord of blades, Elves** with scimitar/call of the undead (maybe longswords here) as "classic" builds.

**Maybe a quick vote here would suffice. Everyone loves WF + Lord of Blades, but I get the impression that there is a sizeable number of people who think elf melees are "gimp". Rather than debate this point, it might make it easier just to run a quick poll on people who actually play fvs as to whether elf melee souls are viable. I suspect that at least a few people calling elf melee souls gimp have never capped any fvs. If the majority of the community think this combination is not effective, then it should come with some kind of disclaimer in the guide.

My take on elf melee soul: it is a very newbie friendly build if built properly. The only downside is the difficulty in finding good scimitars (which beat khpsh in the hands of an elf FvS... base dmg 1d8 +6 with 30% crit range on GS anyone?). Longswords are probably more newbie friendly but... like the look, hate the dmg profile.