The Chantificer (2 Rogue/6 Artificer/12 Warchanter)

[TheWalruss]

34 point build, +3 dex and +3 str tome needed for PA and Imp PS

Goods:
- Heavy repeating min2 or alchemical air3 with insightful damage, 4d6+1d3+item sneak damage, bard songs and haste
- Flesh artie with self-heal ability without essence feat, spells that provide for CC (clouds, blind, slow, otto, etc.) while you rain death with fusilage or rogue haste
- Evasion

Bads:
- Melee feats needed for pre-reqs (no toughness)
- Main stat split between several
- Less than half the hp and sp of a full wf artie
- Proximity needed for sneak vs. own hp

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Tomosto 
Level 20 Neutral Good Half-Elf Male
(2 Rogue \ 12 Bard \ 6 Artificer) 
Hit Points: 230
Spell Points: 786 
BAB: 14\14\19\24
Fortitude: 9
Reflex: 19
Will: 13

                  Starting            Ending          Feat/Enhancement
Abilities        Base Stats         Base Stats         Modified Stats
(34 Point)       (Level 1)          (Level 20)           (Level 20)
Strength             10                 13                   13
Dexterity            16                 19                   22
Constitution         14                 16                   16
Intelligence         18                 25                   27
Wisdom                8                 10                   10
Charisma              8                 10                   12

Tomes Used
+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
+2 Tome of Wisdom used at level 7
+2 Tome of Charisma used at level 7
+3 Tome of Strength used at level 11
+3 Tome of Dexterity used at level 11

Level 1 (Rogue)
Feat: (Half-Elf Dilettante) Half-Elf Dilettante: Rogue
Feat: (Past Life) Past Life: Artificer
Feat: (Selected) Point Blank Shot


Level 2 (Artificer)
Spell (1): Conjure Bolts
Spell (1): Ablative Armor
Spell (1): Repair Light Damage
Spell (1): Resist Energy
Spell (1): Enchant Weapons
Spell (1): Grease


Level 3 (Rogue)
Feat: (Selected) Weapon Focus: Piercing Weapons


Level 4 (Artificer)
Ability Raise: INT
Spell (1): Master's Touch


Level 5 (Artificer)
Spell (2): Elemental Weapons


Level 6 (Artificer)
Feat: (Selected) Precise Shot
Feat: (Artificer Bonus) Rapid Shot
Spell (2): Insightful Strikes


Level 7 (Artificer)
Spell (2): Flame Arrow


Level 8 (Artificer)
Ability Raise: INT
Spell (3): Insightful Damage


Level 9 (Bard)
Feat: (Selected) Extend Spell
Spell (1): Expeditious Retreat


Level 10 (Bard)
Spell (1): Focusing Chant


Level 11 (Bard)
Spell (1): Cure Light Wounds


Level 12 (Bard)
Ability Raise: INT
Feat: (Selected) Improved Critical: Ranged Weapons
Spell (2): Blur
Spell (2): Glitterdust


Level 13 (Bard)
Spell (1): Hypnotism
Spell (2): Cure Moderate Wounds


Level 14 (Bard)


Level 15 (Bard)
Feat: (Selected) Power Attack
Spell (2): Invisibility
Spell (3): Displacement
Spell (3): Haste


Level 16 (Bard)
Ability Raise: INT
Spell (3): Good Hope


Level 17 (Bard)


Level 18 (Bard)
Feat: (Selected) Improved Precise Shot
Spell (4): Otto's Sphere of Dancing
Spell (3): Cure Serious Wounds
Spell (4): Cure Critical Wounds


Level 19 (Bard)
Spell (4): Freedom of Movement


Level 20 (Bard)
Ability Raise: INT
Enhancement: Artificer Damage Boost I
Enhancement: Artificer Damage Boost II
Enhancement: Rogue Haste Boost I
Enhancement: Artificer Crossbow Attack I
Enhancement: Artificer Crossbow Damage I
Enhancement: Artificer Battle Engineer I
Enhancement: Bard Inspired Attack I
Enhancement: Bard Inspired Attack II
Enhancement: Bard Inspired Bravery I
Enhancement: Bard Inspired Bravery II
Enhancement: Bard Inspired Bravery III
Enhancement: Bard Inspired Damage I
Enhancement: Bard Inspired Damage II
Enhancement: Bard Inspired Damage III
Enhancement: Bard Lingering Song I
Enhancement: Bard Lingering Song II
Enhancement: Bard Lingering Song III
Enhancement: Bard Warchanter I
Enhancement: Bard Warchanter II
Enhancement: Elven Dexterity I
Enhancement: Elven Dexterity II
Enhancement: Improved Rogue Dilettante I
Enhancement: Improved Rogue Dilettante II
Enhancement: Human Improved Recovery I
Enhancement: Rogue Sneak Attack Training I
Enhancement: Bard Song Magic I
Enhancement: Bard Song Magic II
Enhancement: Bard Energy of the Music I
Enhancement: Bard Energy of the Music II
Enhancement: Bard Energy of the Music III
Enhancement: Bard Charisma I
Enhancement: Bard Charisma II
Enhancement: Rogue Dexterity I
Enhancement: Artificer Intelligence I
Enhancement: Artificer Intelligence II

What do you think? Worth a test run?

[TheWalruss]

Reserved

[smeggy1384]

Extend spell kind of stands out, at least until they get it to work on weapon buffs not worth it. Easier to time all buffs at once i feel. If i cast a resist with no extend i can time my weapon buff by that (same duration).

Precise shot early on is one thing i'd change on my arti.. You can mow down that front line of enemies pretty easily, sometimes with only 1 or 2 of the bolts in a volley. Third bolt goes right on past to hit the caster in the back. If you use precise shot on that caster, bolt gets wasted, as two shots kill and one just flies past its corpse. Maybe not too big a deal, but PA could be taken first.

Could you not grab monk instead of rogue for evasion? Not like you get the rogue sneak attack since you have the rogue dili, and if you took arti at first level not missing out on the skill points. Do the rogue haste boost and arti fusilade not share uses per day? If not that would be pretty handy.

[JeffreyGator]

The OP can't mix monk with bard b/c of alignment.

I'm not sure why he took WF: peircing though.

Extend might be taken for haste/displacement not for the long term buffs.

[junior_w]

I'm not sure why he took WF: peircing though.

It's a prerequisite for Warchanter I

[TheWalruss]

fusilage or rogue haste

Nope, you can't stack 'em. But fusilage and haste might be useful for different purposes. In epic raids you also won't have enough fusilage charges for the whole fight. And haste could prove intersting with an Epic Storm.

Extend was indeed for haste/displace

[DonRicardo]

I also noticed that the Dilly for Rogue does not stack with actual rogue levels.

Just sayin. You probably know that already.

[darkovac]

I'm not sure Warchanter is good for this combination (I'm playing one right now and my opinion is that it is more for barbs/fighters). If you are taking it for medium armor proficiency bare in mind that evasion won't work in it.

Everybody would probably recommend Spellsinger and that is a good choice but Virtuoso (song regeneration, easier access to Music of Dead and Makers and Song of cappering) can be quite effective in this combination (I think I saw some Mechanic-Virtuoso build that resembles this - it relies on light repeating x-bow).

Also DonRicardo is right, rouge dilly doesn't stack with rogue lvls so there is no point taking it. You can check out Paladin dilly for saves boost (up to 5 CHA bonus to saves).

[cru121]

Also DonRicardo is right, rouge dilly doesn't stack with rogue lvls so there is no point taking it. You can check out Paladin dilly for saves boost (up to 5 CHA bonus to saves).

Or you can make him human and take Toughness instead.

Flesh artie with self-heal ability without essence feat, spells that provide for CC (clouds, blind, slow, otto, etc.)

* Self heal is not so hot without a metamagic feat
* Why would you take Glitterdust / Otto's Sphere of Dancing with 8 cha? No CC except Fascinate.

[voodoogroves]

I'm going to echo the suggestion for Virtuoso. Much lower feat requirements and you get the highly useful Song of Capering.