help me please

[Asmodeus451]

i am rapidly approaching the 2500 Favor FvS unlock, and i'm lloking forward to building one, but have no idea how.

so i am coming to the forums for help.

Goals of the build:

Main idea is to be right in the middle of the fight while healing, so toon needs to be able to do 3 things:

Heal
Melee DPS
Survivability


i'd prefer a pure build, as i dont like multiclassing.

i know that WF is the ideal race for this type of build, BUT, i dont have WF, so it must be F2P or Drow for race.

i have 32 pt builds unlocked.

Dex reqs for TWF are kinda steep, so will prob go S&B with Devotion or something on the shield.



any help or advice at all would be appreciated

[Falco_Easts]

Ignore me. Just tagging this thread as I am interested in the same thing and this saves me asking for myself

[Chette]

You're unfortunately not going to really get any kind of melee DPS going sword and board, but it's relatively easy to use a two handed weapon, and simply use superior ardor clickies. They last 3 minutes, each clicky will have three charges, and they give a 75% boost instead of the 50% boost of devotion or potency.

For a pure THF melee FvS, the best race right now is probably Half-Elf. Yes, I would put Half-Elf with fighter dil above Warforged, even though WF have greatsword as a favoured weapon, because Half Elf just get so many other great bonuses.

However, as you don't have half-elf, then human is the next best thing. If you want to be pure, you will need to take a weapon proficiency, which isn't so bad, as you get an extra feat for being human anyway, so it's *almost* as good as half elf, except that you have to pick which weapon to be proficient in, instead of getting all martial weapons.

For feats then, I would recommend:
Toughness
Power Attack
Improved Critical
Weapon Proficiency Greatsword or axe or falchion
Quicken
Maximize
Empower

That leaves you one feat left over for whatever you want. Empower healing is nice if you want to take the free cure light wounds capstone, extend is also nice for your melee buffs.

[Chette]

I also wanted to throw out that if you are not too concerned about melee DPS, that the FvS *tank* is one of the recent flavours of the month. High survivability, good healing, and able to dish out the damage with divine punishment, but no melee dps at all really. If you're interested in something like that I would recommend probably human, maybe dwarf. Feats:

Toughness
Quicken
Maximize
Empower
Empower Healing
Shield Mastery
Improved Shield Mastery
1 extra if human

It's a fun build, though to make it shine it would require a lot of SP regen items, such as torc and concordant opposition.

[d1mitri]

If you have a +2 dex tome, TWF is easily obtainable on fvs. It's more a problem with feats - you won't get a lot of flexibility there.


http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=348927 - What I'm trying now. Having a blast at it at lvl 13 human fvs now. Damage isn't extreme with lack of critical and no khopeshes, but still pretty good compared to what I see in pugs ^^. Bosses go down quick with divine punishment + melee. Only time I find more DPS would be helping is when I can't even do one swing because I'm casting heals non-stop. So more that this on melee, I'm not sure is even needed.