Thinking about a melee FvS

[Hamlin]

Okay so here's what I was thinking. I'm going for a melee focused character that can self heal and have access to both divine and arcane buffs. I recently earned enough renown to unlock the favored soul class. Half elf would give me access to sorc dilly for arcane buffs via wands and scrolls. FvS as a class itself has decent HP and BAB and I've seen tons of melee FvS running around (mostly warforged though).

So what I have so far is:

32 point build (new character)
Class: FvS
Race: Half-Elf
Sorceror dilitante feat

Now that we have that out of the way, I need to start planning stats, feats, etc. And that's what I need help with. For stats I was thinking maybe:

STR: 16
DEX: 15
CON: 14
INT: 8
WIS:10
CHA:13

I was thinking of taking undying court for my class feat and dual wielding scimitars. I am open to dropping dex and bumping CON or a casting stat and and going THF. Would save me feats too. Really undecided on that one.

Can someone help me out with this one? Is there a build out there somewhere like this that I can use for reference? Thanks in advance for any advice.

[ZennyoTheWise]

There are several builds that can be found at the link below.

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=370115

[HGM-Chi]

My experience with melee FvS so far has been:

TWFing is extremely hard to pull off. You pretty much need to splash so you lose a strong capstone, and even still you'll find around level 15ish that your damage output is lacking in melee. This is based on attempting an 18/2 FvS/Monk elf that was TWFing using scimis. At around level 16 or 17 I ended up LRing to a pure caster and she is one of my favorite characters to play.

THFing - I'm in the middle of TRing my WF FvS, THFing melee oriented. This build is a lot of fun to play as well, the bonus DR is nice, the melee output is nice, and you can still primary heal shroud runs if you feel like paying attention to red bars I also have a THFing human that is melee focused around level 15. My hope with him is with healing amp and the free Healing Word he'll have the same survivability as the WF. My gut feeling is that I'll end up LR or TRing him into a pure caster as well.

So, short version, I think the WF FvS is the best route to go for a melee favoured soul. I wouldn't try making a TWFing one again myself. Exception might be a deeper splash of fighter... something like 12 FvS/6 Fighter/2 Monk.