The anti-heal Favored Soul

[FURYous]

Wizards have always held the title of instant killers but they are limited to that specialty.

I wanted more flexibility but didn't want to compromise on the effectiveness of my instant kills.

I bring you the Necro Based FvS that I am dubbing the Ant-heal FvS. This is what I am currently running and I can keep up with any caster AND I can heal, wear armor and take a few hits. Over 825HP and 3500 spell points, I last longer than arcanes as well.

Level 28 HELF Pure FvS

Wisdom:
18 Base
7 Level
5 Tome
2 Racial Enhancement
6 Enhancements (Protection capstone [Protector] is currently broken so currently only 4 from here)
6 Epic Destiny
2 Twists (the Magister +3 necro is the third twist)
2 Great wisdom Epic Feat (one Epic Spell Focus.)
11 Enhancement Item
3 Insight Item
1 Exceptional item
1 Profane Item
2 Alchemical
2 Yugoloth Potion
2 Airship Buff
2 Completionist
2 Ascendance (2 minutes out of every 5)
72 Total
74 for 2 minutes out of every five

Necro DC:
31 Wisdom (32 with Ascendance on)
19 Base
3 Spell Focus, Greater Spell Focus, Epic Spell Focus
1 Arcane Initiate (Wizard Past Life Feat)
3 Magister Epic Destiny
5 Lootgen Item
2 Aura

64 (65 with Ascendance on)

Angelic presence seems to have a unannounced impact on mob saves, like the
unannounced +2 to all stats for Ascendance. So it feels like mobs have an extra 2
removed from their saves (from informal testing, not at all scientific)

So a possible total of 67 necro DC during fights (let the Ascendance cool down
between fights)

Feats (I will dig up the level information if requested):
SF Necro
HELF Dilly monk (for the racial wisdom enhancements)
Quicken
GSF Necro
Completionist
Past life wizard
Highten
Epic SF Necro
Epic Wisdom
Maximize
Spell pen
toughness X 2 (in the place of those silly ass ED feats that suck for casters)
Done from memory so I may have missed something

This build also has 61 Evocation DC, so implode and such hit nicely as well. Everything else is around 57 DC, (Cometfall, greater command, ETC) not great but still usable.

I got to 51 spell pen last night and after some quick testing in EE drow city quests, found that it hits very well (a roll of 5 + 51 succeeds, I never rolled below 5 in the test)

I am going to lose 3 spell pen at level 28 to get another +1 to all DCs. Anyone tested a 48 spell pen in EE?

[Viggy]

EE drow 48 is probably going to be rough, if I remember they all have 55+. Now this could be out-dated as I haven't tested lately but that is what it used to be. EE GH you should be fine, the only mob I can think of are the mindflayers in EE POP and the cat people I think have spell pen but besides those you should be fine in the SR category.

[SirValentine]

Wisdom:
2 Twists (the Magister +3 necro is the third twist)

You could replace a straight +1 Wisdom twist for a +2 Wisdom via Acute Instincts. Rage pots are cheap. If that puts you at an odd Wisdom, it's still useful, by freeing up either a gear slot, twist, or feat for something else.

2 Ascendance (2 minutes out of every 5)
the unannounced +2 to all stats for Ascendance

Really?!? NICE. Thanks for the info. And here I thought it was a useless ability. That's what I get for reading the in-game descriptions.

Necro DC:
31 Wisdom (32 with Ascendance on)
19 Base
3 Spell Focus, Greater Spell Focus, Epic Spell Focus
1 Arcane Initiate (Wizard Past Life Feat)
3 Magister Epic Destiny
5 Lootgen Item
2 Aura

Aura doesn't affect your DC. At best, it debuffs some mob saves. Only mobs in range, only mobs susceptible to Fear effects.

Don't forget to equip a Spell Focus Mastery item for another +2 to your DCs. Tablecloth or Dragon cloaks, or Wizard's Ward orb.

Feats (I will dig up the level information if requested):
toughness X 2 (in the place of those silly ass ED feats that suck for casters)

Though not helping casting directly, I've found Guardian Angel, for a Wisdom build, a useful survival boost. Moreso than Toughness, I'd think. 70 PRR and +8 to all saves when you need it most? Tasty.

And, though Mass Frog is probably not as good as Toughness, it's got the laugh factor going for it. And it is Wisdom-based, so maybe not entirely useless.

This build also has 61 Evocation DC, so implode, meteor storm and such hit nicely as well.

Meteor Storm?

[Carpone]

And, though Mass Frog is probably not as good as Toughness, it's got the laugh factor going for it. And it is Wisdom-based, so maybe not entirely useless.

DC 20 + WIS bonus vs. Fortitude is anemic. It's wallpaper in harder content, which is unfortunate since it's rather comedic.

[FranOhmsford]

Meteor Storm?

He's probably talking about http://ddowiki.com/page/Fire_Storm

[FURYous]

He's probably talking about http://ddowiki.com/page/Fire_Storm

My bad, I meant Cometfall. It lands well and is good CC in a pinch.

Meteor, Comet, potato, tomato.... let's call the whole thing off!

[FURYous]

Aura doesn't affect your DC. At best, it debuffs some mob saves. Only mobs in range, only mobs susceptible to Fear effects.

I found that -2 (or -4 if my theory is correct) to the mobs saves is just as good +2 DC. I get the same hits as a wizard with 2 higher DC than I have due to it.

Great input SV, thanks much. I may gain another 3 DC from that, at least 2 more DC and a feat.

[FURYous]

Don't forget to equip a Spell Focus Mastery item for another +2 to your DCs. Tablecloth or Dragon cloaks, or Wizard's Ward orb.

I thought this did not stack with a necro 5 item, does it? I currently have necro and evocation 5 items equipped.

[FURYous]

You could replace a straight +1 Wisdom twist for a +2 Wisdom via Acute Instincts. Rage pots are cheap. If that puts you at an odd Wisdom, it's still useful, by freeing up either a gear slot, twist, or feat for something else.

I looked up Acute Instincts and it seems with this, you only get the wisdom when you are raged. I prefer not to try and keep myself raged all the time so I don't think this will work for me.

[SirValentine]

I thought this did not stack with a necro 5 item, does it? I currently have necro and evocation 5 items equipped.

They didn't before the expansion. They do now.

[SirValentine]

I looked up Acute Instincts and it seems with this, you only get the wisdom when you are raged. I prefer not to try and keep myself raged all the time so I don't think this will work for me.

The great thing about twists is that they are so easy to swap. If you don't like quaffing the minute-and-a-half potions, you can swap it out when soloing, and swap it back in when you're running with a Bard or Wiz who can give you 7-minute-long Extended Rages.