Endgame Arobat

[Zoda]

THE TITLE IS ENDGAME ACROBAT OFC!!! og...

Mainly throwing this out here because I haven't seen an acrobat build I liked posted for a while (but I could be very well missing some posts), so....

This is a build I'm having some fun with for the past two days, it has some decent soloability, most old e/es are cake, with some good play it can solo the easier stormhorns e/es as well (I'd not try WGU on th current helf version, think it'd be doable as BF though - on that note, BF is the stronger choice if you have the +1 heart to change the pally level and don't mind joining the droid army). I currently have 3 cleric (don't ask) 1 rog and 1 fighter past life on this toon, and it is doing perfectly fine with them, so I dare say it works with any 36pb.

Half-elf 13 rogue 6 monk 1 cleric

Starting stats: (36 pb)
STR 16
DEX 16 (+5 tome to hit improved sneak attack)
CON 14
INT 8
WIS 8
CHA 16

Feats:
1 helf: pally dilettante (can be swapped for fighter for better stun DC)
3 monk: PA, THF, Thoughness
7 regular: Cleave, Great Cleave, Stunning Blow, IC: bludgeoning, Master of Forms, Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot (these two just to get an invitation to fight club)
3 epic: Improvd Sneak Attack, Overwhelming Critical, Improved THF
2 destiny: PTHF, Tactician

Stunning Blow and Tactician can be dropped for GTHF and PTWF for more damage, but I like having the option of stunning casters and assassins (and pretty much anything in old ees)

Current enhancements layout: (note that I pretty much just zerged to 28 on various e/es these past two days, so may not be the optimal mix)
Thief Acrobat:
34 points
knockdown immunity core, everything to get Staff Control and Vault, 1 rank in No Mercy, I pick up haste boost from LD to save some AP, so no Haste Boost Here, maxed quick strikes

Halfelf:
17 points
3 cores 2 x imp pally dilettante, 2 healamp, dilettante str, 3 action surge: str

Ninja Spy:
11 points
bare minimum to get Shadow Veil (2d6 SA, +2 reflex, +2% dodge/dodge cap)

Henshin Mystic:
9 points
Fists of Iron, 2 tiers of staff damage, way of the tortoise

Warpriest:
4 points - DM 3

Radiant Servant:
4 points - Scroll Mastery 3

Shintao:
1st core for 5% hamp

Destiny: LD
Twists: Scream, Dance of Flowers, Coccoon

Won't give you a gear layout just yet, but with +5 tomes, and complete gear, it can reach 76 fairly sustainabl str (I'm at 71 now... got some work to do).

For the Bladeforged version, which I do think is better, 1 fvs level is probably better since it gets better saves, far more spellpoints (thanks to high CHA) and has no real use for scroll mastery. Change Coccoon to LD echoes for th BF version, start 14 cha and 12 con, so you can get 16 dex.

PS to devs: Fix cleave glancing blow damage with quarterstaves already... that bug has been around for how long? og...

[Nightmanis]

12 barbarian 7 rogue 1 fvs. Lots of damage, decent survival rate, no monk so you're not confirming to the masses, tons of strength.

And if I really felt like if, make it a bf. Extra heal clicky never hurt anyone.

[Zoda]

12 barbarian 7 rogue 1 fvs. Lots of damage, decent survival rate, no monk so you're not confirming to the masses, tons of strength.

And if I really felt like if, make it a bf. Extra heal clicky never hurt anyone.

You can't recon in barb rage even with the SLA, and I'm sure as hell not gonna use SF pots, only way it could survive e/es is with a healer behind it (or if you don't use barb rage but then what's the point). No monk = no stance, no dance of flowers, no fists of iron (and no finishers - yes I do use Grasp of the Earth Dragon and Aligning Heavens fairly often), only 7 rog = no opportunist, loses 6d6 SA damage. Also thanks to the bugged cleaves with qstaves, this would be sort of a nonbo with supreme cleave. The only way for me to justify cleaving on a staff user was to get high SA damage, because even if you get no gb damage, you get your SA in full when you cleave, but I'm still skipping cleaves as much as possible, and not only because of the bug, but because of the wicked attackspeed this build has when I just autoattack.

[generalfoley]

what`s the leveling order?

[Hjarki]

7 regular: Cleave, Great Cleave, Stunning Blow, IC: bludgeoning, Master of Forms, Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot (these two just to get an invitation to fight club)

I've heard some vague stirrings about this, but not real details - is something not working correctly with PBS/Precise Shot that would make them worthwhile for a melee-centric build?

Also, I believe the cha-bonus-to-saves from Half-elf isn't working (at least under 'known issues') right now.

[Zoda]

I've heard some vague stirrings about this, but not real details - is something not working correctly with PBS/Precise Shot that would make them worthwhile for a melee-centric build?

Also, I believe the cha-bonus-to-saves from Half-elf isn't working (at least under 'known issues') right now.

Yes something is wrong with PBS/PS.

I just logged my acrobat to double check, cha bonus to saves works just fine.