Looking for help Bard/Wizard Vampire Harper?

[Wayoff]

A levelling build to get to 20; a melee wizard in vampire form + bard for buffs on skeletal knight with points in Harper....lol. Does this sound interesting at all?

[Saekee]

Why don't you post a build with your thoughts? Until the tree is officially launched I suggest you hold off.
Anything 3 bard SWF will work, 5 bard even more so.

[unbongwah]

I've been kicking around ideas for bard 3 / wiz 17 or bard 5 / wiz 15 leveling builds too; maybe wiz 15 / bard 3 / rog 2 if I really wanted Evasion. I was thinking WF Archmage / SB / EK, but undead fleshies would work too. Harper will boost its melee DPS further (Know the Angles), but isn't a must-have right off the bat. Haven't really worked out any builds, though the idea would be to front-load bard 1-3 to get Swashbuckling ASAP (ideally you have an Assassin's Blade or Pirate Dagger banked away), then level wiz to at least 7 (Firewall), then...well, that's where I can't make up my mind what to do. But basically the idea would be to drop your AoEs and Swashbuckle in the middle so mobs are taking both DoT and melee dmg.

[Saekee]

well, the tree us coming out Monday, so jump in!

[Claver]

A levelling build to get to 20; a melee wizard in vampire form + bard for buffs on skeletal knight with points in Harper....lol. Does this sound interesting at all?

I'm playing this very build right now (presently level 6) on a repurposed Drow mule in preparation for Update 23 on Monday.

My plan is to go Warchanter 6/ Palemaster 14 as a flavor build (Melee Vampire Enchanter and Skeleton Summoner)

I Warchanter + Harper (Int Damage) gives you Medium armor as an alternative to Eldrich Knight plus Frozen Fury/Northwind/Spinning Ice/Howl of the North and Know the Angels (half int bonus for 120 second) for Melee attacks and Boast helps durability at heroic levels.

Add Harper Leadership (+4 to all stats) to Pale Master Skeleton coupled with all the Warchanter buffs…Chant of Power (+6% damage), Reckless Chant (6% double Strike), Ironskin Chant (6 DR and PRR..every little bit helps). Couple this with the free Greater Heroism ability and Augment Summoning for more skeleton goodness.

Vampire offers +2 to enchantment DC. With all the intelligence bonuses available from Harper and Drow and Enchantment Focus Metamagic feats decent DC should still be achievable.

I don't expect Summoner Focus or Melee Wizard to be an all star at the Epic levels but I expect it to be fun and self sufficient and something a little different.