Build Request: Caster/Melee

[11PALADIN11]

Hail DDO uber build designers,

Started back in 2006, left and returned to the game and need help with a build that has the following characteristics:

I like arcane casters (loved my arcane dc/melee variables of my 18wiz/2rogue and then 18wiz/1art/1fight then 16sorc/3bard/1arti) and equally I really like hitting with a stick

Currently I have a toon that has the following PLs: 3xWiz, 3xSorc, 3xFVS, 1 barb, 1 fighter and 1 Warlock very recently. I have some decent rapiers/shields and orbs. Last build I tried was a sun-elf ES 18Wlock/1fvs/1fighter with the full SWF line, shield and impr.shield, int based with harper tree attck and dmg that got to 28. It was tough in ee content, and self healing didnt come until I managed to twist cocoon and mass cures in which case survivability increased. My fighting speed with an orb and haste boost is fine..with a shield at hand...i am veeery slow but for sure for durable. it was also slow between the bursts (managed spell power light 500+) and the melee attack..


Sooo... I would be very obliged if you can enlighten me to an arcane caster dc-based (I read something about full nerf of dc wizards in ee) capable to handle melee. The balance of the toon will probably be steered towards the dc casting for insta-kills.

Last but not least, I played with a couple of guys that run a strange for me split of 10fighter/3barb/7warlock in primal avatar tree form..not sure how that build goes ..but the dmg was insane (for a melee based build with warlock aura. If you can direct me to a build for this I would also be very obliged).

thanks Guys,
Lefteris

[Kriogen]

I like my Warforged Wizard18/Rogue2. Casting and fighting with quarterstaffs.

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...ar-Infiltrator is a good example for TWF version.

Mine Staff build is more or less the same as that on. Well, its pretty logical to build Wiz18/rog2 like that. OK, I don't have any DEX (coz I went with 2handers) and I took THF feats, not TWF. Mine is WF, so I don't really need to be in Undead form. I put some points into Rogue/Acrobat tree to boost staffs.

[unbongwah]

Last but not least, I played with a couple of guys that run a strange for me split of 10fighter/3barb/7warlock in primal avatar tree form..not sure how that build goes ..but the dmg was insane (for a melee based build with warlock aura. If you can direct me to a build for this I would also be very obliged).

Tilomere had a similar build floating around, using warlock SLAs plus Supreme Cleave (which uses your weapon's base dmg regardless of form). Note that ES just took a significant DPS hit; dunno how relevant that is to this build.