Reaper Tanky-Bard PDK 3/4 Fighter, 5/6 Warlock, 10/12 Bard

[TheWalruss]

Reaper Tanky-Bard PDK 3/4 Fighter, 5/6 Warlock, 10/12 Bard
4 Fighter for 30% Competence Bonus to HP and +6 Constitution.
6 Warlock for Shining Through and Shape Vestments.
10 Bard for Cures, Dimension Door and Swashbuckling.
11 Bard if you would like Freedom of Movement.
I can not come up with a reason to take 12 Bard levels at the cost of 6 Con, 10HP, 5MRR and -2 seconds on Eldritch Aura.

Stats (36 points/32 points):
Strength: 8*
Dexterity: 8**
Constitution: 18/16
Intelligence: 12/14
Wisdom: 8
Charisma: 18 + level ups
*If you want Power Attack at some point, remember you need 13 Strength.
**If you want Precision at some point, remember you need 13 Dexterity.

Skills (in list of importance):
UMD
Heal
Perform
Spellcraft
Balance (7 points)
Search, Jump, Balance, Spot, whatever

Pact:
Fey for synergy with Arcane Marauder*.
Fiend for synergy with Consecrate.
Great Old One if you have Deep Gnome past lives.
*Not sure if this is mutually exclusive with Stalwart Defense.

Warlock Spells:
1: Nightshield, whatever
2: Whatever

Bard Spells:
1: Cure Light, Focusing Chant, Remove Fear, whatever
2: Cure Moderate, whatever
3: Cure Serious, Good Hope, Haste, whatever
4: Cure Critical, Dimension Door, Freedom of Movement

Feats:
1, Fighter: Insightful Reflexes, Force of Personality (Human Bonus Fear), Shield Mastery (Class Feat)
2, Warlock:
3, Warlock: Quicken
4, Warlock:
5, Warlock:
6, Warlock: Single Weapon Fighting
7, Bard:
8, Bard:
9, Fighter: Power Attack, Improved Single Weapon Fighting (Class Feat)
10, Fighter:
11, Bard:
12, Bard: Improved Critical: Slashing
13, Bard:
14, Bard:
15, Bard: Greater Single Weapon Fighting
16, Bard:
17, Bard:
18, Bard: Improved Shield Mastery
19, Bard:
20, Bard:
21, Epic: ?
22, Epic:
23, Epic:
24, Epic: ?
25, Epic:
26, Epic:
27, Epic: ?
28, Epic: ?
29, Epic: ?
30, Epic: ? Dire Charge

Enhancements:
Purple Dragon Knight: 3 points.
Cores: Human Versatility: Melee & Ranged Power
Tier 1: Cormyrian Knight Training

Stalwart Defender: 13 points.
Cores: Toughness, Stalwart Defense
Tier 1: Resillient Defense 3/3, Stalwart Defensive Mastery 2/3
Tier 2: Durable Defense 3/3
Tier 3: Tenacious Defense

Harper Agent: 8 points.
Cores: Agent of Good I
Tier 1: Harper Enchantment, Traveler’s Toughness 2/3
Tier 2: Know the Angles 3/3

Swashbuckler: 11 points.
Cores: Confidence, Swashbuckling
Tier 1: On Your Toes 3/3, Limber Up 1/3
Tier 2: Fast Movement, Deflect Arrows
Tier 3: Skirmisher

Enlightened Spirit: 38 points.
Cores: Eldritch Aura, Aura of Courage, Shape Vestments
Tier 1: Resilience of Body 1/3, Spiritual Defense 3/3
Tier 2: Spiritual Bastion 3/3, Power of Enlightenment 3/3, Shield
Tier 3: Eldritch Burst 3/3, Spiritual Ward 3/3, Power of Enlightenment 3/3, Constitution
Tier 4: Spiritual Retribution 3/3, Constitution
Tier 5: Spirit Blast 3/3, Shining Through, Displacement

Remaining points to have fun with.

Epic Enhancements:
Divine Crusader
Tier 1: Interrogation, Purge the Wicked, Charisma
Tier 2: Consecration 3/3, Flames of Purity 3/3
Tier 3: Sacred Ground
Tier 4: Crusade
Tier 5: Castigation, Heavenly Presence, Celestial Champion
Tier 6: Strike Down

Twists of Fate:
4: Dragon Heritage Red (Tier 3) or Energy Burst (Tier 4)
3: Legendary Shield Mastery (Tier 2)
2: Radiant Power (Tier 1)
1: Cocoon (Tier 1)*
If you have enough healing, take Legendary Tactics.

[TheWalruss]

Reserved.

Somewhat a work in progress.

Notes: Change buckler to orb for sonic, change pact to Fey to stack with sonic from bard.

Dump Harper Agent for Utterdark, Pact Damage and Stanch in Tainted Scholar.

Con/cha - drop Int

[cru121]

I think melee performance of this build is going to be underwhelming. It's hard to build a useful warlock split where multiclassing is worth it.

Your defense is not going to overperform either, light armor fór swashbuckling, no evasion. You're gonna have to stick with buckler if you want tenacious defense.

In the end, going warlock 20 would give you more of everything.

[TheWalruss]

I agree cru, and thank you for responding.

I'm experimenting with solo-melee for reaper.

[unbongwah]

4 Fighter for 30% Competence Bonus to HP and +6 Constitution.

Tenacious Defense is +20% HPs not +30% (i.e., no better than ES capstone); +6 CON as well is only yours if you spend 23 APs in SD and your split only shows 13 APs. So right off the bat, this is obviously an AP-constrained build, on top of any other issues.

10 Bard for Cures, Dimension Door and Swashbuckling.

DDoor is both a bard and warlock spell, so that's not really a perk. CCW is always nice to have, ofc, but if your focus is on (high skull) Reaper mode, self-healing becomes less important than damage avoidance and the temp HPs from ES you are presumably relying on as a buffer.

In the end, going warlock 20 would give you more of everything.

Compared to pure ES melee `lock, my hunch is this build has better melee DPS thanks to Swashbuckling, slightly better PRR/MRR with higher Dodge (vs ES in med armor), and better self-healing thanks to CCW; but caster DPS will be low and HPs will mostly be a wash (unless OP goes heavier into SD). Basically it has many of the same issues as Kodwraith's pally / warlock build did.

[TheWalruss]

Thanks Unbongwah, I was hoping you would drop a comment.

I'll keep it in mind when I try roll out the build. Maybe take less Bard since most other stuff than Swashbuckler seems to be covered by Warlock already.

And self-healing, as you said, isn't important in reaper. As a pure Warlock, Stanch, Wand mastery and Heal scrolls are what allow me to solo R5 and on rare occasions R7 atm.

[corvus75]

My current build is a 4 fighter / 4 warlock / 12 bard, and I love to play with it.
Can heal, buff, and fight.

Tried on r1-r3 and was great. I hope could be fine with harder diffs too.

Pictures here:
http://imgur.com/a/yLkQs

Of course, im not a perfect build-maker, I just like to play with DDO.

[unbongwah]

My current build is a 4 fighter / 4 warlock / 12 bard, and I love to play with it.
Can heal, buff, and fight.

In your case, I'm not clear on what the warlock splash adds. At first I thought you were going for T4 ES for the temp HPs and light dmg, but you don't spend that many APs in ES. And you obviously didn't invest in caster DPS. Is it just for the extra PRR/MRR from ES?

[corvus75]

In your case, I'm not clear on what the warlock splash adds. At first I thought you were going for T4 ES for the temp HPs and light dmg, but you don't spend that many APs in ES. And you obviously didn't invest in caster DPS. Is it just for the extra PRR/MRR from ES?

Yes, especially + PRR/MRR, Shield (and the aura courage and some minimal dmg (core 1,2), plus some basic spells, some AC and HP (Spiritual Defense).

With Deific Warding's stacking (10x) +2 it can be 200+ PRR, in light armor......

[TheWalruss]

Try go deeper into ES, corvu. At least get the 6d6 light damage to attacks that scale with spell damage ;-)

[corvus75]

Try go deeper into ES, corvu. At least get the 6d6 light damage to attacks that scale with spell damage ;-)

Spiritual Retribution: Your Eldritch Blasts, Melee Attacks, and Ranged Attacks gain 1d6/2d6/3d6 Light damage that scales with Spell Power.
Eldritch blast 2d6, Pact dmg 2d4 (with lvl4 warlock -> im my build)

Anything else?

These are for this melee build.