Mr. Man Strength 9/6/5 Clr/Ftr/Bar Sylvanus Melee

[trancefate]

This is my take on a beefcake self healing Sylvanus character. The "great strength" feats are placeholders, I couldn't make my mind up here. Without play testing I'm honestly not sure if I will want/need empower healing, epic damage reduction, toughness/epic toughness, or maybe even the armor line from fighter for more prr/mrr. Suggestions welcome.

Man Strength Cleric
9/6/5 Cleric/Fighter/Barbarian
Chaotic Good Purple Dragon Knight


Level Order

1. Fighter         6. Cleric         11. Barbarian      16. Cleric
2. Cleric          7. Barbarian      12. Cleric         17. Cleric
3. Fighter         8. Barbarian      13. Cleric         18. Fighter
4. Cleric          9. Barbarian      14. Cleric         19. Fighter
5. Cleric         10. Barbarian      15. Fighter        20. Fighter


Stats
               36pt     Tome     Level Up
               ----     ----     --------
Strength        18       +6       4: STR
Dexterity        8       +6       8: STR
Constitution    16       +6      12: STR
Intelligence     8       +6      16: STR
Wisdom           8       +6      20: STR
Charisma        16       +6      24: STR
                                 28: STR

Skills
          F  C  F  C  C  C  B  B  B  B  B  C  C  C  F  C  C  F  F  F
          1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
         ------------------------------------------------------------
Heal         2     2  2  2                 3  3  3     2  1     1½ 1½ 23
Intim     4     2           4  1  1  1  1           4        3  1  1  23
Concent   1                 ½  2  2  2  2              2  3  ½        15
Tumble    1                                                            1
         ------------------------------------------------------------
          8  2  2  2  2  2  5  5  5  5  5  3  3  3  4  4  4  4  4  4


Feats

 1        : Power Attack
 1 PDK    : Cleave
 1 Fighter: Stunning Blow
 3        : Two Handed Fighting
 3 Fighter: Weapon Focus: Bludgeoning
 6        : Great Cleave
 9        : Improved Critical: Bludgeoning
12        : Improved Two Handed Fighting
15        : Greater Two Handed Fighting
18        : Force of Personality
18 Fighter: Weapon Specialization: Bludgeoning
20 Fighter: Tactical Training
21 Epic   : Overwhelming Critical
24 Epic   : Great Ability: Strength
26 Destiny: Perfect Two Handed Fighting
27 Epic   : Great Ability: Strength
28 Destiny: Tactician
29 Destiny: Dire Charge
30 Epic   : Great Ability: Strength
30 Legend : Scion of: Arborea

 4 Cleric : Strength Domain

 2 Deity  : Follower of: Silvanus
13 Deity  : Blessing of Silvanus


Spells

Cleric
Cure Light Wounds, Protection from Evil, Shield of Faith, Nightshield, Divine Favor, Bless
Cure Moderate Wounds, Resist Energy, Lesser Restoration, Remove Paralysis, Spawn Screen, <Any>
Cure Serious Wounds, Magic Circle Against Evil, Dispel Magic, Water Breathing, Remove Curse
Cure Critical Wounds, Divine Power, Freedom of Movement, Restoration
Mass Cure Light Wounds, <Any>, <Any>

Enhancements (80 AP)

Ravager (36 AP)
Furious Rage, Pain Touch
Ritual Scarring III, Do You Like Pain? III, Barbarian Power Attack III, Hardy Rage II
Fear Me!, I Like Pain III
Slaughter III, Strength
Laughter, I Hit Back! III, Strength
Blood Strength, Critical Rage II
Warpriest (22 AP)
Smite Foe, Resilience of Battle
Divine Might III, Righteous Weapons, Sacred Touch II
Smite Weakness, Wall of Steel III, Righteous Weapons
Righteous Weapons, Strength
Ameliorating Strike
Kensei (11 AP)
Kensei Focus: Picks and Hammers, Spiritual Bond, Strike with No Thought
Weapon Group Specialization, Haste Boost III
Weapon Group Specialization, Ascetic Training: Conditioning I
Frenzied Berserker (11 AP)
Die Hard, Frenzied Toughness
Extra Rage II, Power Rage III
(none)
Supreme Cleave I

What we get from:
9 cleric: +2 insight crit threat, +2 str, str healing, str to reflex, immunity to knockdowns, +4 str during turn clickies, divine might, ameliorating strike, some prr/weaken, cure spells, raise dead.
6 fighter: +1 crit multiplier, feats, haste boost
5 barbarian: +2 crit threat, blood strength, +more str from rage & stat nodes, slaughter, supreme cleave, prr/hamp, zoomzoom

Things we could have but don't:

- Divinity based healing/positive energy burst. I would rather spend the turn attempts on the str bonus.
- Tactics / T4 kensei goodies. I've got a version of the enhancements that put all of the points in Ravager/Kensei/Frenzied that I may run with if the 22 points for ameliorating strike prove to be underwhelming. The melee power and hamp you can get from t4 kensei with the tactics boost to dire charge & stunning blow could make this the preferred build at 30.


I'm planning on running this as my next life as soon as I hit 30 on my current pure paladin build. Let me know what your thoughts/questions are!

[trancefate]

Reincarnating this evening, just a quick bump to see if I get any feedback beforehand.

[Sgt_Hart]

Things we could have but don't:

- Divinity based healing/positive energy burst. I would rather spend the turn attempts on the str bonus.

Did you write it that way because you don’t want to burn turns to heal, or because you (incorrectly) think it doesn’t domain buff on bursts?

[trancefate]

Did you write it that way because you don’t want to burn turns to heal, or because you (incorrectly) think it doesn’t domain buff on bursts?

The second one, thank you! This makes a huge difference. I now feel like I need to find a way to fit in 11 points for bursts. Going to test if they work while raging as I'm not sure. I've TR'd now and am setting up bars.

I need to find out now if I'm going to be cancelling rage and just using it for the Critical Rage component, or staying in rage (I suspect the first). If I plan to stay in rage I may want to pick up Liquid Courage, 50HAMP seems like it would stack very nicely with ameliorating/blood strength to keep me healed up.

[trancefate]

I tested and you cannot burst during rage, you can however still turn undead, and use divine healing interestingly enough. I'm lvl 15 now I'll report back with an update on enhancements when I hit cap and have some more play time in the build. For now i'm 36 ravager for blood str/crit rage, 13 frenzy for 2 ranks of supreme cleave (timer syncs nicely), kensei haste boost, and divine might.

From here I need to choose whether I want opportunity attack + liquid courage, Ameliorating strike, or perhaps divine healing + points in PDK for HAMP and +3 str