2 Different FVS 20 DC Builds: Wisdom vs. Charisma

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All I can say is wow! Favored soul is so fun to play with the recent changes. I wanted to show 2 builds here - the first is a fairly maxed out Wisdom build for high reaper, but the build can easily be modified if you don't have all the past lifes. The second is a blasting high DC Charisma build designed for low to mid skull which tries to strike a balance between DC and DPS.

Both builds are casual and new player friendly (even though the wisdom build shows a maxed out character) as the 300 hp from the level 7 Stout of Heart feat and the 5% hp bonus from falconry provide a significant boost to hp. Aasimar offers the additional 10% hp boost and both Aasimar and Dragonborn provide healing amp.

Dragonborn provides an option for +3 evocation which replaces the need to twist it in and removing the need to spell focus evocation at all as long as you are in exalted angel. You can actually have a higher evocation DC as a charisma Dragonborn caster, but that is not the goal of the Charisma build I am presenting. I am trying to have a high DC and better DPS than the wisdom version as it's intended as a solo/short man low to mid skull build.

Link to Wisdom Build: https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...=1#post6118252
Link to Charisma Build: https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...=1#post6118253

Comparison to Cleric DC Casting
In all honesty, I would only ever choose Cleric over favored soul for the special purpose of specializing as a necro cleric for the extra destruction SLA. Although I am likely to choose Wizard or Warlock over either if I want to specialize in necro. The higher light spellpower from the elemental clerics is certainly an advantage in boss fights, but that's not a strength of either build. The +3 DC in the fvs cores and +1 stat benefit over cleric is key because it means favored soul will always have better DC in secondary schools and that is key to me as the game stands today.

Wisdom Vs. Charisma - No Right Answer Only Many Opinions
The main advantage Wisdom has is a higher DC mass frog which is a very significant and versatile mass instakill, but with a lower dc potential compared to regular favored soul spells. Mass frog was much stronger a few years ago when fortitude saves were much lower. It's still a very effective spell and even with minimal wisdom investment it's useful on many undead and constructs.

The main advantage of Charisma is versatility and higher DC potential since Dragonborn gains +3 evocation DC and the magister tree supports charisma but not wisdom. Likewise the draconic incarnation tree supports charisma but not wisdom which enables a charisma build to more easily switch between DC, DPS and Straight Healing

About Healing Spec For Raids and Quests
I am going to show the spec for max dc with reasonable healing support vs. a raid healing spec. A raid healing spec will be 41 + pts in Beacon of Hope for healing wall, party buffs, etc.

One frustrating aspect of playing favored soul is that many people expect you to spec primarily for healing even though healing wall is not needed for non-raid content. If you want to play favored soul be prepared for non-sensical comments from people that don't play favored soul when they ask you throw up a healing wall and you explain your main tree is AoV. For raiding I do respec for healing wall, but not for questing.

I am going to show 2 sets of enhancements for favored soul - one is casting first/healing second and the other healing first/casting second. I tend to go casting first for quests and healing first for raids.

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EDIT 3/28/2021 - this build is significantly out of date but will be updated within the next few weeks. I am currently running the charisma build over the wisdom build, but the wisdom build is still strong as it adds an extra mass instakill (mass frog)

I am showing this build as a completely maxed out build with 12 racial AP, high reaper AP, etc. The build is still highly effective without these things. I do not have all the bonuses I am showing and the build was effective in a high reaper PUG. At the bottom of the AP spend area I show how to back out AP spend to get back to 80.

Race: Aasimar
Alignment: True Neutral
Faith: Aureon

Starting Stats
Str: 8
Dex: 8
Wis: 20
Con: 18
Int: 12
Char: 8

FEATS:
1) Maximize
2 FVS) Knowledge of Battle (Wisdom over Cha)
3) Empower
6) Quicken
7 FVS) Stout of Hearth (HP over Spell points)
9) Heighten
12) Spell Focus Evocation
15) Spell Penetration
17 FVS) Leap of Faith Auto-granted
18) Greater Spell Penetration
20 FVS) Damage Reduction Cold Iron Auto-granted
21) Heavy Armor Proficiency
24) Burst of Glacial Wrath
26) Guardian Angel
27) Completionist (or past life wizard)
28) Mass Frog
29) Arcane Pulse
30) Embolden
30) Scion of Air

NOTE: If you are in a static group and won't be soloing you can replace maximize/empower/burst of glacial wrath with DC feats for 3 more DC.

EPIC DESTINY
Tier 1
- Radiant Power x2
- Endless Faith x2
- Healing Power x2
- Wisdom
Tier 2
- Wisdom
Tier 3
- Piercing Spellcraft x3
- Wisdom
Tier 4
- Wisdom
- Leap of Faith
Tier 5
- Divine Wrath
- Wisdom

EPIC DESTINY TWISTS
Piercing Spellcraft
Empyrean Magic
Evocation Specialist
Precise Evocation
Cocoon

ENHANCEMENTS

Aasimar (21)
Core
- Stronger Bonds
- Wisdom
- Stronger Bonds
- Wisdom
- Stronger Bonds
Tier 1
- Aasimar Improved Recovery
Tier 2
- Arcanum x3
- Divine Purpose Protector
Tier 3
- Aasimar Improved Recovery
Tier 4
- Ascendant Bond Protector
- Aasimar Improved Recovery

Angel of Vengeance (45)
Core
- Font of Power
- Shield of Condemnation
- Aura of Menace
- Summon Archon
- Vengeful Magic
- Ascendancy: Shrine Bright (Wisdom)
Tier 1
- Smiting
- Nimbus of Light x2
Tier 2
- Just Reward x3
- Smiting
Tier 3
- Wisdom
- Spell Penetration
- Smiting
- Sun Bolt x3
Tier 4
- Wisdom
- Intense Faith
- Smiting
Tier 5
- Zealous Faith
- Evocation Focus
- Unstoppable Magic x3
- Cometfall x3

Beacon of Hope (13)
Core
- Pleasant Disposition
- Beacon of Grace
- Shining Light
Tier 1
- Divine Durability x3
- Spell Points x2
Tier 2
- Divine Durability II x3
Tier 3
- Wisdom

Falconry (13)
Core
- Summon Falcon
- Wisdom
- Well Rounded
Tier 1
- Rugged x3
- Out in Nature x3
- Wanderlust x1
Tier 3
- Conditioning

This is 92 AP total which assumes all racial past lifes. Now the hard part of removing 12 ap spend for those of us that don't have that. I would remove in this order
- Aasimar improved recovery tier 4 from Aasimar (2)
- Aasimar Arcanum x1 from Aasimar (4)
- Unstoppable Magic x 3 from AoV (7)
- Zealous Faith x 1 from AoV(8)
- Well rounded from Falconry (9)
- Conditioning from Falconry (11)
- Wanderlust from Falconry (12)

Healing Amp
Competence Bonus from Legendary Drow Sage's Cowl: 80
Exceptional Bonus from Mysterious Cloak: 45
Equipment Bonus from Legendary Hands of House Jorasco: 40
Guild Bonus from Ship Buff: 20
Aasimar Enhancements: 60
Beacon Hope: 30
Falconry: 15
Paladin Past Lifes: 30
Total Healing Amp Bonus: 320

My heal self-targeted heal was over 200 on 10 skull and I had no problem self healing easily in 7 skull. Self-healing on 10 skull was expensive but do-able in a pinch


HP Bonuses
Favored Soul: 300
Aasimar: 10% overall bonus
Falconry: 5% overall bonus
LGS: 18% overall bonus (see gear below)

I am running this on my 4th main with only 36 reaper points and missing many of the listed past lifes/bonuses and he is just under 3000 hp in reaper.

Wisdom
Start: 20
Level Ups: 7
Tome: 8
Enhancement Bonus: 19
Insightful Bonus: 9
Exceptional Bonus: 1
Quality Bonus: 4
Profane Bonus: 2
Artifact Bonus: 2
Completionist: 2
Racial Completionist: 2
Racial Past Lifes: 2
Augment Festive Bonus 2
Sentient Weapon Filigree: 5
Reaper Bonus on Helm: 2
Racial Enhancements: 2
Aov Enhancements: 2
AoV Capstone: 4
Beacon of Hop Enhancements: 1
Falconry Enhancements: 1
Reaper: 5
Epic Destiny: 6
Ship Buffs: 2
Yugo Potions: 2
Remnant Potions: 2
Total Wisdom: 114

Evocation DC
Base: 10
Spell Level: 9 (Note this assumes heighten for all, but I have versions of spells without heighten on my hotbar to save sp when I don't need the DC boost)
Wisdom Bonus: 52
Evocation Focus Feat: 1
Embolden: 2
Scion of the Plane of Air: 4
Past Life Sorc x3: 3
Item- Enhancement Bonus: 7
Item- Insightful Bonus: 4
Item- Quality Bonus: 2
Item- Augment Bonus: 2
Item- Artifact Bonus (Slavers): 4
Item: Sentient Bonus (Eye of Beholder): 2
Enhancements - Angel of Vengeance: 1
Enhancements - Aov Level 18 Core: 1
Enhancements - Aov Capstone: 2
Enhancements - Reaper: 4
Exalted Angel - Transcendental Magic: 3
Epic Destiny Twist - Evocation Focus: 3
Epic Destiny Twist - Precise Evocation: 2
Ship Buffs: 1
Total Evocation DC: 119 (or 122 if swapping out maximize/empower/bogw for DC in a static group)

Necromancy DC
Base: 10
Spell Level: 9 (Note this assumes heighten for all, but I have versions of spells without heighten on my hotbar to save sp when I don't need the DC boost)
Wisdom Bonus: 52
Embolden: 2
Scion of the Plane of Air: 2
Item- Enhancement Bonus: 7
Item- Insightful Bonus: 4
Item- Quality Bonus: 2
Item- Augment Bonus: 2
Item- Artifact Bonus (Slavers): 4
Item: Sentient Bonus (Eye of Beholder): 2
Enhancements - Aov Level 18 Core: 1
Enhancements - Aov Capstone: 2
Enhancements - Reaper: 4
Exalted Angel - Transcendental Magic: 3
Ship Buffs: 1
Total Necromancy DC: 107 (or 108 if swapping out empower for past life wizard)

Mass Frog DC
Base: 20
Wisdom Bonus: 52
Embolden: 2
Scion of the Plane of Air: 2
Item- Enhancement Bonus: 7
Item- Insightful Bonus: 4
Item- Quality Bonus: 2
Item- Augment Bonus: 2
Item- Artifact Bonus (Slavers): 4
Item: Sentient Bonus (Eye of Beholder): 2
Enhancements - Aov Level 18 Core: 1
Enhancements - Aov Capstone: 2
Enhancements - Reaper: 4
Exalted Angel - Transcendental Magic: 3
Ship Buffs: 1
Total Mass Frog DC: 108 (or 109 if swapping out empower for past life wizard)

Note: When Aureon's Instruction is active posted DCs are at a +2 due to the +4 Wisdom bonus granted

Spell Penetration:
Favored Soul Levels: 20
Feat: Spell Penetration: 2
Feat: Greater Spell Penetration: 2
Past Lifes Wiz x3 Fvs x3: 9
Item: Enhancement Bonus: 8
Item: Insightful Bonus: 4
Enhancement Tree: Angel of Vengeance: 1
Enhancement Tree: Aasimar: 3
Enhancement Tree: Reaper: 5
Epic Destiny Caster Levels: 5
Epic Destiny: 3
Epic Destiny Twists: 3
Eye of the Beholder: 1
Ship Buff: 1
Total: 67
Unstoppable Magic Persistent Debuff: 3
Grand Total: 70
Intense Faith + Zealous Faith +6 for Implosion Only (untyped damage which uses force) for 76

Note: When Aureon's Instruction is active posted Spell Pen is at a +3

CC and instakill
Implosion
Mass Frog
Greater command (low will)
Burst of Glacial Wrath (will work on most except super high fort)
Cometfall (low reflex enemies- good every day spell with the sla)
Soundburst (reapers)

GEAR
Helm: Legendary Drow Sage's Cowl
Necklace: Slavelord Crafted: Sheltering 45, Resistance 14, Heal 22, Quality Physical Sheltering, Yellow Slow, Sorc Set
Trinket: Epic Littany of the Dead
Cloak: Level 21 Mysterious Cloak
Belt: Slavelord Crafted: Con 17, Spellsight 22, Kinetic Lore 27%, Quality Con +4, Yellow Slow, Sorc Set
Ring 1: Legendary Spinneret with Sorc Set
Gloves: Healing Hands of House Jorasco
Boots: LGS Triple Positive (18% hp bonus and displacement clicky) /swap heroic gs displacement clicky boots x5
Ring 2: Slavelord Crafted Dex 17, Radiance Lore 27%, UMD +7, Quality Fort 45%, Yellow Slow, Sorc Set
Bracers: Slavelord Crafted Wizardry 371, Jump 22, Light Spellpower 185, Quality Wisdom 4, Yellow Slow, Sorc Set
Armor: Legendary Scales of Exile Fort 202%, Parrying +9, Ins wisdom +9, Ins Con +9
Goggles: LGS Triple Negative (18% hp bonus combined with boots and displacement clicky)
Main Weapon: Nightmother's Sceptre (Impulse gem slotted for implement bonus +4 piece eye of the beholder with wisdom, will, charisma and spellpower slotted + 4 other wisdom)
Secondary Weapon: Morninglord Sceptre (145 potency, 72 insightful potency, 22 spellcraft, ins spellcraft 11)

The reason there is some redundancy on skills is because I recycled some old slavers gear that was almost exactly what I needed except the skill part. The skill wasn't enough to motivate me to recraft.

Swap Item for knockdown protection: Nightmother Sceptre (5 zephyr for knockdown immunity and 3 wisdom)
Swap Main weapon for energy drain immunity against beholders: Nightmother's Sceptre (Any spellpower gem slotted for implement bonus + 4 piece purity set with wisdom + 4 wisdom)
Swap Main weapon for boss damage boost (vacuum weapon for vulnerability)
Swap Trinkets: Mysterious Bauble (major mnemonic clicky) and upgraded Pale Lavender Ioun Stone, upgraded Magestar
Swap Necklaces: Epic Twisted Talisman and Twisted Talisman (for 400 spell points, hp heal from fast healing and regen)
Swap Goggles: Int 15 / True Seeing / Ins Int +7 (this plus helm helps find most secret doors)
Swap Helm: Search 22 / Wisdom 15/ Ins Search 11 (This plus goggles helps find most secret doors)
Swap Ring: Epic Ring of Spell Storing (I don't have it on Randomall but if you have it grats to you)
Swap Boots: 5x smoke heroic greensteel boots for displacement

Misc Gear and Supplies
- Blade of Jack Jibbers
- Harper Pin, Greater
- Harper Pin, Lesser
- Eternal Flask of Free Movement
- Essence of Desire Potions (Yugo)
- Essence of Despair Potions (Yugo)
- Remnant Potions of Stat +2 (Wisdom and Con)
- Heal Scrolls
- Resurrection Scrolls
- Greater Restoration Scrolls
- Blindness Removal Potions
- Poison Neutralization Potions
- Disease Removal Potions
- Lesser Restoration Potions (mostly useless in reaper but still gets rid of a few effects reliably without sp)
- Curse Removal Potions

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Race: Dragonborn
Alignment: True Neutral
Faith: Sovereign Host

Starting Stats
Str: 10
Dex: 6
Wis: 8
Con: 18
Int: 12
Char: 20

FEATS:
1) Maximize
2 FVS) Grace of Battle (Cha over Wisdom)
3) Empower
6) Quicken
7 FVS) Stout of Hearth (HP over Spell points)
9) Heighten
12) Force of Personality
15) Spell Focus Evocation
17 FVS) Leap of Faith Auto-granted
18) Completionist
20 FVS) Damage Reduction Cold Iron Auto-granted
21) Past Life Wizard
24) Master of Light
26) Spellpower Light
27) Master of Alignment (or Burst of Glacial Wrath if you prefer more cc)
28) Mass Frog
29) Deific Warding
30) Embolden
30) Scion of Air (or Scion of Fire to tilt higher dps)

*** You can potentially drop 2 feats for greater and epic spell focus evocation if you absolutely want to max your dc

EPIC DESTINY - Magister (25)
Core
- Arcane Study 1 - V
- Arcane Spellsurge
Tier 1
- 2x Impregnable Mind
- Charisma
Tier 2
- Evocation Specialist x 3
- Charisma
Tier 3
- Evocation Augmentation x 3
- Charisma
Tier 4
- Evocation Familiarity x3
- Charisma
Tier 5
- Master of Evocation x3
- Charisma
Tier 6
- Arcane Tempest (drop if you don't have the tome of destiny)

EPIC DESTINY TWISTS
Arcane Hymn (or Energy Burst Fire to tilt higher dps)
Meld Into Darkness
Precise Casting - Evocation (or Empyrean Magic to tilt higher dps)
Cocoon
Endless Faith

ENHANCEMENTS - DC Spec (For High Skull Questing)

Dragonborn (18)
Core
- Hardy
- Charisma
- Hardy
- Charisma
Tier 1
-
Tier 2
- Arcanum x 3
Tier 3
- Power in Breath x3 (prereq)
Tier 4
- True Power x3
*** if you prefer more hp/hamp over spell points and spell pen you can instead take resilience in tier 1,2,3

Angel of Vengeance (41)
Core
- Font of Power
- Shield of Condemnation
- Aura of Menace
- Summon Archon
- Vengeful Magic
- Ascendancy: Shrine Bright (Charisma)
Tier 1
- Smiting
- Nimbus of Light x3
Tier 2
- Just Reward x3
- Smiting
Tier 3
- Charisma
- Smiting
- Sun Bolt x3
Tier 4
- Charisma
- Intense Faith
- Smiting
Tier 5
- Zealous Faithx3
- Evocation Focus
- Cometfall x3
- Archon's Fury

Beacon of Hope (13)
Core
- Pleasant Disposition
- Beacon of Grace
- Shining Light
Tier 1
- Divine Durability x3
- Spell Points x2
Tier 2
- Divine Durability II x3
Tier 3
- Charisma

Feydark Illusionist (24)
Core
- Find Familiar Pseudodragon
- Charisma
- Greater Color Spray
- Charisma
Tier 1
- Study the Arcane x3
- Illusory Weapon (grants weapons without spellcasting implement an implement bonus)
Tier 2
- You've Got My Back
Tier 3
- Spell Penetration x3
- Magical Attunement
- Refraction
- Charisma
Tier 4
- Charisma

This is 96 AP total which assumes all racial past lifes and ap tomes. Remove points from feydark illusionist as needed.

ENHANCEMENTS - Raid Healing Spec (For Raids and Parties where groups want you to over-weight healing)

Beacon of Hope - 41
Dragonborn - 18
Angel of Vengeance - 21-37 depending on # of racial AP

Note: I don't find healing wall necessary for questing unless you are with a high-need group, but you might need to make the switch if the party needs more healing than usual. For raids you will need to make this change every time because you never know when you might be called into healing mode even if there is another primary healer.

Charisma
Start: 20
Level Ups: 7
Tome: 8
Enhancement Bonus: 22
Insightful Bonus: 10
Exceptional Bonus: 1
Quality Bonus: 4
Profane Bonus: 2
Artifact Bonus: 4
Alchemical Bonus: 2
Sentient Weapon Filigree: 11
Reaper Helm Bonus: 2
Festive Charisma: 2
Completionist: 2
Racial Completionist: 2
Racial Past Lifes: 3
Racial Enhancements: 2
Aov Enhancements: 2
AoV Capstone: 4
Feydark Illusionist Enhancements: 4
Beacon of Hope Enhancements: 1
Reaper: 5
Epic Destiny: 5
Arcane Hymn Twist: 1
Ship Buffs: 2
Yugo Potions: 2
Remnant Potions: 2
Total Charisma: 132

Evocation DC
Base: 10
Spell Level: 9 (Note this assumes heighten for all, but I have versions of spells without heighten on my hotbar to save sp when I don't need the DC boost)
Charisma Bonus: 61
Evocation Focus Feat: 1
Past Life Wizard: 1
Embolden: 2
Past Life Sorc x3: 3
Scion of the Plane of Air: 4
Item- Enhancement Bonus: 9
Item- Insightful Bonus: 4
Item- Quality Bonus: 2
Item- Augment Bonus: 2
Item- Artifact Bonus: 3
Item - Profane: 2
Item - Sacred: 2
Item: Sentient Bonus: 4
Enhancements - Angel of Vengeance: 1
Enhancements - Aov Level 18 Core: 1
Enhancements - Aov Capstone: 2
Enhancements - Reaper: 4
Enhancements - Dragonborn: 3
Magister Cores - 6
Magister Specialist - 3
Magister Master - 3
Precise Evocation Twist - 2
Ship Buffs: 1
Total Evocation DC: 145

** Note: If you drop two feats for greater and epic spell focus evocation you can boost this to 147 but the benefit will be very marginal.

Necromancy DC
Base: 10
Spell Level: 9 (Note this assumes heighten for all, but I have versions of spells without heighten on my hotbar to save sp when I don't need the DC boost)
Charisma Bonus: 61
Past Life Wizard: 1
Embolden: 2
Scion of the Plane of Air: 2
Item- Enhancement Bonus: 9
Item- Insightful Bonus: 4
Item- Quality Bonus: 2
Item- Augment Bonus: 2
Item- Profane Bonus: 2
Item- Artifact Bonus: 3
Item - Sacred Bonus: 2
Item: Sentient Bonus: 4
Enhancements - Aov Level 18 Core: 1
Enhancements - Aov Capstone: 2
Enhancements - Reaper: 4
Magister Cores: 6
Ship Buffs: 1
Total Necromancy DC: 127

Spell Penetration:
Favored Soul Levels: 20
Past Lifes Wiz x3 Fvs x3: 9
Item: Enhancement Bonus: 9
Item: Insightful Bonus: 5
Item: Quality Bonus: 3
Enhancement Tree: Angel of Vengeance: 0
Enhancement Tree: Dragonborn: 3
Enhancement Tree: Feydark Illusionist: 3
Enhancement Tree: Reaper: 5
Arcane Hymn Twist: 2
Eye of the Beholder: 1
Ship Buff: 1
Total: 61 (64 for implosion since it benefits from zealous faith as a physical spell)

CC and instakill
Implosion
Death to Undeath situationally
Greater Color Spray (low will)
Burst of Glacial Wrath or Soundburst (low fort)
Cometfall (low reflex enemies- good every day spell with the sla)
Soundburst and Greater Color Spray (reapers)

GEAR (All Credit Goes to Rastaparingsuzar - I only made a slight change to trinket and shield)
Goggles: Legendary Collective Sight (Constitution 21, Ins Charisma 21, Quality Resistance 4, Temperance of Belief (+1 MRR bonus for each religious feat)
Helmet: Legendary Crown of Snow (Fire Shield (Cold), Paragon Cerulean Wave, Spell Focus Mastery 7, Insightful Spell Focus Mastery 5)
Necklace: Sigil of Regalport - (Cha 22, Quality Spell Focus 2, Wizardry 481, Cold absorb 53%)
Trinket: Legendary Five Rings (Sheltering 45, Resistance 14, Heal 22 or Spellcraft 22 - the other is slotted somewhere as an augment with 19, Quality Charisma 4)
Cloak: Legendary Hallowed Trail (Radiance 214, Radiance Lore 31, Evocation Focus 9, Quality Spell Pen 3)
Belt: Legendary Direbear Belt
Ring 1: Legendary Ring of Winter's Chill (Ice Lore 31, Glaciation 214, Kinetic Lore 31, Impulse 214)
Gloves: Legendary Gloryborne Gloves - (Sacred Spell Focus II, Power of the Silver Flame 214, Quality Resistance 4, +1 PRR bonus for each religious feat)
Boots: Legendary Deepsnow Boots (Insightful Con 10, Quality Con 5, Freedom of Movement, Fort Save 17)
Ring 2: Legendary Shattered Onyx (Insightful Charisma 10, Profane Spell Focus Mastery 2, Insightful Resistance 8, Insightful Dodge 10) - Swap to Clouded Dreams situationally for more dps
Bracers: Legendary Hallowed Castigators (Devotion 214, Healing Lore 31, Insightful Sheltering 27)
Armor: Legendary Blessed Vestements (Fortification 214, Physical Sheltering 54, Comp Healing Amp 85, False Life 81)
Main Hand: The Legendary Prince's Sceptre - Spell Focus Mastery 7, Insightful Spell Focus Mastery 4, Spell Penetration 9, Insightful Spell Penetration 5 - Swap to Legendary Queen's Sceptre situationally
Off-Hand: Legendary Alchemical Large Shield (Fire Lore 32, Combustion 219 [or Void Lore 32, Nullification 219 for inflicts], Alchemical Charisma +2, Necromancy Focus 9)

Set Bonuses
- Legendary Flamecleansed Fury: +4 artifact bonus to Charisma, Intelligence and Wisdom, +3 artifact bonus to DC, +50 Artifact Bonus to Fire, Force, Light and Positive, 10% Artifact Bonus to Fire, Force, Light and Positive Crit Chance
- The 4-piece Winter set: 25 PRR, +15 stacking healing amp and 20% hp bonus.

Boss Fight Swaps
For boss fights you should always swap to clouded dreams and legendary queen's sceptre for extra crits and spellpower. You should also swap in respendlent fury for all your light/alignment spells and back to the shield after those spells. Light and alignment spells benefit up to 50% vulnerability from shield of condemnation so maxing out this damage with resplendent fury is highly beneficial.

FILIGREE
Main Weapon
- Otto's Irrevocable Power: Charisma (Rare) - +1 Charisma, +2 MRR
- Otto's Irrevocable Power: Constitution (Rare) - +1 Constitution, +2 PRR
- Otto's Irrevocable Power: PRR (Rare) - +3 PRR, +2 MRR
- Otto's Irrevocable Power: Spell Failure Reduction (Rare) - -10% Spell Failure, +2 MRR
- Eye of the Beholder: Charisma (Rare) - +1 Charisma, +2 MRR
- Eye of the Beholder: Spellpower (Rare) - +10 Universal Spellpower
- Eye of the Beholder: MRR (Rare) - +3 MRR, +2 PRR
- To Hell and Back / Embraced By Light: Charisma (Rare) - +2 Charisma, +4MRR
- Sactified Fervor / Reverberation: Charisma (Rare) - +2 Charisma, +4 MRR
Artifact
- To Hell and Back / Embraced By Light: Charisma (Rare) - +2 Charisma, +4MRR
- Sactified Fervor / Reverberation: Charisma (Rare) - +2 Charisma, +4 MRR
- Eye of The Beholder: Charisma (Rare) - +1 Charisma, +2 MRR

Set Bonuses
- Otto's Irrevocable Power 4 Piece: +5 MRR, +200 Spell Points, +2 to all DCs
- Eye of the Beholder 4 Piece: +4 Concentration, +1 Spell Penetration, +2 to all DCs
- To Hell and Back 2 Piece: +5 PRR
- Embraced By the Light 2 Piece: +5 Healing Amp
- Sanctified Fervor 2 Piece: +5 Healing Amp
- Reverberation 2 Piece: Melee and Missle Damage (not applicable to this build)

Physical Resistance Rating

Medium Armor: 30
Large Shield: 10
Enhancement Bonus: 54
Insightful Bonus: 27
Quality Bonus: 5
Artifact Bonus: 25
Reaper Enhancement Tree: 24
Past Lifes: 45
Filigree: 7
Filigree Sets: 5
Divine Durability: 6
Feydark Illusionist: You've Got My Back (with shield clicky swap item): 10
Deific Warding: 10
Tome: 4
Total: 262 before mythic and reaper gear bonuses

Magical Resistance Rating

Large Shield: 10
Enhancement Bonus: 45
Insightful Bonus: 27
Quality Bonus: 5
Reaper Enhancement Tree: 3
Past Lifes: 18
Filigree: 26
Filigree Sets: 5
Divine Durability II: 6
Feydark Illusionist: You've Got My Back: 10
Deific Warding: 10
Tome: 4
Total: 169 before mythic and reaper gear bonuses

Healing Amplification
Base: 100
Competence Bonus: 85
Past Life Paladin: 30
Artifact Bonus: 15
Ancient Blessings: 15
Filigree Set Bonuses: 10
Beacon of Hope Cores: 30
Total: 285 (315 if you take 3x resilience instead of 3x arcanum)

Spell Power and Spell Crits

These #s assume the following swaps during boss fights
1) Clouded Dreams in place of Legendary Shattered Onyx (add 10% exceptional lore and 20 exceptional spellpower)
2) Legendary Queen's Sceptre in place of Legendary Prince's Sceptre (adds 77 insightful potency and 33 spellcraft)
3) Legendary Resplendent Fury in off-hand in place of Legendary Alchemical Shield for just light/alignment portion of spell rotation (adds 18% insightful radiance lore and 107 insightful radiance spellpower)

Outside of boss fights you can use your judgement and swap as needed but I find DPS optimization is most important for boss fights.

Light Spellpower
Equipment Bonus: 214
Insightful Bonus: 107
Quality Bonus: 0
Artifact Bonus: 50
Implement Bonus: 29
Exceptional Bonus: 20
Filigree: 10
Epic Power: 60
Scion of the Plane of Air: 30
Enhancement - Font of Power: 41
Enhancement - Vengeful Magic - 20
Enhancement - Reaper Spellpower: 48
Enhancement - Find Familiar: 15
Tome of Universal Spellpower: 4
Ship Buffs: 15
Arcane hymn: 20
Empyrean Magic: 20
Commendation Potions: 25
House J Potion: 20
Spellcraft: 95 (33 from swap sceptre)
Total: 843

Light Crit Chance
Magical Training: 5
Enhancement: 31
Artifact Bonus: 10
Exceptional: 10
Insightful: 18
Empyrean Magic: 10
Smiting: 8
Total: 92%

Before Swap Items: Spell Power 722, Crit Chance 74, Critical Damage Multiplier 200
After Swap Items: Spell Power 843, Crit Chance 92, Critical Damage Multiplier 200
DPS Increase from Swap Items For Boss Fights: 28.8% DPS improvement with swap items
DPS Increase by adding Scion of the Plane of Fire: 12% additional improvement on top of performance with swap items

Fire Spellpower
Equipment Bonus: 219
Insightful Bonus: 77
Quality Bonus: 0
Artifact Bonus: 50
Implement Bonus: 29
Exceptional Bonus: 20
Filigree: 10
Epic Power: 60
Scion of the Plane of Air: 30
Enhancement - Font of Power: 41
Enhancement - Reaper Spellpower: 48
Enhancement - Find Familiar: 15
Tome of Universal Spellpower: 4
Ship Buffs: 15
Arcane hymn: 20
Empyrean Magic: 20
Commendation Potions: 25
House J Potion: 20
Spellcraft: 95 (33 from swap sceptre - many could get higher - this is a conservative #)
Total: 798

Fire Crit Chance
Magical Training: 5
Enhancement: 31
Artifact Bonus: 10
Exceptional: 10
Energy Criticals Past Life: 9
Empyrean Magic: 10
Smiting: 8
Total: 84%

[SirValentine]

EPIC DESTINY
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Tier 4
- Leap of Faith

Am I missing some benefit this might give, or is this a copy-and-paste error from some non-FvS build?

[Hipparan]

Am I missing some benefit this might give, or is this a copy-and-paste error from some non-FvS build?

If you already have Leap of Faith from being a FvS, the Epic Destiny version speeds up the recharge rate of the counters. I would probably use something else though. I usually grab Judgement/Lay to Rest/Judge the Many. It's fun to use and cause a chain reaction on a group of Undead.

[slarden]

Am I missing some benefit this might give, or is this a copy-and-paste error from some non-FvS build?

If you already have Leap of Faith from being a FvS, the Epic Destiny version speeds up the recharge rate of the counters. I would probably use something else though. I usually grab Judgement/Lay to Rest/Judge the Many. It's fun to use and cause a chain reaction on a group of Undead.

Fair points but I like the slightly faster recharge time esp in places like the end fight of Slavers 3. If I could find something amazing for 1 point I would probably drop but 10 spellpower - meh.

[mr420247]

Wisdom hands down at least until falcon n frog get the hammer

Have fun with it while it lasts

[Haphazarduk]

Wisdom hands down at least until falcon n frog get the hammer

Have fun with it while it lasts

How good is Falconer? (a genuine question as I don't have access yet). The higher stuff, especially t4 looks great, but if you don't need wis to damage then the lower stuff looks average. Ranged blind is nice but more on a melee/SA toon.

Hap

[slarden]

How good is Falconer? (a genuine question as I don't have access yet). The higher stuff, especially t4 looks great, but if you don't need wis to damage then the lower stuff looks average. Ranged blind is nice but more on a melee/SA toon.

Hap

It's obviously best for a martial build that wants to go wisdom, but a 13 pt splash gets you 9 PRR, 3 MRR, 15 healing amp,+1 to any stat and a 5% hp bonus is not a bad return on 13 AP for any build any style of play excluding robots and pms.

Wisdom hands down at least until falcon n frog get the hammer

Have fun with it while it lasts

Totally agree wisdom wins hands-down and especially for higher reaper although opinions vary on the topic.

Mass frog has a long cooldown and is clearly awesome- but not sure it needs a nerf maybe just fix spell pen bug, but with falconry tree we will see an increase in martial builds going full-out wisdom with level 28 mass frog (night mother scept / spinneret with transmutation topaz augment for quick swaps for the frog) and level 29 dire charge and of course I expect to see the usual people demanding nerfs with their sock puppet accounts. It sucks monks lose centering to swap sceptre but there are random 7/4 goggles around as well for a swap item. Worst case for a monk 6/3 crafted goggles.

Even though dps is clearly better in LD vs. gmof I wondered how well a tactics focus monk in gmof would do in high reaper with mass frog, EIN, dire charge, high dc quivering palm, high dc monk tactics, high spell resistance and defenses and still respectable dps. If fvs wasn't working so well I would lesser +20 randomall into a monk and try it out.

I am also thinking a better divine solo reaper build may end up being a casting/martial hybrid although it hurts my brain to much to try and fit everything in a feat starved build so I deferred that project for now.

[peng]

Don't forget the t2 twist Acute Instincts from fury for +2 wis while raged (rage pots or primal scream).

Also, with beacon of grace, close wounds sla, and heal/cures, do you really need cocoon?

[Unsinful]

I’m confused why are you saying that you are building for higher reaper then you take all the feats for more spell dps and feats like arcane pulse? If you were truly going for high reaper there are better feats to take.
Also why heavy armor prof? That PRR will not save you in high reaper.
I’d also suggest dropping the hp bonus from lgs and getting sp instead because all your small %hp buffs again won’t do anything in reaper. I play fvs and can take multiple hits on r10. You will take the same hits and be fine but will be down a lot of dcs and healing power compared to a max dc build with the gear to keep itself up in reaper.

Also I don’t understand all the swap items and stuff for stupid little bonuses like extra leap of faith. You are better off grabbing something like more sp from exalted

One final comment is your dcs and wisdom. You are adding in too many bonuses that you can’t keep up forever which throws out unrealistic numbers.

On paper these builds may work but in practice I think it’s just impossible to play this and succeed in the difficulty you say you want to run.

[slarden]

On paper these builds may work but in practice I think it’s just impossible to play this and succeed in the difficulty you say you want to run.

I'll start with this one because it's quite simply funny. The wisdom build is not a theoretical build as I used a lesser +20 stone on Randomall and joined a higher reaper pug that ran R7-R10 the day of the release - several quests and then joined another high skull pug - several quests the next day. I lead the kill count in many but not all quests, it's a pug - I died sure, but my dc and spell pen were effective. We had a few people join not built for reaper in the party as well so this wasn't the case of a build performing in a perfect group. The build did just fine for the role as both dc caster and healer. Just like any build it plays a little different so I need to optimize my playstyle, but I played fvs many times in the past and randslar played favored soul extensively staying at cap and raiding for years. So this isn't my first rodeo with favored soul - not even close.

I also ran some low skull farming runs - nothing notable there, easy stuff on the build.

The charisma build I haven't tried yet, but I plan to try it out and optimize it on randowl who is currently a warlock. Most of the gear translates over but I need to recraft some slavers before I do that. You can't possibly be arguing trading dps for dc is a problem with that build as it's designed for soloing and low to mid skulls?

I’m confused why are you saying that you are building for higher reaper then you take all the feats for more spell dps and feats like arcane pulse? If you were truly going for high reaper there are better feats to take.
Also why heavy armor prof? That PRR will not save you in high reaper.

Heavy armor provides the equivalent of 1 DC as the heavy armor listed in my gear is the only +9 wisdom item in the game. You COULD use thunderforged armor for the profane bonus and craft +7 somewhere for the same DC with medium armor, but as I mentioned the ability to get +9 ins wisdom and +9 ins con along with the other things on the armor spot makes gearing very simple. It also allowed me to lesser +20 my cleric into a favored soul with minimal gear changes, but aside from that it still works well for me.

The 10 PRR was just a bonus and not the reason for the move to heavy armor. The +9 wisdom was the reason. Thunderforged medium armor with +7 wisdom crafted goggles is the other thing I considered. Certainly a reasonable option, but I am happy with my choice for now.

I very clearly mentioned in my post that you can swap out some feats for even higher dc if you are in a static group. The reason I didn't is that my dc is high enough for high reaper as it stands and the dps feats give me more flexibility and versatility when I solo lower skull runs, raiding, etc. I value versatility higher. If I wasn't effective in high reaper I would consider a change, but that's not the case. I am not sure why you would think 119 evocation dc isn't enough but 121 would magically make it ok. The same with going from 107 to 108 necro dc. This does not do what you say and make it "just impossible to play this and succeed"

I like knowing I can go solo content and have good enough dps to clear effectively. With populations as they are that is sometimes what I end up doing.

If I was in a static high reaper balanced group I would definitely drop empower for past life wizard. and probably move heavy armor proficiency to heroic by dropping maximize so I can slot in epic spell pen at 21. That is not the case for me - in pugs, even higher reaper pugs I sometimes find myself helping to dps reapers down. PUGS are more fun and unpredictable than static groups which I've been involved in past times.

I’d also suggest dropping the hp bonus from lgs and getting sp instead because all your small %hp buffs again won’t do anything in reaper. I play fvs and can take multiple hits on r10. You will take the same hits and be fine but will be down a lot of dcs and healing power compared to a max dc build with the gear to keep itself up in reaper.

I appreciate the advice and considered something else as well, but when going through all the alternatives I simply didn't find anything better than the 2 lgs pieces. As for the sp vs. hp argument, if I run into an issue running out of spell points I might consider it, but that hasn't been a problem thus far and my survivability is good in r7-r10 which I like. Obviously it doesn't matter in R10 tempest spine and other places, but the 300 hp from fvs and 18% hp bonus from the 2 piece set provides close to 1000 hp in total. I like it and I do notice a difference. Of course it won't save me from every situation.

Also, my 15 million rxp is split across 3 accounts and 10 alts. Randomall only has 36 reaper points so I am always looking for builds that minimize the impact from lack of reaper points. The hp stacking would be especially helpful for someone with few lifes and reaper points. Obviously someone with all the past lifes, 100 reaper points and running in a strong static group might not care about the extra hp. When pugging on many alts as I do - it's nice

Also I don’t understand all the swap items and stuff for stupid little bonuses like extra leap of faith. You are better off grabbing something like more sp from exalted

The leap of faith selection in Exalted Angel costs 1 point. So freeing that 1 point won't allow me to get more spell points. It would allow me to get 10 more spellpower and between that and the shorter cool down for leap of faith - I'll take the shorter cool down - I love my leap of faith!

One final comment is your dcs and wisdom. You are adding in too many bonuses that you can’t keep up forever which throws out unrealistic numbers.

The base # is completely sustainable, the only thing that isn't is the aureon's clicky which I separated and the -3 spell pen from the aura which I also listed below the total. The sentient weapon bonuses I only lose when swapping.

Not sure what to really say here except you are entirely wrong on this point - unlike the other points which are opinion which I respect, this point is factually wrong. If I am mistaken I will of course correct it so it's not misleading.

[slarden]

Don't forget the t2 twist Acute Instincts from fury for +2 wis while raged (rage pots or primal scream).

Also, with beacon of grace, close wounds sla, and heal/cures, do you really need cocoon?

Cocoon is a very low cost sla, but the thing that makes it great for reaper is the 150 temp hit points. Yeah, I just started playing the build so I might be tweaking and perhaps cocoon will be one of the things I change.

Acute Instincts might be a better choice than precise evocation which only grants +2 evocation DC where acute instincts gives +1 to everything. Thank you for the suggestion I will probably do that, although the problem is me forgetting to take my rage pots.

[goldgolem]

How about heavy armour without the proficiency? Im using without and sitting at 112 PRR. Any idea how much that would improve with the feat?

In going all out spell pen, where are you needing it? I was surprised how well implosion worked in Ravenloft R8-10 even with low spell pen investment and 90CHA

If I went back to WIS and freed up a feat slot, I have been playing with the idea of trying out enlarge for distance soundburst/divine wrath, but can be applied to other spells too

I just swapped out arcane pulse as I now have so many light spells I can do a whole rotation without it and also dont have to worry about pumping force

For the weapon, you are doing Ottos and then +4 CHA. Why not also do the Eye set and have the +2 DC and the other benefits instead of adding pure CHA?

[slarden]

How about heavy armour without the proficiency? Im using without and sitting at 112 PRR. Any idea how much that would improve with the feat?

This is actually a good thought. It gives you exactly 40 PRR vs non-proficiency which I verified by taking it off. I am assuming mythic and reaper bonuses apply regardless of proficiency. This reduces my DR from 62.12 to 55.36. Definitely worth considering.

In going all out spell pen, where are you needing it? I was surprised how well implosion worked in Ravenloft R8-10 even with low spell pen investment and 90CHA

If I went back to WIS and freed up a feat slot, I have been playing with the idea of trying out enlarge for distance soundburst/divine wrath, but can be applied to other spells too

I just swapped out arcane pulse as I now have so many light spells I can do a whole rotation without it and also dont have to worry about pumping force

That is a very likely change - dropping greater spell pen for enlarge. You are right the spell pen seems fine, although I think you would want all 3 feats in the mines, but those aren't run much on Sarlona.

I am only really burning one slot for force and the question is what do I take if not arcane pulse - deific warding, 20 spell power didn't seem enough to give up the extra spell which is helpful when soloing lower skulls. If I ran only high reaper in a static group I would likely dump it, but I only group about half the time.

For the weapon, you are doing Ottos and then +4 CHA. Why not also do the Eye set and have the +2 DC and the other benefits instead of adding pure CHA?

For now I was lazy and just added 1 wisdom (or would add cha on the char build). You are right 200 spell points and the other benefits make adding 2 dc worth it plus the odd pt of charisma could result in another dc. Have you verified it stacks? I can do that easy enough, but curious if you knew for sure.

[Dalsheel]

Why do you need Force of personality on a toon that has access to Freedom of Movement and Protection from Evil?

[slarden]

Why do you need Force of personality on a toon that has access to Freedom of Movement and Protection from Evil?

Of course it's only a feat selection on the charisma build and not the wisdom build.

It's not needed as much as it's beneficial for the builds intended use - soloing low to mid skull. FOM doesn't protect you from stuns and dancing spheres and force of personality moves the needle from almost always fail to almost always succeed.

I've always found it to be a useful feat on a soloing charisma build. I would never take it on a character that always groups.

It's one of those YMMY feat selections.

[goldgolem]

On filigrees, I asked before in this thread and the responses are varied https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...-bonuses-stack If you want to bump it possibly we can get a dev answer it. The wiki page http://ddowiki.com/page/Filigree does state "Unless specifically noted, all bonuses listed are unique bonuses and stack with everything, including other unique bonuses." but I am not sure if thats really been tested either

I have the full ottos but I still need the full rare Eye set. Ill let you know in 2019 sometime..

I cracked at lvl 23 and swapped in Force of Personality because I was getting feared in Wiz King. I could redo and make a better choice, but I see it as a bit of a QoL feat that saves me from myself

Im trying to go full out light damage, so I did take deific warding and 20 spell power. I dont care about force or fire. Implosion seems to work fine for my only instakill

Legendary Feats
*Epic spell focus Evoc
*Intensify +75 spell power
*Embolden +2 DC
*Master of Light +10 DC to sunbolt, searing light and divine punishment
*Epic spell power light +20 light spell power
*Epic spell focus spellcraft
*Deific Warding +10 PRR, +10 MRR, +2 stacking on hit
*Scion of Celestia +20 Positive light/align spell power, +30% spell crit damage with light/align, +150 HP, +4 will saves


If I went WIS I could swap Personality for Extend, but I dont fancy the headache of making the swap and regearing, as its super fun anyway

[peng]

I cracked at lvl 23 and swapped in Force of Personality because I was getting feared in Wiz King. I could redo and make a better choice, but I see it as a bit of a QoL feat that saves me from myself

Im trying to go full out light damage, so I did take deific warding and 20 spell power. I dont care about force or fire. Implosion seems to work fine for my only instakill

Legendary Feats
*Epic spell focus Evoc
*Intensify +75 spell power
*Embolden +2 DC
*Master of Light +10 DC to sunbolt, searing light and divine punishment
*Epic spell power light +20 light spell power
*Epic spell focus spellcraft
*Deific Warding +10 PRR, +10 MRR, +2 stacking on hit
*Scion of Celestia +20 Positive light/align spell power, +30% spell crit damage with light/align, +150 HP, +4 will saves

If I went WIS I could swap Personality for Extend, but I dont fancy the headache of making the swap and regearing, as its super fun anyway

There are fear immunity augments. Also, greater heroism gives fear immunity.

If you have access to them, completionist and past life wizard are better feats than greater/epic spell focus. Regular spell focus gives access to spell focus twists from magister and draconic. More spell pen feats or enlarge might be other useful feats.

Don't forget slay living and destruction for single target instakills.

Master of light gives +10 max caster levels to Sun Bolt, Searing Light, and Divine Punishment, not dc. And it doesn't do much for you. With the capstone, full zealous/intense faith and a divine destiny, you have 25 divine caster levels with +3 cl and mcl for fire/force/light/physical and +6 cl and +12 mcl for Nimbus of Light, Searing Light, Sun Bolt, Cometfall, Divine Punishment, Flame Strike, and Fire Storm. So without master of light, you cast Sun bolt at cl 34, mcl 30; searing light at cl 34, mcl 25; and divine punishment at cl 34, mcl 35. So it does nothing for dp, and not much for sun bolt. Searing light does get a boost, but it doesn't scale very well.

[goldgolem]

Cheers for the input, esp the spell level breakdown. My build is about trying to eke out max light damage so I am ok with feats providing small increments

I realise fear immunity etc. but as I say, its a QoL feat for me that means I dont have to worry. I dont know if 1 CHA would make much of a difference, but I may end up swapping it back anyway

Slay living and destruction wont work on my build and I dont have a will to cram necro gear in - its all about max light damage

Im ok with only getting a bit out of master of light, as thats the flavour of the build. I could swap a few feats around for an extra few CHA points, but I dont see that would give me a much better return