Hyrbid Favored Soul Builds: Thoguhts Apreciated

[Haphazarduk]

Well, that will teach me to be more careful when writing thread titles...

Anyway, I have been playing around with various builds recently; Vistani melee focused, AoV DPS and a War Soul. I've come to the conclusion that, with the AoV capstone, a hybrid melee/caster should be possible, at least for most content.

Here are my thoughts. Be interested in other people's ideas. I know some of you have been thinking the same kind of thing...

Pure FvS. With the Aov Capstone of +4 stat and +2 DCs I think the most viable way of making a hybrid work is to stay pure. I played around with a few 18/2 and 14/6 ideas but you just lose too much DC and can't make it up easily enough through other trees (maybe Warlock?).

Probably DC rather than DPS. Although AoV gives some really good DPS through Sunbolt DPS should be coming from melee primarily and there won't be enough feats to cover everything. Slow cooldown Instas mix better with relatively fast cooldown melee abilities (more on that later).

Given the DC focus its' probably wis based. Saves a feat as well which is critical.

Probably human. Although wis races offer the extra DC there won't be points to spare for racial tree (unless you have Racial PLs in which case its worth doing Aasimar or Deep Gnome). That extra feat is crucial.

Melee ability is tough. For a while the only real option I could see was Vistani as its a pretty self contained tree and has great single target DPS which is what you'll need against bosses. Vol as deity gives some extra base damage and an ok level 6 ability for vampirism and extra con. However I think Silvanus might work for a 2H option but that means investing in War Soul for melee abilities which isn't quite so good. Trash clearing should be better though.

One other option is the Qstaff and go Aureon but I just don't think it will deliver on the damage front.

So I'm currently think 20 FvS, 41 Aov (Capstone), 39 Vistani (Tier 5s) Wis based with Implosion, Destruction, Mass Frog etc. Feats; Necro DC, Spell Pen, SWF, IC:P, PA if room.

What do you think?

Hap