AoE for Wood Elf FVS Swashbuckler?

[nsheorey]

Hi all,

I'm planning my next build after coming back from a bit of a break and I'd love your thoughts! I've never really played the divine melee type of characters and wanted to give it a try with FvS. I like the flavor of the War Soul T5s, and the light damage for 12 secs on vorpal from Wrathful Weapons particularly seems really cool and I kind of wanted to build around it. My thought is that to get as much uptime as possible I'd need a lot of attack speed, and so SWF/Swashbuckler seems like a good choice of combat style, especially since my understanding is that PSWF extends vorpal threat. I also kind of dig the idea of a holy fencer, so to go all in on that concept, I thought I'd go with WElf to get rapier as a favored weapon (not to mention all the nice attack, damage, doubleshot and dodge bonuses).

Anyway, all of that seems like it fits together pretty well to me. To be clear I'm sure it's not top end or anything, but my intent is basically to screw around in low reapers, and as far as spellcasting is concerned I just want to be able to buff a bit and throw out the occassional maxed heal as needed. My concern, however, is AoE. I imagine single target will be pretty good - SWF seems naturally good for that, and the fast attack speed plus a bunch of flat added damage per hit from wrathful weapons seems solid. But I don't quite know what to do about AoE. My thought at the moment is to grab just enough levels of barbarian to be able to use supreme cleave, since I think its low cooldown combined with the added light damage would be good, but I really don't know here. Would that take away more than it adds? Planning it out as 14fvs/3brd/3barb, I think I have just enough AP to get prettttty much everything I want from the WElf, War Soul, Swashbuckler, and Frenzied Berserker enhancement trees. Current rough draft below for your consideration:


Character name:
Classes: 14 Favored Soul, 10 Epic, 3 Barbarian, 3 Bard
Race: Wood Elf· · · · · · ·Alignment: Chaotic Good

· · ·Start Tome Final · · ·Incorp:· · ·0% · · ·Displacement:· · 0%
Str:· · ·8· · 4 · ·12 · · ·HP:· · · · 731 · · ·AC:· · 27
Dex:· · 14· · 4 · ·20 · · ·PRR: · · · ·14
Con:· · 16· · 4 · ·21 · · ·MRR: · · · · 3 · · ·+Healing Amp:· · 10
Int:· · 10· · 4 · ·14 · · ·Dodge: · 11/25 · · ·-Healing Amp:· · ·0
Wis:· · ·8· · 4 · ·12 · · ·Fort:· · · ·0% · · ·Repair Amp:· · · ·0
Cha:· · 18· · 4 · ·43 · · ·SR:· · · · · 0 · · ·BAB: · · · · · · 30
DR: 3%· ·5\-
Immunities: Sleep

Heroic Past Lives
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Past Life: Alchemist
Past Life: Artificer
Past Life: Bard
Past Life: Cleric
Past Life: Druid
Past Life: Favored Soul
Past Life: Ranger
Past Life: Warlock



Class and Feat Selection
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Level Class · · · · · ·Feats
1 · · Favored Soul(1) ·Standard: Single Weapon Fighting
· · · · · · · · · · · ·Follower of Faith: Follower of the Undying Court
2 · · Favored Soul(2) ·Battle Feat: Grace of Battle
3 · · Favored Soul(3) ·Standard: Maximize Spell
· · · · · · · · · · · ·Child Of Faith: Child of Faith
4 · · Favored Soul(4) ·Charisma: +1 Level up
5 · · Bard(1) · · · · ·
6 · · Bard(2) · · · · ·Standard: Precision
7 · · Bard(3) · · · · ·
8 · · Favored Soul(5) ·Energy Absorbance: Energy Absorption: Electricity
· · · · · · · · · · · ·Charisma: +1 Level up
9 · · Favored Soul(6) ·Standard: Improved Single Weapon Fighting
· · · · · · · · · · · ·Deity: Search the Soul
10· · Favored Soul(7) ·Heart Feat: Stout of Heart
11· · Barbarian(1)· · ·
12· · Barbarian(2)· · ·Standard: Improved Critical: Piercing Weapons
· · · · · · · · · · · ·Charisma: +1 Level up
13· · Barbarian(3)· · ·
14· · Favored Soul(8) ·
15· · Favored Soul(9) ·Standard: Greater Single Weapon Fighting
16· · Favored Soul(10) Energy Absorbance: Energy Absorption: Sonic
· · · · · · · · · · · ·Charisma: +1 Level up
17· · Favored Soul(11)
18· · Favored Soul(12) Standard: Offhand Versatility
· · · · · · · · · · · ·Beloved Of Faith: Beloved of the Divine
19· · Favored Soul(13)
20· · Favored Soul(14) Charisma: +1 Level up
21· · Epic(1) · · · · ·Epic Feat: Force of Personality
22· · Epic(2) · · · · ·Epic Destiny Feat: Perfect Single Weapon Fighting
23· · Epic(3) · · · · ·
24· · Epic(4) · · · · ·Epic Feat: Overwhelming Critical
· · · · · · · · · · · ·Charisma: +1 Level up
25· · Epic(5) · · · · ·Epic Destiny Feat: Holy Strike
26· · Epic(6) · · · · ·
27· · Epic(7) · · · · ·Epic Feat: Blinding Speed
28· · Epic(8) · · · · ·Epic Destiny Feat: Doublestrike
· · · · · · · · · · · ·Charisma: +1 Level up
29· · Epic(9) · · · · ·
30· · Epic(10)· · · · ·Epic Feat: Empty Feat Slot
· · · · · · · · · · · ·Legendary: Empty Feat Slot

Granted Feats
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Diehard
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Self and Party Buffs
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Active User Controlled Stances
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Divine Might
Precision

Active Auto Controlled Stances
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Single Weapon Fighting
Swashbuckling
Rapier
Wood Elf
Cloth Armor
Good
Chaotic
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Enhancements: 80 APs
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Wood Elf - Points spent: 19
Core1 Accuracy I
Tier1 Weapon Training I
Core2 Nature I: +1 Dexterity
Core3 Accuracy II
Core4 Nature II: +1 Dexterity
Tier2 Weapon Training II
Tier2 Arcanum - 3 Ranks
Tier3 Weapon Training III
Tier3 Forest Origins: Faith of the Forest
Tier4 Forest's Versatility: Like a Leaf
Tier4 Weapon Training IV
Tier4 Skill
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War Soul - Points spent: 36
Core1 Smite Foe: Smite Foe (Melee)
Tier1 Divine Might: Divine Might - 3 Ranks
Tier1 Righteous Weapons I
Tier1 Toughness - 3 Ranks
Tier2 Righteous Weapons II
Core2 Resilience of Battle
Tier2 Action Boost Haste - 3 Ranks
Tier2 Wall of Steel - 3 Ranks
Core3 Sanctuary
Tier3 Righteous Weapons III
Tier3 Ability I: +1 Charisma
Tier4 Holy Striker: Holy Striker - 3 Ranks
Tier4 Righteous Weapons IV
Core4 War Caster: Blur
Tier4 Ameliorating Strike
Tier5 Divine Vessel: Divine Vessel (Melee Attack) - 3 Ranks
Tier5 Wrathful Weapons
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Frenzied Berserker - Points spent: 16
Core1 Die Hard
Tier1 Cracking Attack - 3 Ranks
Tier1 Extra Rage - 3 Ranks
Core2 Frenzied Toughness I
Tier2 Blood Tribute - 3 Ranks
Tier2 Extra Action Boost - 3 Ranks
Tier3 Supreme Cleave - 3 Ranks
Tier3 Blood Trail - 3 Ranks
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Swashbuckler - Points spent: 6
Core1 Confidence
Tier1 On Your Toes - 3 Ranks
Tier1 Limber Up - 3 Ranks
Core2 Swashbuckling
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Warchanter - Points spent: 3
Core1 Skaldic Rage / Skaldic Constitution: Skaldic Constitution
Tier1 Rough and Ready - 3 Ranks
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Anyway, would love to get input. Thanks!