Hello, again! Still having a great time and am also leveling the Dark Blade. Now, I want to try a Fighter build.

RE: Stalwart build notes:

Variants:
- Such a build can benefit from splashing two levels of Paladin: this gives in particular a significant bonus to saves (equal to your Cha modifier), early access to healing wands, and +1 AC through the Paladin Aura (assuming no other Paladin is near you). The drawback is the loss of the Fighter capstone (+10% attack speed) and one feat (for instance Lightning Reflexes on a Human, or Greater Two-Weapon Fighting otherwise). Overall it is well worth it on such a defensive build, and it was not done here mostly because it would not work well with all races without 32 pt builds and/or tomes (you would want to start with a bit more Cha to gain more benefit from the bonus to saves). If you go this route, remember to start with the Lawful Good alignment (required for Paladins), and run your character through the character planner to make sure your feat plan works (some feats are Fighter bonus feats that must be chosen among a subset of all feats, which can make planning tricky).
I cannot find any 18Fighter/2Paladin builds anywhere. They are all 18Pal/2Fighter. I would love to try out your suggestion above. Can anyone point me to more info? I am worried about picking the right feats, and the character planner doesn't work for me.

I have 32pt builds unlocked (no Drow yet).

1) What stats should I lower to raise my CHA and which race would be best?
2) What feats would you switch out and when?
3) Any particular Paladin enhancements I should use/other enhancements that would work better going this route?
4) Is this not really a viable build for soloing and that's why there are more pally/fighter splash builds?

If it's easier to link to something, that would be really great. I've tried google and searching the forums. Thanks again!