Human warpriest2 / wizard 5 / eldritch knight 5


Advice


I want to play a dimensional dervish who starts out as warpriest 2 so he can cast divine favor and shield of faith as swift actions or cure light wounds if need be. Moves into wizard with teleportation subschool, arcane bond a masterwork weapon.

Stats before racial adjustments
Str- 14
Dex- 12
Con- 14
Int- 14
Wis- 12
Cha- 11

I was considering dual-talented because I'm not sure what feats to take, I have an additional +2 to a stat that can go on the racial +2 as well, meaning I can use my human +2 for strength and this other +2 for strength for a net of 4 or it can be used in another stat.

So here are the questions, what schools should I ban or should I go universalist instead of teleportation? Where should my +2s go? And feats to take and which ones to retrain for dimensional dervish line? What dirty and blessings should I take? Character is also gonna be NG or CG. I was thinking luck,travel or protection blessings. And finally what weapon is recommended?

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You should go Arcanist for the teleport exploit; it's better than what the conjuration wizard has to offer.


You're going to swift-action lock yourself. The advantage of the Wizard school power is dimension door as a swift action, but you're taking 1 or 2 swift actions to get your buffs up and running. Further, the Dimensional combat line eventually allows you to swift action DDoor as well. It's not to say you couldn't do all this, but it's still taking you 1-2 rounds to really get into combat.

So in that regard, the Arcanist exploit is a stronger opener for general combat (Swift Action Buff, move action teleport, standard action attack). But since it's not dimension door, it doesn't let you qualify for Dimensional Agility and the follow-ons.

Note that you'll also cap out at +3 on Divine Favor assuming you devote both your traits to it (Fate's Favored and Magical Lineage).


Exploiter Wizard. You lose Arcane school and Bond but get exploits of Arcanist. Dimension Step functions like Dimension Door except you still have actions afterwards. The only problem I see is your Warpriest abilities will suck being so low. But overall not a bad combination.


As mentioned, Dimensional Dervish requires a full round action, using your swift action to DDoor, so the real benefits of Favor are wasted.


Dimensional Slide is the name of the Arcanist ability and it states it can be used as a Move action and you still get the rest of your actions unlike Dimension Door the spell.

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Derek Dalton wrote:
Dimensional Slide is the name of the Arcanist ability and it states it can be used as a Move action and you still get the rest of your actions unlike Dimension Door the spell.

Yes. Also, the range is better than the conjuration power.

Of course dimdoor trumps both, but you won't be using that until you get the dervish feat at level eleven.


The new Pact Wizard from Haunted Heroes Handbook gives you access to a witch patron, and if going Eldritch Knight, I'd imagine that the Strength patron would be of use, letting you spontaneously cast spells like Divine Favor / Divine Power at level 2 and 8, respectively.

Also, it stacks with Exploiter, should you wish to go down that road.

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