Allowable sources for feats? Current level? What are the actual stats? Point buy means nothing if the game's already underway. Race? Is setting material allowed?
And I suppose retraining those current feats ain't an option? That thing's a mess.
Also, how is he fighting in heavy armor? Warblades only get up to medium by default.
Um. How about Martial Study, Martial Study, and Martial Study?
Whjere'd he get heavy armor prof? warblades are prof only in medium armor, i thought.
Given what he can do with AoO's, combat reflexes is a no brainer.
Level, stats, build? we'd need to know more about the character to send him down the right road. I suppose with THW he should have Power Attack as a given.
Feats and manuvers are all tied up as one in Warblades. More info!
==Aelryinth
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Iron Will is worth throwing out the window in favor of keeping Moment of Perfect Mind prepped.
Power Attack stays, but Dodge, Iron Will, Weapon Specialization, Toughness, and Weapon Focus are all expendable (in that order).
Also, I'd recommend skipping heavy armor proficiency and going with medium armor until a mithral breastplate becomes affordable.
Depending on how much money's sloshing around and it may be worth suggesting one of my favorite toys. The large platinum fullblade. It'd take two feats and about 15,000 gold to pull off, but it packs a wallop.
The fullblade is an exotic two-handed weapon from the Arms & Equipment Guide. Basically, a greater-sword. It deals 2d8 damage.
Platinum is a fairly expensive weapon material from Magic of Faerun, and it requires a second instance of Exotic Weapon Proficiency to use, but increases the weapon's damage by one size category. A normal platinum fullblade deals 3d8 damage.
Strongarm Bracers are an item from the Magic Item Compendium that allows you to wield a weapon one size larger than normal. In this case, a large platinum fullblade. 4d8 damage. With a casting of Enlarge Person, that goes to 6d8 damage. Certainly brings the pain.
There's also a feat that I always found distasteful, Shock Trooper (Complete Warrior). It's a tactical feat that offers a few options, but the main one lets you take a penalty to AC instead of AB for power attacking when you charge, allowing you to hit people very hard without loss of accuracy.
Leap Attack (Complete Adventurer) doubles Power Attack damage on a charge, pending a successful (and easy) jump check. Pairs well with Shock Trooper.
Um. How about Martial Study, Martial Study, and Martial Study?
Given what he can do with AoO's, combat reflexes is a no brainer.
Martial Study isn't very good for a Warblade except for plucking a few choice berries.
And Combat Reflexes isn't really worth on its own since the greater challenge is in provoking enough AoOs to make it worthwhile.
Robilar's Gambit can provoke all Kinds of AoO. If he gets Martial Study, he can also grab Martial stance...Thicket of Blades. No problems getting AoO's then!
With Martial Study you grab manuvers you will keep at ALL levels...like the Moment Of Feats (probably clarity and speed) and Iron Heart Surge.
The Fullblade has been errata'd to be a size L greatsword, so that is not a choice. Also, Pathfinder makes you take heavy armor penalties if you try to wear mithral without prof in the underlying armor. Yay, teeth in the armor rules!
My suggestion would have been Unarmed Strike, Superior Unarmed Strike, and an Adaptive Weapon. A Superior Greatsword Strike progression is 3-18, 4-24 and 6-36 at level 15, with no other shenanigans...and the above shenanigans can work just fine...
:P YOur DM would crucify you, however.
===Aerlyinth
The legacy weapons just aren't worth it.
Also, AC is a trap, so heavy armor isn't particularly necessary or useful; it's about the weakest defense you can ask for. It's just a matter of time before enemies hit you on a two unless you pour everything into AC, so you're nearly as well-off just ignoring it.
The best defense is kicking the enemy's butt before they can kick yours. Things like Wall of Blades, Moment of Perfect Mind, and the like are also meaningful defenses.
And as you're probably already aware, TWF is a major trap.
I suppose your DM house-ruled back in concentration skill for the diamond mind.
My fav. trick was to skill focus (concentration) and get an item that bumped it up as well. Then use that with Insightful Strike. It would allow you to pull off massive attacks regardless of what weapon you are using. (Sword, Fist, ... stick from the ground)
Also... if you picked up Versatile Strike (I think) from PHB2 it'd allow you to change the type of damage you do with unarmed strikes. Thus you could cut things with your hands.
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He wants to go two weapon fighting with four levels of the tiger claw master PrC he is looking at like 29 attacks on a time stands still the class gives him a +2 on attacking with two weapons all it costs him is feats. Any counter arguments short of his limit of 2 per encounter on this ability. the combo is raging mongoose to gain 4 extra attacks and time stands still.
Pretty rough combo there. I assume you're not counting Raging Mongoose twice, since you can only get the 4 bonus attacks once? Best I can see is 8 x 2 full attacks with Perfect TWF, plus the 4 extra attacks for RM, equaling 20.
To clarify my reasoning, it gives you two extra attacks with each weapon you wield, not two extra attacks per attack you make. Although I suppose if you allowed prepping of the same maneuver multiple times it would work, but I don't think that was how readied maneuvers were intended to work.