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This is him, sans skills and items, all the way to 20th: (25 points)
Gurak Tharm Half-Orc Bbn1/Sor9/ElK10
Str 16/22(26)
Dex 14
Con 14(18)
Int 10
Wis 10
Cha 16/21
Crossblooded: Orc/Draconic Red
Traits:
Magical Knack:Sor
Unbreakable Hate
Feats (Bloodline Powers)
1st Power Attack
2nd (Touch of Rage)
3rd Spell Focus: Evocation
4th (Dragon Resistances)
5th Mage's Tattoo: Evocation
7th Intensify Spell
8th Combat Reflexes
9th Extra Rage
10th (Strength of the Beast)
11th Empower Spell, Thrill of the Kill
13th Burning Spell
15th Spell Perfection, Critical Focus
17th Greater Eldritch Heritage: (Power of Giants)
19th Elemental Focus: Fire, Staggering Critical
I'm still debating on the spell for Spell Perfection.
Optimistic gambler and quicken spell like ability would be amazing there..... on the other hand this wont be such an effective melee build anyway, so honestly I'd just slip the melee stuff as you wont do too well.
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Optimistic gambler and quicken spell like ability would be amazing there..... on the other hand this wont be such an effective melee build anyway, so honestly I'd just slip the melee stuff as you wont do too well.
He's not meant to melee much, but he'll have a pretty sick Str when he's using Power of Giants and raging...and with reach, the idea is to be scary enough to keep opponents at spell ranges.
Your "Mage's Tattoo" (which is actually called Varisian Tattoo) is literally doing nothing in this build. Magical Knack is already maxing out your caster level, but cannot raise it higher than your character level. Other CL-boosting effects will do nothing unless they can raise it past your character level all on their own.
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Your "Mage's Tattoo" (which is actually called Varisian Tattoo) is literally doing nothing in this build. Magical Knack is already maxing out your caster level, but cannot raise it higher than your character level. Other CL-boosting effects will do nothing unless they can raise it past your character level all on their own.
Are you positive it can't?
Mage's Tattoo
Prerequisite: Spell Focus.
Benefit: Select a school of magic (other than divination) in which you have Spell Focus—you cast spells from this school at +1 caster level. Additionally, you gain a single spell-like ability usable up to three times per day. The spell-like ability gained are as follows:
Abjuration: resistance
Conjuration: acid splash
Enchantment: daze
Evocation: dancing lights
Illusion: ghost sound
Necromancy: touch of fatigue
Transmutation: mage hand
I don't see that the tattoo can't raise it above caster level.
I don't see that the tattoo can't raise it above caster level.
The tattoo can. But Magical Knack can't. When you're at level 4, you have 3 levels of Sorcerer, but Magical Knack is keeping your CL at 4. Once you get to level 5 and pick up your Tattoo, it tries to boost your CL for evocation spells up to 6. But then, you run afoul of the text of Magical Knack, which says it can't raise your CL past your character level (5); so it stops working. At that point, only the Varisian Tattoo is boosting your CL for evocation spells, and it can only boost it up to 5.
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I don't see that the tattoo can't raise it above caster level.The tattoo can. But Magical Knack can't. When you're at level 4, you have 3 levels of Sorcerer, but Magical Knack is keeping your CL at 4. Once you get to level 5 and pick up your Tattoo, it tries to boost your CL for evocation spells up to 6. But then, you run afoul of the text of Magical Knack, which says it can't raise your CL past your character level (5); so it stops working. At that point, only the Varisian Tattoo is boosting your CL for evocation spells, and it can only boost it up to 5.
This makes me wonder...does the feat automatically take precedence over the trait, being counted first? I wouldn't think so...though the point is moot, I'm curious.