| GeneMemeScene |
I'm playing in a puresteam campaign; partial gestalt, meaning that for every two levels we take in our primary class we get a level in a secondary class. I went with primary arcanist (blade adept), secondary cavalier (daring champion); 1) because I decided this would be a great time to build a gish, 2) because I've never tried out 9th level spellcasting before, and 3) because I'd love to see parry-riposte combined with order of the flame.
So I basically built the character like the cliche magus (Dex focus, Fencing Grace, magical lineage and metamagic master for shocking grasp), and I plan on eventually dipping a level of crossblooded sorc (draconic and primal, GM said he'd allow it). The bonded rapier that will become my black blade is also copper plated.
So at 11th level i'd have
15d6+45 elec damage as a 2nd level spell (empower+intensify)
and as a backup,
10d6 any element damage as a 1st level spell (elemental+intensify)
I am aware that evocation itself is suboptimal, but the character itself and the gimmicks I want to try out lend themselves more to evocation (or more specifically, metamagic shocking grasp spam) and later on polymorph (for elemental forms). He's basically a dashing fencer dandy man with a flair for theatrics, hence evocation (I also just really like the idea of 15d6+45 as a second level spell).
We're currently second level (with 1 level in our secondary class); my feats are Weapon Focus and Fencing Grace. I'd like to know any wondrous items or feats or whatever else meshes well with this, such as buffing what's here or other flashy blasty abilities that you think would fit this.
PS: Wow, arcane bond is handy. Spontaneous casting Comprehend Languages = never miss a spoken plot thread again.
| kestral287 |
School Understanding Admixture (potentially with a dip of Wizard) is a better way to solve the elemental concern than Elemental Spell.
I'm seeing BAB being a glaring concern, one way or another. Are you obtaining your 'secondary' levels at odd or even levels? If it's even, you have half-BAB. If it's odd, you have full. Ignore this if you're doing partial accounting, but that doesn't seem to be the norm.
You're going to be much weaker, in your primary role, than a Magus. Lack of Spell Combat really, really bites for a build trying to emulate them. I'd strongly advise finding interesting things to do with your Move Action. Alternately, realize that at the mid-to-high levels you do need to shift to utilizing your higher level spells more in combat.
By my math your Empowered/Intensified Grasp is 15D6+30. Also, as written Elemental Spell doesn't override the descriptor, so if you do stick with that you'd have a 10D6+20 Flaming Grasp. Just saying.
How much do you want to go martial and how much do you want to go magical? That's the real question before we can talk feats.
| GeneMemeScene |
Actually we are doing partial accounting, so I effectively have 3/4 progression BAB.
Empowered+Intensified is 15d6+45 because of copper plating (when an electric descriptor spell gets delivered through a copper plated weapon, it gets +1 damage per die; yes, in Puresteam you can just buy a bloodline arcana...).
As for using my move action, I thought I'd get Daredevil Softpaw boots and Disorienting Maneuver, so that I can use a move action to gain +4 on my spellstrike attack. However, my room for feats is looking sparse, so I might not go for Disorienting Maneuver.
Currently my expected build looks like this:
STR 12
DEX 18
CON 11
INT 17
WIS 10
CHA 15
Feats:
H) Weapon Focus (Rapier)
1) Fencing Grace
3) Extra Exploit (Spellstrike, GM said it would work for me to take it before actually getting the exploit feature)
5) Empower Spell
7) Intensify Spell
9) School Understanding (Admixture)
11) Signature Deed (Opportune Parry&Riposte)
13) Echoed Spell
15) Spell Perfection
17) ???
19) ???
Exploits:
1) Replaced by Arcane Bond
3) Replaced by Black Blade
5) Arcane Weapon
7) Dimensional Slide
9) Replaced by Arcane Bond
Dip 1 level of crossblooded sorcerer
12) Bloodline Development (Draconic)
14) Quick Study
16) ???
18) ???
20) ???
EDIT: Yeah, Admixture sounds like a better idea than Elemental Spell