Advice for gear on level 7 melee rogue

[Albion, The Eye]

Hi everyone,

As the title says - I am sitting at level 7 with a straight up Fighter2/Rogue5. He is melee, and fights with two daggers. Some relevant info on him:

STR 14
DEX 18/20
CON 14
INT 14
WIS 12/14
CHA 8

Main items (magical and otherwise):

Dagger +1
MW Cold Iron Dagger
Mithral Chain shirt +1
Amulet of Natural Armor +1
Belt of Incredible Dexterity +1
Cloak of Resistance +2
Daredevil Boots
Headband of Inspired Wisdom (yeah... My Will save sucks)
Ioun stone (dusty rose, cracked) +1 on init
Ioun Stone (Iridescent Blue, Cracked) +1 on Perception
Ioun Stone (Mulberry Pentacle, Cracked) +1 on Bluff and diplomacy
Ring of Protection +1
Wand of Shield (I try to UMD it before every fight to push my AC up)

Feats are: Combat Expertise, Dodge, Mobility, Power Attack, Skill Focus (Bluff), Two-weapon Feint[UC], Two-weapon Fighting, Weapon Finesse, Weapon Focus (dagger)

Recentely he has gotten his hands on around 8500 gold to spend - I can always begin working on upgrading my armor, weapon, rings, cloaks, etc. However I do not have many experience with med-high level characters, so I was looking for any suggestions from those more experienced than me. Some of my considerations:

- If I want to continue being the rogue, maybe Stealth will not be enough anymore. I may need to complement/add to it?
- Dagger +1 at level 7 hasn't been an issue so far, but I get the feeling it will become one sooner raher than later. How urgently do you think this one needs an upgrade?
- With the Shield wand and the eventual Expertise usage, I have been managing to keep my AC decent. Should I invest now on a better armor?
- Also f I want to continue melee... I will probably need to layer defenses somehow. Not sure I can accomplish this with magical items. Should I invest on say... A wand of Mirror Image? Or something along these lines?
- My Will save is BAD, just BAD. But I am really not seeing an immediate way to improve it. Any ideas apart from getting Iron Will as soon as possible?

Thanks in advance for any possible advice/suggestions guys.

[Albion, The Eye]

Yeah, I guess it is probably not the most interesting of subjects - I'll just go with the 'regular' upgrades. Thanks anyway.

[ohako]

a) I think your next feat should be Canny Tumble. This will give you a decent way to just auto-sneak bad guys.
b) You will also want to invest in the naughty decoy ring. This ring can give you 'greater-ish' invisibility for 2 rounds out of 3.
c) To boost your will save, there's always a four-leaf clover. Those are very good for the price, and slotless. You might also go for one of those protection from evil talismans, a lesser pentacle talisman or three.
d) You might also want to invest in a swarmbane clasp at some point, because sneak-attacking swarms is great fun.

[Meirril]

I think the most obvious upgrade would be a +2 equivalent Mithril Dagger for 8,502gp. This way you have a silver dagger for overcoming DR to go along side your cold iron dagger (which costs more to enchant).

Making it a vanilla +2 dagger helps to overcome your inherent 3/4 BAB and all the negatives you potentially take from TWF and other feats. But if you don't have any trouble hitting now you might consider using +1 for a special ability. Acidic is a good choice, 1d6 acid damage is one of the less resisted damage types and good against trolls.

Spell Storing can be absolutely amazing if you have a party member that can cast Vampiric Touch. Against a flanked or flatfooted opponent you get sneak attack damage with the spell when its released and you get temp hp based on the spell+sneak attack damage.

Limining and Ghost Touch are two enchantments that I don't highly recommend but if you expect to see a lot of invisible or insubstantial opponents they make a huge difference. The same for Bane. If you have a single extremely common creature type as an opponent it works great. Not so great when the GM doesn't keep throwing the same type of creature at you week after week.

[Albion, The Eye]

Thank you for the advice guys - it was very helpful!

It turns out we had less gold than expected (only around 5k) so... I went with the Four Leaf Clover and upgrade my Cloak of Resistance to +3 (am really worried about the Will saves, and did not have enough to invest in a better weapon anyway...)

All at half price because our witch can Craft Wondrous Items, and there was actually time for it! ;)