Advantage of going straight spellsword?

[Wintersoul]

What are the advantages of going straight class for spellsword?
What dip class for grandfathered ss is best ?

[Wintersoul]

Thank you for all your time and effort.

[TimeAdept]

For a legacy spellsword, 23 spellsword 4 fighter 3 rogue is best, IMO.

[Kirito]

at the moment, no advantage of going pure. eventually thwre will be a level 28 cookie when I think of one

discipline bonus will end up being tied to being pure

[One Two Three Five]

For a legacy spellsword, 23 spellsword 4 fighter 3 rogue is best, IMO.

Honestly, on a legacy 4 APR-without-fighter spellsword? I'd consider 26-27 spellsword/3-4 bard. One of the classes biggest weaknesses is getting dispelled after all. You lose 3 feats (and I GUESS some damage but I don't think most people are running with EWS on them these days anyway), but gain one in epic.

Edit: Of course, by the time you're hype for that disc/tumble dump kirito might've given them their backlash wave capstone

[Hunter548]

The big reason that you run 27/3 on a legacy spellsword is imbue DCs. It takes the imbues from DC 37 for a 23 wizard spellsword, to 41 -- Which takes them from "Some people will reliably fail them" to "Most people will reliably fail them." This is pretty valuable when you're relying on imbues to carry you in hard fights.

[Maladus]

For a legacy spellsword, 23 spellsword 4 fighter 3 rogue is best, IMO.

Honestly, on a legacy 4 APR-without-fighter spellsword? I'd consider 26-27 spellsword/3-4 bard. One of the classes biggest weaknesses is getting dispelled after all. You lose 3 feats (and I GUESS some damage but I don't think most people are running with EWS on them these days anyway), but gain one in epic.

Edit: Of course, by the time you're hype for that disc/tumble dump kirito might've given them their backlash wave capstone

Most people aren’t running EWS on them anymore because most builds won’t take a fighter level in epics after the BAB change.