MAXIMUM STRENGTH build for MAXIMUM PADDING

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MAXIMUM STRENGTH build for MAXIMUM PADDING

Post by MoreThanThree » Thu Oct 19, 2017 3:43 pm

We're only building for strength here, INB4 the AC sucks and you skipped most feats and skills.

This build requires blowing a major and a greater
Ogre Fighter 16/Bard 4/RDD 10
18 STR before gifts, 22 after
7 fighter and 3 bard levels pre-epic, with all RDD levels pre-epic as well

10 levels in RDD gives +8 str
Naturally on lvls 4, 8, 12, 16, and 20 STR would go up by +5 total
Excluding gear, this build will have 34 STR at lvl 20

Because there appears to be no STR-boosting armor, we will use bronze fullplate and tower shield with +1 STR on each of them and the Dalelands sword (with an ogre wielding a smol hin sword being spicier than an ogre that dumped money into enchanting an axe or something), to a total of +8 from all gear slots. This brings the total lvl 20 STR up to 43.

Now, we get to our epic fighter levels, where we will be dumping fighter lvls 8-16 and a Spellcraft/Tumble dump on a bard lvl at 27. Unfortunately the fighter bonus feats are irrelevant to this build because Great Strength isn't a bonus feat, so we're looking at an extra +4 from each general feat level in the epics--21, 24, 27, and 30--bringing the total str up to 52. The NWN-wiki only goes up to 52 modifier, so let's not get ahead of ourselves with spells.
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Re: MAXIMUM STRENGTH build for MAXIMUM PADDING

Post by Kirito » Thu Oct 19, 2017 3:59 pm

You can only choose one reward at a time

(so this is basically 5% "i'm a special snowflake, devs do something for me please" terrritory.

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Re: MAXIMUM STRENGTH build for MAXIMUM PADDING

Post by MoreThanThree » Thu Oct 19, 2017 4:02 pm

Kirito wrote:You can only choose one reward at a time
Ah, then we'll be scaling this back down to half-orc as per my previous iteration of the build. ... So, 50 str?
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Re: MAXIMUM STRENGTH build for MAXIMUM PADDING

Post by Ork » Thu Oct 19, 2017 4:38 pm

21 base str + 7 stat + 8 rdd + 12 str soft + 4 great str = 52.

Simple.

Achievable by horc, orog or wood elf. 48 str achievable by kobold rdd without 5%.

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Re: MAXIMUM STRENGTH build for MAXIMUM PADDING

Post by Wytchee » Thu Oct 19, 2017 7:49 pm

"The NWN-wiki only goes up to 52 modifier, so let's not get ahead of ourselves with spells."

Does this mean it's pointless for a druid to buff dexterity while in air elemental form, since it would bring it up past 52? Is there no point to having a dex modifier higher than 21?
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Re: MAXIMUM STRENGTH build for MAXIMUM PADDING

Post by TimeAdept » Thu Oct 19, 2017 8:56 pm

NWN will handle stats all the way up to 254 before you hit overflows at... you guessed it, 127.

Keep in mind that encumbrance gets a little weird if you go past 50 STR, iirc.

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Re: MAXIMUM STRENGTH build for MAXIMUM PADDING

Post by Wytchee » Thu Oct 19, 2017 8:59 pm

TimeAdept wrote:NWN will handle stats all the way up to 254 before you hit overflows at... you guessed it, 127.

Keep in mind that encumbrance gets a little weird if you go past 50 STR, iirc.
Okay, I was worried there for a second, haha. Would have shaved like 4 AC off my air elemental build. :roll:
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