Drow Blackguard Build
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Drow Blackguard Build
Reposting here. Posted originally wrong forum.
There are some blackguard builds in the #builddump on discord, but they are all for humans and at least not for me easily modified to the drow subrace. The two in question are:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f2Z ... d2aII/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wkw ... AqQwI/edit
How should they be modified to work with a drow, or would another build all together work best?
There are some blackguard builds in the #builddump on discord, but they are all for humans and at least not for me easily modified to the drow subrace. The two in question are:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f2Z ... d2aII/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wkw ... AqQwI/edit
How should they be modified to work with a drow, or would another build all together work best?
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Quit easy to modify to drow I would say.
Stats:
STR: 16 (+7 from levels) = 23
DEX: 8 (+2 from drow) = 10
CON: 14 (-2 from drow) = 12
WIS: 8
INT: 12 (+2 from drow) = 14
CHA: 16 (+2 from drow) = 18
and you still have a minor gift to take something (which should not be an innate spell as it shares cool down with your darkness).
One build can drop lightning reflexes easy. The other might be a little more expensive by dropping toughness. I am not seeing any blind-fight which might be good if you fight a lot of concealed enemies, which is common on Arelith. You can not take expertise on level 1, so a little reshuffling is necessary.
In the epic feats drop epic prowess for greater strength.
You loose a few things compared to human, but get your elf bonuses, +1 AC from dex, and drow RP.
Stats:
STR: 16 (+7 from levels) = 23
DEX: 8 (+2 from drow) = 10
CON: 14 (-2 from drow) = 12
WIS: 8
INT: 12 (+2 from drow) = 14
CHA: 16 (+2 from drow) = 18
and you still have a minor gift to take something (which should not be an innate spell as it shares cool down with your darkness).
One build can drop lightning reflexes easy. The other might be a little more expensive by dropping toughness. I am not seeing any blind-fight which might be good if you fight a lot of concealed enemies, which is common on Arelith. You can not take expertise on level 1, so a little reshuffling is necessary.
In the epic feats drop epic prowess for greater strength.
You loose a few things compared to human, but get your elf bonuses, +1 AC from dex, and drow RP.
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Agreed.One build can drop lightning reflexes easy.
Wrong-ish, wrong, right.The other might be a little more expensive by dropping toughness. I am not seeing any blind-fight which might be good if you fight a lot of concealed enemies, which is common on Arelith. You can not take expertise on level 1, so a little reshuffling is necessary.
1) You drop Epic Prowess from the second build, or IKD. You don't really have the HP as a Drow to dispatch Toughness.
2) Blind Fight is in both of those builds at levels 13 and 20, respectively.
3) Yeah since you're starting with 12 INT
Doable, and agreed.In the epic feats drop epic prowess for greater strength.
FTFY. The dex bonus is meh considering that your average BG just uses a cats wand for DEX 12.You loose a few things compared to human, but get your elf bonuses, +1 AC from dex, and drow RP 32 SR.
I wrote both of those and, as usual, the pre-epic feat selection order is interchangeable per person's play style.
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Re: Drow Blackguard Build
I could only get the cha up to 14+2 racial with stat allocation.Alox wrote: ↑Sun Jul 22, 2018 8:35 pmQuit easy to modify to drow I would say.
Stats:
STR: 16 (+7 from levels) = 23
DEX: 8 (+2 from drow) = 10
CON: 14 (-2 from drow) = 12
WIS: 8
INT: 12 (+2 from drow) = 14
CHA: 16 (+2 from drow) = 18
and you still have a minor gift to take something (which should not be an innate spell as it shares cool down with your darkness).
One build can drop lightning reflexes easy. The other might be a little more expensive by dropping toughness. I am not seeing any blind-fight which might be good if you fight a lot of concealed enemies, which is common on Arelith. You can not take expertise on level 1, so a little reshuffling is necessary.
In the epic feats drop epic prowess for greater strength.
You loose a few things compared to human, but get your elf bonuses, +1 AC from dex, and drow RP.
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Can be a bit confusing with the elf bonuses put in. With the elf bonuses (+2 dex, -2 con) the start starts looks like:TheShadowdove wrote: ↑Mon Oct 01, 2018 3:06 pmI could only get the cha up to 14+2 racial with stat allocation.Alox wrote: ↑Sun Jul 22, 2018 8:35 pmQuit easy to modify to drow I would say.
Stats:
STR: 16 (+7 from levels) = 23
DEX: 8 (+2 from drow) = 10
CON: 14 (-2 from drow) = 12
WIS: 8
INT: 12 (+2 from drow) = 14
CHA: 16 (+2 from drow) = 18
and you still have a minor gift to take something (which should not be an innate spell as it shares cool down with your darkness).
One build can drop lightning reflexes easy. The other might be a little more expensive by dropping toughness. I am not seeing any blind-fight which might be good if you fight a lot of concealed enemies, which is common on Arelith. You can not take expertise on level 1, so a little reshuffling is necessary.
In the epic feats drop epic prowess for greater strength.
You loose a few things compared to human, but get your elf bonuses, +1 AC from dex, and drow RP.
str: 16, dex: 10, con: 12, wis:8, int:12, cha:16
then when in the game, you choose to go drow and get the +2 int and +2 cha there.
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Re: Drow Blackguard Build
is 18 cha worth 12 over 14 con?
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+1 AC/DMg on divine feats also +1 round of duration
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Re: Drow Blackguard Build
Thanks again! Remade with the stats you mentioned.
Re: Drow Blackguard Build
Have you considered replacing rogue with assassin? You're already evil and assassin would remove the multiclass penalty that rogue has with fighter.
Pre-epic: Fighter 6 / Blackguard 10 / Assassin 4
Epic: Fighter 7 / Blackguard 16 / Assassin 7
Assassin gets you evasion just like rogue, darkness and invisibility on 2 min cooldown as well as +2 poison DC on top of +4 from blackguard, not to mention the assassinate ability. You'd lose a few feats, skillpoints and HP though.
Pre-epic: Fighter 6 / Blackguard 10 / Assassin 4
Epic: Fighter 7 / Blackguard 16 / Assassin 7
Assassin gets you evasion just like rogue, darkness and invisibility on 2 min cooldown as well as +2 poison DC on top of +4 from blackguard, not to mention the assassinate ability. You'd lose a few feats, skillpoints and HP though.
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There is no more multiclass penalties on Arelith.
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D'oh! Good point.
Still, assassin has it's perks, if you can live with fewer fighter feats.
For stats one could go with 16 -> 22 / 10 / 12 / 16 / 8 / 17 -> 18, where higher int compensates for skill loss and improves assassinate and death attack DC.
Still, assassin has it's perks, if you can live with fewer fighter feats.
For stats one could go with 16 -> 22 / 10 / 12 / 16 / 8 / 17 -> 18, where higher int compensates for skill loss and improves assassinate and death attack DC.