Most broken prestige classes?

[EyeontheMountain]

Here is a great source for pretige classes and sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prestige_classes


Truely Broken or very easily abuseable
Incantrix
Dweomerkeeper
Ur-Priest
Planar Shepherd

Needs to be watched very carefully
Sublime Chord
Blighter
Shadowlord
Argent Champion(just a bit too good)
Initiate of the Sevenfold Veil
Hulking Hurler

Should not be allowed because it will wreck your campaign
Frenzied Berzerker

Only abusable if you are too free with a trick or two
Divine crusader (if you allow multiple domains)
Ultimate Magus(Practiced spellcaster)
Wild Mage(Practiced Spellcaster Trick)


IMHO, of course. A lot of the above are only really abusable in combination. For example taking mystic theurge with either Divine Crusader, Ur-priest or else is a good way to break those classes wide open.

 

[Thanee]

What's so great about Mystic Theurge with Ur-Priest?

Bye
Thanee

 

[Sejs]

What's so great about Mystic Theurge with Ur-Priest?

Bye
Thanee

Ur-Priest has its own 9-levels-of-spells-over-10-levels-of-class spellcasting progression.

1) get into Ur-Priest.
2) get into Mystic Theurge
3) apply Mystic Theurge's divine spellcasting progression to Ur-Priest.
4) cast 9th level arcane and divine spells by around 17th level.

 

[green slime]

What's so great about Mystic Theurge with Ur-Priest?

Bye
Thanee

I too, was wondering over this.

 

[Thanee]

Ah, I see. The prerequisites are kinda low, which allows you to get into Mystic Theurge with just Wizard 5/Ur-Priest 1.

Yeah, that makes the combination even better than 'just' the Ur-Priest itself.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Raspen]

Exemplar ......... for them campains where skills are more important then fighting this class is broken. i didnt realy know it till i played a human with the feat fay touched from BoED but this class made the game very unfun

 

[Felix]

Needs to be watched very carefully
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Initiate of the Sevenfold Veil
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Pious Templar

May I ask why you name these PrCs?

 

[Thanee]

Sandshaper is probably pretty broken. Dozens of spells known for no real cost, if you are a sorcerer.

Also the Mage of the Arcane Order is pretty nifty and certainly gives more than it takes (which seems to be what many here take as broken already ).

Bye
Thanee

 

[hong]

I'm still wondering why the rainbow servant is broken....

 

[Kurashu]

It's an arcane casting PrC from Complete Divine 10th level ability gives access to all cleric spells.

Pious Templar I'd allow. I'm also pretty fond of the picture that goes with it.