Tome of Battle: Book of 9 Swords - Things to watch out for?

[Videssian]

There is one slight benefit to it over a regular warblade... 2 levels of any class then moving to warblade gives you the option of a 3rd level stance. With their 2nd stance coming in at warblade4, you're usually stuck with another 1st level stance because there aren't any 2nd level ones.

Granted, if those 2 levels were swordsage like you're suggesting, he'd already have 1-2 stances, so it might not be as big of a deal.

If you mean WB @ 1st and 2nd, some other class @ 3rd, 4th, then WB @ 5th, 6th, then yes, you'll be able to get a 3rd lvl stance at 6th lvl (WB 4).. then again, you're only a WB 4 instead of WB 6, and at 20th lvl, you'll miss out on Stance Mastery as well as a 7th readied maneuver and the 13th known maneuver (which could be a 9th level maneuver).. as always, there's tradeoffs.