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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Simth" data-source="post: 2251841" data-attributes="member: 29252">Past the Cloak of Charisma, it depends on what flavor you are going for, and how much you can spend on one item; if you are limited to the 40/20 rule, then you can only spend 19,600 gp on your cloak - which means +4 for 16,000 gp, 9,800 gp on each additional item.  If not, you can go whole hog with the +6 for 36,000 gp.  So is that 13,000 to spend on other stuff, or 36,000?  A bunch of stat+2 items (4,000 each, for the most part) are handy; particularly Con (HP and fort save) and Dex (AC and reflex saves).  A ring of Protection +2 (8,000; +2 deflection AC), and a nice +1 Mithral Light Shield (2,009 gp; +2 shield AC, no ASF, max dex, nor Armor Check Penalty - doesn't matter that you aren't profiecient with it, as there's no penalty anyway), and Bracers of Defense +3 are also very handy.  Of course, if you plan on constantly maintaining Mage Armor (which, at 10th, you can fairly readily, as it has a 10 hour base duration), the Bracer's won't help a bit; likewise, if you plan on casting a lot of shield spells, the Mithral Light Shield is redundant.  Lesser metamagic rods can be useful for shoring up your lack of metamagic feats.Likewise, what role are you going to try for; what is the campaign likely to look like; what does your spell list look like?  If you take Teleport for your 5th level spell, and Scrying for one of your 4th, then you will obviously need to grab an expensive mirror, and something in a nice flavor of extradimensional to store it in (mind you at 10th, it will take six castings of Scrying and at least seven hours to qualify as "studied carefully" for your destination).</blockquote>

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