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<blockquote data-quote="Herzog" data-source="post: 4626872" data-attributes="member: 25696"><p>1. Do NOT take a Strength lower than 10. Strength bonus does not normally add to ranged attacks, but strength penalty DOES substract! (learned that the hard way...)</p><p>2. If you have access to Spell Compendium, get Improvisation at spell lvl 3. (adding luck bonuses to your attack and damage....)</p><p>3. Get Melodic Casting (complete mage). It allows you to cast spells while performing, and allows you to use Perform instead of Concentration checks (freeing up skill points).</p><p>4. Decide what you like about this idea. Are you taking Bard for the spells? for the armor? for the bardic music? If it is anything but the bardic music, and you are thinking about multiclassing anyway, you might be better of with a sorcerer/ranger or sorcerer/rogue. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Last but not least: I myself am in the process of building/retraining a bard archer. (yes, the one with Str < 10 )</p><p></p><p>I've decided to go with Bard 8/Rogue 2/Unseen Seer 10. (CM) (but you can probably get it with only bard 4 or 5)</p><p></p><p>The nice thing about switching to unseen seer is that you have sneak attack and spell casting progression, and in addition get to add some divination spells to your spells known.</p><p></p><p>Most important one is: Sniper's Shot (Spell Compendium). It allows you to sneak attack at unlimited range for one round.</p><p></p><p>Combine that with DeadEye Shot (PH2) and you will be able to ranged sneak attack at any distance every round (as long as you have first level spells)</p><p></p><p>To be more flexible in your spellcasting, you might consider Lyric Spell (which allows you to sacrifice bardic music uses to cast spells) or Versatile Spellcaster (which allows you to use two lower level spell slots to cast a higher level spell).</p><p></p><p>However, also make up your mind where your focus lies. Are you a caster/supporter with some ranged combat?</p><p>Or a ranged combatant that can cast some spells?</p><p>Put a focus on the appropriate feats to support that, because I'm finding that I'm severily lacking in feats to get everything I would like...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Herzog, post: 4626872, member: 25696"] 1. Do NOT take a Strength lower than 10. Strength bonus does not normally add to ranged attacks, but strength penalty DOES substract! (learned that the hard way...) 2. If you have access to Spell Compendium, get Improvisation at spell lvl 3. (adding luck bonuses to your attack and damage....) 3. Get Melodic Casting (complete mage). It allows you to cast spells while performing, and allows you to use Perform instead of Concentration checks (freeing up skill points). 4. Decide what you like about this idea. Are you taking Bard for the spells? for the armor? for the bardic music? If it is anything but the bardic music, and you are thinking about multiclassing anyway, you might be better of with a sorcerer/ranger or sorcerer/rogue. Last but not least: I myself am in the process of building/retraining a bard archer. (yes, the one with Str < 10 ) I've decided to go with Bard 8/Rogue 2/Unseen Seer 10. (CM) (but you can probably get it with only bard 4 or 5) The nice thing about switching to unseen seer is that you have sneak attack and spell casting progression, and in addition get to add some divination spells to your spells known. Most important one is: Sniper's Shot (Spell Compendium). It allows you to sneak attack at unlimited range for one round. Combine that with DeadEye Shot (PH2) and you will be able to ranged sneak attack at any distance every round (as long as you have first level spells) To be more flexible in your spellcasting, you might consider Lyric Spell (which allows you to sacrifice bardic music uses to cast spells) or Versatile Spellcaster (which allows you to use two lower level spell slots to cast a higher level spell). However, also make up your mind where your focus lies. Are you a caster/supporter with some ranged combat? Or a ranged combatant that can cast some spells? Put a focus on the appropriate feats to support that, because I'm finding that I'm severily lacking in feats to get everything I would like... [/QUOTE]
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