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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herschel" data-source="post: 5566623" data-attributes="member: 78357">I'm thinking about it from an overall character perspective. I never try for a full-out "optimized" character because they're too limited in scope for me. I generally look for something around maybe "70% optimized" as a term/goal. Generally speaking, I will always favor accuracy over raw damage numbers. I prefer Expertise over focus or superior weapon type unless something fits my idea better. For example, I wanted a Seeker who throws sickles and can step in to melee and take some heat off the defender, as needed.  In this case the only thing that really fit my wants was a Talenta Sharesh, but I am depending upon enchantments (Farbond Spellblade, in this case) to get what I want: a +3 thrown weapon that preferably looks like a sickle and has better than a d4 damage die, and preferably a d6.  In this case I went straight for the Superior Weapon because it fit what I was looking for when I got access to the enchantment. Plus, throwing seekers can be ridiculously accurate prior to expertise. As a bonus, I can also take Hafted Defense to help the AC for those melee forays. But ooops, another feat slot needed. I could have stuck with the Drow Long Knife, but I have flavor issues with that one too, but it does give me the +3 proficiency bonus I desire.  With the Warlord, I'd love to have a +3 proficiency, but simply don't want to spend two feats in order to make it work. I could go throwing with the Drow Long Knife, but again, flavor issues, range issues and even feelings of damage issues as well as still needing the feat slot.</blockquote>

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