Best Feats for Greatsword Fighter?

[Quartz]

Swap out 2 levels of fighter for 2 levels of Monk. You'll get Improved Unarmed Strike, Improved Grapple, Combat Reflexes, Evasion, and a much-needed boost to your weak saves. Mithril Chainmail is light armour, so you can still benefit from Evasion. You only lose 1 BAB.

 

[pawsplay]

We just went around about bucklers a few weeks ago. The pertient bits I remember:

1. The description of bucklers uses the same language as the feat, so either IBD works with two-handed weapons, or they are exempt from the loss of AC in the first place.
2. Two handed weapons are clearly a weapon in your off hand, in every conceivable sense of the phrase. Two weapon fighting is, in D&D, called two weapon fighting (one consequence of which is wielding a weapon in your off hand).
3. Custserve and every available vaguely official WotC source has come out for IBD working with two handed weapons.

 

[Jeph]

Swap out 2 levels of fighter for 2 levels of Monk. You'll get Improved Unarmed Strike, Improved Grapple, Combat Reflexes, Evasion, and a much-needed boost to your weak saves. Mithril Chainmail is light armour, so you can still benefit from Evasion. You only lose 1 BAB.

Since you're into epic levels, you don't even lose BAB. Once a fighter hits level 20, there's almost no reason not to multicalss.

 

[Marius Delphus]

Hey there, thanks so much for all the input... I'm still watching, but I very much like Iku Rex's AoO master idea... as well as swapping out some of the "less useful" feats... please carry on, I'm very grateful

As a note, the player isn't the least bit interested in a buckler or animated shield, though I floated the idea by.

 

[ainbimagh]

Something to think about as well would be...

improved sunder
power attack
combat brute
improved bull rush
shock trooper
pushback (or knockback if you are goliath/large)
greater sunder

Gives you a lot of control in combat with pushbacks/bullrushes/sunders and charging.

+2 hitroll / +20 damage sundering charge that cleaves into the person after you destroy their armor/shield/weapon is also really.. really nice.

That and I just like the idea of a charging warrior cleaving through someones armor, then their person.

 

[Quartz]

Since you're into epic levels, you don't even lose BAB. Once a fighter hits level 20, there's almost no reason not to multicalss.

You should take the Monk levels before going Epic, though, so you get the benefit of the saves.

 

[Darklone]

If you like the AoO Master, think about Hold the Line... yet another AoO.

 

[Thurbane]

Maybe a silly point, but have you considered specializing in the falchion rather than the greatsword? For 2d4 damage vs. 2d6, you get a 50% better chance of scoring a critical, which is even more significant once you take Keen or Improved Critical into account...

 

[Laharl]

Hi,

I'm planning on making a fighter greatsword too.
I would to know a bit more about the Martial Study Feat. I have bought the Bo9S. But my english reading is not perfect ... (yeah you guess, i'm not an english-speaking guy).
So here is a part of the feat i don't understand (and the book too...) : "...If you do not have martial adept level, you can use this maneuver once per encounter as a martial adept with an initiator level to 1/2 your charater level..."

Iku_Rex write :
"18. Martial Study (elder mountain hammer) [BO9S] Martial Study (foehammer) [BO9S, DS]
18. Weapon Supremacy (greatsword) [PHB2] {F}
20. Martial Study (elder mountain hammer) [BO9S] Martial Stance (thicket of blades) [BO9S, DS] {F}"

If i take the maneuver Foehammer, it says :
"Foehammer
Devoted Spirit (Strike)
Level : Crusader 2
initiation Action : 1 standard action
Range : melee attack
Target : one creature

"...When you use this maneuver, you make a melee attack against a single foe. This attack automatically ..."
"

So i have 2 questions about those infos:
- first : according to the Martial Study feat, i can only use this once an encounter?
- second : "Level : Crusader 2" means i can take this feat at level 4 as a fighter? (according to the 1/2 initiator level)?

Thx in advance for answer

Laharl.

 

[Amazing Triangle]

I am really surprised that no one has offered Leap Attack. For a greatsword fighter who is power attacking 5 gets 15 back on damage. Improved Sunder and Combat Brute so you can do it again the following round. This gives you two rounds of 5 for 15

Why not Endurance and Indomitable Soul? So your Con score bonus is also used for your wis bonus...