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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ainulindalion" data-source="post: 6746031" data-attributes="member: 6801319">I think there a lot of reasons to multi bladesinger with EK fighter, personally.  Sure, you lose spell options, but honestly, I don't think you're playing a bladesinger for 9th level spells (though foresight looks really hot on any melee character).You'll want to start with fighter, obviously, for gear, and CON SV proficiency.  Depending on whether or not you plan to wear armor once you're a bladesinger, you take either defense or duelist fighting styles.  Since you want a tank, use defense.If you're looking to tank, I'd go with 8 levels of EK fighter and 12 of wizard.  You'll end up with 7th level spell slots, but that's not super important.The reasoning:  The ability to cast a cantrip every round lets you cast blade ward every round.  You're now at half damage from weapon attacks that hit you.  That hardly even counts being able to maintain a CONCEN spell like blur or haste.  And you can still hit things once.You've got 6 ASIs as well.  Max DEX and INT, so static AC of 18.  Not great, but not crap.  Still have 2 ASIs.  Spend one of those on War Caster so you can keep your deflection spells up.  ADV + CON SV Prof is decent, and doesn't count your bonus during bladesong.  Your other ASI can go to CON+2, Tough, Magic Initiate (Cleric, for resistance, guidance, and shield of faith) or (Wizard, if 8 cantrips (High elf) isn't enough for you, plus a free shield), Defensive Duelist (to conserve spell slots, though it isn't as good as shield), or Resilient (Wisdom) to help with those pesky disabling mind-f---ing spells.You should be a decent secondary tank that way.  But you're never going to be able to tank a massive hit from a spell the way a fighter or paladin can.  You're never going to hit the Paladin's 21 base AC (and by level 20, that should be 23 a good percentage of the time).  But you can hit 23 AC while in the bladesong, with an optional 28 while taking half damage from weapon hits.</blockquote>

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