Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3431764" data-attributes="member: 13966">Deadly Defense?  What's that? (I'm not very familiar with most 3.5 material)I'm planning to mix in a bit of Rogue because it's the favored class of Halflings.  I want to focus on Dragon Shaman, which means I'll suffer multiclass penalties if I go Bard without an even mix (which would mean giving up the DS ability improvements, and thus letting the abilities lag behind as overly-weak past level 7 or so).Halfling Paragon wouldn't really help this character (low hit dice, mediocre other stats, and abilities that only help true-rogue-types, not just-decent-Dex melee types who are skill-point-starved).At present, since I don't have the SP to be sneaky-sneaky, I'm wearing a breastplate and carrying a heavy shield (got Shield Focus or whatnot from PH2 for another +1 AC), making me the 2nd-toughest PC in the group at AC 20 (22 fighting defensively or 24 total defense); the barbarian has slightly higher HP, and the swordsage has marginally higher AC from high Dex, Wis, and light armor (think he said today that now, with the level-up, he's gained the ability to add Wis to AC like a monk; but I don't know if that's a swordsage ability or the effect of some stance).  With Rage's extra Con, the barbarian is slightly tougher than my PC, except for the fact that his low AC results in getting hit by nearly every attack made against him.  I rarely get hit.At 4th-level I may boost Dex to 14 and ditch the breastplate for a masterwork chain shirt, then put 5 ranks in Tumble at 5th when I multiclass into Rogue......just to further boost my survivability as the group's protector and partial-healer.  I'll probably have to rely on flanking with Sneak Attack just to deal any damage on the rounds I don't breathe acid at that point....what with fighting defensively penalties, DS mediocre-BAB, and barely decent Str.  Maybe instead of Tumble I'll go for Combat Expertise as my 3rd or 6th-level feat (haven't chosen my L3 feat yet)....</blockquote>

Verification