Drow Wizard

WarlockLord

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I need some help with a drow wizard build. Feel free to min-max or whatever, as everyone else in the party is doing it.

I was thinking maybe using shape soulmeld (arcane focus) and incarnum feats to make up for the +2 CL loss (at least with damage) or shadow weave. Any other ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance for any help.
 

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Cant really help here, even a +1 LA race is not worth it for any spellcaster. Losing spell progression for what......+1 DC is hardly worth it, even if you factor in the other special abilities.
 


On Faerun? Ready for bawls?

Take a flaw. Noncombatant. -2 to melee attacks.
Shadow Weave Magic. Be a necro, give up evoc and something else. Conj is you have a sense of zest and adventure.
Spell Thematics. Make everything shadowy or skully. Something balls out.
Now climb up the shadow weave feat tree, and throw in spell focus along the way. Your spells will be near uncounterable, and look really hardcore. (One of those Shadow Feats+Thematics= +9 to the DC to spellcraft your spells to identify them)

This should take care of your caster level problems for the most part. And when you tell your DM you're giving up evoc they will be intruiged, and most likely reward you for being awesome.
 

Are you using point-buy? If so, put 18 in Int (with 28 points, let's say Str 8, Dex 12, Con 14, Int 18, Wis 10, Cha 8; with drow racial adjustments that's Str 8, Dex 14, Con 12, Int 20, Wis 10, Cha 10). With drow racial adjustment, that means two bonus 1st-level spells right there at 1st level. Increased Int will also raise your spell DCs and modifiers to Int-based skills (and most wizard skill are Int-based). That will help reduce the gap between you and the +0 LA characters.

If you don't use Unearthed Arcana's LA buy-off rules, take (Greater) Spell Penetration feats -- remember you'll be lagging two levels behind other party members. Or, alternatively, concentrate on non-SR spells (like the various orbs from Complete Arcane and Spell Compendium).

If you're faced with the anti-drow prejudice in the campaign (most FR campaigns will be like that) invest in hat of disguise as soon as possible, and until then stack up on disguise self spells. Use them to disguise as a moon (or any other surface) elf -- that way, even if you're touched, the illusion will stay in effect, since drow are physicaly identical to other elves (well, apart from colouring). If the character's paranoid about being dicovered, also take a couple of ranks in disguise. A non-magical disguise coupled with the spell will be nigh-impenetrable (well, at least at lower levels ;) ).
 


1/ See if the Elf Racial Sub level for Wizard applies to Drow. If so, take Level 1 (and be a Generalist). The Racial Sub level is in Races of the Wild.

2/ Drow Paragon. Just one level of it, though.

3/ LA Buy Off, is it legal in your game?

Cheers, -- N
 


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