Epic Cinematic (Recruiting)

[Shayuri]

Ooo, yeah, that'd do it.

Don't take any of what I'm saying as a criticism by the way. I have my own design philosophy where warlocks are involved, so what I'm saying must be taken more as sort of, "This is what I'd do," talk...

That said...I think you're blowing too many feats on more invocations. Remember that no matter how many invocations you have, you can only USE one per turn (blast shape and essence notwithstanding) unless you have Quicken Spell Like Ability.

I also think some of your invocation choices are...not what I'd call optimal, though I recognize some are to fulfill prereqs. Here's a breakdown on invocation picks I would suggest reconsidering.

Least
Devil Sight
- This is a terrible, terrible power. See the Unseen is the same level, gives you See Invisible AND Darkvision 60...which is functionally nearly identical. Yes, Devil sight pierces magic darkness...but since magic darkness is only a 20% miss chance now...who cares?

Lesser 3 (+3)
Ignore the Pyre (Dragon Magic p. 82)
Relentless Dispelling (Comp Mage p. 124)
Voidsense
- Ignore the Pyre isn't actually too bad, but you can get better with a Ring of Universal Elemental Resistance for a mere 200-odd grand, and a ring slot. Relentless Dispelling is all but useless at epic levels against anything remotely close to your CR. Voidsense isn't useless, but if you have See the Unseen (see above) then you won't likely need it.

Greater 3
Eldritch Line (Dragon Magic p. 82) or Caustic Mire (Comp Mage p. 98) or Repelling Blast
- Line areas are the worst, in my opinion. Cones and spreads are much more useful. Repelling Blast is sometimes nice for "caster" style warlocks, but less so for a melee, I'd think. Caustic Mire just seems too weak to me for a Greater invocation slot at these levels.

Dark 3 (+1)
Caster's Lament (Comp Mage p. 123)
Eldritch Doom
- You'd probably be better off with Devour Magic than Caster's Lament. I suppose it depends on if the GM rules Break Enchantment can de-petrify, which is otherwise the only thing Greater Dispel can't do better than it. Eldritch Doom is...I may reconsider this. For a blaster, it's awful, but if you routinely get in close anyway...that might be okay.

Let me think summore...

 

[Jemal]

I must disagree with Shayuri on a couple points. Devil's sight and Voidsense are some of my fave invocations simply for their versatility. Blindsense is godly, especially at Epic, and as for devil's sight.. being able to see (ANY DISTANCE) through darkness and magical darkness is simply too awesome to pass up. Sure, the 'darkness' spell may only be miss chance, but what about deeper darkness? Or an epic darkness spell? Or someone who's 300' away at night shooting arrows at you? Or being stuck in a giant lightless cave?

Eldritch Line, Caustic Mire, Relentless Dispelling, Caster's lament, Eldritch Doom I'd have to agree with, at least in a game like this where it's supposed to be very centered around NON casters.

Repelling blast has always been one of my favourites simply because I like the idea of blasting someone and sending them flying.

Ignore the Pyre - If you've got the extra money, I'd agree with Shayuri, the ring is better. If you're strapped for cash, though, Ignore the Pyre is great so long as you have at least some warning about what element you're going to have to face.

 

[Walking Dad]

Some of my thoughts about the "problematic" invocations:

Devil's Sight is needed for the Shadowmaster Feat

Ignore the pyre: I wanted to by this ring. But I thought, IMMUNITY, not resistance would be of some worth.

Voidsense is useful against fog etc

Relentless Dispelling: I hope it would be useful against buffer builds.

Repelling Blast in conjunktion with eldritch glaive and combat reflexes allows me to to push back enemies I hit with my AoOs.

Good call about caster's lament. I wait for a DM judgement.

I need really help regarding items. What do you think of them?

[sblock=Equipment]
Talisman of Undying Fortitude MIC 188

Vest of resistance MIC 147

Vampire Torc MIC 144

Ruby Cincture of Immutability MIC 131

Ring of Universal Energy Resistance MIC 128

Healing Belt MIC 110

Gloves of eldritch admixture MIC 105

Chasuble of Fell Power MIC 85

Bracers of the Blast Barrier MIC 80

Warlocks Scepter MIC 63

Crystal of Screening MIC 26

Crystal of Mind Cloaking MIC 25

Mindarmor Quickness MIC 13

Masking MIC 12[/sblock]

 

[Shayuri]

Hee...I dunno if I'd ever say Blindsense is 'godly' at any level, but it can be useful, especially in conjunction with Blind Fight. That said, I find See Unseen more consistantly useful than Voidsense and/or Devil's Sight. Circumstances where blindsense and impenetrable darkness are an issue are much rarer than circumstances where ordinary darkness and invisibility are an issue... That said, it's all a matter of play style and what you're expecting.

As for Ignore the Pyre, it doesn't grant immunity. I'm not sure what you mean by this. It grants resistance to one energy type (at a time) equal to your caster level. The invocation that gives energy immunity is a Dark one, and as such isn't available to warlocks via that feat.

Relentless Dispel COULD be useful against SOME buffer builds...but most critters that can cast even supplementary spells at CR 30 do so at caster levels of 20 or more. The only exception is NPC's constructed with class levels...and even then, a gish at level 30 could easily get caster levels in excess of 20. Relentless Dispel would be useful mostly for minion and secondary NPC's, and for suppressing non-epic items. That's not useless...but it's not a very good use of a level 30 character's standard action either.

Good point about Repelling Blast! I hadn't thought of that. Eldritch Glaive is not in my personal warlock playbook.

As for items...

At this level, a Healing Belt is a waste of a good item slot. My opinion.

I'm not sure the Bracelets of Blast Barrier work with Eldritch Blast...I'll have to look it up when I get home. Similarly, a lot of these I'm not familiar with, so I can't comment on right away...

I'm pretty sure (but not COMPLETELY) that your ring of energy resistance won't stack with Ignore the Pyre, reinforcing the comments about changing it.

 

[Walking Dad]

Heck, you are right about the pyre. I will ditch it!
(And about the healing belt, too.)

Edit: What about a third eye of concealment?

 

[Albedo]

Alrighty, the loose deadline has come and gone and I have 2.75 submissions. So lets see here.

Shayuri: I haven't seen any problems with your character thus far, wanna move it to the rogues gallery and submit a world name?

Walking Dad: How long until your character is finished?

Everyone Else who hasn't submitted: Roll Call: Anybody else throwing their hat in?

So far we have:
Jemal, Vertex, Walking Dad, Shayuri.

 

[Jemal]

WD - I'm not the DM, but I personally HATE third eye conceal. Mind blank for any price is underpriced. (Er.. that is the psionic mind blank one right? I'm not on crack?)

 

[Vertexx69]

wow, just ran a test full pounce (using war master's charge and raging mongoose) against AC 51 with a flank (not counting the fact that hes attacking from invisible) - All 17 attacks hit - can you say 2,269 dmg in 1 round that bypasses epic/magic/G.E.C.L./adamantine DR yeesh

 

[Walking Dad]

wow, just ran a test full pounce (using war master's charge and raging mongoose) against AC 51 with a flank (not counting the fact that hes attacking from invisible) - All 17 attacks hit - can you say 2,269 dmg in 1 round that bypasses epic/magic/G.E.C.L./adamantine DR yeesh

Thanks, now I KNOW I suck at epic character creation

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Walking Dad: How long until your character is finished?
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I have very big problems at choosing equipment. If somebody else is faster and/or has epic expirience, I'm willing to bow out for him/her.

 

[Shayuri]

Don't worry, Walking Dad...most of us don't approach that damage output. It's not a requirement for epic levels. I've never been a fan of the Feral template, myself. Partly because it's a 3.0 template, not 3.5...but mostly because the main "balancing" features of it are more RP than anything, kind of like how the paladin's code of honor works.

On the other hand, since we're all on the same side, I say go Feral.

Oh! And I'll have a final version of my PC up today.

Sorry for dithering so long. Mostly I'm just angsting over the very feat-intensive Deflect Arrow chain and trying to decide if 5 feats, including both epics, is worth the benefit of being essentially immune to all ranged, non-area attacks.