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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mneme" data-source="post: 5131955" data-attributes="member: 59248">Multiclassing into wizard pretty much always works for Int-primary classes -- wizard powers tend to be quite strong for their level, so the power swap feats are a good investment.  Actually, in some ways, hybriding into wizard is even stronger for a swordmage -- you don't lose any proficiencies (beyond Leather, which you can replace with a feat), you get the ability to use swordmage implements for wizard spells, your mark works more or less unchanged, you save a lot of power swap feats, and (once you spend a feat to get swordsmage warding) what you lose from swordmage is the ability to move your mark around and a few hit points.Regardless, you want to think about stat pairs.  I'd pretty much always build it as con/int unless I was going with a genasi (for elemental empowerment); look to mostly attack with wizard spells (Which tend to be more potent, overall) and use swordmage spells when in close or to enforce your mark/buff yourself.  For wizard dailies, look to summons, as they work great with good overall defenses (which you want as a swordmage) and are really contorlly/defendy.Re half-elf; I'm not seeing the love.  Obviously, you want to go shielding (you'd want to anyway), as the charisma boost doesn't help you at all swordmage-side and not much as a wizard.  But half-elves don't have an Int boost, and have no relevant feats to arcane classes, and no weapon feats.  The only thing I can think to do with them is using the diletante power to pick up Magic Weapon (artificer), a Battlemage at-will (con based, very defendery; actually, a half-elf battlemage would be fun, as battlemages are con/cha), or Eldritch Strike (con based, gives you a basic attack using Con as an encounter power, upgradable at paragon to at-will (letting you retrain out of melee training).There are other threads that talk about swordmage wizards.  You can find them on google (site:enworld.org), but:<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-4th-edition-rules/237479-swordmage-implement-wizard-powers.html" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-4th-edition-rules/237479-swordmage-implement-wizard-powers.html</a><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-4th-edition-rules/273386-swordmage-wizard-summoner-doable.html" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-4th-edition-rules/273386-swordmage-wizard-summoner-doable.html</a></blockquote>

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