Help me with crazy combos for my Warblade!

[Dragonblade]

So I'm looking for combos that my Warblade can use (currently 11th level). I focus mostly on Iron Heart and Diamond Mind with some Stone Dragon maneuvers. I'm more of a heavy armored tank fighter so I didn't go with Tiger Claw, or White Raven.

Also if you know some crazy broken combos, I'd love to see those as well (even if they aren't Warblade specific). The most ridiculous combo I can come up with is for a 20th level Warblade character and does 200+ points of damage (around 500 if you are also 10th level Eternal Blade!):

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Requires: Haste, The Diamond Mind maneuver that gives you two full attack actions (sorry, I don't have my book so I can't recall the exact name), Combat Rhythm (from a feat in ToB), Diamond Nightmare Blade maneuver.

Round 1: Have Haste cast on you, or activate it yourself via potion or item
Round 2: Use your Diamond Mind maneuver to take 2 full attack actions (with Haste thats 10 attacks). Use combat rhythm so that all your attacks are touch attacks that do no damage. If all 10 attacks hit that gives you +50 to damage in the next round.
Round 3: Use Diamond Nightmare Blade to make a single attack that does (regular damage +50) x4. So you will do 200 points of damage minimum.
Round 4: Follow up with Perfect Strike for +100 damage if your opponent is still alive.

If you are a 10th level Eternal Blade, the combo is even sicker. Take the Sudden Recovery feat.

Round 1: Have Haste cast on you, or activate it yourself via potion or item
Round 2: Use your Island in Time Class ability to take your entire turn as an immediate acction. Use your Diamond Mind maneuver to take 2 full attack actions (with Haste thats 10 attacks). Use combat rhythm so that all your attacks are touch attacks that do no damage.
Then as a swift action, use Sudden Recovery to get back your Diamond Mind maneuver and do another 10 attacks. The next round you get +100 damage to every attack if all your touch attacks hit!
Round 3: Use Diamond Nightmare Blade to make a single attack that does (regular damage +100) x4. So you will do 400 points of damage minimum and probably close to 500 points or more. You could also just rely on your Haste and make 5 attacks, each one doing +100 points of damage.

Of course, instead of doing this combo, you could just your Diamond Maneuver and Island in Time to pull off 20 attacks in a single round, 8 of which will be at your highest attack bonus. Thats nasty enough just by itself.

You can also do Perfect Strike, use Sudden Recovery and then do Perfect Strike again the next round. Might be more efficient than my combo unless you use the Eternal Blade version.

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Anyone else have any really good ones?

 

[krupintupple]

although it's not the powerhouse you've mentioned, one of my favorite combinations is to use emerald blade and power attack, taking advantage of hitting a foe's touch AC and using a two-handed weapon so my power attack goes through the ceiling.

even at 11th level, you could be doing +22 damage and checking against touch AC - not too shabby.

 

[blargney the second]

Deep Impact + any maneuver that does lots of damage + full Power Attack.
Any Concentration-based maneuver + expending psionic focus to Take 15.
-blarg

 

[Doug McCrae]

Post #2 in this thread from WotC optimisation forum has lots of Tome of Battle combos.

 

[Doug McCrae]

The Desert Wind maneuvers Burning Blade and Inferno Blade, which a warblade can acquire via the Martial study feat, work well with multiple attacks. The more attacks you have, the better it gets.

Leading the Charge (WR1) and Pouncing Charge (TC5) are a good combo. Leading the Charge increases the damage of each charge attack. This also combos well with burning/inferno blade.

For my warblade PC I'm intending to use Pouncing Charge, Leading the Charge, Boots of Speed, Shock Trooper (CW feat) and Leap Attack (CA feat) with a valorous weapon (Unapproachable East). At level 9 this should do around 300 damage if all three attacks hit, which they most likely will due to shock trooper. This combos well with Wall of Blades (IH2), which still gives a good defence against one attack even though your AC is in the floor.

 

[blargney the second]

The Desert Wind maneuvers Burning Blade and Inferno Blade, which a warblade can acquire via the Martial study feat, work well with multiple attacks. The more attacks you have, the better it gets.

You can get Burning Blade even cheaper than that: just grab the magic item in the back of Bo9S that lets you learn one Desert Wind maneuver. It's only 3 or 4000 gp.

 

[Nifft]

Deep Impact + any maneuver that does lots of damage + full Power Attack.

This is the only "broken-do-not-allow" combo in my game which features both Psionics and Bo9S. Deep Impact + Diamond Nightmare Blade is terrifying, because Psionic Meditation breaks a major assumption of Bo9S ("move actions aren't worth much") and maneuvers break a major assumption of Psionics ("single attacks aren't worth much relative to full attacks").

For terribly strong but within-the-rules, check out Stormguard Warrior and the search the WotC forums for how to optimize it.

Cheers, -- N

 

[blargney the second]

This is the only "broken-do-not-allow" combo in my game which features both Psionics and Bo9S. Deep Impact + Diamond Nightmare Blade is terrifying

Yeah, I'm feeling a little guilty about planning to do just that with my warblade. *sheepish grin*

 

[blargney the second]

This is the only "broken-do-not-allow" combo in my game which features both Psionics and Bo9S.

I finally got to try Deep Impact + Ruby Nightmare Blade + Power Attack yesterday. :jawdrop:

I was expecting it to be spectacular... but that was really just insane.