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<blockquote data-quote="Persiflage" data-source="post: 5351872" data-attributes="member: 73597"><p>What Dandu said.</p><p></p><p>Also... I wouldn't spend too many resources on the Reflex save specifically: of the three, it tends to be the one where failure results in hit-point damage rather than extended status effects, and you've <em>got</em> plenty of hit points. Plus, it's rather easy to acquire resistances and immunities to common energy types, which are typically what you end up getting hit with on a Reflex-save effect. You can detract a lot from the main focus of the character by concentrating on closing a saving-throw gap, and if Reflex is your only weak save you're not doing too badly.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, a Cloak of Resistance is an obvious way to boost all your saves, and Gloves of Dexterity will help with Reflex. If you've got decent divine mojo in the party, there are always buffs like Divine Agility, Superior Resistance (OK, won't stack with the cloak), Conviction (probably the Mass version) for morale bonuses to saves and Recitation for luck bonuses.</p><p></p><p>As you've got Divine Grace, you're better off boosting Charisma than Dex if it comes to a choice of where to spend the money. And, of course, if you've got the cash to splash you get a double whammy from X-bonus-to-all-stats items. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>If you could stand to drop a point of BAB, you could dip Swordsage instead of Warblade: good Reflex and Will, and you get access to the Diamond Mind concentration-check-instead-of-X-save maneuvers I assume Dandu alluding to. Warblade would get you Int to Reflex, but it's a maximum bonus of +1 per Warblade level and you probably don't want to depart too far from your existing build. If you've got a great Int and a less-than-great Dex, you're probably better off burning a feat on Insightful Reflexes (Int <em>instead of</em> Dex to Reflex saves), but as I said before, it's probably not worth detracting so much from your existing build to bump the least-important save.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Persiflage, post: 5351872, member: 73597"] What Dandu said. Also... I wouldn't spend too many resources on the Reflex save specifically: of the three, it tends to be the one where failure results in hit-point damage rather than extended status effects, and you've [I]got[/I] plenty of hit points. Plus, it's rather easy to acquire resistances and immunities to common energy types, which are typically what you end up getting hit with on a Reflex-save effect. You can detract a lot from the main focus of the character by concentrating on closing a saving-throw gap, and if Reflex is your only weak save you're not doing too badly. Anyway, a Cloak of Resistance is an obvious way to boost all your saves, and Gloves of Dexterity will help with Reflex. If you've got decent divine mojo in the party, there are always buffs like Divine Agility, Superior Resistance (OK, won't stack with the cloak), Conviction (probably the Mass version) for morale bonuses to saves and Recitation for luck bonuses. As you've got Divine Grace, you're better off boosting Charisma than Dex if it comes to a choice of where to spend the money. And, of course, if you've got the cash to splash you get a double whammy from X-bonus-to-all-stats items. :) If you could stand to drop a point of BAB, you could dip Swordsage instead of Warblade: good Reflex and Will, and you get access to the Diamond Mind concentration-check-instead-of-X-save maneuvers I assume Dandu alluding to. Warblade would get you Int to Reflex, but it's a maximum bonus of +1 per Warblade level and you probably don't want to depart too far from your existing build. If you've got a great Int and a less-than-great Dex, you're probably better off burning a feat on Insightful Reflexes (Int [I]instead of[/I] Dex to Reflex saves), but as I said before, it's probably not worth detracting so much from your existing build to bump the least-important save. [/QUOTE]
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