Help with feats for single class fighter...

[Aus_Snow]

Hm. Well, it's not creative at all, OK, but if you've got the Keen thing covered, what about Power Critical?

 

[MacMathan]

Unfortunately not a high enough Int for combat expertise.

 

[Crosswind]

No worries. The numbers, as they are, favor (if you don't want to go Leap Attack) Greater Weapon Focus, then improved critical (They're really the same, Greater weapon focus is -fractionally- better)

-Cross

 

[Particle_Man]

Since you like the Tactical Feats from Complete Warrior, you could go: Dodge, Mobility, Elusive Target (CW) for 9th, 10th, and 12th level feats (Can't take the third feat as a Fighter bonus feat, alas). For 8th I would suggest Greater Weapon Focus.

 

[DarkRufus]

power lunge, when you charge lets you do strength and a half for damage. From sword and fist.

 

[ForceUser]

I tend to avoid Imp. Crit. in 3.5 since keen replaces it pretty much.

I have not picked up Cleave yet as I have not run into to too many situations where I would have been able to use it in the latest campaign. I may take it but like I said I wanted to see if there was some other more interesting feats from sources I may have missed.

You know, I just goggle in wonderment at what other DMs must be doing. My fighter cleaves so much--all the time. Many of our fights have multiple opponents; for instance, tonight with Great Cleave, I finished off three wounded fire giants in a single round! It was the highlight of my week!

1st attack, crit for 57 dmg--dead fire giant #1--CLEAVE, crit for 64 dmg--dead fire giant #2--GREAT CLEAVE--33 dmg--2nd attack, 31 dmg--3rd attack, 34 dmg--4th attack, 30 dmg--dead fire giant #3.

You just can't have that kind of action without some cleavin' going on. My DM makes it a point to throw multiple foes at us all the time so the three characters in the party with Cleave can have some fun. That's what it's about, right?

 

[MacMathan]

I suppose with great cleave it would be easier but I never seem to find myself surrounded by opponents so that I could cleave 2 or more.

I suppose we are just very tactical as a unit and tend to watch each others backs and develope a fighting line/formation. Too many deaths otherwise.

Like you said the DM makes a big difference on feat usability.

 

[Ranger5]

If you want something interesting and different you might consider the Mage Slayer feat from Complete Arcane. Of course you can't take it till 9th level as it isn't a bonus fighter feat but you can easily qualify for its prereqs (2 ranks of Spellcraft, +3 BAB) but its benefits actually work well for a front line fighter (+1 to Will Saves and all spellcasters cannot cast defensively if you are threatening them, though they know it). I had a Barbarian with this feat (I found it funny as well that I could roll Spellcraft checks along with the spellcasters to identify spells being cast - as long as I wasn't raging) and it worked out very well. Caused a lot of havoc for the enemy spellcasters since they had to move away from me to cast spells.