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How to have High AC on 3.5e DnD with Limited GP?
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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8607080" data-attributes="member: 6877472"><p>I'm afraid your DM is either wrong, or has house rules she hasn't made you aware of. While it's true that an Orc takes a-2 penalty to Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma, you would have to deal with that with any kind of caster you play, Wizard, Warlock, Warmage, or Cleric. Orcs are not good spellcasters in D&D, unlike in Warcraft.</p><p></p><p>However, as a Cleric, you only need Wisdom equal to 10+ the level of spells you wish to cast. If you avoid spells that affect enemies (and allow saving throws), you only need a 19 Wisdom by level 17. It needn't be that high. A Wisdom of 15 lets you cast 5th level spells, which a 9th level character would be able to do.</p><p></p><p>I have to reiterate that Rage Mage isn't going to help you very much, and should be avoided. </p><p></p><p>Are you using point-buy? And why is she insisting you have to be evil? Is it because monster orcs are always evil? As for being manipulative, this would be a function of your skills, such as Bluff, which sadly, most of the classes we've discussed other than Warlock do not have as class skills.</p><p></p><p>And the Warmage does not have access to Mage Armor or Shield. They can, as I recall, eventually use regular shields, but since you wanted to use a two handed weapon, that's out of the question.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 8607080, member: 6877472"] I'm afraid your DM is either wrong, or has house rules she hasn't made you aware of. While it's true that an Orc takes a-2 penalty to Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma, you would have to deal with that with any kind of caster you play, Wizard, Warlock, Warmage, or Cleric. Orcs are not good spellcasters in D&D, unlike in Warcraft. However, as a Cleric, you only need Wisdom equal to 10+ the level of spells you wish to cast. If you avoid spells that affect enemies (and allow saving throws), you only need a 19 Wisdom by level 17. It needn't be that high. A Wisdom of 15 lets you cast 5th level spells, which a 9th level character would be able to do. I have to reiterate that Rage Mage isn't going to help you very much, and should be avoided. Are you using point-buy? And why is she insisting you have to be evil? Is it because monster orcs are always evil? As for being manipulative, this would be a function of your skills, such as Bluff, which sadly, most of the classes we've discussed other than Warlock do not have as class skills. And the Warmage does not have access to Mage Armor or Shield. They can, as I recall, eventually use regular shields, but since you wanted to use a two handed weapon, that's out of the question. [/QUOTE]
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