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<blockquote data-quote="FrankTrollman" data-source="post: 1128733" data-attributes="member: 14225">Not quite. While they are definately in the lower end of character classes, they have enough skills that they fill their niche better than Monks, Fighters, or Sorcerers, and coming 8th out of 11 isn't even all that bad.Right. Which is why he fills his niche better than an Eldritch Knight. You get something (a stack of skills and class abilities) that you actually couldn't get just by playing an Aristocrat with Leadership (and a ring of spell storing).No. It isn't. But it's a much better solution than losing five caster levels to take Spell Sword all the way through.If you are losing more than 2 spellcaster levels in order to be able to cast in armor, you're paying too much. After all, Still Spell is NOT a good solution to the problem and only costs 2 spellcaster levels worth of slots (you still pocket the increased ability to penetrate SR and the bonus damage and such).Still Spell isn't good, so any PrC which compares unfavorably to that tactic is really bad.-Frank</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FrankTrollman, post: 1128733, member: 14225"] Not quite. While they are definately in the lower end of character classes, they have enough skills that they fill their niche better than Monks, Fighters, or Sorcerers, and coming 8th out of 11 isn't even all that bad. Right. Which is why he fills his niche better than an Eldritch Knight. You get something (a stack of skills and class abilities) that you actually [i]couldn't[/i] get just by playing an Aristocrat with Leadership (and a ring of spell storing). No. It isn't. But it's a much better solution than losing five caster levels to take Spell Sword all the way through. If you are losing more than 2 spellcaster levels in order to be able to cast in armor, you're paying too much. After all, Still Spell is NOT a good solution to the problem and only costs 2 spellcaster levels worth of [i]slots[/i] (you still pocket the increased ability to penetrate SR and the bonus damage and such). Still Spell [i]isn't good[/i], so any PrC which compares unfavorably to that tactic is [i]really bad[/i]. -Frank [/QUOTE]

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