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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 274203" data-attributes="member: 2020">To be totally honest, it's beginning to sound like it would be best to start as a fighter, go to level 20, then multiclass as a mage as the character heads into the epic levels.  Creamsteak does have a point - and you'd want those 4 attacks per round, especially considering the further amplification possible by Two Handed Fighting, Improved Two Handed Fighting, Perfect Two Handed Fighting, the Haste spell, and even the possibility of changing yourself into a being with 3 or more arms and hands, and taking the Feat that allows attacks with all of them (which would work, of course, only when you where in that form, and only if the spell that transformed you gave you the extraordinary powers of the creature.)  Of course, as a 1st level mage, and a 21st level character, one might find magic missile to be less effective than one might wish it to be.  A lot of the combat Feats (even the fighter list feats) really do apply to the mage - or, at least, that is how it seems to me.  Looking at the list of fighter feats, I see a number of useful feats for mages:  Ambidexterity  Blind-Fighting  Dodge  Expertise  Improved Initiative    I'm sure others would do as well ... these are ones I could think of on the spot.</blockquote>