Leif's 'The Hall of the Rainbow Mage' [A] (D&D 3.5 OOC)

[Rathan]

"smells like fried chicken in here... why does it...... MY ASS IS ON FIRE! OH GOD.. MY ASS IS ON FIRE!"

 

[Rhun]

I'm sure its not the first time, nor the last...

 

[Theroc]

Well, it appears at the moment I'm limited to 3 least and 3 lesser invocations, as with the LA I'm level 10 actually.

I know I want Vitriolic when I get there, because no save, no SR is just cool.

Least: Frightful Blast(Reduces Saving Throws for my Rod of Withering, and for other Eldritch effects), Hideous Blow(Obvious choice for blasting in melee), Spiderwalk(because walking on walls is cool?)


Lesser I'm having more trouble with. The ones I am liking are:
Brimstone Blast (Causes burnination to my enemies)
The Dead Walk (I make more meatshields?)
Curse of Despair(Will based Save reducer, again good synergy with Rod of Withering)
Voracious Dispelling(Fits well RPwise[Have in mind Nilah being trained in a magic school, but simply getting good at negating other people's spells] and useful against magic-types, especially if I quicken it.)
Fell Flight(Because flying is awesome?)

Btw, Jemal, not sure if you saw, but my character sheet is up, if not 100% complete

 

[Rhun]

I'll let Jemal answer, as he appears to be the warlock lord!

 

[Rathan]

for my invocations for my lock 12/psion 8... I took these invocations.. but then again he was a ranged lock too.. not a melee critter heh...

Least:

Eldritch Spear (250 ft range blast)
Frightful Blast (Will Save or be shaken from Blast)
Devil's Sight

Lesser:

Eldritch Chain
Fell Flight
Voidsense

Greater:
Vitrolic Bast

Vitrolic is a must once you reach 12th.... I would suggest Voidsense because really who COULDN'T use blindsense at 30' heh... "sneak up on me?.. sorry.. I'll have NONE of that" hehe

Not sure if eldtritch chain actually would work with hideous blow.... Jemal?... thoughts?

"An eldritch chain can jump to one or more secondary targets within 30 feet of the first target, allowing you to make additional ranged touch attacks and deal damage to secondary targets you hit"

I would assume given the highlighted text I've highlighted that you can't do with with hideous blow.... as it requires a melee attack to do so.. BUT... what stops it from arcing from the primary target which was hit with a melee attack, arcing from him and from there becoming a ranged touch attack at that point starting the arc from the primary target to a secondary?

 

[Theroc]

for my invocations for my lock 12/psion 8... I took these invocations.. but then again he was a ranged lock too.. not a melee critter heh...

Least:

Eldritch Spear (250 ft range blast)
Frightful Blast (Will Save or be shaken from Blast)
Devil's Sight

Lesser:

Eldritch Chain
Fell Flight
Voidsense

Greater:
Vitrolic Bast

Vitrolic is a must once you reach 12th.... I would suggest Voidsense because really who COULDN'T use blindsense at 30' heh... "sneak up on me?.. sorry.. I'll have NONE of that" hehe

Not sure if eldtritch chain actually would work with hideous blow.... Jemal?... thoughts?



I would assume given the highlighted text I've highlighted that you can't do with with hideous blow.... as it requires a melee attack to do so.. BUT... what stops it from arcing from the primary target which was hit with a melee attack, arcing from him and from there becoming a ranged touch attack at that point starting the arc from the primary target to a secondary?

You can only apply one Essence and One Shape per Eldritch Blast. So, Hideous Blow is the only melee shape. I COULD use other shapes to get some range, like Eldritch Spear.

Voidsense could be good. I figured with 120' Darkvision sneaking up on me would be a bit difficult, though, 30'blind sense would help if someone decided to shine a bright light in my eyes.

 

[Vertexx69]

Ok Theroc now you can redo your gear if you want to afford:

Gauntlets of Eldrich energy - 5000g 3 times a day you can imbue your Eblast with a type of energy (chosen when gauntlets are made) Cant be used with E essence invocation.

Greater chausible of fell power - 18,000g throat slot +2d6 to Eblast all the time.

and

Warlocks Scepter - 8305g +1 mace, +1 profane bonus to ranged touch attacks.
5 charges each dawn:
1 charge: +1d6 Eblast dmg
3 charge: +2d6 Eblast dmg
5 charge: +4d6 Eblast dmg

these are some options from the MIC

 

[Theroc]

Ok Theroc now you can redo your gear if you want to afford:

Gauntlets of Eldrich energy - 5000g 3 times a day you can imbue your Eblast with a type of energy (chosen when gauntlets are made) Cant be used with E essence invocation.

Greater chausible of fell power - 18,000g throat slot +2d6 to Eblast all the time.

and

Warlocks Scepter - 8305g +1 mace, +1 profane bonus to ranged touch attacks.
5 charges each dawn:
1 charge: +1d6 Eblast dmg
3 charge: +2d6 Eblast dmg
5 charge: +4d6 Eblast dmg

these are some options from the MIC

Gauntlets of Eldritch Energy: I must be missing the punchline of this ability, since Untyped damage is generally superior to typed damage. Does changing the energytype improve something? Or is it just situational for when we encounter foes that have elemental vulnerabilities?

Chausible: Now that is something that's attractive. I'd have to tweak some stuff, but +2d6 on my blasts sounds pretty good.

Scepter: Complete Arcane has a slightly better version of this... for only... 28,000 gold? lol. Not sure if the slight bonuses would be worth the more expensive bonus though. Didn't choose it because it suits a ranged lock alot more. Definitely something I'd love to pick up later as a backup.

Edit:
By the way, thank you for looking that stuff up Vertexx, I appreciate it.

 

[Leif]

The DM looked on fondly as the party continued to take shape.

 

[renau1g]

Monks suffer severely from MAD.

Wisdom for AC and uses of stunning stuff, Dex for AC any any ranged stuff(as well as bonuses to reflex saves), Strength for damage and accuracy, and con for if they get hit.

Pretty much they need to dump int(which means low skills), and charisma(which means no one likes them). And then they still have trouble keeping up with the epic weapons and the like as players level up... as well as issues when caught flatfooted.

Yeah kind of like trying to MC a rogue and a Cleric... I need high Wis for my spells, high dex for the light armour and rogue-skills, high INT for skill points and some rogue skills, Str if I want to be melee (and a bunch of my PrC bonuses are melee only), Con (everyone does), and CHA for turning checks and rogue-face type skills... maybe if I had a 36 point buy I'd be ok