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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 1576834" data-attributes="member: 5834">reI haven't found too many broken Cleric prestige classes because of the role the cleric fills in the group. A cleric is usually so busy healing and buffing that he often doesn't get a chance to use all the special abilities to which he has access. I've played a Windwalker. They get great special abilities that should stand out, but they don't. Special abilities for a cleric are just neat little blurbs of text on the character sheet more often than not. About the only thing I was able to do was reach the battle quicker and attack flying creatures. I didn't have the feats, hit points, or power to outshine the melee classes unless I let the melee classes die and completely ignored healing them. I've noticed reading some story hours that there are some groups clerics that completely ignore their groups health during the battle in favor of casting offensive spells. A surefire way to die alot. I just know clerics with or without prestige classes rarely outshine the melee or arcane classes in our group because they are too busy keeping everyone alive to use their spells for combat. If your group doesn't run that way, then the following Prestige classes can be quite powerful:1. Windwalker2. Fist of Raziel3. Radiant Servant of Pelor4. Eye of Horus-Re (Radiant Servant of Pelor's older and more powerful brother...whoever designed this prestige class was mad)Arcane Classes1. Elemental Savant: This class is pretty damn powerful once it is maxed out at 10th level. You lose only one casting level to gain full elemental traits and abilities. It will probably be updated in the Complete Arcane. Mostly the Air and Earth Elemental Savant is overpowered because of their modes of movement, which you receive at 10th level.They updated most of the arcane classes and changed Haste, so the arcane classes aren't particularly overpowered now.Fighter Classes1. Dervish: On paper it looks real nasty. There are a few players working towards this class, so I'll know just how nasty later. 2. Power Attack, Great Cleave, and a 2 handed weapon: Not a Prestige class, but a powerful feat combination. You thought Wizards were good at taking out alot of people at the same time, the fighter wielding a Great Axe or Greatsword with Power Attack and Great Cleave is right up there with them. Fighters with Great Cleave, Power Attack, and a 2 handed weapon mow through the small fry like a wheat thresher. Power Attack only becomes nastier at higher levels with so many ways to gain stackable attack bonuses from Bless, Prayer, Heroism, Greater Heroism and similar spells. If you have a Bard in the group, expect your 2 handed fighter to be power attacking for upwards of 10 to 12 or more damage per attack per round depending on the AC of the current enemies. It can get even worse if your main tank is a Paladin.</blockquote>

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