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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 5556013" data-attributes="member: 87792">Right.  Off the top of my head, Staff of Ruin doesn't stack with the Shard of the Mage.  I'm pretty sure both provide item bonusses.  And Mark of Scribing is very world specific - if you're not playing in Eberron just ban it cold.  His maths therefore needs checking (especially how he got that many items).  But seriously, that's not that strong a character - especially as he's taken Toughness, Durable, and Resilient Focus - and missed feats like Enlarge Spell (expand the size of all wizard spells by 1 at the cost of a damage penalty).   Wizard/Psion isn't a particularly strong combination (if we were talking either Wizard/Psion or Swordmage/Psion we'd have a problem. Staff Expertise is legal - they added the Expertise feats in PHB2 then decided that they were boring so added a secondary effect to each Expertise in Essentials.  I think the only people to not currently have an Expertise feat they can use that's equivalent are Tome wielders and Flailers.  (Staff is a strong one, admittedly.  But I get far more mileage out of the Orb equivalent for the extra slide). But the rest?  That's just a solid build with a lot of items.  I'm not sure I'd blink twice.  And it's not as if that hybrid build is at all strong; both wizard and psion use standard actions to do effectively the same thing. "And defenders have higher defences than I have." He has an AC of 29 at 14th level.  Someone wearing +3 chain (effectively bottom of the barrel armour) will have an AC of 10 +7 (level) + 3 (Enhancement) + 6 (chain) +2 (masterwork) = AC28.  Which makes AC29 the equivalent of chain and a light shield.  His AC is by almost any standards on the low side. Out of curiosity, could you post the other two characters?</blockquote>

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