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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mand" data-source="post: 5218711" data-attributes="member: 90561">Knowledge Devotion.Dump *all* your skill points in the various monster-recognition knowledge skills, and laugh at the silly fighters who have to take four feats for half the bonus of your one feat.  And, if you don't need the extra hit, you can dump the hit bonus into damage with power attack.  At 18th, you're going to have 21 ranks, probably somewhere in the order of 7-8 int mod and maybe some item bonus to the checks I can't remember.  With +8 int mod, you get +4 to hit and damage by rolling a 2 on the check.  +5 to hit and damage by rolling a 7.  Compare that to greater weapon spec which is 4 feats for +2 hit and +4 damage.Power Attack is really great, as you get tons of hit bonuses that you can afford to dump.  Even the lowly Shocking Grasp gives a +3 hit most of the time, during a channel, for free.  Being limited by BAB isn't so much a big deal as you can still nearly assure a hit even if you do chuck it all for damage, and a very large amount of damage if you use a 2h weapon and Leap Attack.Conc and Jump (if you're going for leap attack) might make contenders for some points, but other than that, just dump into Knowledges.Depending on how much combat you get in any given day, Empower Spell is good, but keep in mind duskblade spell levels are harder to come by than other casters.  I tend to prefer things that don't have much of a level adjustment (if any).  Spell pen is very good.Oh, here's a question I had come up - if I use arcane channeling, what is the crit range for the attack?  Normal weapon range?  Meaning I could crit a Shocking Grasp on 15-20 using a keen falchion?</blockquote>

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