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<blockquote data-quote="Kithas" data-source="post: 6841362" data-attributes="member: 97587">Dueling and Polearm master combined numberwise is very very strong. To the degree that in my group we have ruled you can only use PaM with a weapon used in two hands.That said if your group has no problem with it abuse away!The shillelagh will give you d8's instead of d6's. That's only 1 avg damage increase. You would be better served with a str +2 boost. Same damage increase and you get the other bonuses too.If you are already planning on using Wizard cantrips like Booming blade you have a built in way to do magic damage with your weapon. That said if you do plan on doing that you will not get the bonus action attack from polearm master or extra attack and lose those triple duelling bonuses that this build has. My advice would be to get a few levels in Wizard so you get some halfway decent spell slots and use magic weapon if you need to. Being a 1/3 caster means you have awful spell slots, even a 2-3 level dip in full wizard would give you a massive boost in spellslinging.&nbsp; Every 1 level in wizard is the equivalent of 3 levels in EK as far as spell slots/known is concerned.&nbsp; A school like abjuration or evocation would give you some other great bonuses too, plus more cantrips!P.s. Get warcaster asap with a con of 14 your concentration saves are going to get dicey sometime soon and that shield will help a ton too. Also chromatic orb as a reaction is just silly.P.P.S. For your cantrips keep in mind that you have no good ranged option as of yet, also that you don't have much in the way of aoe, sword burst and firebolt do wonders for this.p.p.p.s if you plan on being on the front line with that con you should probably look into concentrating on Blur most of the time. Disadvantage to get hit is huge.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kithas, post: 6841362, member: 97587"] Dueling and Polearm master combined numberwise is very very strong. To the degree that in my group we have ruled you can only use PaM with a weapon used in two hands. That said if your group has no problem with it abuse away! The shillelagh will give you d8's instead of d6's. That's only 1 avg damage increase. You would be better served with a str +2 boost. Same damage increase and you get the other bonuses too. If you are already planning on using Wizard cantrips like Booming blade you have a built in way to do magic damage with your weapon. That said if you do plan on doing that you will not get the bonus action attack from polearm master or extra attack and lose those triple duelling bonuses that this build has. My advice would be to get a few levels in Wizard so you get some halfway decent spell slots and use magic weapon if you need to. Being a 1/3 caster means you have awful spell slots, even a 2-3 level dip in full wizard would give you a massive boost in spellslinging. Every 1 level in wizard is the equivalent of 3 levels in EK as far as spell slots/known is concerned. A school like abjuration or evocation would give you some other great bonuses too, plus more cantrips! P.s. Get warcaster asap with a con of 14 your concentration saves are going to get dicey sometime soon and that shield will help a ton too. Also chromatic orb as a reaction is just silly. P.P.S. For your cantrips keep in mind that you have no good ranged option as of yet, also that you don't have much in the way of aoe, sword burst and firebolt do wonders for this. p.p.p.s if you plan on being on the front line with that con you should probably look into concentrating on Blur most of the time. Disadvantage to get hit is [B]huge.[/B] [/QUOTE]

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