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<blockquote data-quote="Ovarwa" data-source="post: 7353684" data-attributes="member: 75153"><p>Hi, It is far more important to be good or very good at all levels than to be awesome at the end of your career. This means that the full list of goodies poached from all three classes really don't matter much. The incremental features at each level matter a great deal. The kind of multiclass you are proposing leverages Charisma in an extreme way. It therefore behooves you to max Charisma first, which applies to your weapon attacks, your spells, your aura... I think you are spreading your character thin. The guiding question is "what does my character do" rather than "what will my character do in some far-flung future." This question deserves repeating at every level, since you are always thinking about your multiclass balance. You might be better off starting with Blade Bard 1 and then Hexblade 1, probably advancing BB most of the time. There are partial builds for this online. Not as many goodies, but everything comes online faster, providing skills and combat with lots of Cha leveraging. Up to you, really. But I don't think you want to delay your second attack for very long, and 3rd level spells are also pretty nice. Of course, if you are going paladin for heavy armor, be aware of your low Str. There are other good combos, but these too need to be considered level by level. If Oathbreaker is the core of what you plan to do, then maybe cut out Bard instead. Your stats are pretty poor, so leveraging Cha is a good call. What you do at level 3 or level 6 is far more important than what you do at level 14! So it's important to get good at something quickly, and remain good. Anyway, Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ovarwa, post: 7353684, member: 75153"] Hi, It is far more important to be good or very good at all levels than to be awesome at the end of your career. This means that the full list of goodies poached from all three classes really don't matter much. The incremental features at each level matter a great deal. The kind of multiclass you are proposing leverages Charisma in an extreme way. It therefore behooves you to max Charisma first, which applies to your weapon attacks, your spells, your aura... I think you are spreading your character thin. The guiding question is "what does my character do" rather than "what will my character do in some far-flung future." This question deserves repeating at every level, since you are always thinking about your multiclass balance. You might be better off starting with Blade Bard 1 and then Hexblade 1, probably advancing BB most of the time. There are partial builds for this online. Not as many goodies, but everything comes online faster, providing skills and combat with lots of Cha leveraging. Up to you, really. But I don't think you want to delay your second attack for very long, and 3rd level spells are also pretty nice. Of course, if you are going paladin for heavy armor, be aware of your low Str. There are other good combos, but these too need to be considered level by level. If Oathbreaker is the core of what you plan to do, then maybe cut out Bard instead. Your stats are pretty poor, so leveraging Cha is a good call. What you do at level 3 or level 6 is far more important than what you do at level 14! So it's important to get good at something quickly, and remain good. Anyway, Ken [/QUOTE]
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