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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 4822907" data-attributes="member: 3146">Hardly just a one level dip. Fighter/wizard is what the character is. (And the truly optimized character wouldn't have bothered with any levels of fighter, so it's not as though pure-classing is somehow less optimized). It just happens that taking only one level of fighter is the best way to do it in 3.x. Curiously, if you do it that way, you end up with most of the same tradeoffs as you had in earlier editions. You hit slightly less often. Your spells aren't quite as good. And you have to be really careful about how much armor you wear.And expert tactician never denied people their dex. In 3.0, it let characters take an extra attack against any foe who was denied their dex bonus. In 3.5 it was rewritten to give your allies a bonus if you hit with an OA. That character denied foes their dex the same way any fighter/wizard or rogue does: he used blink. (And, because he had the spells for it, greater blink and improved invisibility).And in any event, wraithstrike is still way broken for any character who has any use for it whatsoever. Fighter 12/Wizard 3? It's still broken. (And pearls of power are cheap). Fighter 2/Wizard 3? It's still broken. The effect: getting to resolve ordinary power attackable melee attacks as touch attacks is too good to coexist with balance in the game.</blockquote>