Tweaking a lvl 22 Avoral

[MithrasRahl]

First of all, anyone see any mistakes?

If not, any suggestions on improving?

http://www.campaign-blog.com/view.php?id=3314

Edit: Needs to only use 3rd edition books (even though I know the Planar handbook uses 3.5)

 

[MithrasRahl]

*Bump* We're starting this soon, so I need as much feedback as possible.

I was thinking of changing my Greatsword from a Greatsword +5 Keen Brilliant Energy to a Greatsword +1 Keen Brilliant Energy Speed.

 

[Question]

Firstly brilliant energy is pretty overpriced. You are screwed if you go up against constructs or undead btw.

Speed is also crappy, WTH is the wizard doing if hes not casting haste?

Im going to have to say.......take levels of paladin. Take 5 levels of paladin with 1 level in fist of raziel. If you pump your cha instead of your wis you will have crazy saves, and with your high stats you wont have any MAD issues....very good wisdom even unboosted for casting any spells.

You may want to buy a armor of the celestial battalion instead of wasting money on bracers of armor. A LOT more efficient for AC boosting.

Your CC skill list seems to be wrong......i only see 2 CC skills in there.

Why the headband of intellect? It doesnt boost skill points for you. Im not sure what half the items in your list are, but as a ECL 22 PC, you should be able to afford :

A +1 holy keen fire acid flaming frost sonic greatsword

+6 amulet of health, +6 belt of strength, +5 vest of resistance, +6 cloak of charisma, +6 gloves of dexterity.

+5 ring of protection. Boots of haste(just in case).

Depending on how lenient your DM is with item creation rules you may try going for +5 bracers of natural armor and an extra +5 ring of sacred protection.

If you want a bow go for a +1 holy composite bow.

You may want to get a 20th level druid to cast permanent greater magic fang on your natural attacks.

 

[MithrasRahl]

Brilliant Energy was to try to compensate for my incredibly bad BAB. Speed I'm not doing since my Boots of Swiftness have +6 dex and the ability to caste Haste for 10 rounds 3 times a day.

The reason I went fighter is before Avoral's only get 3 feats between lvl 1 and 15, so I needed to catch up.

About armor, my Dex modifier is +13, so the armor would give me 17 AC (dex+armor), whereas the bracers give me 8+13 dex for 21 AC.

As for the permanent greater magic fang, if we don't have a Druid in our party, would/should the DM allow me to say that in the past a Druid cast it on me?

 

[Question]

Im playing a ECL 20 astral deva with nearly no feats, so i understand how the feat thing works out....however i still think the class abilities of a paladin would give a better benefit.

Your bracers cost 64k for +8 AC.

Armor of the celestial battalion is +7 chainmail with max dex of 10 for about 640k. Im fairly sure there are some armor abilities that will boost the max dex even further.....

 

[moritheil]

One major comment and one nitpick. Also, you might get more responses if people didn't have to go to an external site just to see the character in question. External sites often take longer to load.

Nitpick: Talisid is not, AFAIK, a prince - he's just perhaps the most important Companion. I don't recall BoED actually styling him Prince Talisid, though it's possible I missed it.

Major problem with your build: your saves are flat-out horrible for your level. A level 22 character with no saves above +29 is going to die as soon as the DM sends an even moderately optimized mage/priest BBEG after it. I don't think you can rely on SR 31 when enemy casters are going to have effective spell penetration CLs of at least 24, either.

 

[Question]

Longer to load? The page loaded in a few seconds for me, and im living across the ocean(most likely) to the server.

 

[moritheil]

Longer to load? The page loaded in a few seconds for me, and im living across the ocean(most likely) to the server.

I'm not speaking of that page in particular, just nothing that it's not polite to assume that everyone has broadband, or that the external server is as reliable as the board server (For example, I can think of one time when I had to read your sheet and it wouldn't load. It was fine when I came back later, though.)

More importantly, people are often unwilling to follow external links.

 

[MithrasRahl]

I don't know how to transfer that into in-post here, beside writing everything out.

As for the saves, the 2 other characters have saves of 13/13/28, and, no joke, 12/6/6, and the DM hasn't said anything.

 

[moritheil]

I don't know how to transfer that into in-post here, beside writing everything out.

As for the saves, the 2 other characters have saves of 13/13/28, and, no joke, 12/6/6, and the DM hasn't said anything.

Well, either they have astronomical SR, the DM has not thought this out, or you'll be the last man standing!