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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 3845955" data-attributes="member: 360">I'm currently playing a warmage 17 (originally built at 13th level), mostly because my character died and I wanted to minimize paperwork in building a high-level character. Observations on it...1 - The Eclectic Learning alternate class feature from the PHB2 is your friend. Use it to pick up a few of the utilty spells that you're missing; it's much more useful than the Advanced Learning it replaces, because any useful evokations you've got already. Hence my warmage has greater teleport and dispel magic available. Until he picked up Greater Teleport, it was pretty handy that the Cleric could wind walk, and the fighter/barbarian had a helm of teleportation.2 - If you don't have a good AC with a warmage, you're not spending your money wisely. You can wear armor and carry a shield for cheap AC; it's not like you're going to run out of spells past extreme low levels, so you can keep a free hand even with a shield. And with stacks of handy ray spells, you certainly ought to have invested in good Dex. Granted, a 30-something AC still isn't good enough against things that attack you at 17th level, but my warmage has the highest AC in the party (others are a fighter/barbarian, a soulknife, and a VoP cleric). The big problem is that since you need the cloak spot for charisma-boosting, you can't use it for a cloak of displacement. What I did -- and I think it makes a lot of sense -- was to spend almost all of my magic item budget on defense; my PC wears +5 armor, carries a +5 shield, and wears a vest of resistance +5.3 - A lot of your blast spells are conjurations. This is very important to remember, as they typically have SR [none].4 - Extra Edge + relatively high int = effectively an extra die of damage on every spell5 - Do everything you can to talk other casters (especially ones that prepare spells) to concentrate on anything but blasting spells.</blockquote>

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