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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Beckett" data-source="post: 3435554" data-attributes="member: 781">There's a warblade in my Savage Tide game.  Gestalted with ranger and cleric levels, now up to... 9th level?  I think he leveled last time.  A dwarf headed toward the Stone Dragon prestige.He's tough.  Well, of course, he's a dwarf, and he uses Stone Power and Stone Bones to good use, along with vital recovery.  Offensively... Early on, he wasn't that great.  Punishing stance upped his damage, but also made him an easy target.  His strikes were nice, but only if he hit.  Early on, he would have been more effective if he was a barbarian.Lately, he's been coming into his own.  One player dropped the game, leaving the warblade as the prime melee damage dealer.  His dice rolls have improved, which has helped him put those strikes in to good effect.  He basically saved the party in the last session as he was the only one able to do enough damage to penetrate a golem's DR, or occassionally bypass it altogther (the other front liner is a kensai/knight focused on defence, so he was pinging the golem for 1-4 points a round).Admittedly, this guy is not the best optimizer in the world; were I running the character, I could probably squeeze a bit more performance out of it. At the start of the game, I warned him that I might make changes to the warblade if I found the class in play to be too powerful.  As is, I haven't felt the need to make any changes.</blockquote>