Build Advice for Wizard / Swashbuckler / Eldritch Knight

[Hawke]

Eldritch Knight / Gishes are already one of the more powerful PvE builds. Making EK 20 levels would be the definition of OP... W6/F4/EK20... BAB 27, CL 29 (PSC), Autostill 0-9, etc.... Currently in order to get BAB 26 and CL 25+ you have to make a Wizard/EK/DS/HA, giving up a lot of feats (and thus damage) to do so. Most feel the 6th attack is not worth it and they are probably right. However, this build would possibly be even stronger than the EDM Favored Souls running around the server...

So I'm gonna say making EK a 20 level PRC is not likely. Especially since no other PRC's go past 10 and this one would define power spike for an already extremely powerful PRC.

There are already 3.5 edition classes like this. Two of them at least who are arcane anyways.

And they can cast spells in light/medium. Don't get full progression, but still, very very powerful.

They also have their own spell pool (I suppose to try to keep balance).

[chad878262]

Eldritch Knight / Gishes are already one of the more powerful PvE builds. Making EK 20 levels would be the definition of OP... W6/F4/EK20... BAB 27, CL 29 (PSC), Autostill 0-9, etc.... Currently in order to get BAB 26 and CL 25+ you have to make a Wizard/EK/DS/HA, giving up a lot of feats (and thus damage) to do so. Most feel the 6th attack is not worth it and they are probably right. However, this build would possibly be even stronger than the EDM Favored Souls running around the server...

So I'm gonna say making EK a 20 level PRC is not likely. Especially since no other PRC's go past 10 and this one would define power spike for an already extremely powerful PRC.

There are already 3.5 edition classes like this. Two of them at least who are arcane anyways.

And they can cast spells in light/medium. Don't get full progression, but still, very very powerful.

They also have their own spell pool (I suppose to try to keep balance).

Other servers have these classes as well (like swift blade for example), but I'll say again that this is highly unlikely on this server as gish is one of the last build types that needs extra power...

[R0ninknight]

I'd take the extra d6's damage effect away and maybe lower a few other effects for balance purposes but Swiftblade happens to be my favorite class in all of NWN2-dom. Awesome concept; awesome fun.

I also agree that its extremely difficult to find more gish classes to take after E. Knight. You either have to go full mage classes, full warrior classes, or Dragonslayer. Hybrid classes are hard to find. I've been considering trying to build a server-balanced version of the Spellsword class from Complete Warrior to help remedy this.