Favored bard?

[Miyuki]

Hi hi,

guys, i'm thinking about a rebuild. Not sure, because three spellcasting classes will be weak for a long time. So i'm thinking about dropping one or switching one of them. At the moment the character is level 11.^^

My rough ideas are: a build for a Favored soul/bard (incl fey feats). It should be at least 18 Levels favored soul, to have all divine spell levels later. Both classes should be already included now. The deity Lurue has to stay as it is.
Would anyone care to help me with that?

[aaron22]

and your race is assimar?

[Miyuki]

It was actually human. Why are you asking?

[chad878262]

Have you researched the Storm Singer PRC? Requires Bard, but you can advance spell casting in other classes. Might work for your Favored Bard idea:
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=49035

[Miyuki]

Well, that sounds interesting, too. I would take a look at both. A built woth or without the stormsinger.

Would anymore care to make one?

[Sun Wukong]

If you go Human, Bard 4/Favored Soul 6/Stormsinger 10 (Favored Soul)/Hierophant 10 could work.

Level 1: Bard
Level 2 to 7: Favored Soul
Level 8 to 15: Stormsinger
Level 16 to 18: Hierophant
Level 19 to 20: Bard
Level 21 to 22: Stormsinger
Level 23 to 29: Hierophant
Level 30: Bard

Just take Able Learner and maybe Spellcasting prodigy as level one feats. Charisma gives you more favored soul spells and increases your Stormsinger abilities. If you want to make a wisdom based cleric caster, you could raise it as high as you can, but you can also choose to leave it at 10 or even 8.

[chad878262]

http://nwn2db.com/build/?262780

This is one way you could go, which will give you CL30 FvS blaster. Rune of Thunder is 2d6 per spell level and Lions Roar is an 8th level cleric spell so that's unlimited 16d6 / round damage. In addition you have Epic Lightning Storm, Epic Hellball and Epic Mass Healing (for undead).

Hierophant is another option of course which would give some nice potential bumps. I chose to focus this around storms/thunder and lightning, but this is of course not necessary for a follower of Lurue.

EDIT: Also, I don't recall if Ability Focus: Bard Songs improves the DC of your StormSinger songs or not. If it doesn't than obviously that feat should be changed out for something else.

[Miyuki]

That looks nice, but see in the first post. I wanted to have the FEY FEATS in it: Fey heritage, fey skin...etc.. They are important part of the background.

[chad878262]

Here you go. Had to pump WIS since that is FvS DC stat, which overall is still not going to give great DC's... However, 2 of the 4 Fay Feats grant a DC spell like ability (deep slumber/confusion) and 1 improves enchantment DC's. Overall not very strong for the divine spellbook, but here it is, regardless:

http://nwn2db.com/build/?262780

[Sun Wukong]

Technically, if you go for a Bard/Favored Soul/Stormsinger build, you could actually ignore wisdom altogether and just raise charisma instead as that increases your Stormsinger's Song DCs, which means that you could just fill your Favored Soul spell list with buffs for the party or summons.

And buffed up summons, at least in my opinion, could be a perfect match for a worshipper of Lurue.

[Miyuki]

Thanks, and yes, i am totally sure, i aim for not a pure powerbuild. It should be a mix of RP and engine. So the character is not too dependent on others but also makes sense in RP.

I might do a mix of both suggestions with some own ideas so that i won't loose to much xp if the difference between the two main classes gets too high.

Is it still possible to play a fey blood character as an Aasimar instead of human before?

[chad878262]

Thanks, and yes, i am totally sure, i aim for not a pure powerbuild. It should be a mix of RP and engine. So the character is not too dependent on others but also makes sense in RP.

I might do a mix of both suggestions with some own ideas so that i won't loose to much xp if the difference between the two main classes gets too high.

Is it still possible to play a fey blood character as an Aasimar instead of human before?

Yes, but you have to figure out which feat you are going to give up. Giving up Able Learner hurts because of the cross-class skills and the relatively few skill points you receive on FvS levels... Rune of Thunder is helping you due to sustained blasting since a FvS does not have the same amount of blasting type spells as a sorcerer. Practiced Caster is going to lower your CL from 30 down to 27 which honestly is not that bad a deal. Sure you might get dispelled now and again, but you can reapply buffs as needed and as a blaster you shouldn't necessarily need to have that many buffs up at once. (plus Magic Vestment won't get removed anyway). If you do not want/need high WIS for your RP it is fine to lower it and keep human, but if you want to max WIS / CHA it's certainly the best race. Just realize that you are going to be eating a 20% XP penalty for pretty much the entirety of the build (on top of +1 ECL).

So yes, you can...however, if you should is open for quite a bit more debate.

[Miyuki]

Ok, i could give up Fey power as i want to choose no enchantment spells anyway.

Is this build able to do things alone or very dependend on groups?

[Sun Wukong]

It is the favored soul spellbook, they got a ton of +AC spells, then a ton of regeneration, so by default you become somewhat difficult to kill - and quite honestly, as a spontaneous divine caster you get to pick up so many spells that at times you just take some of them as spellbook filler.

But the thing is, even if you start with 12 strength, Divine Power always makes that 18 strength and gives you the BAB of a single class fighter. Divine Favor adds +3 Damage relatively early on, and Greater Magic Weapon is +5 damage. Thus you can just tank and slowly pummel most of the server down.

And if you go for summons, you can buff those up aswell and have them fight for you.

So... pretty much regardlesss of what your build is, it will be doing fine enough. You could make a character with so much more harder time.