Baldur's Gate : The Sword Coast Chronicles : NWN2 Persistent World

I've always liked the idea of a summoner who fights beside his summons, without the use of (many) offensive spells. The issue is that I'm not sure how to build the character. I thought about multiclassing a wizard/fighter/thaumaturge, but never gave it a shot because I couldn't really make it viable at all.

My challenge is for someone to come up with a good build that utilizes the thaumaturge class and then uses melee or range weapons as main source of damage, other than the summon.

Ranger/Cleric build I would suppose would work, Thaumaturge is cleric viable I think? I'll test it out in the module. If not then Ranger/Sorcerer? It'll take a minute to get there, I'd say 5 levels ranger, 5 levels caster, then 5 levels thaumaturge, then fill up the rest in sorcerer/ranger mixed? Go melee two weapon and use both your summon and your pet.

In that case you probably want to try some sort of Cleric or FS build. Druid might be nice with spontaneous Creature Summoning and the ability to shapeshift to become a melee heavy-hitter. But they do not have any of the 'calling' line of spells (Planar Binding, Planar Ally etc) to use to gain that useful permanent summon, although a druid's animal companion is probably better than that anyway.

http://nwn2db.com/build/?221359 Here is one way to do it, it's an autostill gish, it's very solid, it's only issue will be a very moderate amount of spells, you'll buff yourself + your summon but then you won't have a whole lot remaining.

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http://nwn2db.com/build/?202177

Here's my own Thaumaturge - didn't play her up to Epic because I had to stop for a while, but she worked quite well early on. This build does rely on spells, but for buffing and not direct damage dealing.