How much is a shock trooper barbarian/dervish gonna get pounded on in Epic tier?

[herrhauptmann]

The new character idea looks cool too.
Have you checked Dark template (ToM?), as well as the shade template from FRCS?
Shade I think is LA +4, but gives what I think are slightly better abilities than a teflammar shadowlord. Though of course your saves/skills don't progress due to the LA.

Don't forget that there's alternate versions of Dodge that you can take instead. MoI, ToB, and Races of Destiny I think have the alternate versions.

[Seerow]

If you have 384 HP at epic levels, on a BARBARIAN build, you are doing something wrong, sir. You should easily be able to hit 500.

384 at level 26 isn't too bad.

Consider even with a full 26 levels of Barbarian (which he doesn't have, and some of his levels are lower HD), then you have on average 174.5+(26*con mod) hp on average. That means his con mod is +8. A +8 con mod means 26 con, which is pretty respectable. (14 base + 6 item + 5 tome = 25, for a +7).


500 HP would require a con mod of +12, which he will probably reach while raging/frenzying, but a base con of 34 is pretty hard to reach.

[Soranar]

Hum. If you're evil and you get a bought off half-dragon template, you might want to consider the following:

2 flaws (assuming you're human)
dark companion alternate class feature for hexblade


1 Barbarian (pounce and requirement for frenzied berserker) Power attack, cleave, improved sunder, Intimidating rage
2 Paladin of Slaughter
3 Paladin of Slaughter Mage Slayer
4 Hexblade
5 Hexblade
6 Hexblade Destructive rage
7 Hexblade
8 Blackguard
9 Blackguard Blind-fight
10 Blackguard
11 Frenzied Berserker
12 Frenzied Berserker Pierce magical protection
13 Frenzied Berserker
14 Frenzied Berserker
15 Frenzied Berserker Pierce magical concealment
16 Frenzied Berserker
17 Frenzied Berserker
18 Frenzied Berserker Divine might
19 Frenzied Berserker
20 Frenzied Berserker
21 War Hulk epic divine might
22 War Hulk
23 War Hulk Improved aura of despair
24 War Hulk
25 War Hulk Divine shield
26 Swordsage (for teleportation maneuvers)

Doesn't fix your AC but your saves get quite a bump (twice you CHA to all saves + your CHA to all saves vs spells) and mettle. Your saves get so high you can just take a ring of improved evasion and you shouldn't need to bother with elemental immunities. Since blackguard shares requirements with frenzied berserker it's not much of an investment to get aura of despair, dark blessing and turn undead.

Speaking of which, -6 to all saves (combined with a high Charisma) makes your intimidating rage more likely to succeed and it pumps your allies' abilities to affect creatures too.

Your damage output should still be realy high and you can Chuck Norris spellcasters through the mage slayers feats.

[Cieyrin]

Isn't greater blurring only like 5 or 10 rounds a day?
That's why I don't like it. I'd prefer that my defensive enchantments are always active, rather than choosing when I'd like to be protected.

Try 10 minutes, divided up as you need it. Swift Action activation, i believe, so practically forever for combat purposes.

[herrhauptmann]

Try 10 minutes, divided up as you need it. Swift Action activation, i believe, so practically forever for combat purposes.

Okay, that's not so bad then. A surprise round might treat you a little badly, but otherwise, you're solid.

Soranar: Where is Epic Divine Might? Not seeing it in Complete Divine or ELH.

[Soranar]

Okay, that's not so bad then. A surprise round might treat you a little badly, but otherwise, you're solid.

Soranar: Where is Epic Divine Might? Not seeing it in Complete Divine or ELH.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ei/20031115a

it's from defenders of faith (exactly the same as the feat found in the NWN2 videogame)