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Thread: Optimizing an Adept
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2012-10-12, 12:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Optimizing an Adept
Hello community, I am involved in a game with a group missing my usual players. Instead, there are people playing a healer bard, a savage species harpy, and a half-minotaur trying to dual wield orc double axes.
Gods help us all.
So in the sake of playing fair, I have decided to play an Adept. Yes, the NPC class. I am asking for whatever help I can get to make this lowly piece of glass sparkle like a diamond.
Thank you all in advance.
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2012-10-12, 12:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2012
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- Orgrimmar, Kalimdor
Re: Optimizing an Adept
im terrible at optomizing but for core at least i would go adept10/loremaster10
not much but like i said im terrible at thisLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROY...... where's my BBEG?
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2012-10-12, 12:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-12, 12:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimizing an Adept
it says any type of casting
LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROY...... where's my BBEG?
"Life... dreams... hope... Where do they come from? And where do they go? Such meaningless things... I'll destroy them all!" Kefka-Final Fantasy 6
Insanity brings out the best in all of us. That, or swearing.
Rarely respond if I do its a miracle (as a 20th lvl caster)
Standings in IC:
20th in IC XXXIV(Dragon Disciple)
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2012-10-12, 01:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimizing an Adept
Adept isn't that bad. It's better than Monk, for sure. Here are some things to focus on:
1.) Poison! Get Master of Poisons. read the poison handbook: http://brilliantgameologists.com/boa...p?topic=4854.0
2.) Familiar. You get one. Read the Familiar handbook: http://dictummortuum.blogspot.com/20...-handbook.html
3.) Knowledge! Get knowledge devotion.
4.) Polearms! Use a Longspear and Gauntlet, or a Fauchard and Gauntlet.
Also, consider being a 'Religious Adept', for a domain. Also, add cleric prestige classes that add domains (or turn undead!) and such; those are GREAT. Use that to power Devotion feats, or divine feats.
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2012-10-12, 01:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimizing an Adept
Sovereign Speaker is a good option (Adepts explicitly qualify.) This will let you broaden your spell list considerably. Depending on how you read it, you could even gain domain slots (handy with Anyspell.)
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2012-10-12, 01:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimizing an Adept
They can if they can get enough Knowledge ranks. So, more easily than Sorcerers.
Optimizing an Adept really isn't very different from optimizing any spellcaster, except for the easy access to the Hexer PrC (which is from Stormwrack, IIRC). Pick PrCs with full casting that you qualify for. Pick out your best spells and figure out how to (ab)use them optimally. With the Adept, this mostly means looking for the spells on its list that are decent Wizard spells that Clerics can't normally access: Polymorph, Scorching Ray, etc.You can call me Draz.
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2012-10-12, 01:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-12, 01:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimizing an Adept
I mentioned this in the other thread, but Hexer is a full BA/full casting class specifically designed for Adepts, adding 5 Sorcerer/Wizard spells to the Adept's spell list, as well as a variety of Wis-based debuffing hexes.
Combined with Eberron Adepts' domain access, it can give an adept a fairly unique swath of abilities.
Something like Dread Necromancer 1/Adept 4/Dweomerkeeper 4/Hexer 10/Contemplative 1 would lose a caster level, but would have access to DMM, some Sorcerer/Wizard spells, 2 domains, and all the hexer debuffs. It could work as a springboard for a gish by using self-buffing spells and metamagics, or just as a party buffer metamagicking things like DMMed Reach Chain Polymorph orCelestial Aspectfree Stoneskin.Last edited by eggs; 2012-10-12 at 01:35 PM.
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2012-10-13, 11:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimizing an Adept
Thanks for the help, everyone