Post by arek on Aug 9, 2008 17:00:54 GMT
This is the Staffmaster build I just reincarnated to. It's based on my observations on reincarnating my Staff of Elysium. It started out as an unusual build, based on SoE, but after fiddling with around with the build choices somewhat (read: fixing saves), it now looks more like "Weapon of Retribution" (T Scott's build) than "Staff of Elysium".
Notes on build choices:
Base race: Human
Subrace: Kolyarut
Base Stats/Racially Adjusted Stats
STR: 15/20
DEX: 15/20
CON: 12/16
INT: 16/18
WIS: 8/6
CHA: 8/6
Level Progression:
1: Wizard
- Feat: Blooded (for LSA tumble)
- Feat: Strong Soul (for Hardened Soul)
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration.
2: Wizard
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
3: Wizard
- Feat: Weapon Focus: Quarterstaff
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
4: Wizard
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
5: Wizard
- Feat: Extend Spell
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
6: Wizard
- Feat: Expertise
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
7: Wizard
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
8: Wizard
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
9: Wizard
- Feat: Whirlwind Attack
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
10: Wizard
- Feat: Spell Focus: Transmutation
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration, Intimidate (4 points)
11: Weapon Master
- Feat: Weapon of Choice: Quarterstaff.
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
12: Weapon Master
- Feat: Great Fortitude
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
13: Weapon Master
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
14: Weapon Master
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
15: Weapon Master
- Feat: Improved Critical: Quarterstaff.
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
16: Wizard
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
17: Wizard
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
18: Wizard
- Feat: Power Attack
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
19: Wizard
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
20: Wizard
- Feat: Greater Spell Focus: Transmutation
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
21: Weapon Master
- Feat: Cleave
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
22: Weapon Master
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
23: Weapon Master
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
24: Weapon Master
- Feat: Great Dexterity I
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
25: Weapon Master
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
26: Weapon Master
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
27: Weapon Master
- Feat: Great Dexterity II
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
28: Weapon Master
- Feat (WM): Epic Prowess
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
29: Weapon Master
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
30: Weapon Master
- Feat: Great Cleave
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
31: Weapon Master
- Feat (WM): Epic Weapon Focus: Quarterstaff
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
32: Weapon Master
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
33: Weapon Master
- Feat: Great Dexterity IV
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
34: Weapon Master
- Feat (WM): Armor Skin
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
35: Weapon Master
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
36: Weapon Master
- Feat: Great Strength I
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
37: Weapon Master
- Feat (WM): Overwhelming Critical
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
38: Weapon Master
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
39: Weapon Master
- Feat: Great Strength II
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
40: Weapon Master
- Feat (WM): Devastating Critical
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
41: (Weapon Master)
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Listen, Parry
42: (Weapon Master)
- Feat: LSA: Tumble
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Listen, Parry
43: (Weapon Master)
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
44: (Weapon Master)
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
45: (Weapon Master)
- Feat: Legendary Weapon Focus
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
46: (Weapon Master)
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
47: (Weapon Master)
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
48: (Weapon Master)
- Feat: Epic Reflexes
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
49: (Weapon Master)
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
50: (Weapon Master)
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
51: (Weapon Master)
- Feat: Hardened Soul
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
52: (Weapon Master)
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
53: (Weapon Master)
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
54: (Weapon Master)
- Legendary Fortitude
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
55: (Weapon Master)
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
56: (Weapon Master)
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
57: (Weapon Master)
- Feat: Epic Will
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
58: (Weapon Master)
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
59: (Weapon Master)
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
- Read Book: Divination (can be done any time after L41 before taking L60)
60: (Weapon Master)
- Feat: Legendary Spell Focus: Divination
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
-- Any leftover points go into Concentration first, then Appraise.
Pre-Demi, saves on this build are 65f/62r/60w, with 112 AC, 90% Conceal, 50/+16 soak, and 98 AB, according to the version of Shard's build tool I have.
Any comments on this build would be greatly appreciated.
--Arek
P.S. The reason this isn't posted in either my old Staff of Elysium post or T Scott's Weapon of Retribution post is because I feel it has significant enough differences from those builds to warrant its own post, although after the latest changes....it's looking a lot like WoR.
Notes on build choices:
- Unlike my Staff of Elysium, this is a weakish Hybrid build. It is still STR-based, but it now has enough dex to actually matter (will have 36 at 60 with equips, and be able to get to 40 double-demi). Being Human and Koly gives me the feats and stats to do this. The price? Evasion (get a "Panoply of Lliira" if you think that's important).
- This build now takes Dev Crit. With the changes to weapon buffs (esp. blackstaff), dev-crit is now extremely important for a staffmaster. If you have a usable item with DC: Qstaff on it, you can drop the dev-crit line to boost saves. (switching in some of the great/legendary save feat combos in place of epics)
- I did not take Blind-Fight this time around, since I plan on getting and using a DEX artifact. If you decide you want to use a different artifact, you'll need to fit in blind-fight. I recommend droping GWF for it, since your AB would still be high enough without it.
Base race: Human
Subrace: Kolyarut
Base Stats/Racially Adjusted Stats
STR: 15/20
DEX: 15/20
CON: 12/16
INT: 16/18
WIS: 8/6
CHA: 8/6
Level Progression:
1: Wizard
- Feat: Blooded (for LSA tumble)
- Feat: Strong Soul (for Hardened Soul)
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration.
2: Wizard
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
3: Wizard
- Feat: Weapon Focus: Quarterstaff
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
4: Wizard
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
5: Wizard
- Feat: Extend Spell
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
6: Wizard
- Feat: Expertise
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
7: Wizard
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
8: Wizard
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
9: Wizard
- Feat: Whirlwind Attack
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
10: Wizard
- Feat: Spell Focus: Transmutation
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration, Intimidate (4 points)
11: Weapon Master
- Feat: Weapon of Choice: Quarterstaff.
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
12: Weapon Master
- Feat: Great Fortitude
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
13: Weapon Master
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
14: Weapon Master
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
15: Weapon Master
- Feat: Improved Critical: Quarterstaff.
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
16: Wizard
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
17: Wizard
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
18: Wizard
- Feat: Power Attack
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
19: Wizard
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
20: Wizard
- Feat: Greater Spell Focus: Transmutation
- Skills: Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Concentration
21: Weapon Master
- Feat: Cleave
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
22: Weapon Master
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
23: Weapon Master
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
24: Weapon Master
- Feat: Great Dexterity I
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
25: Weapon Master
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
26: Weapon Master
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
27: Weapon Master
- Feat: Great Dexterity II
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
28: Weapon Master
- Feat (WM): Epic Prowess
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
29: Weapon Master
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
30: Weapon Master
- Feat: Great Cleave
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
31: Weapon Master
- Feat (WM): Epic Weapon Focus: Quarterstaff
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
32: Weapon Master
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
33: Weapon Master
- Feat: Great Dexterity IV
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
34: Weapon Master
- Feat (WM): Armor Skin
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
35: Weapon Master
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
36: Weapon Master
- Feat: Great Strength I
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
37: Weapon Master
- Feat (WM): Overwhelming Critical
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
38: Weapon Master
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
39: Weapon Master
- Feat: Great Strength II
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
40: Weapon Master
- Feat (WM): Devastating Critical
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Listen
41: (Weapon Master)
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Listen, Parry
42: (Weapon Master)
- Feat: LSA: Tumble
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Listen, Parry
43: (Weapon Master)
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
44: (Weapon Master)
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
45: (Weapon Master)
- Feat: Legendary Weapon Focus
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
46: (Weapon Master)
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
47: (Weapon Master)
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
48: (Weapon Master)
- Feat: Epic Reflexes
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
49: (Weapon Master)
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
50: (Weapon Master)
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
51: (Weapon Master)
- Feat: Hardened Soul
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
52: (Weapon Master)
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
53: (Weapon Master)
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
54: (Weapon Master)
- Legendary Fortitude
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
55: (Weapon Master)
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
56: (Weapon Master)
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
57: (Weapon Master)
- Feat: Epic Will
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
58: (Weapon Master)
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
59: (Weapon Master)
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
- Read Book: Divination (can be done any time after L41 before taking L60)
60: (Weapon Master)
- Feat: Legendary Spell Focus: Divination
- Stat: Strength
- Skills: Discipline, Craft Weapon, Craft Armor, Tumble, Listen, Parry
-- Any leftover points go into Concentration first, then Appraise.
Pre-Demi, saves on this build are 65f/62r/60w, with 112 AC, 90% Conceal, 50/+16 soak, and 98 AB, according to the version of Shard's build tool I have.
Any comments on this build would be greatly appreciated.
--Arek
P.S. The reason this isn't posted in either my old Staff of Elysium post or T Scott's Weapon of Retribution post is because I feel it has significant enough differences from those builds to warrant its own post, although after the latest changes....it's looking a lot like WoR.