Shifter ab question

[fraglord85]

hey i was wondering if my shifter would be at 80 with 5 druid 7 ranger and 28 shifter

how would the ab be if i drop Epic prowers Epic wep focus and LL wep focus ? and replace those feats with paragorn humanoid undead wildshape construct


those 3 feats drop 6 ab and gain 2 AB from para focus so in the end u lose 4 ab ??

would it still be viable ?

[uncanny]

I'd imagine so, the question really shouldn't be about AB though, more what you want it to be. If you want it to be a melee-only, then I'd shuffle out most of the shifter levels in favour of more ranger levels. On my first melee type shifter I went with 17 shft, 5 druid, 18 ranger and just cracked 99ab on the important shapes at 60 without EWF, though I had prowess. It hurt more with the less martial-focussed shapes, though on middle layer hells runs I still continuously got a reasonably high hit rate with martial shapes. I since rebuilt it to be predominantly ranger-that-can-shift and have not regretted it since.

Another thing to think about is you're still losing that 6ab overall. If you plan to run in areas built for Paragon levels, my guess is this will hurt you more there than on Legendary areas.

[desocupado]

I never considered using LWF, due lack of feats, but this distribution 5 druid 7 ranger and 28 shifter, has full plymorph level, so it's AB should be enough, as long as you have the corresponding LFF 3 and or PFF.

[uncanny]

Mar 29, 2012 11:44:05 GMT desocupado said:

I never considered using LWF, due lack of feats, but this distribution 5 druid 7 ranger and 28 shifter, has full plymorph level, so it's AB should be enough, as long as you have the corresponding LFF 3 and or PFF.

PL is same regardless of distrubution of ranger, shifter, druid level counts - so that won't change. You cannot get Wildshape LFF without 17 levels of shifter though.
However LFF2 is needed for epic weapon focus to be transferred, LFF3 is needed for LWF (if you have it).

[desocupado]

Losing so much ab is a bad idea on humanoid shapes... They already have subpar AB.
It would be more startegic to use dragon instead in that case.