Pariah - 32 Sorcerer 8 Barbarian

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This is just my Hell / Abyss variation of the Pariah. I prefer to run around in Sorcerer gear while doing it, haven't had issues. Obviously some like to go the heavy armor route and do all of those things. This build is meant to get you doing sorc things, playing like a sorc, with Pariah perks essentially. I've pulled pieces from highergroundpoa.proboards.com/thread/24097/olympus-barb8-sorc32 and from Truefalse and his Stoned build. I take no credit for any of this work. Just highlighting how I play mine.

Max CON for the character is 80 if you take all Great CON, this build caps at 78.



Gnome

Maelephant

Str 6 [10]

Dex 8 (-4 with quasi status)

Con 20 [26] --> {78} at level 80, 2x demi, +16 gear

Int 14

Wis 8

Cha 15 (+4 with quasi status)



All stat increases go to Con



Pre-LL Leveling

1. Sorc: SF Trans

2. Barb

3. Sorc: GSF Trans

4. Barb

5. Barb

6. Sorc: Still Spell

7. Barb

8. Sorc

9. Sorc: SF Evoc

10. Barb

11. Barb

12. Sorc: GSF Evoc

13. Barb

14. Sorc

15. Sorc SF Necro

16. Sorc

17. Sorc

18. Sorc: GSF Necro Quasi Status

19. Sorc

20. Sorc

21. Sorc: Gr Con 1

22. Sorc

23. Sorc

24. Sorc: Gr Con 2

25. Sorc

26. Sorc

27. Sorc: Gr Con 3

28. Sorc

29. Sorc

30. Sorc: ESF Trans, Gr Con4

31. Sorc

32. Sorc

33. Sorc: ESF Evoc, Gr Con 5

34. Sorc

35. Sorc

36. Sorc: ESF Necro, Gr Con 6

37. Sorc

38. Sorc

39. Sorc: Extra Spell Known (9), Gr Con 7

40. Barb

41. Spell Penetration tome



Use a Con Artifact at 55



Legendary Feats

1) Gr Con 8

2) Empower Spell

3) Extra Spell Known 8

4) Leg. Spell Penetration

5) LSF Evocation

6) LSF Trans

7) LSF Necro



Paragon Feats

1) PSF Evo

2) PSK Evo

3) PSF Trans

4) PSK Trans

5) Para Spell Pen

6) PSF Necro



1) Endure Elements

Expeditous Retreat

Ray of Enfeeblement

Magic Weapon

Ice Dagger

Shelgarn’s Persistent Blade


2) Combust

Flame Weapon

Shock Weapon

Stone Bones

Melf’s Acid Arrow

Ghostly Visage



3) GMW

Keen

Displacement

Gust

Clarity



4) Evards

Bestow Curse

Enervation

Ice Storm

Remove Curse



5) Energy Buffer

Lesser Spell Mantle

Break Enchantment

Vitriolic Sphere

Lesser Mind Blank



6) Disintegration

Circle of Death

Chain Lightning

Ethereal Visage



7) Delayed Blast Fireball

Great Thunder Clap

Banishment



8) Horrid Wilting

Sunburst

Bigby’s Clenched

Premonition (Extra Spell Known 8)



9) Mord

Weird

Energy Drain

Power Word Kill (Extra Spell Known 9)

[dopplegang]

Why would you take wierd ghostly visage and EV without illusion focus?  And banish without abjuration

[Tru3Fals3]

weird dc is generally high enough to still be effective, especially combined with energy drains, same goes with banish.

gv is a quick get out of jail free card

[boroie]

You aug with GSF Illusion which is what many Pariahs do, or you get SF illu from a staff. Same for getting GSF Abj, or at least SF Abj from a staff. Banish still works with ED/curse/BT etc even if no focus. Weird has +7 DC by default. GV and EV are self explanatory.

[woqued]

Aug 24, 2021 5:31:33 GMT dopplegang said:

Why would you take wierd ghostly visage and EV without illusion focus?  And banish without abjuration

Pariahs run gnome subs as base which has sf:illu as race freebie staff doesn't matter. It is enough to get GV going - albeit a tad annoying to use, it is long enough for the short maneuvers you use it for. If it's about to run out before you did your thing, just recast before it ends and you're good. 


And weird dc as the others already put it, is enough without illu foci investment in hell/abyss environment with paragon feats/lvls/gear - for the off chance it's a paragon or you're still in low 60s or high 50s, couple ED's will get you where you want to be. Ethereal Visage gets up to 85% concealment, the feats are only 1/2/5% increase at gsf, esf, lsf. It's still 80% concealment - the choices are essentially between heavier armor and low conceal, higher ac & imms versus robe with concealment & better slot/dc perks from robe. Both ways are true and tested, work fine in all areas of the game. 

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I run a GSF illusion aug on this guy for the slightly added conceal, DC, and GV duration for some flexibility. Everyone’s covered all the questions you have asked. As stated in my op, it’s a sorcerer for all intents and purposes with parish perks. It’s quite lovely.

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I also run the standard GSF Div for abyss which takes two slots. The rest I run slot augs. Gear looks like:

Helm: Azz 3 helm
Cloak: Tia Sorc
Boots: Asmo set to Sorc
Gloves: Flex, I usually run a DC ego on whatever I can find
Necklace: I run a Heavenly Haunt full with 18 AC on all my sorcs.
Shield: Vestige Shield
Armor: Fistwrap
Belt: Tia Sorc
Ring 1: Planewalker
Ring 2: Breach ring
Staff: Tia Sorc
More: Pelor or variable elemental from Abo

With this setup physical resists are covered with shield. Exotics with boots. And energy buffer for elementals. Asmo boots cover CHA, WIS, and INT. Shield covers DEX. Pelor mote covers STR and CON. You could flex in Zio gloves for confusion and level 6 with the fistwrap. The latter is hard to come by and so I value the aug slots more.

I suggest all 7,8,9 combination augs as you have them available.

[chainlink]

Aug 25, 2021 0:28:27 GMT @prepared said:

I also run the standard GSF Div for abyss which takes two slots. The rest I run slot augs. Gear looks like:

Helm: Azz 3 helm
Cloak: Tia Sorc
Boots: Asmo set to Sorc
Gloves: Flex, I usually run a DC ego on whatever I can find
Necklace: I run a Heavenly Haunt full with 18 AC on all my sorcs.
Shield: Vestige Shield
Armor: Fistwrap
Belt: Tia Sorc
Ring 1: Planewalker
Ring 2: Breach ring
Staff: Tia Sorc
More: Pelor or variable elemental from Abo

With this setup physical resists are covered with shield. Exotics with boots. And energy buffer for elementals. Asmo boots cover CHA, WIS, and INT. Shield covers DEX. Pelor mote covers STR and CON. You could flex in Zio gloves for confusion and level 6 with the fistwrap. The latter is hard to come by and so I value the aug slots more.

I suggest all 7,8,9 combination augs as you have them available.

Heavenly Haunts covers confusion so you don't need to flex gloves.

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That’s why I don’t. I was highlighting options if you wanted to. Easier to get an 18 AC haunt with 6 then a wrap with 6. Could flex the neck and armor and gloves around if you wanted to do so. I’d likely go Tia neck for more slots. But all flexible. With the basic setup here slots are your big priority.