Little Brick Wall (Fighter8 DD 27 Rogue5)

[blackdeath]

Hey, this is my first real attempt at a strength tank, so any advice would be welcomed. This build was intended to have decent skill points, good damage reduction, and overall good survivability... i think it might be a bit lacking on offensive power, but we'll see. This character has evasion coupled with a good reflex save high saves across the board, 24% innate damage immunity, quite a bit of damage reduction, and high hitpoints.

note on the build : if you dont take Battlerager, or a subrace that gives you dodge, your going to have to drastically change your starting stats. Also you will have to put points into intimidate.

Dwarf Battlerager
Stats : Character creation (subrace) (40)
STR: 16 (20) (32)
DEX: 10
CON: 17 (20) (22)
WIS: 10 (8)
INT: 16 (14)
CHA: 3

01: Fighter(1): Luck of Heros, Weapon Proficiency Exotic
02: Fighter(2): Weapon Focus: Dwarven Waraxe
03: Fighter(3): Weapon Specialization: Dwarven Waraxe
04: Fighter(4): CON+1, Power Attack, (CON=21)
05: Fighter(5)
06: Fighter(6): Blind Fight, Expertise
07: Fighter(7)
08: Dwarven Defender(1): CON+1, {Defensive Stance}, (CON=22)
09: Dwarven Defender(2): Improved Expertise, {Defensive Awareness I}
10: Dwarven Defender(3)
11: Dwarven Defender(4)
12: Dwarven Defender(5): STR+1, Improved Critical: Dwarven Waraxe, (STR=21)
13: Dwarven Defender(6)
14: Dwarven Defender(7)
15: Dwarven Defender(8): Lightning Reflexes
16: Dwarven Defender(9): STR+1, (STR=22)
17: Dwarven Defender(10)
18: Rogue(1): Iron Will
19: Rogue(2): {Evasion}
20: Rogue(3): STR+1, {Uncanny Dodge I}, (STR=23)
21: Dwarven Defender(11): Epic Weapon Focus: Dwarven Waraxe
22: Dwarven Defender(12)
23: Dwarven Defender(13)
24: Fighter(8): STR+1, Great Strength I, Armor Skin, (STR=25)
25: Dwarven Defender(14): Epic Prowess
26: Dwarven Defender(15)
27: Dwarven Defender(16): Great Strength II, (STR=26)
28: Dwarven Defender(17): STR+1, (STR=27)
29: Dwarven Defender(18): Epic Damage Reduction I
30: Dwarven Defender(19): Epic Will
31: Dwarven Defender(20)
32: Dwarven Defender(21): STR+1, (STR=28)
33: Dwarven Defender(22): Epic Reflexes, Epic Damage Reduction II
34: Dwarven Defender(23)
35: Dwarven Defender(24)
36: Dwarven Defender(25): STR+1, Great Strength III, (STR=30)
37: Dwarven Defender(26): Epic Damage Reduction III
38: Dwarven Defender(27)
39: Rogue(4): Great Strength IV, (STR=31)
40: Rogue(5): STR+1, (STR=32)

Fighter(8), Dwarven Defender(27), Rogue(5), Battlerager

Hitpoints: 714
Skillpoints: 202
Saving Throws (Fortitude/Will/Reflex): 30/26/25
Saving Throw bonuses: Spells: +2, Traps: +1, Poison: +2
BAB: 29
AB (max, naked): 44 (melee), 30 (ranged)
you can max 4 skills, and have left over for quite a bit of 1 more. make sure you save skill points to max skills on rogue levels. the skills i plan to max are Discipline, Tumble, Craft Armor, and Craft Weapon.

Legendary Levels

Legendary Luck
Legendary Reflexes
Legendary Will
Great Strength 5-8

Lvl 60 stats : base(gear)

Strength 46(58)
Dexterity 10(22)
Constitution 22(34)
Wisdom 8(20)
Int 14
Charisma 3

Saves fort/will/reflex 64/67/66

[Rodon_]

Won't the shield AC granted from dwarven waraxe be wasted as you're using a shield anyhow?

If that's the case I'd drop exotic profiency, go with a martial weapon and grab blooded at lev 1 for LSA tumble.

[blackdeath]

cant grab blooded at level 1 with legendary luck. the 2nd feat has to be a fighter bonus feat. also, there are other bonuses to using a shield other than AC.

[chirikov]

shield bonus on a waraxe isnt completely wasted if youre using a shield, since there are times when you have the shield stripped off

also gives you the option of using a weaker shield ac-wise for immunities or whatnot

[blackdeath]

just built this in the test chamber, and did some calculations, AC maxes at 127 with UR gear, pentivate shield, and girding. might be different depending on how shield ac from dwarven waraxe is calculated, i cant seem to find reference to that. with burs and an artifact, AC is 130 or 131 with girding, depending on what artifact you use.

[mrbadexample]

The Shield AC is calculated off your CON Mod.