Before i start i just gotta say i read about 10+ various guides on making different spell blades and god knows how many fighter+wizard+X char builds - but one thing that i really am missing in those guides is the actual focus on both CASTING damaging/evil/nasty spells AND hacking away with melee weapons.
I do wanna use spell buffs for melee fighting but i don't want to neglect using my badass nuking spells and crowd controls.
I mostly play the original campaigns (bioware made) with my brother over internet (no pvp), so the character i wanna make does not need to be "super uber strong" - but i do want to make at least a decent character that goes up to level 20 for now and can stand on his own.
I am trying to build a heavily armored melee (2handed and/or 1h+shield) character that cast even the highest levels of wizard/sorcerer spells during that combat (and in heavy armor).
As you guessed it, this is just for fun and not for any kind of world record breaking... except maybe in silliness!
What i (as a complete noob) thought of was something like this:
- Wizard/Sorcerer that can do all high level spells (at least 1 lvl9 spell), also using A LOT of Still Spell (for heavy armor) and probably constant use of defensive casting to avoid AoO against me. I know i can not still spell level 9 spells without the epic auto-still-spell feat, but im making a plan for a lvl20 char (atm).
Much damaging spells, buffing spells and evil crowd control spells along side melee hacking!
- Almost no dexterity (full plate), no wisdom, no charisma, medium/high constitution, i guess 20 intellect, lots of strength?
- A couple of Fighter levels for the armor/weapon (using heaviest armor and big weapons or tower shield) feats and various combat feats like cleave and weapon spec - also to take feats for Weapon master if going that road.
- Potentially a couple/many of Weapon Master or Barbarian or Red Dragon Disciple levels, to get all the sweet feats that are worth taking.
- Definitely must reach at least 16 BAB for full 4 attacks per round at/before level 20, so that my epic levels keep the 4 attacks per round regardless of what epic class levels i take.
What i imagined is me casting big AOE spells or crowd controll spells both before and during the fight (in heavy armor) while hacking apart some FOOLS with my leet flaming weapon that does nasty crits (keen buff, maybe even weapon master feats) OR going bastard+tower like a baws.
Anyway, after all that ranting, what i am hoping for is that you experienced NWN character creators can give me some advice on how can i make this character as good as possible... or as least bad as possible...
Which feats do you suggest for me to take... which classes to pick up... how far into the improved crit/overwhelming crit feats to go in... do i take the spell focus/spell penetration feats... any suggestion on the class levelin order... do i go for weapon master (need whirlwind an other stuff for it)... what epic feats would be good for this combat approach... how much do i put into STR/Con/Intel?
Either way thank you very much for reading through this silly post, and i greatly welcome any advice you can offer for this full-plate-caster thing i am attempting '>