Min/Max Boards

The warlock is very fun, but it's power is ultimately tied to how often you can get a short rest in. If the typical adventuring day has no chance for rest, or even one rest, the warlock is going to suffer compared to other spellcasters.

The bard is ridiculously good with bardic inspiration being a pretty solid boon for allies, expertise in desirable skills, and access to pretty much any spell.

The sorcerer is a very solid spellcaster and metamagic is fantastic. I just really don't care for the sorcerous origins presented in the PHB. That's just me, though.

Pretty much all the classes are good and fun to use. That is, they do what you'd expect them to do with a reasonable level of competence. Even the fighter and monk are competent classes in their own right. The rogue has the capability to sneak attack anything. Paladins can smite anything.

If you want to know what's bad. That would be the ranger and the Way of the Four Elements monk.

As for the hit dice thing, no idea.

Does a kensei make the net deal damage?

I think I can take a challenge like that. Gave your game a good few playthroughs and got an idea. Could have potential.

I like fun things. I like Kalamar. I shall share some fun things in Kalamar.

Some feats




Other things

Essentia Spike is a separate action from re-assigning essentia, so it would be once per round.

Alignment: Due to the unbound's nature, they tend to shy away from lawfulness in favor of the freedom of chaos. Good unbound tend to shape soulmelds that will allow them to stand between the enemy and those they care about. Evil unbound prefer to muster the power to flay their enemy to free their soul from their body.

Religion: Unbound are often not very religious. They'd rather be on the move than spend time in a temple. Unbound are more than willing to accept that their soul may wander the cosmos for a chance encounter with another incarnum shaper's will. Those that are religious will worship dieties that embody travel, change, and freedom; often they'll worship many dieties at the same time.
Other Classes: Unbound are happy to be around most adventurers simply because they are always on the move. They will tend to dispise those bound by a code of conduct or the law of an organization.

Combat: Like most aspects of an unbound's life, as in combat, they like to be flexible but face things head on. They will make it their job to get in they way of an enemy and make their life miserable. Essentia Spike allows the unbound to smite the enemy with bursts of damage while Soul Guidance ensures that there will be a second chance to connect a strike or make a critical save. Other Unbound abilities provide a burst of potential after unshaping soulmelds.
The Unbound's meld selection provides options for mobility, enhanced damage, greater defensive capabilities, or the ability to disable enemies. Some soulmelds provide a boost to the Unbound's ability to help his allies out of combat, but is willing to sacrifice them to bolster his fighting skill in a pinch.

Advancement: Unbound almost always realize their power through experimentation. Often, begining after realizing they can feel the faint incarnum flow all around them and began trying to channel it. Then, they learned they felt the strongest while souls were on the move through their own body and spirit. Beyond that, few gain a formal education on how to work their power. Instead, they usually end up self taught and providing their skills to any job that will push them to the limit and beyond.
Due to this, unbound end up as militia members, guards, crusaders, sellswords, bounty hunters or gladiators. They seek to rise through the ranks quickly and make a name that will spread far and wide.
To this end, unbound will seek out any way to bolster their ability to fight. Common feat choices of unbound include Power Attack, Cobalt Charge, Improved Initiative, or simply Bonus Essentia. An unbound will likely become very specialized in one style of combat.

"The only way one grows standing still is complacent. There is power in change."

While others who dwell in the arts incarnum are willing to shape souls idly, you take a far more active approach. For you, there is as much power in formation as there is in release.

Abilities: Like many incarnum users, your constitution is a high priority. Not only will it increase the number of soulmelds you can shape at a time, it makes them more potent and you will gain more hitpoints to stick in the front lines. Strength will also be a great boon for competing in melee.

Races: Unbound tend to arise in nomadic cultures more commonly than those with stable settlements. They also tend to come from backgrounds of that of explorers, artists, and tinkerers. The unbound's style is often effected by their background. A hafling unbound will prefer to be quick and slippery to make fast ambushes. A gnome unbound may prefer to pick up abilities that could be released in brilliant displays.

Level	Ability	Soulmelds	Essentia	Binds
1	Essentia Spike	1	1	0
2	Soul Guidance	1	1	0
3	Rapid Reshaping	2	1	0
4	Unbound Life	2	2	0
5		3	2	0
6	Chakra Binds (Crown)	3	3	1
7	Unbound Spirit	3	3	1
8	Chakra Binds (Feet, Hands)	4	4	1
9	Rapid Reshaping (+1)	4	5	1
10	Bonds of the Free	4	5	2
11	Chakra Binds (Arms)	4	6	2
12	Unbound Body	5	7	2
13	Chakra Binds (Brow, Shoulders)	5	7	2
14	Rapid Reshaping (+2)	5	8	3
15		5	9	3
16	Chakra Binds (Throat)	6	10	3
17		6	11	3
18	Rapid Reshaping (+3)	6	12	4
19	Chakra Binds (Waist)	6	13	4
20	Soul Suppression	7	15	4

Full Bab
Hit Die: d8
Good Fort save
Poor Reflex and Will Saves

Skill Points: 2+Int Modifier (x4 at first level): Bluff, Climb, Concentration, Craft, Handle Animal, Heal, Intimidate, Jump, Knowledge (arcana), Profession, Ride, Spellcraft, Swim.

Weapon and armor proficiencies: All simple and martial weapons; light, medium, and heavy armor; all shields (except tower shields)

Meldshaping: Your meldshaper level equal to your unbound class level. Your save DC for soulmelds is equal to 10+the number of points of essentia invested into the soulmeld+your constitution modifier. You can have a number of soulmelds shaped at one time equal to your constitution score minus 10 or the value indicated on the table, whichever is lower. You draw soulmelds from the unbound soulmeld list.

Essentia Spike (Su): As a swift action, you may uninvest any amount of essentia from a single soulmeld you have shaped and return that essentia to your essentia pool. This infuses one weapon currently in your posession with the power of incarnum for one round. This adds 1d6 damage to your damage rolls for each point of essentia uninvested. If the soulmeld was bound to a chakra, you also gain a +1 enhancement bonus to your attack rolls with that weapon for each point of essentia as well.

Soul Guidance (Su): By releasing latent energies bound into soulmelds, you gain swift and valuable insight into your actions. Once per round after making any d20 roll, you may unshape a single soulmeld bound to you to reroll it. If any essentia was invested into the soulmeld, you gain an insight bonus on the roll equal to the number of points of essentia invested in that soulmeld.

Rapid Reshaping (Su): Once per day, you can invest essentia into this class feature. You may, at anytime, remove a point of essentia from this feature and return it to your essentia pool. Doing so requires a full-round action that provokes attacks of opportunity. Rapid Reshaping allows you to reshape one soulmeld that has been unshaped within the previous minute. If you have a chakra bind availible, you may bind the reshaped soulmeld at this time. Once the amount of essentia invested in this feature is chosen, it cannot be altered except by its own effect and remains invested for 24 hours.
   At level 9, level 14, and again at level 18, the essentia capacity of this feature increases by 1.

Chakra Binds: Beginning at sixth level, you gain the ability to bind soulmelds to your chakras. You gain access to new chakra slots to bind soulmelds to as indicated on the table.

Unbound Life (Su): Whenever one of your soulmelds becomes unshaped, you gain a number of temporary hit points equal to twice the amount of uninvested essentia in your essentia pool for one minute

Unbound Spirit (Su): Whenever one of your soulmelds become unshaped, you gain a morale bonus on damage rolls equal to the amount of uninvested essentia in your essentia pool for one round.

Bonds of the Free (Su): Once per day, you can invest essentia into this class feature. As a standard action, you may remove a point of essentia from this class feature and return it to your essentia pool to choose to temporarily bind a soulmeld to any chakra (even if that chakra is normally not availible). This temporary chakra bind lasts a number of minutes equal to half your meldshaper level+ your CON modifier. The soulmeld unshapes at the end of the duration. This chakra bind does not count against the total number of binds you may have at one time. You can only bind a specific soulmeld this way once each day, even if you manage to reshape it. Once the amount of essentia invested in this feature is chosen, it cannot be altered except by its own effect and remains invested for 24 hours.

Unbound Body (Su): Whenever one of your soulmelds becomes unshaped, you immediately gain an additional action based on the amount of uninvested essentia in your essentia pool.
1 to 7 points - additional move action
8 to 14 points- additional move or standard action
15+ points- additional move and standard action

Soul Suppression (Su): At 20th level, an unbound is able to relieve another of the ability to manipulate the latent energies of the universe. As an immediate action, an unbound may unshape a single soulmeld to prevent a target within 100ft from using any spells, powers, spell-like, psi-like, or supernatural abilities for a number of rounds equal to the amount of essentia invested in the unshaped soulmeld unless the succeed on a will save. The will save DC is equal to 10+the amount of essentia in the unshaped soulmeld+your con modifier.

You can use Paragon Surge to give an Oracle access to any Sor/Wiz spell as well. By taking Skill Focus (knowledge: whatever) and Eldritch Heritage (arcane) as feats, you can take Improved Eldritch Heritage to grab the New Arcana bloodline power whenever with Paragon Surge. That'll get you any Sorcerer/Wizard spell you need up to the level you can cast, effectively a mini-miracle.

So I'm playing a drow and have taken up the position as party mage. It's a three man group with a cleric and a factotum who have yet to find their stride (low levels and stuff). I've been picking up the slack with liberal invisibility to scout ahead, darkness to cover our tracks, and levitation to help everyone get into more difficult to reach places among other things.

Admittedly, it isn't the best mage ever. I did run out of options and punched a nobleman to death and sneaked out with his invisible to make sure he didn't give away the party's identities or have any nasty run-ins with the city guard in a police state. You just need to work with what you've got sometimes.

There are a lot things to like about the character though. He'll soon be tossing people around the battlefield. His backstory is alright (long story short, simply removing man-parts from oneself will not get you a privileged position in drow society; it makes you a eunuch and an exile). I think the best part of the character is he's a barbarian/fighter.

Invisible Fist is in Exemplars of Evil (pg 21)