Some help please with two builds: bardblade & eternal blade

[Volfogg]

Hi All,

Its been a while since the last time I posted here and hope everyone is well. Anyhoo, got a quick question regarding two builds. Actually scratch that ... I want to be spoon fed two builds. I have an overall idea of what I want but just can't seem to get anything right. Here's the gist of what I am looking for:

Build  1 - Bardblade
This is your basic bard / warblade Song of the White Raven type build. For feats I was thinking of the following:

• Power Attack
• Song of the White Raven
• Song of the Heart
• and possibly the Shocktrooper/Combat Brute/Stormguard Warrior

I was thinking bard 2 / warblade 18, nice and simple. Also note, my DM has a variant bard which trades in spellcasting for full BaB and some bonus feats.


Build 2 - Eternal Blade
This is your standard warblade 10/eternal blade 10 type build. But I am at a total lose as to what feats I should take. Below are some feat ideas:

• Power Attack
• Improved Initiative
• Faerie Mysteries Initiate
• Keen Intellect
• and possibly Weapon Finesse + Agile weapon property for a more Dexterity focused Eternal Blade

Overall, my focus is to have a dude running around with a Big ol' Sword. For the Bardblade I was thinking of the greatsword and an Elven Courtblade for the Eternal Blade if going the dexterity route. I am not to interested in going with a Robilar's Gambit build or a reach/Combat Reflexes build as I have done those before. I just want a straight up heavy hitting sword wielder. If it matters we use Pathfinder as our base set of rules (so 10 level based feats). For stats I rolled 17,15,14,14,12,9. All 3.5 materials are fair game as well as all Pathfinder, including 3PP.

Any help with either of the two builds would be greatly appreciated (or a link, I did search but found all the Bo9S related WotC links are dead now).

Cheers
Volf

Edit: Found this Eternal Blade buildhttp://www.giantitp.com/forums/showsinglepost.php?p=9820264&postcount=8. Excellent thing is that I don't have to dip CoC in order to get Dexterity to damage. I was also thinking about going swashbuckler 3/warblade 7/eternal blade 10. Seems like it could work out well for the Dexterity/Intelligence synergy.

[Volfogg]

Had some time to ponder the warblade setup. Please have a look and let me know what ya think:

race:human

brd3/warblade17

bab 19
il  18
saves 11|8+int|10
hd 3d6+17d12

flaw
frivalous performer

feats

• steadfast determination
• song of the white raven
• improved initiative(b)
• melee weapon mastery
• stormguard warrior
• song of the heart
• ironheart aura(b)
• power attack(h)
• improved sunder
• lingering song
• wf[greatsword]
• ws[greatsword]
• endurance(b)
• iron will(b)
• combat brute
• extra music

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manuevers
lvl   class        il   name
--------------------------------------------------------
1     brd1         0
2     brd1/war1    1    leading the attack[white raven|str]
                        moment of perfect clarity[diamond mind|ctr]
                        hunter's senses[tiger claw|stn]
                        ?????
3     brd2/war1    2
4     brd3/war1    2
5     brd3/war2    3    action before thought[diamond mind|ctr]
6     brd3/war3    4    wall of blades[iron heart|ctr]
7     brd3/war4    5    tactics of the wolf[white raven|stn]
8     brd3/war5    6    ironheart surge[iron heart]
9     brd3/war6    7
10    brd3/war7    8    lightning recovery[iron heart|ctr]
11    brd3/war8    9
12    brd3/war9    10   ????
13    brd3/war10   11   hearing the air[diamond mind|stn]
14    brd3/war11   12   moment of alacrity[diamond mind|bst]
15    brd3/war12   13                       
16    brd3/war13   14   quicksilver motion[diamond mind|bst]
17    brd3/war14   15                 
18    brd3/war15   16   diamond defense[diamond mind|ctr]
19    brd3/war16   17   supreme blade parry[iron heart|stn]
20    brd3/war17   18   time stands still[diamond mind|man]
Let me know if this looks playable.

Cheers
Volf