Author Topic: Help Selecting Spells for a (gish) gestalt Warblade/Eternal Blade|Wizard/Incan  (Read 5527 times)

Offline Sachiru

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Hello guys! I'd just like to tap the collective awesomeness of the BG minmaxer hivemind and ask for advice.

I've created a gestalt level 15 warblade/Eternal blade | Wizard (Focused Conjurer)/Incantatrix. The primary gist of the build is centered around two-weapon fighting via a homebrew discipline coupled with power attack and persistent wraithstrike, along with the occasional Quickened Repeating True Strike and a full attack with power attack for 20 the next round.

My feat selection is as follows:


Custom Vow of Poverty, homebrewed
Netherworld Gardener, to qualify for oslecamo's awesome Ancient Temple discipline.
Spell Mastery(Wraithstrike, Haste, Mass Snake's Swiftness, Greater Magic Weapon, Greater Dispel Magic)
Uncanny Foresight
Extend Spell
Iron Will
Persistent Spell
Homebrewed Two-Weapon Fighting
Weapon Focus (Longsword)
Power Attack
Improved Initiative
Quicken Spell
Easy Metamagic (Quicken Spell)|
Easy Metamagic (Persistent Spell)
Signature Spell (Wraithstrike)
Repeat Spell
Easy Metamagic (Repeat Spell)
Weapon Finesse

Now, I'd like to ask for advice on
a) which spells to take for my character
b) maneuver selection
c) tactics for dealing with out-of-combat necessities.

Thanks, all!
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Save Swap Maneuvers.
White Raven Tactics.
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How much Incantatrix are we talkin' here?  By default rules, you could only take Incantatrix5 at most, but that's enough.

As for spells, Treantmonk.

How many castings of heroics can you have active on you at once?

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There is an alternate class feature in some Dragon Magazine that allows you to scribe your spells on your own body.  Seems to get around having to take spell mastery for each spell you want to use...

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That's taken care of by the homebrewed vow of poverty (no need to scribe spells), I just want the spontaneity (well, semi-spontaneity) of sorcerers.

Also, I was able to get Incan up to level 10. This is a gestalt 15 game.
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Retraining allowed? If so, keep retraining Spell mastery to get more spells as your intelligence modifier goes up. Also, get Heroics.

If you mostly use Quicken and Repeat spell on True strike, consider Arcane thesis instead of Practical metamagic.
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Thing is, I'm not planning to quicken and repeat just true strike. Assuming I can find a way, round-by-round Mass Snake's Swiftness, Wraithstrike, True Strike and the spell that dazes on successful melee attacks is the goal.
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Thing is, I'm not planning to quicken and repeat just true strike. Assuming I can find a way, round-by-round Mass Snake's Swiftness, Wraithstrike, True Strike and the spell that dazes on successful melee attacks is the goal.
That is just fine, no worries there. I would still suggest you look in to Heroics, could be nice for a melee character. Or Mirror move, which is pretty much the same, but only available online.
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Thing is, I'm not planning to quicken and repeat just true strike. Assuming I can find a way, round-by-round Mass Snake's Swiftness, Wraithstrike, True Strike and the spell that dazes on successful melee attacks is the goal.
That is just fine, no worries there. I would still suggest you look in to Heroics, could be nice for a melee character. Or Mirror move, which is pretty much the same, but only available online.

It also gets you Int mod per casting, instead of just one.  At the same spell level :D

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What gets you int mod per casting?
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What gets you int mod per casting?

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/sb/sb20000901a

Mirror move gives a number of feats equal to your int mod
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