The Drow War (Epic 3.5)

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okay let me get it straight, you said 2x the cost, so I am strictly dealing with Enhancement for this not specials like shock

+5 50,000 gp * normally this is where ENH ends and +6 normally is epic silliness x10 normally

+6 72,000 gp * x2 144,000
+7 98,000 gp *x2 196,000
+8 128,000 gp *x2 256,000
+9 162,000 gp *x2 324,000
+10 200,000 gp *x2 400,000
+11 242,000 gp *x2 484,000

and for anything further the dmg has Weapon bonus (enhancement) Bonus squared × 2,000 gp

Now let us deal with the Specials like Shock, are the specials figured just as normal meaning if I want that +10 ENH and Shock a bonus +1 I need to pay the +11 price

OR am I paying the +10 price and then only 2,000 for the +1 bonus special ?

Yes, that would be the case. And as for special abilities, you add the bonus to the enhancement bonus and then calculate the amount, you don't calculate them separately.

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Honest idea is to have a high CL to have buffs more resistant to dispelling and be able to enable the party.

Build stubb:

Wizard 5 (with abyssal specialist, aligned spellcaster (chaos), and spontaneous divination) / knight of the weave 1 / ultimate magus 10 / escalation mage 5

Using theurgic specialist feat to stack CL on specialist spells (i.e. chaos spells). The chaos spells CL would be 20 (wizard) + 28 (knight of the weave) + 3 (ultimate magus) -> 51

Not using the abyssal specialist + aligned spellcaster would mean that that high CL is only for one school of magic (a more specialized thing)

Scrapping the theurgic specialist entirely would also reduce the high CL to 23 which would be almost french vanilla.

What the build has over an out of the box wizard is a high CL and metamagic cost mitigation as the knight of the weave slots can be used to pay for metamagic and the escalation mage abilities imitate metamagic effects with a CL check (which the high CL makes easier to succeed at).

That would definitely be high OP. I will limit caster levels to character levels, so no 51 caster level.

My take on low OP is a straight druid with no metamagic, no divine metamagic (he's a wild reaper variant) and most of his feats spent on combat maneuvres. No stats have even reached 30. Also a pet bear rather than a venomfire boosted Fleskraker

That is more what I am thinking of, though I have allowed more than one class to be taken. As far as stats, I am thinking of main attribute to be up about 40 or 50 max, but less is better, if it comes down to it. I don't mind metamagic, but I am not a fan of DMM.

As I stated before, I'm bad at optimizing on my own, and have little ability to predict how OP something will be. As it is, going into Psychic Weapon Master is far from the most optimized thing a PsyWar can do, but at the same time I do have high crit damage, and get equally high temp HP every time I do so, and I will likely be getting crits on a consistent basis.

But I think high crit damage is preferable to the many, many ways a fully optimized Wizard has of simply ending a fight. I still have to, you know, engage with the mechanics of combat.



...Good thing I didn't take it, though it is on my list of wanted feats.

I'm not sure I'm actually allowed to post a link, but it's easy to find with a Google search. As I recall, it makes regaining psionic focus a move action instead of a full-round action, so it's very valuable to those who expend them. I myself technically have two foci to spend, so it's less urgent for me, but it'd still be pretty good.

I suspect it'd mostly be bonkers for those who want to move action: regain focus, standard action: cast power, and swift action: cast quickened power. Which I could technically do, but my powers are pretty much all buffs, and I only took Quickened Power so I'd be able to get more buffs up when I don't have prep time. None of my powers are capable of ending a fight, and they only quicken it by making me better at what I was already doing.

Psychic meditation and psionic meditation are apparently two different things, from what I could find online. Psionic meditation is what you meant, I think, and that feat is fine.

Working on buying equipment. Fortunately, this time it's easy - I ported over almost all my equipment from the last time I used this build (well, something similar) and... I still have 348,032 gold left. I hate buying items at high levels.

What else do I even spend it on? Do I just shell out the money for Tomes/Manuals so I don't have to worry about spending the gold anymore? Maybe I just do more research and find more things to buy...

Couple questions: One, I'd really like some Celestial Armor, but it's normally just a +3, I think. Can I spend additional gold to "upgrade" it to a +5 or higher? A +5 is, I believe, 38,400 gold, but I could probably add some special abilities to it, didn't think of that last time.

Second, you said that stacking magical effects is +50% of the lesser cost. Is that for all effects, or does that not apply to simple number increases like the MIC seems to recommend?

Yes, I have allowed people to refit items by reverse engineering them, so you can upgrade the Celestial Armour.
The +50% is for all effects, but there is no custom items from scratch.

So, I'm thinking about combining Focused Specialist ACF and the Changeling Wizard racial levels to make a character heavily specialized in Transmutation and Illusion spells. Would it be ok? Tentative build would be Changeling Wizard 5/Master Specialist 10/Recaster5/Archmage1

Obvioulsy powerful, since it's a wizard, but none of the usual cheesy things in my mind

That sounds fine.

intresting umm

Would you allow a Tibbit

Fabulous Cats

thinking of a Psion 11 / thrallherd 10 as my build

I prefer humanoid characters, so no tibbit, I am afraid.

Also, in answer to the question I was asked previously, there are no EPic Destinies.
Also, please not, I don't want leadership type effects. I want a party of heroes, not a parade full of servants.