how can you make an effective spellsword?

krunchyfrogg · Post by **krunchyfrogg** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 9:58 pm

How can you get an effective warrior/ arcane spellcaster build in this game?

the armor restrictions basically make it imposible to have a decent tank who can cast.

Sparrow · Post by **Sparrow** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 10:17 pm

I think it's more fun to have tanks and wizards separate. You get to develope very powerful characters that way. Why would you want a warrior/spellcaster that can't do anything well? Unless you are only using one or two characters. Is that what you're doing? But I know everyone doesn't play the game the same way I do...

myrophine · Post by **myrophine** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 10:56 pm

I think the spellswords in silverdragon's guide {a sticky} are very good. Take a look...

In general I think the wizard/fighter uses the buffs to protect themselves. And they use spells requiring no save or that otherwise contribute without level being a factor.

myrophine

Dedigan · Post by **Dedigan** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:00 pm

The main thing you have to do to make an effective spell sword character is lose the armor-and-weapon paradigms.

You don't need heavy armor. You gain better armor class with no armor (or a certain late-in-the-game armor). If you add a few fighter levels to a mage, or a few mage levels to a fighter, then you have a very effective spell sword. Or you could just make a bard. The spells you should get are mostly defensive buffs.