[BUILD] Dragon Defender

[Beldar]

Here is a nice high AC non-buffing fighter build. This is basically a non-alignment changing version of the Lord of the Mountain build from the Wiki.

Gold Dwarf (no CHA penalty dwarf)
Lawful Good

STR 14
DEX 12
CON 16
INT 14
WIS 8
CHA 15

1 Paladin 1 Luck of Heroes
2 Paladin 2
3 Paladin 3 Able Learner (need lots of cross class skill points)
4 Paladin 4 +1 DEX (need to make prereq)
5 Paladin 5
6 Paladin 6 Toughness
7 Paladin 7
8 Paladin 8 +1 CHA
9 Paladin 9 Dodge
10 Dwarven Defender 1
11 Dwarven Defender 2
12 Dwarven Defender 3 Divine Might +1 CHA
13 Dwarven Defender 4
14 Avenger
15 Dragon Disciple 1 Divine Shield (not needed on some worlds wear dodge AC cap is nearly reached w/o this) (I chose gold dragon for fire immunity and RP purposes)
16 Dragon Disciple 2 +1 CHA
17 Dragon Disciple 3
18 Dragon Disciple 4 Weapon Focus (whatever weapon you use)
19 Dragon Disciple 5
20 Dragon Disciple 6
21 Dragon Disciple 7 Epic Toughness
22 Dragon Disciple 8
23 Dragon Disciple 9 Epic Resilience
24 Dragon Disciple 10
25 Dwarven Defender 5 Epic Divine Might
26 Dwarven Defender 6
27 Dwarven Defender 7 Armor Skin
28 Dwarven Defender 8
29 Dwarven Defender 9 Tower Shield Prof (you could take something different - I like AC)
30 Dwarven Defender 10

I'll post the skill point progression later - I have to run an errand. Basically you want to save points till you have able learner. You need points in hide and move silently to qualify for avenger. I also pump tumble for the extra ac. After that spellcraft in multiples of 5 (or is it 10?) is a good dump skill. You need 8 lore to qualify for dragon disciple. Check the prereqs for dwarven defender and make sure you have them on time too.

This is a really strong build for a non-buffer. EDM ups the damage. Saves are good due to paladin, high charisma, and epic resilience. BAB is 26 so you get all 6 attacks. You have pretty good strength so that helps AB and damage too. Lots of boosts to AC from dwarven defender and dragon disciple.

[Beldar]

I just remembered that my notes for this were a little off. Paladin will require a minimum wisdom of 11 so we have to shift some starting stats. I think these are the stats I ended up using:

STR 13 (+8 RDD still gets to the 21 needed for EDM)
DEX 12 (have to get to 13 for Dodge needed for defender)
CON 14 (-30 HP, so sad)
INT 14 (still need skill points for hide, move silent, and lore to qualify for classes)
WIS 11 (wish we didn't need this much)
CHA 15

Also, the stat boosts that I forgot to include are all to charisma except for level 28 (cause an odd number is useless - since we robbed STR for WIS we can add it back at 28).

[siegelayer]

Hmm, what's the Avenger for?

[briont]

For DD qualification

[siegelayer]

Right you are. thx.

[Beldar]

Ok, I looked at this a little closer. You need to drop the weapon focus feat in favor of power attack (prereq for divine might and shield). So level 12 is power attack, 15 is divine might, and 18 is divine shield.

[shoujo]

Do you actually need DwD for this build? CotW could be a pretty decent replacement for a EDRless DwD. Would get you more feats, have less wasted stat points (the 11 wis, the +1 dex from a level), open up non-dwarves as a choice (like the YT), and allow you to go BG instead of pally or start as a sorc (edit: and still get tumble) or bard.

[cosper123]

i heart shoujo