Honestly, if you're afraid the Warblade won't be competitive with the Fighter in gaming terms, don't worry - the Warblade is a lot better than the Fighter (not that it takes much, but still, it's a solid class). So basically you get a better fighter with special moves at the cost of a few feats. He doesn't get Feats, but he gets maneuvers and they're definitely superior.
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The Warblade has MORE hp (he rolls d12), has full B.A.B. He's got lots of HP, he's fairly accurate and has a full B.A.B. Mechanically speaking, the 3.5 Fighter is basically the Vanilla Hero (who gets lots of Feats). (Warblades have very good bang for your buck in terms of how much their complexity actually pays off in terms of good gameplay, compared to the rest of the system, but it's still mechanical complexity.)Īt the cost of sounding cynical, what kind of function does the 3.5 Fighter absolve that you need a viable replacement for? It's possible to build a fighter who has a ton of situational or temporary bonuses, and then you get the same issues, but that's not the default.) They're still faster in play than a lot of classes, but I'd still probably lean on the fighter as an alternative for a player who is new and/or uncomfortable with mechanical complexity, and who wants to play a character that thematically could be either. Warblades are way cooler and more fun, but they also take a little longer to play (in combat), not only because they have a larger decision space, but because there are more little bits and boosts flying around to keep track of. However, in the absence of that, I'd take a build that went warblade 16 (and even consider warblade 20 and taking cross-class ranks in the skill Use Magic Device) instead of any build that takes levels in the prestige class legacy champion if only to avoid having to deal with the deeply flawed rules in Weapons of Legacy.In addition to what people have mentioned about Warblades not really directly supporting ranged combat that well, the only reservation I'd have about wholesale replacing the Fighter with the Warblade is that it raises the complexity of the game somewhat. That said, if the DM's house rules make weapons of legacy as good as they're promised, that's something else entirely, and may make the legacy champion class worth taking. The difficulty of meeting higher-level legacy requirements means that the quests to activate the legacy weapon's next ability can occupy a significant table-time in exchange for that the character gets the ability to spend a large amount of cash upgrading a weapon that gives him larger and larger penalties to the things he's supposed to be good at. If the DM has already committed to them, and the DM's using them as written, a character is often better off not having a weapon of legacy than he is having one. The Weapons of Legacy rules are generally considered terrible.
The opportunity to get the same amount of 9th-level maneuvers as a 20th level Warblade seems like it could be worthwhile. Now, the question is, from an optimizer's perspective, which one of these two choices is a better commitment here? It looks like I'd lose a lot if I were to opt for the second build, but 9th-level maneuvers are undeniably powerful.
A lot of class features involving legacy items on top of regular class features.Two points of BAB (if using partial BAB rules).The things I lose from choosing the second build includes the following: However, I recognize that there are some tradeoffs to taking the second path. So, the second build's Wartblade level is effectively 14, and its initiator level is 20. This can be used to advance Warblade class features, and it stacks with fact that half of each cross-class level counts towards a Warblade's initiator level. The key thing to note is that the Legacy Champion advances any base class features by 1 upon level up for 7/9 levels.
The two builds in question are:įighter 1/Cleric 1/Psychic Warrior 1/Barbarian 1/Warblade 16įighter 1/Cleric 1/Psychic Warrior 1/Barbarian 1/Warblade 7/Legacy Champion 9 The second of these builds is more theoretical because I didn't know about the Legacy Champion until rather recently. So, I have these two Warblade builds, and I'm trying to decide which one to take.
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