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. 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. Otherwise you may find you wont get the high end manuevers that do devasting amounts of damage (some of these can kill opponents in a single attack with no save). If need be you can make changes along the way and it should be simple to do. 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. Plan all manuevers out for all 20 levels so you see what youre going to end up with. 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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