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PersonMan
2010-04-06, 04:01 PM
I'll be playing a Cleric 20/Fighter2(Yay 3 epic feats!) who is going to be focused on self-buffing herself into a crazy combat monster. I've been wondering what spells I should take. I have Core and all spells in the SpC.

Douglas
2010-04-06, 04:12 PM
Are you going to be buffing in combat, or using Persistent Spell (preferably with Divine Metamagic) to cast your buffs beforehand? If you're using DMM or something similar, how many uses of it do you have and does your DM consider 'touch' range to qualify as 'fixed' for the purpose of Persistent Spell?

Eldariel
2010-04-06, 04:24 PM
AFAIK, you can't pick Epic bonus feats with Fighter until you are taking epic Fighter-levels.

For buffs, see: Cleric Handbook (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=420.0)

Short list off the top of my head tho. Hour/level spells you'll want active:
- Superior Resistance [SC]
- Greater Magic Weapon
- Magic Vestment
- Heroes' Feast (Extend)
- Contingent Energy Resistance [SC]
- Divine Insight [SC]
- Spikes [SC]
- Energy Immunity [SC]

Further, if you're up for replicating Wizard-spells (Miracle, Spell-domain [SC], Domain-spells, etc.):
- Overland Flight
- Contingency
- Moment of Prescience (hard to get due to level tho)
- Mind Blank (see above)
- Instant Refuge [SC] (sigh)
- Greater Enlarge Person [SC]
- Treasure Scent [SC]
- Greater Mage Armor [SC] (if using Monk's Belt-based AC)
- Anticipate Teleport (or Greater) [SC]

Further, some 10 min/level spells you may want to cast with Extend-wands 3 times per day to make 'em last all day:
- Foresight
- Shapechange (if you have access to it)
- Girallon Arms + Fuse Arms
- Weapon of Impact (if not using weapon qualifying for Spikes)
- Magic Circle against Evil
- Owl's Insight [SC] (it's fixed "1 hour", but it may be worth it for the immense bonus it grants; problem is, it's a Druid-spell so you prolly need Miracle)
- Conviction (or mass) [SC]
- Air Walk (if not flying through other means)
- Freedom of Movement

Mayhap some others.


Finally, if you can Persist spells (e.g. DMM: Persistent or just having high-level slots + Persistent Spell-feat), try:
- Divine Power
- Righteous Might
- Recitation [SC]
- Righteous Wrath of the Faithful [SC]
- Holy Star [SC]
- Greater Visage of the Deity [SC]
- Holy Transformation [SC]
- Consumptive Field [SC] (dangerously powerful though)
- Superior Invisibility [SC]
- Undeath's Eternal Foe [SC]
- Bite of the Werebear [SC] (Miracle)
- Draconic Polymorph [SC] (Miracle...if not Shapechanging and not afraid of extreme power)

If you can't, consider that bunch as combat buffs with Quicken Spell and Multispell.


If you're wondering how to manage the spell slots, Pearls of Power, metamagic rods, maxing your Wisdom and so on go a long way. Also, don't forget to protect your buffs; even just Beads of Karma + Orange Prism Ioun Stone + Ring of Enduring Arcana makes it your level+9 to dispel them.

strider24seven
2010-04-06, 04:26 PM
AFAIK, you can't pick Epic bonus feats with Fighter until you are taking epic Fighter-levels.

You can with Chaos shuffle-shenanigans:smalltongue:

Runestar
2010-04-06, 04:29 PM
If you have complete arcane, there is this 7th lv wujen spell which can make you collossal. Simply replicate it using miracle. :smallbiggrin:

At this lv, you can start going for persistent divine favour (using a 7th lv slot) and even persistent divine power (using a 10th lv slot from improved spell capacity). However, this means you either want to increase your caster lv to resist dispelling, or take tenacious magic to protect it.

The alternative is quickened divine power (and lots of them).

Dusk Eclipse
2010-04-06, 04:33 PM
Try to get bite of the WereBear... a +16 STR though You will need Miracle since it is a Druid AND wizard spell, IIRC the druid spell version is lower level than the Wizard one. and + whatever to using DMM

Eldariel
2010-04-06, 04:34 PM
If you have complete arcane, there is this 7th lv wujen spell which can make you collossal. Simply replicate it using miracle. :smallbiggrin:

Giant Size. Complete-series offers other goodies too like Surge of Fortune [CChamp] (auto-20 on any roll!), Footsteps of the Divine [CChamp] (...yeah), etc. Something to consider at any rate.