3.5 Thematic low cheese blaster

[PurpleSocks]

Hi Playground,

I'm toying with a new character concept but I'm kinda clueless as to where I should start, I want to play an optimised blaster with a strong themed focus on one element (not fussed as to which one). I know the general tricks for building a optimised wizard but those usually include banning evocation and focusing to conjuration/transmutation.

So I'm looking for a elemental full casting blaster, that can bypass energy resistances & immunities and maybe even have the odd class feature. I'm aware of the mailman build but the Incantrix is explicitly banned by my group along with dragonwrought kobolds and all that kobold cheese. Psionics is also a no-go.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Yuki Akuma]

You could consider taking Energy Substitution (Fire), Energy Admixture (Fire) and Searing Spell (or the Cold counterparts and Piercing Cold).

Still ban evocation. Use conjuration blasting, it's better. :smallwink:

[Baroknik]

Also look into Sandshaper (especially as a sorc), they get a lot of good blasts for free AND get a few sudden metamagic a for free.
Optimized warmage could work as well.

Otherwise energy sun/admixture (fire) and searing spell I'd pretty handy. You can get up to +3 CL with evocation spells of a single element through ACFs as well. That's especially strong at low levels for the extra dice.

[Anium]

Hi, at the moment i'm building the same, as my batman wizard died and the same rules are applied to me. I'm starting level 12, for now i have
5 Wizard/5 warmage(mortals era dragonlance book)/2 ABj champ. Grey Elf.

I'm assuming 2 flaws, so this build might not work for you.

The warmage takes 3 useless feats, still, the class gives you 2 back, and practically a free empower(+3 damage for each dice), and you need the last one for abj champ anyway. After this i'm asking for advice on wich metamagics should i take.

So level 1: Extend spell
combat casting(flaw)
Eschew materials(flaw)
3 Longbow focus
5 Energy substitution (sonic)
6 Arcane thesis(fireball)
7 Empower spell
9 Maximice spell
9 Easy metamagic: Maximice spell
12 Twin spell

Or just scrap abj champion and be human for an extra level 0 metamagic.
I'm asking to improve this build too please.

[Biffoniacus_Furiou]

Make a Psion (Kineticist), you can freely switch between Fire, Cold, Electricity, and Sonic each time you manifest a blasting power, so you won't be useless when an opponent is immune to your favorite element. Here's a Psion handbook (http://www.brilliantgameologists.com/boards/?topic=10238.0).

Make a Cleric with the Cold domain and the spontaneous domain casting ACF in PH2 for it. Get DMM: Persist, Piercing Cold, Fell Drain Spell, and probably Residual Magic. make a Persistent Piercing Cold Fell Drain Ice Axe every day, and you'll have plenty of blasting and crowd control spells from your domain.

Make a Druid or a Spirit Shaman, the Druid spell list has some of the best offensive elemental spells in the game. (Lesser Rod of) Extended Creeping Cold is the most damaging spell you can find for a 2nd level spell slot, dealing 21d6 cold damage over six rounds.

[Blinkdog]

If you want a low cheese blaster, I'd recommend a Warmage. It's certainly not the "best" blaster out there, but it's the most fun one.

You don't spam 1-2 blasting spells over and over again, as you would with a Sorcerer, but have a variety of spells you can use. You got bursts, cones, lines, walls, single target... And you get some utility spells as well (Shatter, Sleet Storm, Black Tentacles, etc.) Obviously they are not as good as a Wizards or Sorceres utility spells, but they are a nice bonus and you want to play a blaster anyway not a utility spellcaster.

If you want to focus on one element -> Energy Substitution.

[Joe the Rat]

Fire specialist with Searing Spell... not always the most efficient, but there's something wonderful about the fact that they are capable of burning fire elementals to death.

[eggynack]

Make a Druid or a Spirit Shaman, the Druid spell list has some of the best offensive elemental spells in the game. (Lesser Rod of) Extended Creeping Cold is the most damaging spell you can find for a 2nd level spell slot, dealing 21d6 cold damage over six rounds.
I'm a fan of a good pile of druid blasting. You could even work a whole cold theme in there, adding boreal wind at 4th, maybe call avalanche at 5th, and rashemi elemental summoning for cones of cold forever. You can do pretty well with a cold themed druid, particularly if you don't do nothing but blasting. Frostburn is obviously a great place to start for that sort of thing.

[DR27]

Still ban evocation. Use conjuration blasting, it's better. :smallwink:That depends if you consider "blasting" to be "I throw an orb" - I'll defer to Treantmonk's guide (http://community.wizards.com/forum/previous-editions-character-optimization/threads/1152046) on this topic:

Praise for evocation: Evocation contains several strong spells in the BC field as well as some nice Multiple Threat spells. The image as a “Blasting spells only” school is clearly a myth. Although there isn’t a lot of utility within the school – a few spells stand out as winners in the utility field (Force Ladder, Greater floating disk, Contingency, Sending).
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Focused Specialists: My test for whether a school should be considered for FS is this: Can you think of 3 memorizations that you would want in that school for every level of spell? My answer as far as Evocation goes – yes up to 7th level spells. Therefore – I would consider an Evocation FS for a campaign up to level 14 – beyond that – you might find the Evocation School overly restrictive.You can just choose to be a Focused or Specialized Wizard and be a decent blaster. One thing I could imagine being entertaining as well would be to play a Ultimate Magus - tons of spells and metamagic to blast with.