Azoth
2017-03-03, 12:44 PM
I am working on a magical assassin. So far the build is a Samsaran Wizard5/Sleepless Detective1/Arcane Trickster10/X4. The main reason for going Samsaran is to use Mystic Past Life to pilfer Deafening Sound Burst from the Bard list. Any other spell suggestions are welcome.
At level 5, I will retrain a feat to Accomplished Sneak Attacker so I will only lose 1 Caster Level in the build.
I am running into a bit of an issue with getting the damage up on Deafening Sound Burst. At the end of the day 9d10+7d6=72 dmg avg. Even Maximize +Empower is only 135+24.5=159.5. Hardly assassination levels of damage. Even if I were to Quicken a normal one and then go Max+Emp it would be about 231.5 average damage. The usual tricks don't really work either. A Sorcerer dip for Orc would only be 9 extra damage (no Dragon boosts sonic), a Furious Spell Metamagic would only add 10 damage, and that is about all I have found to boost the damage.
My other problem is figuring out what to do with the last 4 levels. More Wizard levels seem a bit bland, but not many PRCs seem to really add much to the build. Soul Eater(Drinker on SRD), and Collegiate Arcanist seem about the only ones decent enough to wrap it up. So, again, suggestions are welcome on how to finish this up.
At level 5, I will retrain a feat to Accomplished Sneak Attacker so I will only lose 1 Caster Level in the build.
I am running into a bit of an issue with getting the damage up on Deafening Sound Burst. At the end of the day 9d10+7d6=72 dmg avg. Even Maximize +Empower is only 135+24.5=159.5. Hardly assassination levels of damage. Even if I were to Quicken a normal one and then go Max+Emp it would be about 231.5 average damage. The usual tricks don't really work either. A Sorcerer dip for Orc would only be 9 extra damage (no Dragon boosts sonic), a Furious Spell Metamagic would only add 10 damage, and that is about all I have found to boost the damage.
My other problem is figuring out what to do with the last 4 levels. More Wizard levels seem a bit bland, but not many PRCs seem to really add much to the build. Soul Eater(Drinker on SRD), and Collegiate Arcanist seem about the only ones decent enough to wrap it up. So, again, suggestions are welcome on how to finish this up.