3.5 feat help

[Sargentpsychooo]

Hi, u am currently in a walking dead isk campaign where nearly everything we fight is undead. I am playing a level 5 fighter who is LN, I am very close to leveling up but can't find a good 6th level feat pls help. I was going tomb tainted soul for the invincibility to negative levels but would like a second opinion.

[Eldariel]

Hi, u am currently in a walking dead isk campaign where nearly everything we fight is undead. I am playing a level 5 fighter who is LN, I am very close to leveling up but can't find a good 6th level feat pls help. I was going tomb tainted soul for the invincibility to negative levels but would like a second opinion.

Which sources are open and what do you have thus far?

[Sargentpsychooo]

Which sources are open and what do you have thus far?

All 3.5 sources are open, I have throw anything, toughness, weapon focus, weapon specialization, Necropotent

[Eldariel]

Toughness is a really poor feat and Weapon Specialization line is kinda not amazing either. What's your focus? Tomb-Tainted Soul is obviously great if your party mostly uses negative energy healing anyways and you have trouble with level drainers, but you have the other obvious things to go for too: Power Attack (+ Shock Trooper + Leap Attack if interested), Improved Trip, Combat Reflexes, Quick Recovery [Lords of Madness], Sidestep [Miniatures Handbook] (combine with reach weapon and Combat Reflexes for fun times), Martial Study [Tome of Battle], Brutal Throw [Complete Adventurer], etc. It really depends on your tactics, what kind weapons and combat styles you want to specialise in, which stats you've got and what kind of enemies you expect to encounter, as well as your future career plans (do you intend to take more levels in Fighter? Multiclass? Do you have access to Fighter-variants like e.g. Dungeoncrasher from Dungeonscape or Zhentarim Fighter from Champions of Ruin Web Enhancement?). Resolute [Complete Champion] is also a reasonable alternative class feature in case you need to worry about your Will-save.

[Zaq]

You're worried about negative levels and you're willing to spend a feat to fix the problem? You might look at Font of Life, from Heroes of Horror, which just straight up gives you an extra save to resist a negative level (even if the source of the negative level doesn't normally allow a save). It's not clear if it's a Fort save or Will save or what (if the original effect requires a save, it's presumably the same kind of save, but it's unclear what happens when the effect in question doesn't involve a save), but it might help. (Also, it's not 100% clear if Tomb-Tainted Soul makes you immune to negative levels, though if your GM has already stated that he or she is willing to play it that way, their word is law. Many energy drain effects belonging to monsters say that they only affect living creatures but don't explicitly say that they're fueled by negative energy—and even if they are fueled by negative energy, it requires a little bit of squinting to say that a negative level is the same thing as damage.)

If you've got a lot of feats to throw at the problem, you can look at the Enduring Life / Lasting Life chain from Libris Mortis, but that requires a lot of investment to get to the good stuff.

You might also look at a feat that qualifies you for an interesting prestige class. Fighter levels pretty much give a worse and worse return on investment the more of them you take, so the sooner you get yourself into a better class, the better off you're likely going to be. What kind of direction do you want to take the character in long-term?

[jdizzlean]

If you've got a lot of feats to throw at the problem, you can look at the Enduring Life / Lasting Life chain from Libris Mortis, but that requires a lot of investment to get to the good stuff.



those feats are also in Expedition to Castle Ravenloft, and lasting life only requires enduring life as a pre-req. enduring has no pre-req.

[The Viscount]

Considering how so many Undead have damage reduction of one kind or another, you might consider using Martial study for Foehammer.

If retraining is on the table, I strongly encourage you to retrain toughness to improved toughness. Despite the name it doesn't have toughness as a prerequisite, and it gives +1hp/HD so scales.

[Vaern]

I'd rule against saying Tomb-Tainted Soul makes you immune to negative levels. The feat description explicitly states that you are healed by negative energy and harmed by positive energy, and gain no other benefits or penalties of being undead. Negative levels fall into the category of the undead creature type's immunity to energy drain, which is a separate benefit. While energy drain abilities are typically fueled by negative energy, it doesn't deal direct hit point damage, and hit point damage is all TTS is concerned with. It does not outright make you immune to other effects of negative energy.

[Sargentpsychooo]

Considering how so many Undead have damage reduction of one kind or another, you might consider using Martial study for Foehammer.

If retraining is on the table, I strongly encourage you to retrain toughness to improved toughness. Despite the name it doesn't have toughness as a prerequisite, and it gives +1hp/HD so scales.

In our group toughness has been modified to give you +3 per level

[Sargentpsychooo]

Thank you all for you help, I have decided to take tomb tainted soul and then continue on to the shock trooper feat.