Swordsage, which paths?

[Person_Man]

Does anyone have any tips/hints for a Drow Swordsage/Sorc/Jade Phoenix Mage?

Look at this thread. Buy or download the Drow of the Underdark book. It's chock full of Drow buffs.


Re: Main topic: It depends on you ECL. At low levels, there are a lot of highly useful Standard Action maneuvers. At higher levels, you never want to give up extra attacks if you can. Thus you generally want to focus on maneuvers that work as a Swift or Full Round action.

By the same token, you should decide whether you prefer Boosts or Counters. You can only make one Swift or Immediate Action per round. So you should either use Boosts (buffing your attacks every round) or keep your Immediate Action open, in case you need to use a Counter (increasing your defense when the Counter happens to be applicable).