Also half-giants duskblades can use psionic feats.Īzurins MoI: As humans, a nice race for duskblades with touches of incarnum. As with goliaths it is more than worth it in a melee build. Half-Giants EPH: Bonuses to strength and constitution and a minus to dexterity along with powerful build. +4 strength and +2 constitution along with powerful build is well worth the +1 level adjastment, which can be bought off.ĭragonborn of Bahamut RotD: Con bonus is always nice and if with Mind draconic aspect duskblades gain nice bonuses, including the awesome blindsence at 15th level. Goliath RoS: Huge bonuses for a melee build. Half Orcs PHB: The strength boost helps any melee build and duskblades can recover easily from a small intelligence hit. Silverbrow Humans DM: Human bonus feat and dragonblood subtype is a nice combination if you want to choose feats available to dragonblood characters only. This is probably the best race you can pick. Humans PHB: Bonus feat and skill points greatly help the duskblade who is lacking in both areas. Duskblades don't receive bonus feats, even though they are combat oriented. Moreover, you are not going to get reach by enlarging a small race (through enlarge person for instance).īonus feats are welcome. Small races are not generally optimal for duskblades due to strength hits. Strength and constitution boosts are nice, as intelligence. Races suitable for Duskblades generally need to have melee ability while being able to backup spellcasting as well. Spell Power (Ex): Gives you a bonus to overcome an opponent's spell resistance if you have hurt him with a melee attack. Quick Cast: Essentially a "sudden quicken" feat. If retraining is an option and the sourcebook is allowed, make sure to take them for the first few levels.Īrmored Mage (Ex): This ability lets you use ignore arcane spell failure with some armor and shield types.Īrcane Channeling (Su): Probably the duskblade's signature ability, the one that lets you deliver a touch spell with a melee attack. Note that the sourcebook Drow of the Underdark contains several feats that augment your spell-like abilities. They cast like a sorcerer does and their key ability for spellcasting is intelligence.Īrcane Attunement (Sp): Allows the use of a selection of cantrips 3+int times per day. Spells: Duskblades gain a small selection of arcane spells. Your AC can be kept high with a good suit of armor and your attack bonus is just fine with strength. There is virtually no reason for you to boost dexterity. Wisdom: Not an essential stat per se, but because the main way of expanding a spell list, without dips, is through Arcane Disciple. Duskblades get a huge number of spells per day, so it isn't important for bonus spells either. You can keep it low if you don't care for spells difficulty classes. Intelligence: Though important for your spellcasting, you actually need only 15 to be able to cast 5th level spells. After all duskblades are a melee class with a high base attack bonus.Ĭonstitution: While your hit die isn't crappy, you still need all the hit points you can get. Strength: Generally melee combat relies heavily on strength. In fact they do fine even without prestige classes and they get their most powerful ability at medium to high levels.ĭuskblades are arcane gish-in-a-can. While duskblades can be described as arcane gish, they don't need clever dips in prestige classes to acquire as high base attack bonus and spellcasting as possible. By selecting a few tactical spells, you will easily get the role of the leader in a party. However if your party already has the four main types (meaning warrior, arcane spellcaster, divine spellcaster and skill-monkey) you can really shine as the fifth member, assisting in combat while blasting things up. They can't specialize in fighting or spellcasting as other classes do. Duskblades are intellectual warriors.ĭuskblades are mainly support characters. However note that with the right feats duskblades are able to deal ridiculous amounts of damage concentrated in one hit. With all that in mind they are considered a below average class. He doesn't get bonus feats like a fighter or ranger for combat nor the powerful defensive abilities of a paladin. Why would anyone want to play a duskblade? They can't blast cities with the powerful spells a sorcerer gets, or have the versatility of a wizard in spell selection.
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