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Stuntman wrote:

It (first 11 levels, didn't pay attention past it) looks good to me. Personally, I would have taken TWF and TWD as my first two feats. I haven't had a chance to analyse all of the options in detail, but it would seem that going into paragon multiclassing to a ranger is a good option. With Twin Strike, you can mark multiple more creatures than with just one weapon. It's too bad that by starting as a fighter, you cannot take advantage of Heavy Blade opportunity and Twin Strike because your off-hand weapon cannot be a heavy blade. There are no heavy blades with the off-hand property. I guess that would be too good.

Actually, I believe that if I start Twin Strike off with the Scimitar, then yes, Twin Strike is usable as an OA. In fact, a lot of the build is made with that assumption.

My vote is that it's not important, but probably technically not allowed/intended. Clearly Heavy Blade Opportunity restricts you to using heavy blades, and you're violating that. The wording doesn't consider twin strike very well, but the meaning is clear. In any case, it's not a balance problem, and I'd allow it specifically for this build (though maybe not in general).

Using two weapon flurry you'd get three attacks but technically only two opportunity attacks: your first (normal) one which you happen to take with twin strike - but the individual strikes don't themselves count as OA's (if they did, you'd get infinite loops), and if twin strike hits, you may use flurry to make an OA with your off hand (which you can use heavy blade opportunity with if your off hand is a heavy blade, but cannot use twin strike for, since that's not an OA with your off-hand weapon - which is specifically mentioned.

Yeah, only three attacks, all in all. Still, it's pretty good, far as I'm concerned. The attack with Two-Weapon flurry also gets Harvey's STR modifier added in because it's a basic attack.

Hate to crash the party here, but this build seems underpowered to me; just because it's neat and well-presented means it's a good build. TWF is strictly worse for a fighter: you're not getting the +2 AC/Reflex from wearing a heavy shield, the extra damage per [W] that you'd get from wielding a two-hander, or the reach from a polearm. Wielding a pair of weapons that are each from a different weapon group is even worse, because it then requires you to take separate paragon/epic weapon feats. To top it all off, this build uses paragon multiclassing and the Eternal Seeker destiny, which are considered (and basically are) the least powerful options when it comes to paragon paths and epic destinies respectively.

Harvey was never meant to be the most powerful character ever. I created him to show that yes, you CAN build a viable two-weapon defender with the current system without resorting to homebrewed feats and replacing class features.