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I see promise in a Battlemind who uses the one-two punch of Mind Blade to knock a target unconscious, followed by a Brutal Barrage to guarantee 4 critical hits.

I'll start with a level 30 candidate. The chance of the Mind Blade failing can be drastically reduced by multiclassing into an arcane class and taking the Sage of Ages epic destiny (Arcane Power 150). The Sage's lvl 24 class feature can allow you to simply wait until a high number comes up at the beginning of the turn. To make sure the target doesn't save and wake up, the Brutal Barrage should be used immediately (such as via an action point).

So, I'm going to assume that the mind blade hits via Keeper's Prescience.

The build is Constitution primary, Charisma secondary. I went with a Hobgoblin, but I'm open to suggestions. The classes are Battlemind --> Zephyr Blade --> Sage of Ages. The character is using a Vorpal Execution Axe +6. To help with the setup the character can use lightning sigil and pop it with the Mind Blade to daze the target and add Charisma again Using te Beguiling Advantage class feature of the Zephyr Blade. Multiclassing into Artificer can grant access to per-attack damage bonuses like Hellfire Sigil. Happily, those Daily Attack powers don't use Intelligence at all.

So far at level 30 I can see from the ind Blade:

3D12 from the daily power of the Vorpal Weapon.
5+8 Constitution from a Lightning Sigil, which is promptly blown to daze the target.

And four of the following:

8 Constitution from Brutal Barrage (PHB3 pg50).
8 Charisma from Brutal Barrage (PHB3 pg50).
6 from the enhancement bonus on the weapon.
6D12 from the Vorpal Weapon critical property (PHB1 pg236).
3D12 Brutal 2 from the Execution Axe high crit property (Aventurer's Vault pg9).
9 from Power Attack (PHB1 pg199) untyped bonus from a feat.
3 from Weapon Focus (PHB1 pg201)
D8+8 Constitution from Hellfire Sigil (Eberron Player's Guide page pg54) untyped bonus from a power.
8 Charisma from Beguiling Advantage (Zephyr Blade Class Feature PHB3 pg61) untyped bonus from a class feature.

The damage would have skyrocketed if I could stack damage from multiple Sigils and feats, but the stacking of untyped bonuses has been quite rightly curtailed.

That right there makes for over 475 damage, depending on how the vorpal effect is applied (I'm not sure exactly which dice the effect applies to).

I don't know if or how you guys want to deal with the "insta-gib" effect of a Coup de Grace action.

May 30, 2010 -- 9:07PM, itcamefromthedeep wrote:

I see promise in a Battlemind who uses the one-two punch of Mind Blade to knock a target unconscious, followed by a Brutal Barrage to guarantee 4 critical hits.

I'll start with a level 30 candidate. The chance of the Mind Blade failing can be drastically reduced by multiclassing into an arcane class and taking the Sage of Ages epic destiny (Arcane Power 150). The Sage's lvl 24 class feature can allow you to simply wait until a high number comes up at the beginning of the turn. To make sure the target doesn't save and wake up, the Brutal Barrage should be used immediately (such as via an action point).

So, I'm going to assume that the mind blade hits via Keeper's Prescience.

The build is Constitution primary, Charisma secondary. I went with a Hobgoblin, but I'm open to suggestions. The classes are Battlemind --> Zephyr Blade --> Sage of Ages. The character is using a Vorpal Execution Axe +6. To help with the setup the character can use lightning sigil and pop it with the Mind Blade to daze the target and add Charisma again Using te Beguiling Advantage class feature of the Zephyr Blade. Multiclassing into Artificer can grant access to per-attack damage bonuses like Hellfire Sigil. Happily, those Daily Attack powers don't use Intelligence at all.

So far at level 30 I can see from the ind Blade:

3D12 from the daily power of the Vorpal Weapon.
5+8 Constitution from a Lightning Sigil, which is promptly blown to daze the target.

And four of the following:

8 Constitution from Brutal Barrage (PHB3 pg50).
8 Charisma from Brutal Barrage (PHB3 pg50).
6 from the enhancement bonus on the weapon.
6D12 from the Vorpal Weapon critical property (PHB1 pg236).
3D12 Brutal 2 from the Execution Axe high crit property (Aventurer's Vault pg9).
9 from Power Attack (PHB1 pg199) untyped bonus from a feat.
3 from Weapon Focus (PHB1 pg201)
D8+8 Constitution from Hellfire Sigil (Eberron Player's Guide page pg54) untyped bonus from a power.
8 Charisma from Beguiling Advantage (Zephyr Blade Class Feature PHB3 pg61) untyped bonus from a class feature.

The damage would have skyrocketed if I could stack damage from multiple Sigils and feats, but the stacking of untyped bonuses has been quite rightly curtailed.

That right there makes for over 475 damage, depending on how the vorpal effect is applied (I'm not sure exactly which dice the effect applies to).

I don't know if or how you guys want to deal with the "insta-gib" effect of a Coup de Grace action.

You'd better go for Battlemind|Barbarian and CDG with Hurricane of Blades. I made a strange assassin build around this idea and if you hit with all the attacks you'll slay any solo outright at 30th level (I got up to 832 points of damage with Punisher of the Gods). We discussed this idea in an Orcus-slaying discussion some days ago.

May 5, 2010 -- 8:03AM, kilpatds wrote:

Will gets thrown into the nerfed bin, but will be back as a morninglord or Kensai.

Mostly updated.  Some help in making sure I didn't miss thowing a candidate that should be nerfed.

Who is Will?  Sorry I didn't put a name on him earlier.