Warning: this build is bad and highly in-progress. I am working on it. Do not use it yet unless you want to be a bad invoker
Do you have trouble staying alive in battles? Do you get angry at your tank for not getting the job done? Are you tired of being the “Weak Guy” in battles and hiding behind everyone else in fear of dying? If you answered “yes” to any or all of those questions then this build is for you! By the time you reach the end of this build, you will have the knowledge to become a controller, leader and defender all wrapped up into one!
References
A_Man_In_Black’s Invoker Build (for various items)Player’s Handbook (feats), Player’s Handbook 2, Divine Power (powers and feats), A bunch of Dragon Magazines, Most was searched for on the compendium or the D&D Character Builder
Be Warned
This build only works well at the start of Paragon tier. If you are looking to start off as an Invoker, do not use this build.
Recommended Spells
ALWAYS and I mean ALWAYS take Visions of Blood (Divine Power) as an at-will power. It is your very best friend as an invoker as it is an extremely versatile power for feat and item support.
Other than that, I would just suggest getting controller encounters and dailies and leader-like utility powers to be more helpful to your party. If you have any questions on what to get, just ask me or go to an invoker char-op guide. I won't write all of the attacks you will need here as this is only to show how to play the tankvoker, not the invoker in general.
Note: Don’t be afraid to take spells that are a lower level than you when you level up. The level 1 encounter spells are much stronger than the level 3 ones, and there are probably others as well.
Items
Staff of Ruin (accurate or defensive, I prefer accurate) with Siberys Shard of the Mage (Main Hand)
Aversion Staff (Off-Hand)
Staff of the Traveler - Lowest level, only take if your DM allows you to use teleport distance increasing items with it. You should be able to, but the DM might not agree
Helm of Able Defense - To increase your AC further
Armor of Dark Deeds - With whatever the best light armor you can get is, probably hide or leather
Antipathy Gloves - You can consult your DM about if adding an extra square of movement has an increased effect on difficult terrain. i.e. if needing to move 2 squares on difficult terrain would be increased to 4 with the gloves
Eladrin Ring of Passage - Again, only if your DM allows you to use it with the Staff of the Traveler
Incisive Dagger Wrist Razors - Higher level = longer teleport distance (only take if your DM allows you to count the Staff of the Traveler’s property as a power)
Cloak of Translocation – Again, only take if your DM allows you to count the Staff of the Traveler’s property as a power. This gives you extra AC and Reflex for teleporting.
Cloak of Distortion - If the Cloak of Translocation does not work as intended above, and possibly at Epic tier when the bonuses start to differentiate more
Mage’s Spiked Shield - You will have to check the spiked shield’s property constantly, as the rules say that if it is used as a weapon you gain the shield bonus and you don’t have to wear it on your arm, but it doesn’t say anything about needing to hold it
Belt of Vim/Diamond Cincture - To increase your fortitude
Eladrin Boots - Same as the Eladrin Ring of Passage
Dice of Auspicious Fortune – Good for securing the first hit or just getting out those bad rolls. Overall, these dice give you an exceptional boost when you need it most.
Eladrin Chain Shirt - Slotless AC bonus for wearing light armor? Yes please!
The items that are here are mainly used so that you can teleport at-will so that you can get through difficult terrain (which we will talk about later), and to make you harder to hit. The Cloak of Translocation requires you to teleport to gain it’s effect, but who says you can’t just spend a move action to teleport but not teleport out of your square? Nobody, that’s who. By doing this, you will add +2 to your AC and Reflex every turn that you spend a move action. If the Cloak of Translocation won’t work, you will still get a bonus to ranged defenses by taking the Cloak of Distortion. The Armor of Dark Deeds will grant you concealment if you have Combat Advantage against an enemy and you attack them. This Combat Advantage will be granted with feats. Next, the Aversion staff. This is very useful as Visions of Blood makes the enemy subject to an effect caused by you. This makes them take a -2 to all attacks against you. The Mage’s Spiked Shield also gives you a +1 shield bonus to AC. All of this together allows you to be a massive tank once you have hit a creature once and teleported.
Creating your Character
Starting Ability Scores (Before Racial Adjustments):You will want about 15/16 (depends on if you are allowed to have more than one Ability Score under 10 or not) as your Wisdom modifier as it is the most important for attacks, but you need to juggle a lot of Ability Scores for feats, armor and extra effects. You will want about 15 starting Dexterity for feat support and initiative. (You are going to be working towards 17 Dexterity, once you get that you can forget about it) You will want about 15 starting Intelligence if you are going for the Covenant of Preservation Invoker path. If not, 15 starting Constitution, but I would not recommend that as going with the Auspicious Birth background will work much better.
Race and Background: It really doesn’t matter what race you are I don't have a specific race chosen for this build. Just keep in mind that you are going to want to increase your Wisdom and Intelligence whenever you can, so you should probably choose a race with +2 to Wisdom and Intelligence. Be sure to take the Auspicious Birth background. It gives you a much needed health boost for when your enemies attack those pesky NAD’s
Feats
All of these feats are recommended in order to use this build to be a tank. Some accuracy feats are used because you are 90% reliant on hitting with Visions of Blood. If you are starting off with this build, I would suggest doing it in this order:
Power of Earth – Adding a slow to an already awesome feat compatible attack? Amazing!
Power of Madness - As long as you can find the god of both the domain of Madness and Earth. This adds on to psychic lock (which we will talk about later) Power of Madness and Earth can't be used at the same time!
Vicious Advantage – Allows you to get combat advantage every time you use your At-Will power
Defensive Advantage - +2 to defenses when you hit? Yes!
Invoker Defense – Not as good as Defensive Advantage in this build, but extra AC nonetheless
Staff Expertise – You need to hit to get those defensive effects
Improved Initiative – You need to hit first to be the tank
Psychic Lock – Awesome debuff to attacks that also works with allies
Superior Implement Training (Accurate Staff or Defensive Staff) – I would recommend Accurate Staff so that you can hit more, but Defensive Staff is good as well.
Improved Defenses - You are going kind of overkill on the AC anyways, so why not upgrade those other defenses?
Toughness – More meat if they get past the shield (meat shield? get it? Haha... ok...)
Durable – Chances are, your DM will be focusing you a lot and you will need a lot of healz. This lets you get moar healz than before.
Multiclass Paladin: Squire of Righteousness - You probably can’t get it now, so take it whenever you get the chance. It makes you more of a defender than a selfish tank which I think is useful.
Quick Draw - Optional, only if you need to juggle your items around
Coordinated Explosion - Visions of blood is ally friendly. If you can get them to be in your blast, it will be very helpful
Epic Resurgence – Since you are pretty much always going to be using AOE powers, you will have a high chance of critting
Invoked Devastation - Very useful for Coordinated explosion and mass slowing in general
Just Sacrifice (Paladin Multiclass) – If you aren’t being hit, you might as well help your allies as much as you can. Also works well with Durable.
Superior Initiative – Highly recommended to retrain improved for this. You can’t afford to go last at this level because the DM probably hates you right now.
Basically, this build is solely based off of using your Visions of Blood at-will power. With Power of Earth, this power slows the target(s). Vicious Advantage builds off of this by making slowed targets grant Combat Advantage. Defensive Advantage builds off of that by giving you +2 to AC against them, along with your Armor of Dark Deeds which grants concealment, making everything have a -2 to hit you. Invoker defense builds off of any invoker power, giving you another +2 bonus to AC. Since Visions of Blood is a Fear power, Psychic lock makes the target take a -2 penalty to all attacks. Altogether, this would mean that you would have the equivalent of +12 to AC, + 8 to Reflex and +6 to Fortitude and Will. Note: These feats should be taken, for the most part, in this order.
Paragon Tier
I would strongly recommend taking the Keeper of the Nine Paragon Path. Creating difficult terrain around you whenever you use a close power means that slowed enemies cannot move to other squares beside you with your antipathy gloves. With the right positioning, one Visions of Blood can lock down the opponent in one place.
Epic Destiny
The best Epic Destiny I have found for a defender/leader/controller is the Planeshaper. It gives you some extra Intelligence and allows you to use an encounter power twice per encounter (which is useful for healing/shielding powers). The level 24 feature allows you to remove people from play to give your party some time to think or to allow them to focus another monster easier. The thing that I am sold on, though, is the level 30 feature. It pretty much gives you 3 or more AMAZING dailies that you can use AT WILL as a MINOR ACTION! This will be amazing for any kind of controller or defender, as you can create walls, difficult terrain or simply damage everybody within 10 squares of you which is amazing for popping those minions that get in your way. (It isn’t ally friendly but this can be fixed with a Battle Standard of the Fiery Legion and/or fire/frost resistance items) Also, this feature can be used to clear the rubble you have created with the Keeper of the Nine feature in case it is starting to annoy your allies. Overall, I think that this Epic Destiny is AWESOME and pretty overpowered at level 30.
Bonuses Breakdown
Paragon Tier
Aversion Staff + Armor of Dark Deeds + Cloak of Translocation & Staff of the Traveler + Helm of Able Defense
= (equivalent) +8 AC, +8 Ref., +6 Fort., +6 Will.
Defensive Advantage + Invoker Defense + Psychic Lock + Power of Madness
29 AC + 6 (not including concealment from armor) + 4 (Other values that give AC)
= 39 AC and -5 to hit for enemies (assuming they are beside you, otherwise it is -5 against you and -3 against others) and 37 AC with no penalty if you hit an enemy, but you did not hit the person who is attacking you.
So, if you hit every round, you will have at least 37 AC and at most the equivalent of 45 AC.
If an Elder Green Dragon (Level 19 Solo Skirmisher) were to attack you, it would have to roll at least a 19 to hit you! This is pretty amazing seeing as it is 8 levels higher than you.
Cloak of translocation: +2 to AC and Ref + Elven Chain: +3 to AC. Every time you TP or Cloak of Distortion: +5 to all defenses against ranged attacks. I would recommend cloak of distortion if you are having trouble with defending against ranged attacks and/or you feel like you are going kind of overkill on AC against one person.
All your regular armor bonuses along
with Roc Hide armor = 38 AC orMekillot Hide Armor = 36 AC.With the Int. Boost from your epic destiny & leveling up through Paragon tier: +2. So, at Epic Tier you will have40 AC with Roc Hide and 38 with Mekillot Hide.
With Roc Hide: 40 AC + 10 + 2 + 3 (Cloak of Translocation & Chain Shirt)
= 58 AC or 56 AC with Mekillot Hide
This is more AC as The Old Man with the Canaries (a.k.a. Bahamut, a level 36 Solo Soldier). With all of these bonuses, he would have to roll at least a 16 in order to hit you. Seeing as You could have gotten even more expensive items for your defenses, the fact that this calculation is for a level 21, you should have no trouble at all forcing your way safely through hordes of baddies without taking any damage.
Note: I used Bahamut as an example because he is the highest level creature in the game: Level 36 to be precise. That is a whopping 15 levels higher than the character used in this example!
Strategy
Your Strategy
Basically, you are going to want to do anything in your power to go first and hit. After that, your enemies should pretty much always be granting Combat Advantage so you will have an easier time hitting. If you miss everybody on an attack, you are going to want to teleport away to keep a safe distance. You are going to want to do the same thing if you are thinking of casting any encounter or daily standard action powers as you will lose your buff to AC and can be beaten down very quickly. Your Paragon Tier Keeper of the Nine path is VERY important. Combined with the slow from Visions of Blood, you can effectively lock down your opponents and keep them in one spot. With Antipathy Gloves, you can trap the enemy between a wall and actually completely stop movement, allowing for strikers to burst the enemy down quite effectively. Another tactic is to “sandwich” the enemy between you and a striker. By doing this, the enemy will have to try to walk through your rubble and provoke opportunity attacks. The best way to trap the opponent, though, is to hit them with your blast, move a square back and let somebody else push/pull/slide them into the centre of the difficult terrain you have created. All in all, I have tried this build out with my character and it works exceptionally well. Since the DM will hate you, they will try to focus you, giving the rest of your team a break from the damage and allowing for an easy encounter.
If your DM doesn't focus you at all, you can still use this build. You just need to have better positioning.
Your ability to lock down enemies is very much increased when level 30 has been reached. With the Planeshaper Epic Destiny you can simply make your own walls for your enemies to get stuck at by putting a wall behind them and Difficult terrain-slowing them. The rest of the build still works as-is, though.Note: I haven't reached ED yet with my Invoker. I know that there are many more flying/teleporting creatures than paragon tier so this build may not be as effective at that time.
Party Strategy
Just a starting note with this section: every role is still usually needed with a tankvoker in the party, make sure to pay attention to how useful everybody is. For example: you may not need a defender anymore, in which case I would recommend replacing the them with another striker if you are the party is pwning, a controller if you... well... aren't controlling well enough and a healer/defender if your DM has found a way to cut through your defenses or your striker is being focused.
Defender
As a defender Your biggest job with a tankvoker in the party is to make sure that they do not get disabled/attacked before their shield goes up. After that, your job is still going to be the same as before: protect the party and try to absorb damage. The only difference is that you have somebody else to share the damage with you and also "punish" marks.
Leader
As a leader/healer your main priority is still to defend the striker and don't get hit. Your safest position will be directly behind the Tankvoker when they are focusing one person as he will be surrounded with difficult terrain. Make sure to run if the Tankvoker's shield goes down, as he will offer little protection to you (Imagine hiding behind a wizard that is in melee range of a monster!). Another good idea (or bad depending on the circumstances) is to sit directly in the middle of the tankvoker's difficult terrain circle. The reason why this depends on the circumstances is because even though it is more difficult for an enemy to move beside you, once they do you will not be able to shift to get away.
Controller
Your biggest task is to move enemies into the middle of the Tankvoker's rubble field. After that, You are going to prioritize either focusing on keeping other baddies at bay first, reducing enemy's stats second and finally dealing damage. You will be very useful in battles with a large amounts of people as, despite the fact that the Tankvoker has many AOE spells, this build is more geared towards focusing a small group of enemies. The common rule for me is to always have 1 pulling/pushing/sliding power and 1 defense reducing/disabling power. (Note: Slowing is useful, but doesn't count as a disable in this example)My favourite controller to aid a Tankvoker is a Wizard mainly die to Howling Wall/Beguiling strands and Illusory Ambush/Phantasmal Assault wish Psychic Lock.
Striker
Alright, it's your time to shine! With the tankvoker's buffs and auras the enemy should have about -5 to attack rolls against you at all times, so you should be fine against said enemy. In a party with a Tankvoker, I would not suggest playing an assassin-type character (one that needs to be alone) unless you have another Striker on your team. In one of my parties, I cannot choose the Tankvoker as our Ranger does much more damage if he is fighting alone, so try to play some sort of team-oriented striker that can make use of being with a tank.
On the other hand, if you already have that type of striker, go crazy! Play whoever you want! Just be sure that your healer is around to back you up.
Highlights
This build allows you to become an insanely insane tank/controller/leader by exploiting the hell out of untyped bonuses and Visions of Blood’s feat/item support. With the Keeper of the Nine Paragon Path you can further control the battlefield by slowing enemies while on difficult terrain, stopping movement. I allowed for some personalization in this build as, even though there are feats you need to take, you can choose whatever powers you want as long as you have visions of blood. By doing this, it is very easy to switch between the tank and the controller/leader role by teleporting away from the battlefield and casting the other at-will spell you chose or by teleporting in and spamming Visions of Blood.
Important:
Always keep in mind that the whole idea of D&D isn't about killing virtual monsters, it is about having fun. If your character takes the fun out of the game then you should definitely consider a different build, even if it isn't as good. If your build makes the other party members feel useless, also change your build. In any case, if this build is causing tension or taking the fun out of the game, just forget it completely!
Possible improvements
More Attack roll bonuses to secure your defenses?
Multiclass/hybrid to cleric instead to be more of a Leader?
Create a hybrid Warden for for defender attacks & more health?
Make use of other classes’ fear/slowing powers to allow you to be more of a controller?
Create a hybrid for marks/mark punishment?
Focus less on defenses and more on damage to become a “one man band” of sorts?
Limitations
This build only really works if you can hit the target with Visions of Blood, so it does not provide very much defense against ranged attacks unless you take the cloak of distortion.
Although you gain a bonus to all defenses from some things, you still have fairly weak NAD’s compared to your AC
If the enemy manages to get through your armor, you are fairly squishy. Ongoing damage is VERY BAD for you
This build only starts to work well in Paragon Tier. Before that, you should probably build for a regular squishy controlly invoker
DM Counters
Use flying/teleporting monsters in order to actually be able to move :P
Use a lot of minions or squishy monsters and spread them out on the board along with the more difficult creatures. If the invoker doesn't know that they are minions, he/she will lose a lot of his/her defense after killing them.
On the contrary, be sure to put more than one high damage dealer in an encounter. The invoker will be forced to attack one while the other one can attack him/her a bit easier.
Find monsters that attack Fortitude. Even though this is a tank build, the character’s fortitude is still a bit on the weak side.
Stun/Daze the character at the beginning of the encounter. This character does not have very high defenses when they cannot use attack powers.
Find monsters that have high initiative. It is very important to chip away at their health before their shield pops.
Ongoing damage is a killer when looking at this build. It is a good way to get through the armor and slowly eat away at their health.
Use attacks that have effects even if they miss. The Tankvoker has high defenses but still lacks in health.
Focus other characters! Your biggest weapon in this game is peer pressure. The party may get angry at their Tankvoker for too much armor and not enough control. Eventually, they might just give in and change their build.
You may see the exact same post on the Character Optimization link in D&D Homebrew. Just so that you know that was made by me, so I did not steal it from anywhere else. I just thought that that was the official D&D wiki page (I am stupid, I know), so I moved it here once I realized that I was on the wrong D&D wiki.
First off, you should put up a build that demonstrates choices as you make them, when you make them. Character Builder output or a list of feats in the level order taken and then powers in the level order. What stats you're using doing standard point buy. Because it sounds as if you're recommending starting off with a 15 Dex/Wis/Int while wearing Hide Armor. Even if you boost Int/Wis via racial choice, you're still going to be slightly behind the typical curve of a normal Invoker, both on AC and to-hit - and you're saying the racial choice won't matter?
A lot of the mods that make you a 'tank' are only showing up at paragon tier. You're not going to want to be marching into melee at 1st level, slowing opponents. As you'll die. You don't actually gain combat advantage until you hit a slowed opponent again, so that's going to slow the triggering of options. You could be a controller doing mass effects and instead, you're wading into combat.
But most important of all - what exactly is the downside to someone simply provoking an opportunity attack and firing at whoever they want to shoot at, rather than take the various penalties? You're not going to do all that much and for the most part, you're just protecting yourself against attacks, not your friends. And because you don't have a significant melee basic(if even one), you're just going to possibly keep them from moving away from you.
You cannot use both Power of Madness and Power of Earth on the same power (at any one given time anyway). Not because its hard to find a deity of both Earth and Madness, but because you can only augment an at-will with one domain feat.
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want, and are willing to go through hell to get it. -Don Marquis
First off, you should put up a build that demonstrates choices as you make them, when you make them. Character Builder output or a list of feats in the level order taken and then powers in the level order. What stats you're using doing standard point buy. Because it sounds as if you're recommending starting off with a 15 Dex/Wis/Int while wearing Hide Armor. Even if you boost Int/Wis via racial choice, you're still going to be slightly behind the typical curve of a normal Invoker, both on AC and to-hit - and you're saying the racial choice won't matter?
A lot of the mods that make you a 'tank' are only showing up at paragon tier. You're not going to want to be marching into melee at 1st level, slowing opponents. As you'll die. You don't actually gain combat advantage until you hit a slowed opponent again, so that's going to slow the triggering of options. You could be a controller doing mass effects and instead, you're wading into combat.
But most important of all - what exactly is the downside to someone simply provoking an opportunity attack and firing at whoever they want to shoot at, rather than take the various penalties? You're not going to do all that much and for the most part, you're just protecting yourself against attacks, not your friends. And because you don't have a significant melee basic(if even one), you're just going to possibly keep them from moving away from you.
Thank you for giving me some advice on my format and some flaws, but I would like to point out a few things: First, yes, this build is not good pre-Paragon, and I should have noted that, but once you have reached paragon tier, the Keeper of the Nine Paragon Path will create difficult terrain every time you use your at-will blast. If you are within melee range this creates difficult terrain on the place that the monster is standing. If you do this, and then teleport to the other side of the monster, your Antipathy Gloves will completely stop the monster from moving unless they run (or maybe not depending on the DM's Definition of the effect). The shield being a gradual thing is a minor setback, but it is still very useful before you hit the enemy with CA. I mean, you still have an insane amount of AC. What you said about "simply provoking an oppurtunity attack and firing at whoever they want to shoot at", this is true, but if you have a striker with you it really shouldn't be a problem as this means that they can use an oppurtunity attack to deal a great deal of damage. With the Staff of the Traveler + Eladrin Boots and other things (if the DM allows you to add tp distance from staff of the traveler's effect), if the enemy manages to move you can teleport up to them and repeat the process (but usually they shouldn't be able to move away). It is imparative that your striker positions himself well as well since he needs to help you deny movement as well, and if he is in the right position he will usually take a -5 to attack rolls against the striker or a -3 if he isn't beside you. In addition, there were some communication errors when you were reading the post, It was probably my fault as I have a very hard time explaining things in comprehensive words . First of all, though I did say it did not matter what race I chose, I also say that you would be wanting to increase your Intellegence and Wisdom whenever possible. I thought that that would imply that I don't have any set awesome race, but you would want one with a +2 to Intelligence and Wisdom. The only reason that you need Dexterity in this build is for feat support. I am pretty sure it was to gain the effect from Vicious Advantage, but I may be wrong. That is why I said that you needed to get your DEX to 17 and then you could forget about it. In this build you need to coordinate your team very well, and if you do the build is very OP, if you are bad at positioning and coordination though, everything that you said there would be correct. Thank you for commenting on this build. I have a little bit of work to do on clarifying
You cannot use both Power of Madness and Power of Earth on the same power (at any one given time anyway). Not because its hard to find a deity of both Earth and Madness, but because you can only augment an at-will with one domain feat.
The difficult terrain is nearly irrelevant at paragon. Most creatures will either be large and have a reach of 2, fly, or teleport.
Also boosting Int/Wis at every point as well as going dex is some serious investment and will be deteremential to everything you do.
I do agree that the investment is huge, but it is the only way to make the build work. You need to have the dexterity for Vicious Advantage, as most of the effects build off of each other. I will add in the post that if you have a party of 5 you should just do the normal thing, but I made this build because my party is quite small, and this seemed to give you the ability to play 2 roles at once fairly effectively. My only argument against that is that you will have combat advantage after you hit once, even though that sounds kind of stupid.
Now, on to the other point. I did not take into account giant creatures, but it would be a minimal difference in the way the build works as if you were opposite of the difficult terrain on the other side of a large creature it would still be slowed and antipathy gloves should prevent it from shifting around while you are beside it. Monsters with reach 2 are slightly irrelivant as you would not wait for them to come to you, but you would go to them. If they can't move than reach doesn't really matter all that much. Now, flying and teleporting are a major setback (which is why I put them in the DM counters section), it is pretty much a troll to everybody, but if you slow the enemy they will not get very far each turn. The only thing you could do about that is maybe get somebody to grab it, but that is a bit unrealistic for most characters. Again, for teleportation there is not much you can do other than make the striker buy a feyslaughter weapon.
I do use this build, but I haven't for long, so I will learn new things as I go. It is HIGHLY experimental and I am not saying that it is better at all that a normal controller build. All I am saying is that it is an interesting and unique idea.
If you do this, and then teleport to the other side of the monster, your Antipathy Gloves will completely stop the monster from moving unless they run (or maybe not depending on the DM's Definition of the effect). The shield being a gradual thing is a minor setback, but it is still very useful before you hit the enemy with CA. I mean, you still have an insane amount of AC. What you said about "simply provoking an oppurtunity attack and firing at whoever they want to shoot at", this is true, but if you have a striker with you it really shouldn't be a problem as this means that they can use an oppurtunity attack to deal a great deal of damage.
What? If the striker is next to the monster, the monster bashes the striker. They're at a mere -2 to hit from Psychic Lock if you hit.
And hitting is a big problem for your build. Many Invokers will have a 20 Wis for an additional +1.5 to hit. What happens in Epic is just crazy bad for your build as you don't raise your Wisdom. Compared to a 20 Wis Destined Scion who takes the same options you do, you're going to be a -3 to hit from levels 21-27 and then a -4 from 28-30.
When you're a -4 to hit to hit a target, you lose the ability to control when you miss. And you're missing far more often than a typical Invoker.
In this build you need to coordinate your team very well, and if you do the build is very OP, if you are bad at positioning and coordination though, everything that you said there would be correct.
Honestly, I just don't see the power of the build unless your DM is truly spectacularly bad at positioning and refusing to use MM3 damage expressions. All he needs to do is spread the monsters out and not have 7x7 rooms for you to work in. That ought to do the trick...
