4/25/2023 0 Comments Shadow blade 3.5 feat![]() Defense fighting style for another +1 to AC.So, we’re going to build our eldritch knight with the following options: Fighters gain access to heavy armor and shields from the get-go and our eldritch knight is going to take full advantage of it. The big reason we’re able to give up on Dexterity is by going the fully armored route. ![]() With your chosen race, you’ll need to get both your Strength and Constitution up to 16 each, and you’ll have the points left over to push Intelligence up to 12. Mountain Dwarves are an especially good racial choice for this with their +2 to both Strength and Constitution, but anything with a bonus to both or that can choose a bonus to both will get us where we need to be so just choose one of the following: Strength and Constitution need to be as high as you can get them, so you should pick a race with a bonus to each of those stats. Our build won’t need terribly high Intelligence so just build your character like a standard Strength based fighter. If walking around as an armored tank while slicing through your enemies with a shadowy blade spewing green arcane fire locking them magically in place beside you while your magical ally distracts them from your killing blow sounds like a character you’d want to play, read on. While the idea of the fireball flinging fighter doesn’t really work, there is a way to make use of eldritch knight to create a magical fighter that can dish out tons of damage (potentially quite a bit more than your standard fighter) while maintaining an incredibly high AC and hit point maximum. That’s 3 ability scores you’ll want at a +3 or +2, something that’s just not feasible at early levels. You’re still a fighter, and you’ll need a very high Strength or Dexterity and high Constitution, in addition to a very high Intelligence. The second and far more pressing issue is just how far you’ll need to stretch your ability scores to get a spellcasting attack modifier or spell DC high enough to make those spells worth a damn. Your spell progression is far slower than other spellcasting classes, and while having access to a couple fireballs at 13th level is nice to have as a fighter, it’s not really worth losing out on the other fighter archetype options for it. While the eldritch knight does give a fully armored caster access to fireball spells and the like, you’re not going to be blasting for long.
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