Hot answers tagged multi-classing
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Naetuir is right – Bard is exactly what you're looking for here, even to the point of being a bit of a joke. Using "Fighter: melee dps Wizard: buffing Thief: skills" as the main set of requirements, lets see what we can do to build a straightclass Bard Elan, as compared to his needlessly complicated twin brother Nale. (Who's a wizard, not a sorcerer, as per ...
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You cannot use attack powers from other classes while in beast form.
From PHB2, p84 (as updated by official errata):
Wild Shape
... While you are in beast form, you can’t use weapon or implement attack powers that lack the beast form keyword, although you can sustain such powers. ...
No paladin powers (or powers from any other non-druid class, ...
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There's a thread on the WotC boards from Nov '11 discussing a very similar question.
The rules themselves are apparently a bit unclear about the issue, and there is a PHB FAQ (see here, #33) stating that you don't gain the other class's role by taking a MC feat:
33. Does taking a fighter multiclass feat qualify you for feats and paragon paths that ...
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From the DMG, pg176:
Prestige classes offer a new form of multiclassing. Unlike the basic classes found in the Player's Handbook, characters must meet requirements before they can take their first level fo a prestige class. The rules for level advancement (see page 58 of the Player's Handbook) apply to this system, meaning the first step of advancement ...
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Thou shalt not sacrifice caster levels.
As the golden rule of 3.5 multiclssing, it's hard to beat the above. It's quite possible to apply requirements gathering methods to 3.5 as well as 4e, and estimate approximate to-hit and damage at each level.
Plan out your character to 20.
To answer:
s there an effective way to identify class combinations which ...
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You have two “types” of level: character level and class level
Your class level is, as the name may imply, your level in any one class. So if you’ve chosen the Wizard class five times on level-up, you have a Wizard class level of 5.
Your character level is the sum total of your class levels. If, in addition to those five level-ups where ...
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I can't check on it from work, but this post (about Baldur's Gate, of all things...) seems to confirm that, although the PHB does technically allow ranger/druids, it was only in the Complete expansions that the alignment conflict was corrected. The post also implies this requires a Neutral Good alignment.
Turns out the information about this combination is ...
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Yes, of course
Rage specifies that you cannot do anything that requires patience or concentration, but it does not eliminate your ability to attack accurately (it actually enhances that), nor does it eliminate your knowledge of taking foes unaware. The Sneak Attack ability represents the fact that a rogue has practiced taking advantage of vulnerabilities so ...
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As veritascitor points out, most games without a levelling system don't have a strict class system either. But many of them, like Shadowrun, have archetypes, essentially bundles of skills and abilities that players are expected (but not required!) to take together. You can get a dual-archetype character by just taking some skills from each of the ...
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Yes, you can Sneak Attack while raging. As @KRyan has exhaustively explained, this need not be unreasonable.
The reason this is mechanically possible is that Rage explicitly lists the activities that are impossible to perform while raging.
While in rage, a barbarian cannot use any Charisma-, Dexterity-, or Intelligence-based skills (except Acrobatics, ...
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There is no general way to gain Cantrips as they are Wizard Utility powers with no level. Without a level they can't be used to substitute for another gained power.
There are a couple other ways besides being a gnome though
the Resourceful Magician paragon path (Bard) grants the Wizard's Cantrip class feature if the bard possesses the Arcane Initiate ...
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Monk Multiclassing
If your group actually enforces the Monk multiclassing restriction, and you want to go back to Monk for some reason, Monastic Training from Eberron Campaign Setting allows you to multiclass Monk with any one other class. The only good use of this feat is Tashalatora (see Psionics below), since it’s very rare for anyone to leave Monk ...
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No, you cannot multiclass with the same class (or with an alternate class based on that class) regardless of archetype.
Read the d20PFSRD section on character advancement.
No, you may not pick and choose alternate abilities.
Read the d20PFSRD section on class archetypes.
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Standard Scheme
You are correct. Read the base save of a Barbarian 3, base save of a Bard 6, and add them.
Factional BAB & Saves: Variant Suggestion
I strongly recommend, however, that you use the “fractional” variant. In 3.5 that’s in Unearthed Arcana; I don’t know if Pathfinder replicated it anywhere, but saves work the same ...
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Besides the feat-based multiclass system, Players Handbook 3 introduced the concept of hybrid characters, where you pick two classes and take features from each (class features, abilities, powers, feats, bonuses to defenses, etc.). However, this is somewhat limited:
Each hybrid class describes what class feature you get to start, e.g. A hybrid wizard gets ...
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Yes. Page 208 of PHB notes:
There are two restrictions on your choice of a class-specific multiclass feat. First, you can't take a multiclass feat for your own class. Second, once you take a multiclass feat, you can't take a class-specific feat for a different class. You can dabble in a second class, but not a third.
This is true for all classes except ...
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I agree with one of the other responses- Multiclassing that much usually results in a suboptimal build. It's not going to come out as clean as you might like for it to. In one way or another. Particularly since you've got two medium base attack bonus classes, and only one class worth magic progression.
That said, I have to say it: As far as a base classes ...
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Having a few Pearl of Power would enable you to cast more spells per day, and drastically increases your staying power for not a lot of cash. Wands are also a good cost effective way to increase your spell-casters' spells-per-day/encounter output.
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Warlock Prestige Class Eligibility
Basically, there are three rules:
Spell-like abilities have Caster Levels, and therefore things that require a particular Caster Level can be met with a spell-like ability that has sufficient Caster Level. Warlock invocations are specifically arcane, which means they can also meet requirements for Arcane Caster Level.
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While, as others have said, you cannot get the abilities through that specific method. Here is a very simple way to get the cantrips you desire!
From Adventurers Vault, page 135:
Hedge Wizard’s Gloves Level 4
With a wave of these patched gloves, you can perform magic
tricks.
Item Slot: Hands 840 gp
Power (At-Will ✦ Arcane, Conjuration): Standard Action.
As ...
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Yes
Multiclass feats are restricted to a certain class, not to one and only one feat. While the evidence from the character builder suggests yes. There also seems to be nothing in the wording of multiclass restrictions to dispute this interpretation. There seem to be no contrary opinions on the forums, either.
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A useful philosophy when it comes to multiclassing with a spell casting class exists to enhance the non-spell casting class. Using the rogue/sorcere example you mentioned, wanting a "sneaky sorcerer" might really limit your effectiveness, but wanted a pretty good rogue who could enhance himself with lots of spells then the multiclassing might work for you. ...
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Page 105 of Complete Adventurer has Ascetic Mage (also available here in questionable legality form) which allows you to mix sorcerer and monk levels.
To multiclass into any class using Wizards-only material, ask to use the modifications to the Monk class made by Oriental Adventures.
Beyond that, there may be a smaller publisher which has created a similar ...
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With an Ultimate Magus, it’s more important to keep yourself as close as possible to a single-classed spellcaster on one side than it is to keep the two even.
Thus, you want to get all 10 levels progressing your higher-level class. That is, if you enter as a Wizard 3/Sorcerer 1, you want to exit with 13th-level Wizard spellcasting, and 8th-level ...
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Your Familiar only improves with Sorcerer levels, so a Sorcerer 10 has a stronger Familiar than a Sorcerer 5/Prestige Class 5 (unless, of course, the Prestige Class explicitly advances your Familiar, which a few do – Alienist from Complete Arcane and Fleshwarper from Lords of Madness, for examples).
But other than that, no. Sorcerers generally have ...
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Mystic Theurge is a Trap
(assuming you enter as the expected Wizard 3/Archivist 3)
Gaining 13th-level Archivist spellcasting is not worth three lost Wizard levels, and gaining 13th-level Wizard spellcasting is not worth three lost Archivist levels (actually, the situation at 20 is better than at most levels because you have 17th level on one side and ...
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Yes,
Sneak of Shadows increases as your level does. Taking a multiclass feat gives you the full rights and privileges of whatever you qualify for in regards to the additional class.
In this case Sneak of Shadows grants you the ability to use Sneak Attack 1/encounter as a rogue of your level.
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There are some good multiclass choices, but aside from bards, the major uses for multiclassing are:
1: Get a decent encounter/daily power. Having the ability, as a melee character, to pull off a 1/encounter ranged power from Invoker, Warlock, or similar, might prove useful, and most characters can be well served by picking up a Leader multiclass just to ...
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The main mechanical benefit of feat-based multi-classing is that your character will still remain effective in his role. Hybrid characters might (ie, if you hybrid two controller classes together, you still get a pretty decent controller), but it isn't guaranteed.
The two main benefits as I see it is that 1) multiclassed characters are interesting because ...
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