Heya Swords,

With the new expansion comming closer, presale starting this month (prolly on the last day). I started tinkering with the thiefling tree and see what kind of build would be fun to try out for my 3 racial TR’s.

As the thiefling tree is flame dmg oriented I thoughed of some options.

First off, a straight up Fire sorc would work fine, esspecially with the scorch allowing to bypass fire imune mobs and the fire spellpower to other element racial thingy. So an attack rotation combined with 3 scorches and some lightning attacks would works pretty good. It will prolly be most efficient to zerg out a lvl.

Secondly, to make thing more interesting, a Sorc/bard/* might be fun too. As the racial capstones give some melee dps that scale with fire spellpower.
So i was thinking to throw in a SWF fire nuker. 14 sorc / atleast 3 bard / top off with something else or more bard or sorc levels.

Thinking T5 eldrich knight / some Swashbuckling and Fire sorc tree. Maybe add some vistani if SWF is a dagger. maybe the DS action boosts from swash tree will stack with the vistani rapid attack.

Ability:
Cha / Con / * (might go STR, if taken a Divine Might route)

Feats:

3x SWF
imp crit

Last three feats could:
– be spell orientated, like empower etc.
– Or i might take the shield mastery to stack with buckler although that isn’t too much of a gain in anything. maybe the 5% DS is worth it.
– Can also get some other defensive feats
– Quick draw for fast casting and melee switch (also in vistani tree)

Epic:
Overwelming crit
Vorpal feat
Doublestrike
Arcane warrior
* (other melee thingies)

Playstyle:
Close melee combat with lots of AoE dmg. Running in eldrich knight stance and swashbuckler mode. (Can use orb or buckler)
Challenge would be the defense as i imagin this build would pull allot of aggro.

Optional extra classes after 14 sorc 3 bard:
– 3 Pally for Stance and dmg on hit (4 for DM, but might also work in Epics by use of Divine Crusader with less? been a while since it tested it and forgot if it works…)
– 3 Barb for extra attack dmg’s
– 1 or 2 FVS for DM and heal thingies
– 3 Monk for stance crit, but need vistani to work so not alot of AP. Gives evasion
– 3 fighter for feats and stance
– 2 rogue for skills trapping and evasion.

As you can see many ideas that can be explored for some fun.

Any of you got any ideas on what to do with a thiefling, would love to hear other views?