Yes, Bloodclaw Master adds full Str to damage on some weapons. And that's all you need in the Warblade/Swordsage 2 build. First level gives you free Weapon Focus so for the first 4 levels you are equal in terms of composite attack bonus. Yeah, it's a feat investment, who cares? And yeah, Swordsages have medium BAB but that's fine. Not to even mention, maxing Dex has other benefits like giving you inherently insane Initiative, and yes, you can get consistently high AC higher-up that way too (the Celestial Armor -> Bracers path gives you high AC and decent Touch AC without a massive investment).īasically, the reason you go Shadow Blade is because 10 18 14 with good mentals is a more realistic stat array than 18 16 14 with good mentals. That just flies in the face of every point buy ever (those numbers alone are a 32pb and are the absolute minimum for sensible Str TWF, even still straining your gold resources a ton - optimally you want 18 Str 18 Dex to spare your WBL - and that's before we account for the 13-14 Int we want for Knock-Down and Warblade abilities and 10ish Wis, Cha). I don't expect people to be able to go 18 Str, 16 Dex, 14 Con with stats left for mentals. The only reason to Str TWF is using combat maneuvers, specifically Knock-Down, which requires 13 Int to boot.īut you need obscene stats to pull that off. Scimitar + Kukri if crits are your thing). Weapon damage dice are largely irrelevant one feat to increase your offhand weapon damage die by average 1 damage is not worth it (you can already wield e.g. You can dual-wield Kukries just the same. Not to mention, Shadow Blade gets you full Dex to damage on both hands while you only get half Str in your off-hand. He can wield a longsword in one hand and a shortsword in the other, or he can grab Oversized Two-Weapon Fighting and dual-wield scimitars for crit-fishing or dual-wield longswords for DPS.What? You do realize TWF-line requires 15-19 Dex, right? It's not trivial to get 15-19 Dex and maximize Strength, especially if you need to get +4 Dex item by level 12 (that's a massive amount of your WBL). Meanwhile, a Str-based warblade needs only the TWF feats, which he can qualify for easily by putting his secondary ability score into Dexterity and getting a +4 item. What's the point of being Dex-focused when you have to spend MORE feats on it? The swordsage gets no bonus feats, already has low BAB, and is limited to what weapons he can fight with using both Shadow Blade and Weapon Finesse (in addition to Two-Weapon Fighting, Improved Two-Weapon Fighting, and Greater Two-Weapon Fighting). One good thing is Weapon Finesse may not be neccesary since your BAB is higher.īoth get access to Tiger Claw and thats the quintessial TWF school, so you have that going for them either way. Your going to have issues taking later TWF feats because your pretty MAD. Good BAB, Fort save (rare on a TWF), and Str focus so you have better use of Power Attack (still less than 2-hander though). Warblade has Iron Heart and White Raven which is awesome no matter what you plan on doing. Early dips in Rogue, Psionic Rogue and later dips in SA PrC will give you access to decent SA ability. Swordsage would be useful for its already Dex focused, easy access to Shadowblade feat (Dex to Damage yay!), and Assassain's stance. Swordsage base, dip Warblade for extra BAB, HP, and to grab Iron Heart and White Raven manuevers. Warblade base, dip Swordsage for Shadowblade and Assassain's stance and possibly Wis to AC. That taken care of, my suggestion.Įither way, a dip in the other would serve as a useful dip. Well first make sure you can do Two-Weapon attacks with strikes.
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