Divine Rock Brd(8)Cl(8)RDD(10)PM(4)

This is one of my favourite builds. That was just a try to maximise armor class of a hero.

So you can see the result. I ended the Official campaign with 70+ AC, and planed to have 85+ AC to the end of MotB. But the game steal some of my AC bonuses, so i've seen just 82AC

Pros

• Extremely high AC
• Good AB (buffed)
• Excellent onehanded damage output
• Flexible in creation and progression (you can have a diplomat or a pvp melee build)

Cons

• Low number of attacks (one handed with shield)
• Rely on buffs (and they are very tedious)
• Much weaker after dispel useful spells
• Should be Evil till the end

Character Creation

	Initial Values	Final Values
STR	16	26
DEX	12	12
CON	8	10
INT	12	14
WIS	14	14
CHA	18	26
Base attack bonus		21
Fortitude save		18
Reflex save		15
Will save		20
Spell resistance		0
Hit Points		256
Natural AC		26

• Race: Aasimar
• Classes: Cleric 8, Bard 8, Red Dragon Disciple 10, Palemaster 4
• Cleric Domains: Water, Strenght
• Build Nature: Pvm, PvP
• Alignment: Chaotic Evil
• Deity: Any

Background: Devout

You should mention that +9 items are not so easy to gain in campaign, so the character was made to use +8 items. That is why you see even numbers in the table.

Character Progression

You can easyly change this table, cause progression is very flexible. You can take fighter feats instead of spellcaster feats (for example Cleave and Great Cleave). It still can become ridiculously hard to hit with cleric and bard buffs

CL	Class	Feat	Bonus/Class Feats	Attributes
1	Bard	Luck of heroes
2	Cleric		Evasion (water)
3	Bard	Power Attack
4	Cleric			Charisma +1
5	Bard
6	Cleric	Divine Might
7	Cleric
8	Bard			Charisma +1
9	Cleric	Divine Shield
10	Bard
11	Cleric
12	Bard	Extended Spell		Charisma +1
13	Cleric
14	Red Dragon Disciple
15	Red Dragon Disciple	Practiced Spellcaster Cleric
16	Red Dragon Disciple			Charisma +1
17	Red Dragon Disciple
18	Bard	Practiced Spellcaster Bard
19	Cleric
20	Pale Master			Strenght +1
21	Red Dragon Disciple	Epic Divine Might	Blind Fight
22	Red Dragon Disciple
23	Red Dragon Disciple	Epic Prowess
24	Red Dragon Disciple			Strenght +1
25	Red Dragon Disciple	Armor Skin
26	Red Dragon Disciple
27	Bard	Great Charisma
28	Pale Master			Charisma +1
29	Pale Master	Combat Expertise (or Any)
30	Pale Master

Some notes

Look at the calculation of AC to the end of official campaign:

10 base + 2 tumble + 8 armor from full plate + 5 armor ench + 3 dex (mithril full plate) + 5 natural armor + 5 dodge (boots of sun soul) + 4 deflection + 2 bard insp + 2 rdd + 2 shield + 4 shield ench + 9 divine shield + 1 luck + 2 boneskin from PM + 1 haste + 3 recitation = 68AC by selfbuffing. When use allies receive +9 from tortoise shell (+4 to your 5 natural and +5 from bard (+3 to your 2 bard insp).

With MotB you can add:

+1 to tumble + 3 to enchant armor + 4 to deflection bonus +2 to RDD +2 to Pale Master +4 to shield enchant + 3 to divine shield + 1 from armor skin + 3 from combat expertise +3 from tortoise shall from Gann (some versions). And -3 to bard inspiration (cause there is no bard NPC).

Some words about skills.

I prefer diplomacy in official campaign (15+), tumble (30), umd (20+), concentration (33) and spellcraft (30). Also need 8 lore to qualify to RDD. Tumble and umd are taken at bard levels not to spend additional points for nonclass skills.