Using this Meat & Potatoes build:
Poster Name: Tleilaxu_Ghola
Build Name: Meat & Potatoes
Race: Human
Build Stub: Ardent 6/Slayer 10/Storm Disciple 4
Feats:
1.Tap Mantle (Energy), (Hidden Talent [Precognition Offensive]), (Weapon Focus [Great Sword])*
3. Power Attack
6. Track
9. Leap Attack
12. Tap Mantle (Time)
15. Tap Mantle (Pain & Suffering)
18. Practice Manifester
*From the conflict mantle
Mantles: [Conflict], [Physical], Natural World, Freedom, Energy, (Time), (Pain and Suffering)
Powers known (#ed by ML): 1. Prescience offensive, 1. Vigor, 2. Metaphysical Weapon, 3. Claws of the Beast, 3. Psionic Lion's Charge, 4. Animal Affinity, 5. Energy Burst, 6. Hustle, 7. Metamorphosis, 8. Psionic Fly, 9. Psychic Crush, 10. Dimension Slide, 11. Temporal Acceleration, 12. Anticipatory Strike, 13. Oak Body, 14. Hostile Empathetic Transfer, 15. Spirit of War, 16. True Metabolism, 17. Pain Affinity Field, 18. Psionic Earthquake
Mantle Abilities: Free weapon focus (Great Sword), +10 move speed while focused, Wild Empathy
Notable Class Abilities & Build Perks:
* Base Attack Bonus: 18
* Manifester Level: 18 (20 w/ practiced manifester)
* Power Attack Synergy (Deep Impact or Metaphysical Weapon + Spirit of War to boost to-hit chance and then trade for high amount of damage).
* Early access to Energy Burst: Lets him wade into combat and blow everything up around him.
* Time Manipulation: Access to temporal accleration for quick buffing at higher levels, Anticipatory strike for acting twice in one round (to end a conflict quickly).
* Immune to Mind-Affecting effects while focused.
* Power Reducing Attacks: Each strike reduces his opponent's PR/SR by 1 for many hours.
Comments: Not an overly impressive build, but it has some nice numbers, namely BAB and ML. The focus here is purely a combat brute. He buffs up quickly w/ swift action buffs, wades in (perhaps via his teleportation spells), and hits hard. If surrounded he can blow stuff up, and at later levels pain affinity field allows him to really amp up the damage and make his opponents wish they never had met him.
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In the event I can't get Hidden Talent do I take wild talent instead or do I sub in Expanded Knowledge and switch around the positions of some feats?
Stats:15STR 14DEX 15CON 10INT 16WIS 13CHA
Should I switch Cha and Int since I won't be needing hidden talent? or switch Dex and Int for diplomacy/skills?