"My goal is to make the ultimate sneaker a tier 1 character, preferrably non ScM to save it for later.
Unfortunately, Warlock (tier 4) or Dragonfire Adept (
tier ?) being essential to fuelling BiS being essential to early HiPS, hopes for a high-tier character are low as those classes seem to be low on the tiers. They're in neither the second nor the first.
Eldritch Disciple Druid DfA Archivist? Advance invocation and manifesting/manifestation. Invocation spellcasting transparency. Artificer only to be in gestalt? Ultimate Magus invoker Wizard."
Tier stuff
[spoiler]
Tier 1: Wizard, Cleric, Druid, Archivist, Artificer, Erudite
Anarchic Initiate CPsi
Anima Mage ToM
Champion of Gwynharwyf BoED
Disciple of Dispater BoVD
Dreadmaster F&P
Dweomerkeeper CD
Emissaries of Barachiel BoED
Halruuan Elder ShS
Incantatrix PGtF
Initiate of the Sevenfold Veil CA
Legendary Captain (if naval combat is required) Stormwrack
Moonspeaker (non-Druid entry) RoE
Planar Shepherd FoE
Rainbow Servant (Warmage entry) CD
Runescarred Berserker UE
Sacred Exorcist (non-Cleric entry) CD
Sentinel of Bharrai BoED
Soul Eater BoVD
Soulbow CPsi
Sublime Chord CA
Tainted Scholar HoH
Telflammar Shadowlord UE
Thrall of Juiblex BoVD
Thrallherd XPH
Ur-Priest CD
Void Disciple CD
Walker in the Waste Sandstorm
Forget mundane fighters; it should be a caster according to the top tier base classes.[/spoiler]
further 'splanation
[spoiler]
1. It's in quotes to partially relieve some of the blame for the...incomprehensibility. i.e. I originally typed the preceding intended only for myself at nitecyper.pastebin.com.
2. By ultimate sneaker, I mean a
"Umbral Metamorphosis"-Collared,
Incorporeal,
Vecna-blooded,
Chameleon Beguiler (ShS) "Wall of Gloom"-
invoking Warlock/
Hellbreaker Blending-into-Shadows Darkstalker3. BiS: Blend into Shadows, the feat from Drow of the Underdark, page 47. HiPS means "Hide in Plain Sight".
4. "Eldritch Disciple Druid DfA Archivist? Advance invocation and manifesting/manifestation. Invocation spellcasting transparency. Artificer only to be in gestalt? Ultimate Magus invoker Wizard."
i) I own Complete Mage and I'd like to get the most out of it, so why not an Eldritch Disciple? They seem funky. Even funkier would be a Druid or Archivist Eldritch Disciple, no? They advance divine spellcasting, right? I'm so lazy that I'm not checking the book right beside me for it right now.
ii) On the note of odd classes such as Druid or Archivist fuelling, how about Favoured Soul? I don't even know if DfA works. They're not decidedly Eldritch, are they..?
iii) "Advance invocation and manifesting/manifestation" in the imperative.
iv) "Invocation spellcasting transparency." Something I should read up on.
v) Deducting from the options, Artificer is best when taking it fully, right? So, that's out.
vi) Ultimate Magus if invocation spellcasting transparency allows. I feel neutral about this. Convince me.
[/spoiler]