I want to improve upon the Soulknife / Kensai build from the
Soulknife Build Guide & Compendium. Eberron's kalashtar need good soulknife (and monk) builds for the Shadow Hunters.
Lawful Good Kalashtar
Soulknife 8 / Kensai 6 / War Mind 6
1st: Two-Weapon Fighting
3rd: Weapon Finesse
6th: Combat Expertise
9th: Soulblade Warrior
12th: Improved Two-Weapon Fighting
15th: Greater Two-Weapon Fighting
18th: Practiced Manifester
Take 1st and 6th racial substitution levels. Kensai's oath is easy - pledge to Il-Yannah, and you're done. The fun begins at 9th level when you get to pick your first enhancement bonus from Kensai. Flip open Magic Item Compendium to weapon enhancements and pick, say:
Impaling (+1) - Roll vs touch AC for
3 6 rounds per day. What Deep Impact?
Morphing (+1) - Now, there's versatility. It's your mind blade - you're always proficient with it!
Dispelling (+1) - Dispel magic
3 6 times a day. Show them gishes, who's da man!
Transmuting (+2) - The problem of bashers at high levels
is was overcoming DR.
You'll probably want to pick Evil Outsider Bane at some point if you're fighting the Dreaming Dark - they are all evil outsiders.
By level 14 we've maxed out our mind blades (two +4 short swords with +5 worth of abilities). So we pick War Mind for full BAB, manifesting, and miscellaneous goodies. Prerequisites are easy, and you definitely are part of an old psionic organization bla, bla, bla. Pick whatever powers you want, but do pick Expansion, Psionic Lion's Charge, and Hustle - you have been using these powers through psionic tattoos throughout your carreer already.
Alternatively, a soulknife can split his mind blade into two identical short swords, suitable for fighting with a weapon in each hand.
The mind blade is a single weapon. When it's split into two, all the bonuses from Kensai either get copied to both blades or none. DM call. He might ask you to pay imbuing XP for mind blade as a double weapon. Whatever.