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Interesting takes on things, don't agree with all of them but there's definitely a lot you've mentioned here that i do find intruiging. When i play i generally also forgo Bolshy's Spell Pen and Evocation focus suggestions, because you're really not going to be hitting things with any spells other than Bone Explosion/Exsanguinate/Life Siphon/Feast/Negative Eruption, all of which are Lich mythics so they ignore Spell resistance. So i agree with you on dropping all the SpellPen feats and mythic, and it makes sense to pump Necromancy focus and add the mythic instead, but that would also make Expanded Arsenal moot. Though i definitely disagree on pumping CHA instead of STR, this is a melee focused character and the vast majority of your damage comes from your weapon attacks. While i do often drop a Feast of Blood or Exsanguinate as a quickened spell in combat, especially if i can finish a target with it to get the Skeletal Finger refresh, the percentage of time i'm hitting things with my weapon vastly outweighs the time i'm firing off spells, and if that +4 AB is the difference between me hitting Areshkagal with my 2nd or 3rd strike and missing her, that's not just the +6 damage from the STR that i'm missing out on it's the entire hit's damage. A side note to add is that in the early levels before you have Frightful Aspect, Fear Control will be your primary way of inflicting shaken, and the DC for that is based in part on your highest skill modifier, so dropping points out of strength will affect that as well. I was very excited to hear you mention a spell that makes weapons keen and i looked into it, sadly i don't have the latest DLC and unlike the nerfs/buffs to items and classes they don't allow owners of the base game to get access to the new spells, which sucks. One thing i would note though is that actually getting Improved Critical as a feat is a requirement to get the Improved Critical mythic, which is a pretty devastating addition to your crit damage modifier, especially if you're using Falchions and critting on the regular. Finally the Bloodrager idea i really like. I have never really gotten on with Arcane Armour Training, it feels like a massive waste, and even if you get both feats you're still stuck with a 5% chance to fail. I haven't actually played a Bloodrager before, but reading the fextralife for the class it sounds like they unlock the ability with just a single level in the class? In which case it sounds like a very good replacement for that leftover level, though it'd probably have to be taken before 20, around level 12 or 13 maybe, when you're just starting to want to cast spells in combat rather than just taking your armour off before the fight to prebuff.

@@Arkaine197​​⁠​⁠​​⁠​⁠​⁠​​⁠​⁠I only mention the str to cha change because he goes through the trouble of speccing into evocation taking a draconic bloodline and then adding the cold spell ring but all of that is pretty useless if your dc is too low to use those spells effectively. Especially in the dlcs save stats are pretty high so it becomes an issue. If you only use those mythic spells i would agree it’s not a problem. I personally haven’t had a problem hitting enemies with slightly lower strength. Fear control might be an issue before act five though, that’s true Yes I guess you’d have to take the bloodrager dip earlier but I think it’s worth it. Not only do you get armored spell casting but there are also several items that boost your attack rolls when raging giving you a pretty substantial bonus altogether, and the +10 movement speed is nice as well. I end up taking it on a lot of gish builds now.

Yeah, when this guide was made it was still the WotR Beta which used the Kingmaker Bloodline skills, Intimidating Prowess was a bloodline feat in Kingmaker but it's not in WotR, and that changed when the game patched from the beta to the full game, so this build cannot be completed in the same way. But you don't actually need Cornugon Smash or Intimidating Prowess for it to be effective, just pick two other feats that you want instead, and go for Fear control as your first Lich power instead of the second. Fear control will make enemies around you shaken automatically, and the save is so high that it works 99% of the time, which totally eliminates the need for Cornugon Smash/Intimidating Prowess, and that frees up two additional feats for you to take whatever you want! I'd recommend Combat Reflexes and Improved Initiative, cuz the Lich gets quite a lot of nice stat bonuses and with Outflank you'll use up your attacks of opportunity real fast every round, so it's always nice to have more.

@@Arkaine197 thanks for the advices, actually i already rebuilt my character (left the option available since it's my first run at the game) and replaced cleaving finish with intimidating prowess. I'm happy with that, it's actually useful in dialogue checks too! So I'll keep that sweet DR10/- and will get magic devourer as my next Lich Power. Got improved initiative as bloodline feat at 7th level. Just became a Lich, the game is so cool!

@@alexdart8508 Cool. Well i'm glad you found something that works for you.

It is in part, unfortunately. Elemental Barrage no longer procs from weapon elemental damage, only from spell damage, and that was a big nerf to the ability a wee while after this video was made. I'm not sure how Bolshy would have changed the build, I'm thinking about it myself (as I'm getting into the game again and had remembered this build). Something mythic with an additive damage function would slot in here I guess, but not sure what.

A few tips, since unfortunately Bolshy doesnt seem to be around to update his builds anymore. Intimidating Prowess has been removed from the dragon bloodlines feats in the patches since this build was made, so you won't be able to take it at level 7. But neither it, nor Cornugon Smash are actually necessary for the build, so you can drop them both and pick up whatever you want at level 7 instead, i'd recommend combat reflexes as the regular feat and improved initiative as the bloodline feat. Secondly, in order to progress levels the way the guide shows, you'll need to hit mythic 3 and merge your spellbook BEFORE levelling up to level 10, otherwise you won't be able to enter Eldritch Knight because you won't have level 3 spells yet, so if you do hit level 10 before you reach that portion of the game just leave the level-up unclaimed for a bit, unless you're exp abusing it shouldn't be for long. Thirdly and i can't stress this enough, take Fear Control as your first Lich Power, not the second, this is what replaces your need for Cornugon Smash and will make it so that your Death Knight has no problems hitting anybody, even the crazy high AC enemies in Blackwater.

@@Arkaine197 Thank you for the additional hints. I had the most fun with this build in the past, simply because I liked the unkillable Lich. Still remember that fight with the walking swarm to be the hardest (up to that point), but crusing through somehow with this DR build. Anyhow, I think I read another piece of advice from you regarding the DR not stacking anymore; it sounds terrible for what I enjoyed the most in the past, but I still want to try this again. Long winded, thank you, thats all-because Bolshy stopped with his videos a long time ago. Honestly, I had the most fun with his builds...

@@joelquinn5347 No problem man, i really like the core of this build. I have about 2000 hours logged on Wotr and this build has been my absolute favourite to play through with so i like helping people navigate around still using it despite the changes. To be fair, you're still pretty unkillable using this, even without the 15 DR/- . You can still pick up the 5/- from One of Us at mythic 3, and that'll be the same time that you get False Grace and Vampiric Blade, False Grace stacks with False life and False Life Greater for a massive hp pool and add that to the absurd healing on Vampiric Blade, you're never going down in a fight. But yeah i'm really sad that Bolshy is gone too, i only just found his channel about a month or two after he disappeared, and i'm actually doing my first playthrough of Kingmaker atm with his Dragonknight build. I can recommend CRPbro as another guy who does good builds for Wotr, but he's significantly more "meta" than Bolshy was, so a lot of his builds do tend to end up treading a lot of the same ground, still it's worth checking him out if you're wanting some builds for a new class that you haven't tried yet or something.

Just curious, what are you casting? Mostly my level 1-10 casts are all prebuffs which i can just take my armour off before the fight to cast. I've actually tried the build with Arcane armour as the initial feats before (in order to hit all the build feats because intimidating prowess is no longer a bloodline feat so i switched it with power attack) and the loss of early cleave utterly gimped my ability to be useful in the early game, so i absolutely didn't think it was worth it, but i'm curious to hear your take on it.

This person is most definitely a millennial.

Thank you for this tipp:)