You are no druid nor a shifter, but you are still very viable so if you are seriously looking for melee power, this is probably the best way to do it without hurting your casting ability. Add one summon (persistent blade at level 1 is OP, boar at level 2, and wolf at level 3) and some buffs and you will snooze to level 7 which is when you become a melee threat. Again, this is level 7! By the time you are done with the jail you are already about level 6 and the pixie familiar can easily tank the entire jail at DND hardcore difficulty. One shape gets 3 attacks at high damage plus true seeing and a bonus of 7ac and something like +30 hit points. You get the 1st polymorph at level 7 with a wizard and they are insanely powerful at that level. The lists tend to be REALLY short and it's better for the PC games where wizard wins in pen and paper.Ī lot of advise here but not a single person mentioned the fact that arcane casters have spells that turn them into melee fighter. In game though I'd suggest asking yourself what you're really missing that you want when you play a Sorc. Though I do get that some things are just conceptually displeasing for some people. So few spells truly matter that I find building a Sorc I'm only missing out on 1-2 spells I'd really really want. Sorcerers/bards make better fighty arcanes, wizards make better sneaky arcanes.Īs an aside, not sure why Sorc bothers you. And even that doesn't begin proper until epic levels anyway. I know that's not really what you're hoping for, but it's the mechanically correct answer unless you're doing something less wizardly like a tank (Palemaster cheese). Wizard 35 then dip is my build suggestion. But even that, you'd have a stronger character in the end if you just did it as you approached the level cap because you'd waste fewer skill points. It's quite helpful during leveling to be able to vanish depending on the module played. Say, working up to a level of shadowdancer to have a sneaky wizard. There can be some exceptions if you want to waste skillpoints though, and a an int caster you have them to burn. It's not like Sorc where the 1 level of Paladin is huge. And it's best to do those later (levels 35-40) rather than earlier because few of the dipping benefits really outweigh the lost casting progression. That pretty much makes the only right option 1 or 2 dipping levels if you want to play your wizard LIKE a wizard.

So you are always sacrificing your caster level when you multiclass one. The game doesn't have much in the way of good prestige classes for Wizards.

Neverwinter nights 2 wizard