Thalion

I ended going with rogue as well. At normal difficulty, I don't think it really mattered. I went high resolve and perception to pump up his deflection as much as possible. I also have Eder and a custom paladin to do most of the tanking. With the Grieving Mother always providing a flanking bonus, I can pretty safely just go one on one with a target ,especially with a priest to provide healing just in case. I've gone with a single handed rapier and my second set is with a pistol, which is what I open up battles with. I shoot once, let my tanks engage and then charge anyone that's kin

Thanks for all the suggestions! Pity you can't leech abilities from other classes. A fighter or paladin that could use the rogue riposte ability would have been perfect!

What is a "deflection" fighter? Is that a specific type of build?

I'm looking forward to getting the game this weekend. I'm more interested in the RP aspect so am not concerned with having a min-maxed character. Rather, I'm looking to see if a concept is at least viable. What I'd like to play is a swashbucklery fencer type character who is charismatic/diplomatic. During combat situations, I'm not necessarily interested in having him be high DPS or a tanking machine. If all he does is lock down a single foe for the combat while the rest of the party deals with everything else, I'm pretty fine with that. My first thought was to go with rogue, bu