Someone asked for a melee build for many past lives, so I thought I'd share my 'forever'-reincarnating dragonlord. Well not forever, but I've been doing 15 or so lives with it already, and still have 30 to go.
18 Strength
18 Constitution
12 Int
(chaotic neutral)
1: THF + Tactical Aura
2: Power Attack
3: Dodge
4: Mobility
6: iTFH + Whirlwind
8: Damage Aura
9: Spring Attack (I still use a keen weapon at 9)
10: Improved Critical
12: gTHF + Heavy Armor 9 PRR/MRR
14: Heavy Armor 12 PRR/MRR
15: Weapon Finesse
16: MP Aura
18: Stunning Blow + 8 Tactical DC
20: 6 Tactical DC
21: Overwhelming Critical
22: pTHF
24: Patience
25: Doublestrike (this is controversial. Crush Weakness is also great and you can't get both eventually)
27: Greater Weapon Specialization
28: Harbinger of Chaos (better than doublestrike or crush weakness)
Enhancements: with a useless race, I do:
41 Dragonlord
24 Stalwart Defender (4th core, 6 CON)
6 Ravager (3x power attack, 1x extra action. at 20 switch to 3 extra action instead)
11 Vistani (or Falconry until lvl12, for runspeed)
1 Harper
Destiny: Quick Cutter as Epic Strike, 14 in Grandmaster of Flowers including stance, 14 points in Dreadnought for the 6% doublestrike and the rest in Primal
Skills:
6 points in jump, max tumble, max umd, max spot
Gear:
Sample gear layouts excluding rares and now-unobtainable items
