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Originally posted by Kakero:
I thought AC is useless in HOF where monsters can hit your character like a knife slicing a butter. People usually use their summons for tanking while they plummet the monsters with spells. If I get what you mean...
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That's the more conventional route. You can tank in HoF, but it takes planning from the very start in order to get the AC you need to be nearly impervious. IIRC, you need 70+, and it takes mad multiclassing, and so is out of your party's reach by your own guidelines. It's also a rather clinical approach to party-building, and takes some of the fun out of the game, IMO, as it's as powergamey as you can get. If you want to read up on it, try
here. Even though you get hit early and often in HoF, it's still sensible to get as much AC as you can, because a monster's BAB goes down in a progression, and with fairly high AC you may be able to avoid taking a 3rd or 4th hit in a round from the same enemy.
Sometimes you can't avoid getting attacked for a round or two, and it's nice for your "tanks" to survive those times.
Considering the restrictions you put on yourself (no small races, no two the same, almost no multiclassing), that party's about as strong as it can be. One tweak I might do is switch the races of the sorceress and monk. Humans get an extra skill point per level, and it might be of more use to the sorceress. Seeing as the monk is going to set off rather than find/disarm traps, you don't really need the extra skill point. The monk just needs a few points in Hide and the rest in Move Silently. You could then leave the sorceress' stats the same, or tweak Int downwards to use 2 or more stat points elsewhere and maintain the same number of skill points as your original build. Note that you will probably want to maintain a decent Int because you have to achieve a spellcraft rating of 10 for the elemental feats, and iirc low Int modifies your rating downward. Such an exchange could also benefit the monk, allowing you to take the 2 points off of Int (if you can stand a monk with 3 Int, you can stand it with 1 Int
) and put it on Dex or Con as you choose.