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After using the radiant weapon are you actually doing any cold damage?  Admittedly your power may still have the cold keyword but that isn't sufficient to take advantage of any cold vulnerability.

I got around this by adding a whetstone but I was never happy with it as it was a daily item power.

I believe its text from AV that they count against your daily item usage.  I've not been able to find it in the compendium but I'd imagine its under some generic text for whetstone that isn't included in the individual item descriptions.

Wow, nice build ! You will need another way to get radiant vulnerability however, since reagents don't work with at-will powers anymore (last entry of AV errata)...

Also, siberys shard of radiance only affects damage rolls with radiant attacks (-> no effect on slashing wake & white lotus riposte, they have no damage roll)

The standard arcane feycharger is a warlock|swordmage (mc fighter&rogue), so i don't really see why it shouldn't work somehow (fey gambit would be the substitute of radiant advantage)... If you don't plan to do one yourself, i could try to get one working in the feycharger thread.

A Radiant Weapon is fine, you deal both radiant and cold damage.

You can not use a Brightleaf with At-Will powers. You don't get to add the bonus for Vulnerable Radiant or for Pelor's Sun Blessing. -18 damage for each teleport and each attack.

Ethereal Stride is an Encounter Power. You may have meant Ethereal Sidestep. Both are Move actions, not minor actions. You lose 2 teleports. You also do not get the 2 teleports for your milestone as a result.

You could use Eldritch Panoply to get 1 teleport back.

You can not add modifiers to Winter Winds or White Lotus Riposte as they are not attacks and have no damage rolls. You don't add the bonus from the Siberys Shard of Radiance. -5 damage per teleport.


Assuming you have combat advantage. Your DPR from Slashing Wake is at most 21 x3. Without a way to give Vulnerable Radiant, your DPR drops by 13.5 per attack. At most your At-Will DPR is 210.

The whole discussion is only relevant for powers with the implement keyword. Warlock's curse has no implement keyword, so the outcome of the offhand implement debate doesn't affect you - both the power and the property are usable.
You cannot do much with the minor action anyway (only move->minor works, not the other way around). But if you want to keep your minor actions, you could get a hand familiar for free action draws/stows.

You could be a paladin|swordmage(MC Warlock&cleric) and take power of the sun. However, virtuous strike won't work with white lotus master riposte in this case. If you use some dancing weapon, you can use standard action sword burst (for white lotus riposte) and minor action for dancing virtuous strike (for 8 points of vulnerability). You won't get much out of pelors blessing (con isn't secondary anymore), but otherwise it could work.

Btw, i added a long night scion/radiant one feycharger, its here. The radiant bonus isn't as impressive (no symbol, lower int value), but combined with the feycharger mechanic it still adds up to 529 DPR. 

Thanks & sorry, i thought you had abandoned that idea. I guess the feycharger mechanic probably won't live for long anyway (then again, i thought the same 6 months ago ^^), so every non-feycharger high-dpr build is a very good thing.

You don't need Robust Defenses, it overlaps entirely with Greater Swordmage Warding. See if you can do anything with that extra feat.

Yes, i can see it: The arcane slasher is arriving at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. Thousands upon thousands of orcs (mostly minions) are gathered, and the future of humankind looks bleak 

First Round:
free: quickcurse some of them, draw rod of corruption
move: split etheral sidestep -> some of them die (lets say 5) -> get 5x misty step (transfer one to use rod of corruption for a 5x5 square curse, use 4 steps) -> lots of others die -> more corruption & misty steps etc.
minor: Shout "Hey Witchking, what happened to your army ?"
standard: Plant Standard of Gondor on Pelennor Fields



(you still need help to kill off the leaders, but the army is gone after using one move action)

Actually, the leaders are dead too.  The size of their army is what kills them.  Here, let's look at how it plays out.

Assume 10,000 basic (minion) troops.  The number of them does not really matter, it actually scales better as the number goes up, so I'm going conservative to demonstrate a point.  Assume for every 100 minion troops, there is a non-minion: be it a Mummikin, some kind of general or leader, a troll, what have you.

Assume you kill on average 3 minions per Misty Step.  This is conservative- it should be very easy to produce much higher numbers, but going this conservatively allows for gaps between formations, general travel, and other difficulties associated with moving between "segements".

For each 100 troop + 1 non-minion "segment", the minions fall in 34 jumps.  That leaves 64 jumps left to deal with the non-minion.  Assuming 700 HP for the non-minion, due to lack of CA, you're dealing 26 damage per slashing wake.  That's 28 jumps to take said non-minion down, leaving you 36 left.  100 such segments leaves 3,600 jumps for the Unique and Elite monsters.  Let's assume there are 10 "solo" level monsters, with 1,200 HP.  That's 50 jumps to take each of them out, or 500 jumps used there.  That leaves 3,100 jumps to take out the Witch King, or 80,600 damage.  I know this character is neither female, a hobbit, or using a sword specifically designed to kill him, but somehow I think the Witch King is still dead.

First off, terrific build.  It's given me a lot to think about regarding my Paladin|Swordmage I'm building for LFR.

Secondly, how are you using Rod of Corruption with a hybrid Warlock that lacks a pact boon?  You'd have to give up Swordmage Warding to get the bonuses of a pact boon, I'm sure.

You can't start with the infernal pact (hybrid) and choose the Long Night Scion PP. Twofold Pact kicks in after you choose the PP, preventing its choice.

You must start with fey pact (hybrid) and choose fey pact again for you Twofold Pact (is it possible? CB says it is, still...).

Perhaps an easier way of getting CA against your enemies is retraining Hybrid Talent to get Shadow Walk and use a Shadow Warlock Armor. It has a property that when you have concealment from your Shadow Walk, any cursed enemies grant you CA.

This can even exclude the need to go cleric multiclass.

Instead of the Eldritch Medallion, you could get a Blade of the Eldritch Knight +3 that you keep sheathed.  Sheathed weapons count as being worn for item set bonuses.

What sort of DPR are you looking at now? You said 410 at the beginning but that went down, and now it's higher again.

Why are we worrying about CA? If an ally hits with an attack, the enemy will grant combat advantage due to frost. Your dex isn't maxed so you'll probably have an ally go before you and give you CA throughout the encounter.

Have we solved that radiant vulnerability problem yet?

Without the cleric MC can you still use the holy symbol?

BTW I'm planning on ripping a lot of this build.  I'm doing a defender/controller/striker build using battle standards (tide and hungry blade) for stickiness and control, revenant for survivability and this build for dpr.

It has the added benefit that it will have multiple adjacent enemies to rip into with the slashing wake.