Dirge/stigmatized witch Build

[Jaxom]

Looking for a build that mixes both of these classes.

Would like the build to be a support caster. Healing/Buff/Debuff etc.

I just like the idea of a witch singing people back from the dead! lol

[Conquista]

you need at least 10 levels of dirge bard for dance of the dead

so i guess dirge bard 10/stigmatized witch 10, your spellcasting for both classes will be bad but you can do your undead singing and use evil eye as a hex

[Jaxom]

Originalmente postado por Conquista:

you need at least 10 levels of dirge bard for dance of the dead

so i guess dirge bard 10/stigmatized witch 10, your spellcasting for both classes will be bad but you can do your undead singing and use evil eye as a hex

I was thinking of splashing witch in somewhere. 10/10 wouldn't be a very strong toon.

[Myrmicus]

The problem here is that not going full Witch hinders you greatly. Witch has a weird spellbook, with less arcane spells available, some divine spells (Healing and Negative energy spells). Your lowered Witch CL means that you won't be good for damage, heal or debuff, which already throws a lot of spells out of the window. This leaves you with only buffs that don't loose much because of a weak CL.
However...
There are the hexes.
Evil Eye is widely known as one of the best abilities in the game and this reach its full potential at Witch Level 8 (with the mendatory Cackle hexe). Other hexes can have their use : there's one that give 2 Natural AC and another one that gives d4 claw attacks (a bit gimmicky). Any hexe that can be prevented by a save roll from the target is out of the window, because even as a full Witch most opponents will succeed in their saving throws anyway.

Bard suffer the same problem, as not going full Bard will lower your max CL, which will greatly hinder your casting prowess. I'm not too familiar about other bards abilities (Dirge or not) to say if they are worth it if you don't go full bard.

I suppose casting hexes and cackling while singing songs has some potential as a buff/debuffer, but you pretty much sacrifice the spellcasting of both classes.

[Conquista]

bard 10/witch 10 would be usable if you go lich and spellmerge to salvage your witch spellbook abit

otherwise if you only want to dip into witch for few lowtier hex

you can just go bard 19/witch 1 for evil eye or bard 18/witch 2 for evil and cackle, your bardspell book will still be fine for both

for a stronger bard you need to go melee, so something like bard 14/witch 1/dragon disciple 4/loremaster 1 or bard 12/witch 1/dragon disciple 4/loremaster 3, pick iceplant as your hex