style="font-family: tahoma;">The Living Machine: 

style="font-family: tahoma;">Guide to Warforged Enhancements style="font-family: tahoma;" size="+1">

style="font-style: italic;">By Darkgolem



Warforged are the most unique of the playable races in DDO.  With
unique immunities and vulnerabilities, an fascinating background and
mindset, and powerful advantages, they are a very interesting and fun
race to play.  However, hand and hand with these qualities are the
difficulties and complications with playing such a different
race.  With the complexity and variety of the enhancements found
for warforged in DDO, these complexities are are increased. 
However, by carefully planning your character ahead of time, a
warforged character, be it href="http://ddo.tentonhammer.com/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=273">warrior,
wizard or rogue can be very powerful.

size="-1">The Basics

A quick summary for those
unfamiliar with the way enhancements work for DDO is in order. 
First, you get 4 action
points every level.  size="-1">They are earned gradually as you work your way to your next
level. You use
these action points to purchase enhancements.  You much qualify
for an enhancement to purchase it.  Enhancements require a certain
amount of action points to already have been spent, less powerful
similar enhancements and sometimes for you to have a feat, before you
can purchase them. 
Because of the
requirements for various enhancements, you
should plan on how you wish to spend your action points when you begin
character creation.

size="-1">Choosing Your Role

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Warforged can function
excellently as warriors of any type, including a mixture of classes, or
specialists in melee, ranged or defensive combat (tanking).  As
rogues they have immunities which are very useful for avoiding the
effects of traps, and they are much more survivable than many other
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they can heal themselves, and are much less "squishie".  The only
role they are not well suited to is that of the priest, since they have
poor wisdom and charisma scores.  With all these choices, it's
important to decide on a appropriate role for your warforged before you
begin character creation.  After doing so, you can pick the
enhancements and feats and class choices that best fit that role.

The Expert Combatant

Warforged can function
excellently as expert warriors, using a deadly collection of combat
feats to keep their opponents off balance and helpless while the
warforged brings about their defeat.

• Warforged Constitution - the extra hit points
  help a warforged quite a bit, and in some cases, the fortitude save.
• Warforged Construct Thinking - if there is any
  weakness a warforged warrior will have, it is spells with will based
  saves.  This enhancements helps mitigate this weakness a lot.
• Warforged Damage Reduction - Ironically, this
  enhancement benefits warforged with fighter classes more than those
  with barbarian classes, because the barbarian damage reduction does not
  stack with this type.  This is a huge benefit for warforged who
  must survive in close combat.
• Warforged Healer's Friend - because warforged
  gain less benefit from href="http://ddo.tentonhammer.com/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=208">
  healing spells than non-construct races, this does a lot to
  mitigate the reduced benefit they derive from healing spells. 
  Very useful indeed, especially when combined with a warforged's damage
  reduction.
• Warforged Mechanics - While a lot of points spent
  in this enhancement isn't ideal, it helps when there is no one in your
  adventuring party with the repair skill.
• Warforged Tactics - This is key toward a expert
  combatants use of the various combat feats.

The Warforged
Destructor

Warforged make
excellent barbarians, especially because they do no suffer the
exhaustion penalty that most barbarians do when they come out of
rage.  However, it is a poor choice to spend points on damage
reduction enhancements in some cases, because they do not stack with
barbarian damage reduction, so take care.
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• Warforged Constitution - This is a key
  enhancement, a barbarian lives and dies by his or her constitution
  score.
• Warforged Construct Thinking - like most
  warriors, the barbarian has a poor will saves, and this is a key
  ability to avoid being affected by spells that can affect warforged.
• Warforged Healer's Friend - With the massive
  amounts of hit points warforged barbarian has, this enhancement is
  absolutely necessary to keep your party cleric from crying.
• Warforged Mechanics - This is very useful to
  mitigate the fact that repair skills are cross class.

The Tank Mage

Warforged are
competent mages.  They can repair themselves with their own
spells, and are resistant to damage, in addition to being immune to
many of the things that threaten a regular caster, such as poison.
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• Warforged Combat Training - Nothing is arcane or
  spectacular, nor as deadly, as lying on your back waiting to be killed.
• Warforged Constitution - This accentuates the
  benefit from the damage reduction warforged enjoy.  However, only
  spend action points on this if you can spare them, since the goal of a
  caster is to avoid being hit with weapons in the first place.
• Warforged Damage Reduction - Very handy to have
  this enhancement, but remember that you can gain damage reduction by
  using stoneskin if you need to, which is limited in duration in
  absorption, but absorbs much more damage from each strike.
• Warforged Hardiness - This enhancement is very
  good for covering the weakness casters have toward href="http://ddo.tentonhammer.com/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=175">spells
  with fortitude saves, though because warforged are immune to certain
  fortitude based effects, the benefit of this enhancement is less than
  it would be for another race.
• Warforged Inscribed Armor - Key toward being an
  effective warforged arcane caster, since it removes most or all of that
  pesky arcane spell failure chance.

The Enhancements:

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style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125);"> size="-1">Name

style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125);"> size="-1">Cost

style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125);"> size="-1">Progression

style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125);"> size="-1">Requirements

style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125);"> size="-1">Benefit

style="height: 25.5pt; width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Warforged Combat Training 1

style="width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">1

style="width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">

style="width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Level 1 Warforged

size="-1">Grants a +1 passive bonus to the Balance skill. style="height: 25.5pt; background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Warforged Combat Training 2 style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">2

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">10

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Level 4 Warforged, Warforged Combat Training 1

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 400px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Grants a +2 passive bonus to the Balance skill. style="height: 25.5pt; width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="34">Warforged Combat Training size="-1"> 3 style="width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">3

style="width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">25

style="width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Level 8 Warforged, Warforged Combat Training 2

size="-1">Grants a +3 passive bonus to the Balance skill. style="height: 25.5pt; background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="34">Warforged Combat Training size="-1"> 4

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">4

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">40

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1"> Level 12 Warforged, Warforged
Combat Training 3

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 400px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Grants a +4 passive bonus to the Balance skill. style="height: 25.5pt; width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="34">Warforged Constitution 1

style="width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">2 style="width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">6

style="width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Level 3 Warforged

size="-1">Grants a +1 to Constitution score.

style="height: 25.5pt; background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="34">Warforged Constitution 2

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">2

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">24

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Level 8 Warforged, Warforged Constitution 1

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 400px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Grants a +2 to Constitution score. style="height: 25.5pt; width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="34">Warforged Construct Thinking 1

style="width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">1

style="width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">

style="width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Level 1 Warforged

size="-1">Grants a +1 saving throw bonus against Will-based
enchantments.

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height="34">Warforged Construct Thinking 2

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">2

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">18

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Level 8 Warforged. Warforged
Construct Thinking 1 style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 400px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Grants a +2 saving throw bonus against Will-based
enchantments. style="height: 25.5pt; width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="34">Warforged Construct Thinking 3

style="width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">3

style="width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">41

style="width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Level 12 Warforged. Warforged
Construct Thinking 2 size="-1">Grants a +3 saving throw bonus against Will-based
enchantments. style="height: 25.5pt; background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="34">Warforged Damage Reduction 1

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">2 style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Level 1 Warforged

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 400px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">You gain damage reduction 1/adamantine, or improve your
existing damage reduction by 1/adamantine.

style="height: 25.5pt; width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="34">Warforged Damage Reduction 2

style="width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">4 style="width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">16

style="width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1"> Level 6 Warforged, size="-1">Warforged Damage Reduction 1 size="-1">You gain damage reduction 2/adamantine, or improve your
existing damage reduction by 2/adamantine. style="height: 25.5pt; background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="34">Warforged Damage Reduction 3

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">6 style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">34 style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Level 11 Warforged, Warforged Damage
Reduction 1 style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 400px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">You gain damage reduction 3/adamantine, or improve your
existing damage reduction by 2/adamantine. style="height: 25.5pt; width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="34">Warforged Hardiness 1

style="width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">1

style="width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">

style="width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Level 1 Warforged

size="-1">Grants a +1 bonus on Fortitude saving throws.

style="height: 25.5pt; background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="34">Warforged Hardiness 2

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">2

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">18

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Level 8 Warforged, Warforged size="-1">Hardiness 1 style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 400px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Grants a +2 bonus on Fortitude
saving throws. style="height: 25.5pt; width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="34">Warforged Hardiness 3

style="width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">3

style="width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">41

style="width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Level 12 Warforged. Warforged size="-1">Hardiness 2 size="-1">Grants a +3 bonus on Fortitude
saving throws. style="height: 25.5pt; background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="34"> Warforged Healer's Friend 1 style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">2

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Level 1 Warforged style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 400px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Benefit from healing spells is increased by 15%.

style="height: 25.5pt; width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="34"> Warforged
Healer's Friend 2 style="width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">4

style="width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">12 style="width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">level 5 Warforged Healer's Friend size="-1"> 1 size="-1">Benefit from healing spells is increased by 20%. style="height: 25.5pt; background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="34">Warforged Healer's Friend size="-1"> 3 style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">6

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">26 style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Level 9 Warforged Healer's Friend size="-1"> 2 style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 400px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Benefit from healing spells is increased by 25%. style="height: 38.25pt; width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="51">  Warforged
Inscribed Armor 1 style="width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">1

style="width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">3

style="width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Level 2 Warforged style="width: 400px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Removes arcane spell failure from base Warforged Composite
Plating.  Reduces arcane spell failure chance of the warforged's
Mithril Body feat to 10% and the Adamantine Body Feat to 30%.

style="height: 25.5pt; background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="34"> 
Warforged  Inscribed Armor size="-1"> 2

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">2

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">18

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Level 6 Warforged, size="-1"> Warforged Inscribed Armor 1 style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 400px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Removes arcane spell failure from base Warforged
Composite Plating.  Reduces arcane spell failure chance of the
warforged's Mithril Body feat to 5% and the Adamantine Body Feat to 25%. style="height: 25.5pt; width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="34"> Warforged 
Inscribed Armor 3

style="width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">3

style="width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">33

style="width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Level 10, Warforged Inscribed Armor 2 size="-1"> size="-1">Removes arcane spell failure from base Warforged
Composite Plating and Mithril Body.  Reduces arcane spell failure
chance of the
warforged's Adamantine Body Feat to 20%. style="height: 25.5pt; background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="34"> Warforged Mechanics 1

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">1

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Level 1 Warforged style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 400px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Grants +1 passive bonus to the repair skill.

style="height: 25.5pt; width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="34"> Warforged
Mechanics 2

style="width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">2

style="width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">10

style="width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Level 4 Warforged, Warforged
Mechanics 1 style="width: 400px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Grants +2 passive bonus to the repair skill. style="height: 51pt; background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="68"> Warforged
Mechanics 3

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">3

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">25

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Level 8 Warforged, Warforged
Mechanics 2

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 400px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Grants +3 passive bonus to the repair skill. style="height: 25.5pt; width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="34"> Warforged
Mechanics 4

style="width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">4

style="width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">40

style="width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1"> Level 12 Warforged, size="-1"> Warforged Mechanics 3 size="-1">Grants +4 passive bonus to the repair skill. size="-1"> style="height: 25.5pt; background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="34"> Warforged Tactics 1

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">2

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">2

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Level 2 Warforged, Warforged
Mechanics 3 style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 400px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Grants a +1 bonus to the DC of combat feats, making it
harder for your enemies to resist your combat maneuvers such as trip,
hamstring and stunning blow.

style="height: 51pt; width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="68"> Warforged Tactics 2

style="width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">4

style="width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" x:num=""> size="-1">16

style="width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Level 6 Warforged, size="-1">Warforged Tactics 1 style="width: 400px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Grants a +2 bonus to the DC of combat feats, making it
harder for your enemies to resist your combat maneuvers such as trip,
hamstring and stunning blow. style="height: 25.5pt; background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 148px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
height="34"> Warforged Tactics 3

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">6

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"
x:num="">30

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 49px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Level 10 Warforged, size="-1">Warforged Tactics 2

style="background-color: rgb(212, 201, 125); width: 400px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"> size="-1">Grants a +3 bonus to the DC of combat feats, making it
harder for your enemies to resist your combat maneuvers such as trip,
hamstring and stunning blow.

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