So wait- when you get a weapon from a shop or whatever, and it already has magical abilities, those don't count towards the 3/4 enchant slot limit? So if I find a weapon with +8 already, I can then enchant it with 4 different damage types?
My next character I want to be an EK with Perfect Two Weapon Fighting, and at least level 7 spells. It's going to be a challenge to put a build together! The idea will be to have lots of buffs like elemental sheild; premonition; greater heroism (although anyone can cast that on me, but I like to make soloable characters). Dual Weild weapons with massive elemntal damage using weapon finesse so I have a high AB; and also I want to get weapon focus and improved critical for ranged touch attacks and use the various ray attacks at range. Yes, they can crit.
Because my casting stat wont be that high, I want to avoid spells with saves, and focus on buffs and ray attacks to complement my sweet two weapon fighting abilities. I want my base classes to be fighter and sorceror, but I don't think there's any race that has a bonus to Dex and also favours either of those classes. So I'll either have to settle for Wiz instead of Sorc (I want Sorc because I want to have decent Cha, and high Bluff skill; I prefer Bluff to Intimidate) or take a race without a Dex bonus, and thus delay getting PTWF, or maybe go for something other than fighter as my warrior class. I could also just try to keep my fighter level within 1 of my sorc level.
These are some options I can see working:
Drow: Having bonuses to both Dex and Cha make them very appealing, I'd have to keep my Sorc level as high as my Sorc level, and lose a lot of Caster levels, though. I'd still get level 9 spells at some point, though, and I'd have plenty of feats to get all the stuff I want.
Air Genasi: A bit out of left field... Bonuses to Dex and Int and favoured class: Fighter mean that a Fither/Wiz/Ek version of my idea could work nicely. I really liek they way Air Genasi look as well, and would prefer to be an AG to a Drow.
Human: I think I'd just be straight up gimped for Stats here. This build suffers from MAD like nothing else I've ever tried. It needs 25 DEX AND 19 Cha/Int to fully work. Geez. No worries with favoured class though, and an extra feat, which doesn't hurt. It wouldn't really come into it's own until a very high level, and I'd have to spend most of my epic feats on stat boosts.