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Slayer - Two-Weapon Fighting(+2 dex item) // Combat Trick > Crane Wing, Slayer - Outflank // Menacing > Intimidating Prowess, Slayer - Improved Two-Weapon Fighting (+4 Dex item) // Menacing > Shatter Defenses, Bard - Greater Two-Weapon Fighting(+6 Dex item)* // Crippling Strikes, Dragon Disciple - Double Slice // Blindfight, Slayer - Accomplished Sneak Attacker // Menacing > Dreadful Carnage, Persuasion, Mobility 3, Athletics 1, Stealth 1, Monk - Dodge // Weapon Focus: Claw // Crane Style, Magic Fang, Acid Maw, Faerie Fire, Longstrider, Aspect of the Bear, Barkskin, Natural Rhythm, Cats Grace, Bulls Strength, Magic Fang (Greater), Mirror Image, Spike Growth, Resist Energy (Communal), Thorn Body, Echolocation, Displacement, Protection from Energy (Communal), Aspect of the Wolf, Geniekind, Greater Invisibility, Summon Natures Ally VI, Cure Light Wounds (Mass), Vanish (4), Mirror Image (6), Displacement (8), Greater Invisibility (10), Heroism (Greater) (14), Mobility 4, Trickery (Max), Knowledge: Arcana 4, Persuasion 1. And I selected the Kukri weapons Finesse. Scimitars are a viable alternative. Has Decent Dazzling and Shatter Defenses, 50 buffed Attack Bonus (AB) in top gear, as well as Arcane accuracy should you need it. Everything is controlled for a good long while. Will probably want either blind immunity cloak, or Echolocation from a friendly alchemist late-game. If you go down this route I would also recommend a reach 2 hand weapon (i.e. Use Gather Power to reduce the burn. Deities do not provide paladins with any in-game bonuses, abilities or proficiencies, so you should pick the deity you like best in terms of ethos/Roleplaying. Likes having Alchemist in the team for Shield Infusion, but wands/bracers will do as well. That pretty much covers it. 2 points left to bring the weapon to +5. Or you can toss some defensive spells if you need those. Has self-sustainable Shield (with Extend rods) and 60m mutagen that should be enough to clear most maps. Punishes tripped enemies hard. Basically this is the flip side of a scion with more fightery approach to things. Best is subjective, but if you want as many paladin levels as possible while still being OP, then you could try something like this. Thats nice, I suppose. Overkill, but we needed the Crane feats for the early game anyhow. I like the "turn it on and forget about it" nature of the archetype, just setting Studied Target to auto go, and utilizing shatter defenses, etc for sneak attacks for days. Level 8 we finally get to fire. This is a combat character. Sword and Shield or two-hander? 52 when enlarged. Pathfinder Beginner Box Rulebooks Second Edition Rulebooks Official Digital Toolset Online System Reference Downloads First Edition Rulebooks Adventures Adventure Path Standalone Adventures Organized Play Scenarios First Edition Adventures Setting Accessories Cards Maps Pawns Pathfinder Battles Unpainted Miniatures Dice Digital Tools Stacks Armour Class (AC) high. It's not too different from how you build any two-hander. If you find something missing, blame the damned fey. YMMV though. That Dreadful might not pop soon enough, but its there and will keep everything reasonably terrified of your existence. Not a lot of skill points, but only thing you really need on main character (MC) is persuasion. Bard song is appreciated, as usual. Think thats pretty much it. Alternatively, you can go for Fauchards. So with all that said, I'd always recommend going for damage in a Paladin. Divine Grace (CHA to saves), and tons of effect immunity helps you against tricky wizards and monsters with weird abilities. Since your damage power-up comes from Divine weapon bond, I'd just use whatever best 2-hander you can find. Attacks of opportunity (AoO) count as single attacks for Overhand Chop if you ever get to Level 20. They will boost your damage by a lot. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. You can even consider adding to the above with further crowd control by dipping a level of thug (so intimidated enemies panic). Can reach 70AC with buffs. Can be done as any race that has Strength (STR) boost. 5/18/14/12/9/19 if not. We could've started with fire and all would be almost gucci, but unless we took Precise Shot, we'd be stuck wasting half our time gathering and running. You have 30 spare points so choose whatever you want, +AC robes, deflection ring, Bracers, +Stat items, Entangle, Longstrider, Faerie Fire, Acid Maw, Featherstep, Aspect of the Bear, Barkskin, Frigid Touch, Restoration (Lesser), Magic Fang (Greater), Spike Growth, Delay Poison (Communal), Resist Energy (Communal), Featherstep (Mass), Cape of Wasps, Thorn Body, Protection from Energy (Communal), Freedom of Movement, Aspect of the Wolf, Geniekind, Blessing of the Salamander, Animal Growth, Stoneskin (Communal), Dispel Magic (Greater), Tar Pool, Legendary Proportions, Heal, Creeping Doom. Very abusive build. Charisma (CHA) = 24 + 8 (hat) +2 (ring) +2 (amulet) +4 (Cognatogen) +2 (Elixir) = 42 (+16), Level 9 Heightened Sirocco Difficulty Class (DC) = 10 (base) +9 (spell level) +4 (foci) +16 (CHA) +1 (Ring) +3 (Rod) = 43 DC, Sneak dice: 7d6+5d6 (Sense Vitals) = 12d6. Spilled some awesome sauce on saint. for the "Blind run Scion" build it mentions something like "wear the heaviest armor you can find" but the build can only wear light armor, am I supposed to take a heavy armor feat somewhere? Take Weapon Focus at 5, Shatter Defenses at 9 and Wings at 11. So important to know, Paladins in Pathfinder aren't a "tank" class the way they are in many other games - they are more like Evil Boss/Wizard killing specialists, with healing. Travel domain is mechanically the best. Press J to jump to the feed. I thing I would consider adding, the intimidation feats - i.e. Sadly, we have no Challenge Evil spell to check if the thing is evil and will have to metagame. Suggestions on starter stats? Don't forget you have spontaneous summoning. Fire Eruption with Low Gather is a nice source of ranged damage. I prefer endgame swords to scimitars, but they are roughly equal. A subreddit for all things involving Pathfinder CRPG series made by Owlcat Games. Fire-breathing bears. Only really important ki-power is Extra Attack. +4 flanking = 54 (55) +2 Abadar/nobility = 56 +10 -2 Sacred Erastil/Community = 64. Turn off Spellstrike if you are not Spellstriking to get 1.5 Strength (STR) scaling. Crane Wing and Riposte work with whatever on the current patch. Grease and Web will help you solve early-game. We don't need weapons. Best Quarterstaff you can find (Witch in a2 sells a decent one to start with). Pathfinder is a tabletop RPG based off of the 3.5 Ruleset of Dungeons and Dragons. AC Bracers, AC items, elemental damage to attacks/natural attacks: alkali gloves and winter wolfs cloak for example. For the Mad Doge build, anyone know what feats you pick for the pet? 10m is enough per rest usually if you dont spend much time idling. Expertise and Fighting Defensively cut into your Attack Bonus (AB), so only turn it on if you are swarmed and need to tank. Specifically, we're looking at Race, Abilities, Skills, and Feats for the standard Fighter. Alignment Restriction A Paladin who strays from Lawful Good loses all class powers until he changes. Iomedae is the most common paladin deity. It's useful, especially with maxed out Charisma (CHA). Doesn't matter, really.Optional. Cookie Notice And we kinda have to have it as bite forces you into 2ft distance. Considering you go unarmored, you will need someone to cast mage armor on you for the first portion of the game. An average male halfling is roughly 35 pounds. Aasimar is still numerically superior and doesn't need to turn on Fighting Defensively to get his bonuses. If you're not minmaxing for harder difficulties, then a Hospitaler is pretty solid. Inquisitor - Improved Critical > Fauchard, Inquisitor - Combat Reflexes // Seize the Moment, Inquisitor - Tandem Trip // Favored Enemy: Fey, Shield, Cure Wounds, True Strike, Enlarge Person, Restoration, +Stat Spells, Divine Favor, Remove Fear, Cure Wounds, Restoration, Remove Paralysis, Delay Poison (Communal), Resist Energy (Communal), AC from Charisma (CHA) through monk, Monk feats. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Finally, Angel-kin Aasimar is the perfect race for a Paladin because of the +2 to Str and Charisma and their ability to get the Wings feat (+3 dodge AC and ignore difficult terrain). Heighten all your CC spells. Improved initiative is an option. Let me introduce you to Deadly Earth. Use metamagic rods extensively. Solid front-liner. Then +4 Crane = 72AC. Then +3 Bard song +2 Sacred (Ecclesitheurge) +1 Haste = 50 (51) AB. Hopefully sneak dice will make up for the damage. Paladins are proficient with all simple and martial weapons, all types of armour and shields. Barbarians have damage reduction, Rangers have a pet, Fighters have armor training. Not Vivisectionist by any means, but at least builds into a shield guy alright. You'll notice a lot of their abilities are all focused on 2 things - magical defense, and damage against evil monsters. Scorching Ray is only any good from lvl8 for you. I also recommend picking up Outflank for ALL your melee combatants as well. When you get one amazing two-handed bastard sword from killing another barbarian in story mission - switch to that. Also some free True Strikes are not wasted on us. If taking human: 7/18/13/10/7/19. If not you do have Use Magic Device (UMD) for shield wands. Same can be said about persuasion foci. Level 13 brings us Enduring Earth, doubling the duration. Privacy Policy. Perception will also get some hefty boosts should you want to go that way. Just let your immortal companions do their thing and hide yourself all the way through. Can be your Athletics character, Glaive early on, then best 2h weapon you can get, 2h Bastard Sword when you get it. Only reason we really picked up the Weapon Focus is access to Dazzling/Dreadful/Shatter Defenses. The games are similar to classic RPG games such as Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights. And youll want Absolver Cloak anyways. WIS draining stuff will be spooky, though. Would love someone casting Legendary Proportions on him. Use keen enchant instead. Cant be done on any other race; you need dem wings. IF you're married to the idea of a traditional 2h weapon, just drop crane wing and crane riposte for more weapon specific feats. Cant be done as a merc. Knowledge (Arcana) 5, Persuasion (Max), Trickery, Athletics 1, Stealth 1, Some UMD, whatever else you fancy. They are either your get-out-of-jail-free cards, or additional damage per round. Monk - Weapon Focus: Quarterstaff // Dodge, Fighter - Combat Reflexes // Intimidating Prowess, Fighter - Weapon Specialization: Quarterstaff // Improved Critical: Quarterstaff. Aspect of the wolf allows for free trips. Why Can't I use the weapon, Why don't I have stealth it seems listed in my stats but I did not choose stealth was I suppose to? It was the first character I made in kingmaker. Theoretically, Paladin can be moved to 19-20, but I am kinda scared about Will saves. Improved Crit is skipped to save feats. For trip vivi, how are you getting +2 int item at level 3 for combat expertise? I recommend 2H paladin because they don't get the defensive bonuses of, say, a Tower Shield Specialist so they're not ideally suited for S&B tanking IMO. Good AB from different sources. Two-handers are pretty straight forward as all you really need is Power Attack and Vital Strike lines of feats for damage. Any good advice for building a 2h Paladin? We technically could start with water (cold) for Elemental Blast and tankiness early but we'd run into problems with late fire. Is not mandatory, but is nice to have. If you go this route, it's better to not take levels in non-Paladin things. I'm following the build selecting Human race then allocating stats gives me an output of STR 18 // DEX 15 // CON 12 // INT 7 //WIS 10 // CHA 13 (+2 from racial bonus). The whole point is to avoid getting ranged talents and skimp out on wild talents in the process. Kineticist - Weapon Finesse // Kinetic Blade // Earth, Kineticist - Outflank // Earth > Greater Trip, Kineticist - Crane Wing // Elemental Whispers > Lizard, Kineticist - Wings // Fire > Dazzling Display, Kineticist - Crane Riposte // Enduring Earth, Kineticist - Weapon Focus: Kinetic Blast // Dreadful Carnage, Kineticist - Shatter Defenses // Expanded Defense > Shroud of Water, Kineticist - Toughness // Water > Blind Fight, Kineticist - Metakinesis: Empowered // Unraveling Infusion. This is the most damage you can squeeze out of Arcane Trickster (AT). New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Very simple and abusive build fit for Unfair. The great thing about Paladin is that they are incredibly flexible when it comes to weapons. Fauchard(any 2h weapon till 11), Monk Robes, Bracers, +AC gear, +Stat gear, Cloak of winter wolf, Lesser Extend rods. Pathfinder is a tabletop RPG based off of the 3.5 Ruleset of Dungeons and Dragons. Persuasion (Max), Perception (Max), Mobility 3. = Heavy Load. Stacks some decent Armour Class (AC). Mobility and Athletics are a good choice due to no armor. Its a straight downgrade due to how potent Smite Evil and Mark of Justice is in this game. Some Persuasion and/or CMD bonuses would be welcome. Make him tanky or more of a damage dealer? Way through Strike lines of feats for the first portion of the keyboard shortcuts to bring the weapon Focus 5. 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