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Howdy folks. I had a question about the Dimensional Savant and two Teamwork feats, Outflank and Precise Strike. The description for the feats is below.
Benefit: After using abundant step or casting dimension door, you can take any actions you still have remaining on your turn. You also gain a +4 bonus on Concentration checks when casting teleportation spells.
Benefit: As a full-round action, you use abundant step or cast dimension door as a special charge. Doing so allows you to teleport up to double your current speed (up to the maximum distance allowed by the spell or ability) and to make the attack normally allowed on a charge.
Benefit: You can take a full-attack action, activating abundant step or casting dimension door as a swift action. If you do, you can teleport up to twice your speed (up to the maximum distance allowed by the spell or ability), dividing this teleportation into increments you use before your first attack, between each attack, and after your last attack. You must teleport at least 5 feet each time you teleport.
Special: A monk can use additional points from his ki pool to increase his speed before determining the total speed for this teleportation.
Benefit: While using the Dimensional Dervish feat, you provide flanking from all squares you attack from. Flanking starts from the moment you make an attack until the start of your next turn. You can effectively flank with yourself and with multiple allies when using this feat.
Benefit: Whenever you and an ally who also has this feat are flanking the same creature, your flanking bonus on attack rolls increases to +4. In addition, whenever you score a critical hit against the flanked creature, it provokes an attack of opportunity from your ally.
Benefit: Whenever you and an ally who also has this feat are flanking the same the creature, you deal an additional 1d6 points of precision damage with each successful melee attack. This bonus damage stacks with other sources of precision damage, such as sneak attack. This bonus damage is not multiplied on a critical hit.
Since the teamwork feats require that you flank with an ally with the feat and SKR ruled that you count as your own ally does this mean Dimensional Savant would allow a single character to benefit from Outflank and Precise Strike? If so, how would the provoked AoOs be resolved?
Honestly, even if it isn't RAW or RAI, I may houserule that this works just because of how awesome it would be on a BBEG.
Thanks for your help!
By RAW it seems to work so. It might not be exactly RAI - but not in the sense that developers intended it to not work that way but rather in a sense that developers could forget about the possibility of such combination (or they could intend it to be so from the start, hard to say).
My opinion is that character should gain decent benefits from investing so much feats into dimensional savant chain and teamwork feats.
I also congratulate you on the spotting such interesting combination.
I am not sure on attacks of opportunity provoked by scoring critical hits on targets of outflank. While this combos would allow you to flank with oneself you would not be on the other side at the same time to perform the attack of opportunity.
Even if this wasn't intentional, it sure seems like a neat idea. I might see if my GM will let me get away with it for my own Dimensional feat build.
I can't believe everyone missed the pieces de resistances of this combo,
Combat Reflexes and Power Attack.
Imagine having FoB AND the hits from your Dex bonus all as part of one attack, all of the AoO being at your full BAB, and Power Attack effects apply until the beginning of your next turn.
(Dex>Str>Wis>Con>Int>Cha)
Round 1. Goodbye, Mr. Fire Giant.
Yes, it would be a bit of a glass cannon, but you can make up for low Con with items.