Defensive Fighting Halfling PFS build. Critique please?

[Kysus Arelius]

I was trying to make a defensive fighter and came up with the following build. This character is for PFS and I wanted to boost AC up greatly and still do some decent damage.

Defensive Fighter:

Class – Unarmed Fighter
Race – Halfling

Traits -
* Threatening Defender
* Martial Manuscript (+2 to crit confirmation)

Stats -
Str: 8 (-2 racial)
Dex: 19 (+2 racial)
Con: 15
Int: 12
Wis: 12
Cha: 9 (+2 racial)

1) Unarmed Fighter 1: Bab +1 | Weapon Finesse (lvl 1), Crane Style (fighter)
2) MoMS Monk 1: Bab +1 | Crane Riposte (monk)
3) MoMS Monk 2: Bab +2 | Weapon Focus: Butterfly Sword (lvl 3), Crane Wing (monk), Evasion (monk)
4) Unarmed Fighter 2: Bab +3 | +1 Dex, Slashing Grace (fighter)
5) Unarmed Fighter 3: Bab +4 | Cautious Fighter (5)
6) Unarmed Fighter 4: Bab +5 | Piranha Strike (fighter)
7) Unarmed Fighter 5: Bab +6/+1 | Weapon Specialization: Butterfly Sword (lvl 7)
8) Unarmed Fighter 6: Bab +7/+2 | +1 Con, Shield Proficiency (fighter)
9) Unarmed Fighter 7: Bab +8/+3 | Osyluth Guile (lvl 9)
10) Unarmed Fighter 8: Bab +9/+4 | Improved Critical: Butterfly Sword (fighter)
11) Unarmed Fighter 9: Bab +10/+5 | Step Up (lvl 11)
12) Unarmed Fighter 10: Bab +11/+6/+1 | Lunge (fighter)

Running a few theorycraft numbers I came up with the following:

Assuming a +2chain shirt, +2 heavy shield, +3ring of protection, & a +3amulet of natural armor. Also including fighting defensively (+6ac due to 3 acrobatics ranks and cautious fighter feat) and combat expertise. AC = 36

Attack & damage wise with a +3 butterfly sword I'm right around: +17atk/+12atk full attack dealing 1d3+20dmg.

Been wanting to play a small character (Halfling) and I figured I could play to their strengths to have a hard to hit character that can stick to enemies and be a "decently sized" pain in their side.

Would you change any of the feats or etc? Looking for suggestions. :)

[dwayne germaine]

Crane style requires the Dodge feat as a prerequisite

You might need to wait until level 2 for crane style since your strength is so low and you likely need the weapon finesse

[Chess Pwn]

You can get crane style as the fighter. But slashing grace won't work on the butterfly sword since it is a light weapon. Also I don't think the Osyluth guile feat helps you at all since you don't have a charisma bonus

[Kysus Arelius]

Chess Pwn wrote:

You can get crane style as the fighter. But slashing grace won't work on the butterfly sword since it is a light weapon. Also I don't think the Osyluth guile feat helps you at all since you don't have a charisma bonus

Guess I'll have to settle with an Aldori Dueling Sword...I love how Pathfinder limits your options on what weapons to use. For a 1handed weapon to use Dex for damage it's either Aldori Dueling Sword or Scimitar only....

I must have had a higher Charisma score earlier when I was looking at Osyluth Guile also. I think trying to improve my charisma score to 12 would most likely hurt me more than it'd be worth. Any suggestions on feats?

[Kysus Arelius]

dwayne germaine wrote:

Crane style requires the Dodge feat as a prerequisite

You might need to wait until level 2 for crane style since your strength is so low and you likely need the weapon finesse

Unarmed Fighter gets a free style feat at 1st level that ignore pre-reqs. Thanks though, but Dodge isn't needed in this situation.

[dwayne germaine]

Ahh, nice. I missed the ignore pre-reqs bit of the class feature.

[Matt2VK]

If you want to make yourself a target, I suggest taking a look at getting a level of the Swashbuckler Archetype - Mouser.

You'll loose a level of unarmed fighter but I think the trade off might be worth it.

[Kysus Arelius]

Any other thoughts or suggestions. Would like some ideas on some good feats.

[Cevah]

You are looking for Advice in the Rules forum. Flagged for relocation.

/cevah