Hello, im about to start a new campaign and i was thinking on something i havent played yet and the gunslinger got my attention. Long story short i would love to play a gunslinger with a shotgun or shotgun like weapon dishing out scatter attacks at his enemies, kinda like a Graves from League of Legends. I know that every posible build around scatter quality will suck, being the flavor the only good thing about it. So if anyone accepts the challenge, throw at me whathever you came up with and please try to avoid multiclasing (i hope im not asking too much there).
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Oh man, you want to try avoiding multiclassing with a gunslinger? That is an uphill battle unless the campaign ends at 5th level.
I'd say Derrick has the right of it, that'll at least get you 11 levels as a GS doing pretty intense damage. Really post 11 there's no reason to stay GS, as gunslinger might actually be the most dip reliant class in the game.
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Well, Targeted Blast actually does provide a "minor" reason to stay Gunslinger -> You add +(Gunslinger level) to damage to (1+1/5 Gunslinger levels) Targets inside your cone.
So a 5th level Siege gunner can use Targeted blast to deal +5 damage to 2 targets within his cone.
A 11th level Siege gunner can use Targeted Blast to deal +11 dmg to 3 targets within his cone.
If he uses a full attack, and can use Targeted Blast for free via Signature Deed, he can add quite a bit of extra damage that way.
The only problem is the short range of the scattershot.
Yeah, but post 11th you could go 3 levels of Weapon Master fighter to pick up Weapon Training 1, get yourself a set of fighter mittens, and start taking/retraining Advanced Weapon Training feats to boost damage and utility. I mean the value of picking up Sig Deed with Targeted Shot can't be overstated, but post 11th you'll be a lot safer with the 3 levels of WM Fighter and all the goodies AWT provide, at least that's how I see things. But that's pretty late level anyways.
Well thank you very much to all of you so far, you made me realise that non multiclassing would be a pain in the butt if i want it to be relevant in combat, but hey the Siege Gunner seems very good if not perfect for what im looking for!. And your idea Jolly, of advanced weapon training is a very good one, but if it's only for the weapon training i could grab that feat from weapons master handbook which gave you the weapon training I class feature and then you can take "Advanced weapon training". Focused weapon would be great since weapon damage dice is one of the few ways to get better damage out of scatter. By the way our DM is pretty flexible about rules and such and will probably let me use the "Gulch Gunner" archetype on Dwarves if i ask him, since in his own campaign setting some dwarves live in the mountains and have to deal with all kind of creatures in their mining tunnels. And they have crafted some early firearms. So what do you guys think about the Gulch Gunner? it's focused at short range which is what i want: A guy with a firearm going face to face to dish out the max of his weapon's burst. If only gulch gunner and siege gunner could be combined. I may ask him too to combine some class features in a new archetype lol.
EDIT: My bad, i cant acces to advanced weapon training via "Martial focus" it only enables weapon mastery feats.
Well yea, i want to make a character based on Graves but im not trying to literally replicate each of his abilities. About that last question, i think that if you for any reason eliminate all the missfire chance you are just left with comon weapon functionality: 20 = natural crit. 1 = natural fail. So yea, you miss those attacks but the natural 20 is a critical threat.
Btw that thing of limning looks pretty neat.
Well, i would say that if the number in the dice is enough for you to beat their touch AC you hit them, you dont automatically miss due to a missfire because missfire rules with scatter attacks specify that you are not missfiring unless you roll a missfire in every single attack roll.
Missfireception.