I am new to pathfinder (Have played 3.5 in the past) and wanted some help with a build for pathfinder society. I was given a nudge towards an Aastanar who could become an EK do this at level 3.
My main idea was to control the battlefield without always being directly in melee combat while still having good utility and spells. using combat reflexes to punish those coming after me.
Part of the problem being a built a balance of armor / str / dex / con / int and spell failure.
I'm actually ok with doing less damage overall, but i would want to hit things as power attack / Arcane Strike can (help) make up the difference. This led me to finesse weapons, keeping dex up, armor and spell failure down.
The elven curved blade caught my eye, and still does, but doesn't offer as much control and i would be a little worried about being directly next to an enemy. enlarge person (esp wands) do help fix this to some extent.
This lead me to polearms, alas spiked chain was changed and the only one that remains is the whip (please correct if i am wrong), which i immediately rebuked until i saw the feat chain for them. But what an expensive feat chain it would be!
This would lead to an overall path looking something like:
1-
power attack - (fighter - 1)
combat reflexes - (1st level)
3-
arcane strike - (EK - 1)
weapon finnese - (3rd Level)
5-
Exotic Weapon - whip (5th level)
7-
Weapon Focus (whip) (7th level)
8-
Whip Mastery (EK - 5)
9-
Improved Whip Mastery (9th level)
11-
Weapon Specialization (whip) (11th Level)
Greater Weapon Specialization (Whip) (EK 9)
Any suggestions? Is this viable? I would start off with a polearm/sword and switch to a whip at level 9. What i don't like about this are the essentially "dead" feat levels between 5-8. The advantage to that path too, damage dice become less important then the modifiers so by the time the whip comes into play the modifiers are decently high.
saving wealth on weapons wouldn't be too bad until the whip comes into play, a masterwork weapon with arcane strike with Greater Magic Weapon soon enough.
Could i be survivable enough with the just the curved blade? The whip part does look intriguing and fun though.
