| HauntedRulz |
Hey, long time lurker, first time poster here.
I had a lot of fun with a build for a play through of Second Darkness and wanted to mention a few things.
You mentioned the dip into Alchemist for Mutagen, and that Fighter was a strong dip for proficiencies, but didn't touch on the mutagenic fighter out of Advanced Class Guide. I dipped that with Urban Barbarian, and created an enduring mutagen for Dex. These made floating my dexterity around to qualify for feats in the Two-Weapon tree useful.
Since it's not baseline available to Brawlers, it wasn't mentioned in the guide for weapons, but it's mentioning the sansetsukon since it can be two-handed while flurrying. Even if you're not dipping, it's worth the feat investment to get the 1.5x bonus on you main stat mod and power attack. It should outpace the bonuses to unarmed strike in a vacuum, assuming one has a decent strength.
I also wanted to add a quick blurb to action-types. As a brawler, fighting against stuff that came up in the adventure path, I never really had many problems hitting my opponents. What I couldn't hit, I grappled. What I couldn't hit or grapple (happened exactly once when the GM got happy giving magic items to the bosses of one of the books), I sundered. Since landing attacks wasn't ever a problem, fighting defensively is a powerful ability. Even without flexing into crane style, it can allow you to soak some serious blows.
Lastly, for equipment, I wanted to suggest adding quick-runner shirt as an early game item. Since I wasn't going into unarmed, I used mine the entire length of the adventure path. Once per day, in a clutch situation, it solves the horrible move problem (I was in full-plate from the mutagenic fighter dip, so mine was even worse). More often than not, I used the shirt to get around obstacles that would impede my pummeling charge.
Anyway, sorry for ranting. I just found your guides and had to read up on one of my favorites. I hope I was able to contribute. ^_^