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Hello folks.
I'm here to ask for a build advice on the frontliner role. Let me give me a quick briefing of the situation before making my point.
Our GM has turned one of those classic ADnD modules, Temple of Elemental Evil (ToEE) into Pathfinder, and have been playing since 5-6 months. Yesterday, we experienced our first total wipe in the module (in the most possible brutal way), thus started to prepare a new party before carry on.
For those who doesn't know ToEE, its combat encouters are pretty tough. We are a party of four PC (if we do not hire an NPC to aid us), and nearly we always face against 12-13 opponents. Of course, just 2-3 of those opponents going to be the big-bad-guy, but nevertheless, its just not gonna be very easy facing that much opponents every time. Environment is also harsh, you cannot find every magical shiny things you want from the market (for those who are familiar with ToEE, we wiped at the very entrance of the temple, so we were hanging around the town Nulb mostly).
Okay, here is the thing: Our party was combined of a Paladin, a Bard, an Investigator, and an Arcanist (which was me). After that damn wipe, we also decided to switch the roles. So, I volunteered to be the frontliner of the party. My other friends now thinking about to build a cleric, a wizard, and a rogue.
Before I decided what to play, I want to ask an advice on this thread. I was thinking to build a bloodrager or a swashbuckler. I really would like to play a swashbuckler, but, as I said, I'm gonna be the group's main frontliner, I have hesitations on swashbuckler's durability. Thus, maybe steelblood archetype?
When we wiped out, we were level 5, so we are gonna build our new PCs from that level. And, our GM limited our new PCs WBL by 4000 gp.
Character shouldn't be also very item-dependent one due to the reasons I mentined above.
Any fun to play and face smashing build advice appriciated. Thanks in advance for your help.