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I wanted a second opinion for this build i have, I like the idea of the wrestler dedication but im unsure how would work on the final levels and most importantly I dont know if the feat order is good or if it have some kind of avoidable redundancy, The Acrobat dedication must stay, that is a condition for me.

1.- Raging intimidation / -
2.- Acute Vision / Wrestler Dedication
4.- Ragin Athlete / Combat Grab
6.- Animal Skin / Suplex
8.- Attack of Opportunity / Acrobat Dedication
10.- Terrifting Howl / Monk's Flurry
12.- Predator Pounce / Whirling Throw
14.- Furious Bully / Monk Moves
16.- Monk)Perfections Path(reflex)/ Inescapable Grasp
18.- Brutal Critical / Spinebreaker
20.- Unstoppable Juggernaut/ Strangle

Any suggestion is accepted, the general idea is there, but i need aid to fine tune it.

Part of the idea is to make a frontline charger, diving first with no fear against enemies while being capable do crush and maim them while moving, grabbing the attention of them.

As a lose idea i was looking to be able to use the roll with it feat to my favour, if he pushes me away i can easily charge back in, if he push me in middle of the enemies that should be something I can abuse too, so things like barreling charge, or a similar that allow me to harm many enemies (bonus if it can be done while moving), could be a good idea for this.

Another option was to use a mount with the rough rider to get some movement from a medium size mount, while being unimpaired by heavy armor speed penalty, if that is the route to take, movement is important for this idea to get in the face of the enemy.

For this idea I'm not looking for that much reach, the spirit of it is to get into someone's face and use some bludgeoning force to smash some skulls with momentum.

If anyone have some ideas, please let me know, i would be thankful.

I have some confusions with the way wild shape with with other classes feats, this is some understanding i have:

You could wild shape while in rage? It seems like yes, but it is hard for me to see if the damage of the rage, or any of the benefits of it, would apply to the new unarmed attacks because how some statistics are replaced, also the line for polymorph says: "the special statistics can be adjusted only by circumstance bonuses, status bonuses, and penalties".

Now another thing that make me confused is the line for the attacks "which are the only attacks you can use", this means that you can't use things like the monk stances that grant new strikes,but also the animal instinct new natural weapon, the polymorph and morph tags don't put limits for each other on a strict way, so a DM could allow some possibility of interaction, but that line forbid it.

Finally i wonder what limits there are to use actions with the natural attack, can it use flurry of blows? Furious finish? Which ones work and how to tell? (Maybe it can't have the "wield a weapon" requirement?).

How this interactions work? And what options could make the wild shape work better? If someone can answer this doubts i have i would be thankful.

Stats
at 1:
Str/Dex/Con/Int/Wis/Cha => 18/14/14/10/12/10
at 20:
Str/Dex/Con/Int/Wis/Cha => 22/20/20/10/18/12

Race: Human/beastkin (imprecise smell) Background: bounty hunter Class: barbarian, animal instinct

Skills Legendary: athletics, acrobatics, stealth, survival
Trained: lore, medicine, nature(at 9)

Feats and skills by level:

1. sudent charge(retrain to acute vision), deer animal selection
2. acrobat dedication/ quick jump
3. fleet
4. raging athlete/cat fall
5. general training (shield block)
6. powerful leap/ animal skin
7. titan wrestler
8. Attack of Oportunity/kip up
9. multitalented (monk)
10. monk's flurry/swift sneak
11. toughness
12. foil senses/ predator’s pounce
13. advanced general training (die hard)
14. quick climber/whirlwind strike
15. canny acumen: Reflex
16. cloud jump/silencing strike
17. Numb to death
18. Legendary sneak/brutal critical
19. Legendary guide
20. unstoppable juggernaut

Thought process:

The idea of the character is to be a Strepsirrhini primate (lemur like) hybrid, animals that are great at jumping, and have an uncanny sense of smell; she is meant to be skilled on tracking, stalking and taking down targets with the aggressive attitude of a honey badger, the deer selection is to re-flavour it as a spear like tail similar to the “Magnamalo” from "Monster hunter Rise".

Skill raising was meant to assist the concept of the beast, while the acrobat dedication was taken to aid the balancing on branches and similar (cat fall and kip up are some add on for a nimble creature to make use of the acrobatics progression), but since that is the only use maybe I’m underusing the feat. Sneak is to gain some position advantage in some cases (or rescue someone captive/finda and eliminate a key enemy if a frontal fight is too dumb, while aiding the stalker side of the character) and initiative boost if it can be used for it, maybe there is more to it but I dont know it yet.

No intimidation because of the stat selection, inspired on cats, apes and badgers from the bestiary, so I’m unsure if the lack of demoralizing is significant, apes do have intimidation and it could be a good way to reflect the inner badger of the character, but not sure if the drop on wisdom is good idea (being good with its senses to track criminals and kidnapers is important and is more important for this char to let the screaming to the preys).

Beastkin is great for the appearance and the senses… but the feats are not good, even some of them have problems to add to the barbarian! The transformation feats don’t add anything to the barbarian, not only have minor clash with the character idea, but it doesn’t even allow to use the rage weapon nor rage damage, so that is awful in its own right, Animal swiftness feels interesting, but climbing is already achieved from lvl 15 with quick climb or 4 with raging athlete, and I’m unsure that is worth for 5ft of speed (that is me being new to the system speaking, if someone know something that I’m missing, feel free to tell me).

If someone have ideas to correct in the build (maybe bad order of what level I’m getting each thing) feel free to tell me, and thanks in advance.