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Back in 3.5 I used to only care for the DPS numbers (oh thri-kreen dervish, I shall miss you and your 34 attacks per round) and if I was branching out, control could be handled by yes/no deny type spells like entangle/ black tentacles (either they are grappled or they are not). However when I moved to PF I fell in love with the wealth of tag along debuff options. From the simple metamagics like daze and rime to class features like winter oracle, Pathfinder has taught me the joy of turning my enemies into quivering balls of useless while blowing them up at the same time. So now I am curious: while still being a fairly effective character, what is the highest number of debuffs a character can deliver in one round (I left it vague because there are some pretty strong melee debuff builds as well)? Here is a couple builds I had laying around:
Crossblooded sorcerer (void touched and cold elemental) X/ winter oracle 1 (feats rime and daze): The default spells are elemental touch and snap dragon fireworks. Elemental touch gives you an extra debuff (sicken or fatigue) while snap dragon fireworks allows you to triple debuff (silence only works the round you cast) as a move action. Debuffs are: Daze, entangle, slow, silence, and fatigue. (If you level oracle instead of sorcerer, you can go spirit guide and get the crashing waves hex at lvl 16 to also add prone).
Thug unchained rogue 4/bounty hunter X (enforcer, greater dirty trick, maaaaaybe trip): Losing only 1 BAB means your CMB is surprising high for a stealthy character (and is further boosted by every SA die) and since you are using dirty tricks with your attacks I could easily see the argument for applying weapon bonuses/ weapon finesse to those checks (like with trip or sunder). Two weapon fighting for max numbers of attacks can leave a person Blind, entangled, frightened, sickened, and dibilitated (-2 to ac or attacks). At lvl 12 you qualify for dirty trick master which can nauseate or daze. Another option is shatter defenses to make them flat footed, but seeing as how they are already blind, the only thing that would boost is Sap master.
What ways do your characters have of telling people to shut up and sit down?