| ryan beller |
Arkadwyn your not thinking how to use dirty trick clearly. Yes its only a move action to remove however this is how i use it in my group. I simply delay my action till my group members act directly after me and use blind or sicken on the appropriate creature allowing maximum attacks on it before it can remove the effect. I use a reach weapon so no attacks of opportunity hit me. as soon as a creature is blinded my party can then gang bang a creature that has NO DEX MOD added to defense and -2 ac this means almost all your groups attacks targeting that creature will hit and your rogue gets sneak attack its all in the timing. Also since the creature is blind it is fairly safe to move around it to get flanking bonuses due to the 50% concealment!
Sure trip gives melee characters +4 to hit but what about any ranged characters? they will take a penalty to hit not good for rogues back stab either! not only that but a lot of creatures are either immune to trip or have a very high bonus against it.
Grapple means that your also out of combat and if your a healer *oracle of battle* like i am grappling is NEVER a good idea. I just use entangle not only does it reduce movement to 1/2 it also applies nasty penalties to attack and Dex sure they can move but not far enough to matter and it almost always forces my GM to use the move action to remove it.
Disarm is also kinda MEH imo all they have to do is pick the weapon back up and what about natural attacks those cant be disarmed with dirty trick i can just reduce the effectiveness of a characters attacks directly my gm HATES me i lock down so much stuff with dirty trick its not even funny
My gm even lets me stack effects from dirty trick I can take a vital striking monk and turn him into a wet towel with blind and entangle, spell casters are my favorite since most spells are a full round to cast you use deafen and they cant cast any spells that require them to hear the casting essentially completely locking them down.
Dirty trick is a multi purpose feat it can be used in almost ANY situation if your smart a person will pick up quick dirty trick then be able to attack a blind, entangled, sickened, shaken, dazzled character right afterwards. You just have to be smart enough to use it correctly.
In my opinion Dirty trick is over powered just because of its sheer utility