For a long time now I have been wanting to make a good crossbow build. I looked on several forums and the only things listed was, 1. " don't crossbows suck" 2. " gunslinger bolt ace" and later " overwatch style fighter sub class crossbow ace." 3." make a bow build"
This did not suit me, out of the shear amount of feats and items there could not only be 2 options, right? well a few weeks ago I was looking up range feats and saw, the ranged trip feat. This got me interested in a range trip build, but the feat sucks. so i was looking into alternatives, and i decided to focus on the crossbow. After doing more research and almost giving up hope I found the one thing perfect thing. bola bolts the second I found this I knew it could be a good build base, the only problem was that you don't get Ability to CMB, nor do you get to add any weapon enchant to chance. but even with this fact I did not give up hope. so I did the only thing I knew how.
Min-maxing/ optimizing the hell out of it. I researched every possable way to get more CMB at low LVs, feats,weapons,items, at LV1 so that left me with traits and class. so I looked and planned and this is what I came up with.LV1 build
As you will have noticed This build sucks at LV1, there are such so many limitations 5Cmb is nothing if this was a normal trip build it would of had at least 8-10, it's a heavy cross so i need an extra feat before i can fullround, and its really heavy and most of all weapon enchantes do nothing. I just about gave up when I saw this, it looked like it sucked. BUT, then thought of what it could of been. so i stated out what it would look at when everything came together. LV7 build
That is disgusting, at LV7 you will be able to trip 3 people in 1 fullround at +20CMB you get to reroll when they are being threatens by another enemy, and when they do trip it provokes. and a +15/15/8 fullround being the only downside while not being good it's not bad and that's only with base equipment. all your gold would go into uping attack,ac,and saves.
so what do you think? is this a broken build? did I mess up on any rules that would make this not work? and most of all know that I intend to never play this build. the only reason I am posting it is the shear amount of work i put into it.
if it suck well, it's a crossbow I tried by best.