Build: Oracle (waves) 1 / Rogue or Ninja 10+
Important Abilities/Feats:
Revelation: Water Sight
Spells Known: Obscuring Mist
Advanced Talent: Entanglement of Blades
Feats: Combat Reflexes. Others that would be useful include Improved/Greater Trip, Quickdraw, Archery Feats. Essentially you need to be competent at tripping with a reach weapon and ranged combat. You'll also need to find a good reach weapon to trip with that you're proficient with (by some means).
The setup:
Round 1: Cast obscuring mist.
Round 2+: Pester NPCs with ranged attacks (Sniper's Goggles work well here). You can see your opponents, and they can't see you because of your Water Sight ability. So sneak attack with every shot you can fire.
Round X: (Assuming they come into the Mist and find you in 1 round) Draw your reach weapon, 5-ft away and trip.
Round X+0.5: They stand up. AoO dealing damage. This will include sneak attack damage since you're 10-ft away and they can't see you. Now because of Entanglement of Blades, they can't take a 5-ft step. So instead they move 5-ft which provokes another AoO. This time trip.
Round X+1: Attack prone enemy.
Round X+1.5: Repeat from 0.5. With a high enough Dex, you can do this to more than one opponent.
Not exactly simple to pull off, but looks like it should work. Any one see any problems?
Well broken, sir.
Only issue now becomes letting your allies see wtf is going on in that horrible bloody cloud...
Well broken, sir.
Only issue now becomes letting your allies see wtf is going on in that horrible bloody cloud...
Especially since the best curse to take for this build is probably tongues. :D
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The setup:Round 1: Cast obscuring mist.
Round 2+: Pester NPCs with ranged attacks (Sniper's Goggles work well here). You can see your opponents, and they can't see you because of your Water Sight ability. So sneak attack with every shot you can fire.
Round X: (Assuming they come into the Mist and find you in 1 round) Draw your reach weapon, 5-ft away and trip.
Round X+0.5: They stand up. AoO dealing damage. This will include sneak attack damage since you're 10-ft away and they can't see you. Now because of Entanglement of Blades, they can't take a 5-ft step. So instead they move 5-ft which provokes another AoO. This time trip.
Round X+1: Attack prone enemy.
Round X+1.5: Repeat from 0.5. With a high enough Dex, you can do this to more than one opponent.Not exactly simple to pull off, but looks like it should work. Any one see any problems?
Round 3: fireball no more mist.
Round 4 you cast obscuring mist again, they cast fireball again, guess who win? [grin]
It seem feasible, if you have Combat reflex and at least 12 dexterity.
After the first time you do that I would stand up, get my AoE and ready a sunder action for the next time I see your reach weapon.
Round 3: fireball no more mist.
Round 4 you cast obscuring mist again, they cast fireball again, guess who win? [grin]
It seem feasible, if you have Combat reflex and at least 12 dexterity.
After the first time you do that I would stand up, get my AoE and ready a sunder action for the next time I see your reach weapon.
Of course getting rid of the mist is the obvious counter, assuming they want to waste that spell on a high-level rogue with evasion.
After the first time you do that I would stand up, get my AoE and ready a sunder action for the next time I see your reach weapon.
And fail unless you have the utterly useless Strike Back feat.
Great idea here. Also woo tongues. I hate tongues. Every single oracle I see on the internet has tongues. I have to berate my party members not to play oracles with tongues. The only curse that actually curses the other party members into having to put ranks in linguistics.
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After the first time you do that I would stand up, get my AoE and ready a sunder action for the next time I see your reach weapon.
And fail unless you have the utterly useless Strike Back feat.
Reading the feat, I don't think it apply as you suggest.
The feat allow you to attack a foe that attack you with reach, so the creature, not only his weapon.
The weapon the example guy is using is in reach for me when he attack me.
The feat, if it work as you say, is not useless. Far from it as we see in this situation. But, honestly, needing a feat for what should be the normal effect of a ready action seem excessive.