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Out of curiosity, was the stat rolling method 100d6, drop lowest 97?
Remember that there's no aggro in the game.
In seriousness, if your purpose is to introduce new players to Pathfinder, I would not recommend playing this character. Especially if you are also the GM. However you rolled them, three 18's and a pair of 15's is going to make a character that, regardless of build, is going to be extremely strong. Especially at low levels. As in, strong to the point where you will probably kill everything yourself and make everyone else think the game is boring.
Okay, now that I've answered the question you didn't ask, the one you did: Rogue Eidolon's Guide to Fighters. All the basics about playing an optimum fighter. Much more thorough than I could reasonably be.
Looks ok but not optimized. With a Dex as high as the one you have I'd go with TWF fight and take the Shield Bash feats. As well an 18 Con is more than good enough put the +2 on Str. If you were a Barbarian then go Con. The fighters main stats are Str and Dex with Con a close secondary.
This the feats I'd take.
Level 1: Two Weapon Fighting(Human Bonus), Power Attack, Improved Shield Slam(Fighter Bonus)
Level 2: Dodge (Fighter Bonus)
Level 3: Shield Focus
Level 4: Weapon Specialization Long Sword(Fighter Bonus)
Level 5: Iron Will
Level 6: Improved Two Weapon Fighting(Fighter Bonus)
Level 7: Shield Slam
Level 8: Greater Shield Focus (Fighter Bonus)
Level 9: Improved Critical Long Sword(Fighter Bonus)
Level 10: Toughness
Level 11: Shield Master
Level 12: Greater Two Weapon fighting
Level 13: Greater Weapon Specialization (Longsword) (Fighter Bonus)
Level 14: critical Focus (Fighter Bonus)
Level 15: Staggering Critical
Level 16: Stunning Critical (Fighter Bonus)
Level 17: Greater Vital Strike
Level 18: Dazzling Display (Fighter Bonus)
Level 19: Shatter Defenses
Level 20: Deadly Stroke (Fighter Bonus)
There are few feat chains I would take. One is Penetrating strike, it's not great feat. By the time you can take that feat (fighter 12th level) you have resources to bypass DR already. Since DR/- is unaffected this feat really doesn't do much for you. Now since I wouldn't take Penetrating strike I got rid of Weapon Focus. Weapon Focus is nice be not really needed so I defense instead but I could easily swap Dodge for Weapon Focus and Iron will using Retraining to get Greater Weapon Focus at 8th level. Taking weapon focus restricts you a bit. I'd go with light weapon and heavy shield off the start so you are -2/-2 with a
I got rid of Cleave and Vital strike because it's just too many feats. You could grab the Vital Strike Chain at 18th level if you wanted it. Vital Strike isn't all that great since it doesn't stack with Cleave and you can't use it in Full Attack action. Cleave is nice but since you have two attacks at 1st level already you can get away with out it.
As for weapons if you use Weapon Focus you limit yourself. I'd use Short Sword and Spiked Heavy Shield so you are doing Short Sword +5 (1 BAB, 5 Str, 1 MW, -2 TWF) 1D6+2 and Heavy Spiked Shield +5 (1 BAB, 5 Str, 1 MW, -2 TWF) 1D6+5. With this way you are doing equivalent damage as the Two handed Weapon fighter before power attack with all the defense of the Sword and Shield Fighter.
Just how I'd do it. You current build is fine except for the Stunning Critical and appears to me more mobile but less damage out put.
Probably something a little less generous with big luck, like maybe 4d6 drop the lowest reroll 1's or maybe 5d6 drop the lowest two. (Or maybe 6+2d6 or 6+3d6 drop the lowest)Out of curiosity, was the stat rolling method 100d6, drop lowest 97?
Remember that there's no aggro in the game.
I've seen Character like that rolled with 3D6 re-rolling 1s and 2s. 9 being the lowest can roll and all.
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In all seriousness too, you don't even need a build with this kind of stats.
You've got a 57 point-buy equivalent, when the game assumes an average 15 or 20 point-buy per player. So you'll either be bored because of easiness, or you'll bore other players who will feel useless.
There are guides out there to help you build your character, but two or three things to consider since you want to play the exact same mechanic-wise character than mine :
Get a keen scimitar, gloves of dueling ; and the bashing finish + two-weapon rend feats. You'll get a free shield strike each time you confirm a critical with your 15-20 weapon, and 1d10+1/1-2 your strength bonus each round you hit at least once with your scimitar and your shield. This also means you have a 1/4 chance to get a scimitar attack + a shield attack + a free shield bash + 1d10+1/1-2 Strength modifier when you can only attack once.
Give up Greater TWFing and any superfluous Weapon Focus/Weapon Specialization, it's not worth it.
I am fairly new to the whole D&D game, especially Pathfinder. I have played Neverwinter Nights, which I know is nothing compared to what D&D can do/is, but it helped me get into the whole concept. As of now, a few of us, that I work with, are going to play a Pathfinder game, so I went ahead and created a Fighter as I can be the tank for everyone.
I think I did an ok build for feats from 1 to 20, going straight Fighter. Only problem is, I do not know if this can be my optimum build. Can anyone lend a hand on this?
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Here is everything that I have done so far:Name: Revan Tilenas
Starting Status: (I did roll these)
Strength: 18
Dexterity: 18
Constitution: 20 (+2 Racial Bonus)
Intelligence: 15
Wisdom: 15
Charisma: 9...
Your scores are simply... WOW. I second the sentiment that your build does not need to be optimized - you will pretty much own everything level-equivalent. In fact, you could play a wizard as a fighter and probably still hold your own there...
That being said, with awesome stats like that you could try to focus on a different kind of fighter, for example one who goes for the role of a leader, a historian or such. Use only your bonus feats for combat and the rest for skill focuses and other abilities. Maybe rearrange and get the eldritch heritage chain to get something like heavenly fire or so, simply to give your character a twist.
Alternatively, put one of those 18s or the 20 into intelligence, be a really smart fighter and go for duelist. You will really be able to leverage that INT bonus to AC this way. Say "hello", D'Artagnan ;-P
That being said, with awesome stats like that you could try to focus on a different kind of fighter, for example one who goes for the role of a leader, a historian or such. Use only your bonus feats for combat and the rest for skill focuses and other abilities. Maybe rearrange and get the eldritch heritage chain to get something like heavenly fire or so, simply to give your character a twist.
Alternatively, put one of those 18s or the 20 into intelligence, be a really smart fighter and go for duelist. You will really be able to leverage that INT bonus to AC this way. Say "hello", D'Artagnan ;-P
Now, I recognized Duelist, but I dont know anything outside of the Core classes. I know a little bit out of Duelist, but from only a research aspect. That's why I went straight Fighter.
For a Pathfinder game, what books can I look into to get an idea of other classes? I know of a few in 3.5, but not sure if thats ok for Pathfinder.
It's in the core rulebook, you can also find it here
If everyone else in your group has similar stats, it won't matter that much. If not, ask your GM/DM if you may lower them. In the end it will be more fun for you and your group.
You are all beginners (I assume) so don't worry too much about your future build.
Some ideas concerning feats:
If you leave your stats like they are
- don't take Toughness. If there is one character who does definitely not need it, it is yours.
- take Power Attack at Level 1 or 2
- no Cleave/Greater Cleave (reread the feat, it is very situational)
- try to bolster your saves: Iron Will, Improved Iron Will, Lightning Reflexes, Improved Lightning Reflexes (at least Iron Will). There will be a lot of magical attacks on you in your adventure career and you can not load a saved game. Some spells take you out of combat completely, be prepared.
- take Weapon Spec. at 4th level
- wait with Weapon focus until a little bit later. Maybe you want to go two-handed, but take it nonetheless (2nd/3rd level). You will always be Power-Attacking, so a to-hit-bonus is nothing to sneer at.
- goes well with Combat Reflexes: Step Up (or even the Step Up Chain)
Don't bother with TWF. There's no need for that
A twist for the backstory: what if your character found out it were his foster parents who were responsible (in some way)for the death of your parents? That caused a big conflict in your new family and you had to leave the city...
With stats like those as a DM I'd create an array as follows:
Heroic: 18 17 16 15 12 10
Basic: 16 15 14 13 10 8
For Monsters and encounter design I'd consider the APL to be higher. This is kind of more judgement call. You have to experiment and judge based on the encounter as to how challenging it was and how the players and how they dealt with it. If it turns out easy because of the high stats award the encounter as lower CR encounter. Just award XP for encounters in the range of APL -1 to APL +3. Even if the encounter is technically higher CR than the what fits don't give out more XP just because they party is taking on more than it normally could. So for example. If you have level 5 pc the CR is 4-8. But say they take out CR 10 Clay Golem. Was a challenging fight and the PC prevailed. Give the XP as though it was CR 8 encounter.
It works. I've ran game where everyone had the Half Dragon Template and 25-30 pt equivalent builds.
I noticed TWF was mentioned a couple of times. If I was to go this route, how does the attacks work at +6 and on BAB? Do you get to attack with both weapons at a +6 BAB then a +1 BAB (ignoring penalities at the moment)? I just dont understand how this works, which is why I didnt go there in feats.
You would get an attack with each hand, minus whatever penalty for TWF (-2 if the off-hand is light, -4 otherwise, -way too much if you lack the feat). If you had a high BaB, you would attack at +6/+1 with the main hand, and at +6 with the off. If you get "Improved TWF," you would attack at +6/+1 and +6/+1. The same goes for Greater TWF and the second iterative attack.
Just remember that this is on a full attack action only. If you moved, then you could only take a standard attack (in this case, a single strike with either weapon at +6).
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TWFing adds one attack at your best BAB, but gives you a penalty to all attacks made during this round. Examples (not assuming diverse bonuses from magic weapons/weapon focus/etc.) :
Level 1, 18 Strength (+4 modifier), one-handed weapon in main hand, light weapon in off-hand, with TWFing feat (so -2 to attack):
BAB: +1
Melee bonus : 1(BAB) + 4(Str) => +5
Full-round attack, TWFing : +3 (Main hand)/+3 (Off-hand)
Level 6, 18 Strength (+4 modifier), one-handed weapon in main hand, light weapon in off-hand, with TWFing feat (so -2 to attack):
BAB: +6/+1
Melee bonus : 6(BAB) + 4(Str) => +10/+5
Full-round attack, TWFing : +8/+3 (Main hand)/+8 (Off-hand)
If you had Improved Two-Weapon fighting, you would have a TWFing full-round attack at : +8/+3 (Main hand weapon)/+8/+3 (Off-hand weapon).
Notice that this is assuming you have the TWF feat and that you are using a one-handed weapon and a light weapon, not two one-handed weapons (which would give a -4 penalty to attack instead of a -2).
Note that the off-hand weapon deals only half your strength damage unless you have the Double Slice feat ; and only gains half the normal bonus damage on a Power Attack (a -1 attack/+2 damage trade would be -1/+1 for an off-hand weapon ; at level 8 the -3/+6 trade would be -3/+3).
Your GM is going to have a really hard time running any material for characters with those stats.
Some notes on the above:
Weapon Focus is a pre-requisite for Weapon Specialization - one of the builds above doesn't have either Weapon Focus or Greater Weapon Focus prior to getting Weapon Specialization or Greater Weapon Specialization.
By far and away the most powerful fighter feat is Power Attack. Nothing approaches it for utility at cost tradeoffs.
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Cleave and Great Cleave are also of questionable use. You need two enemies that are within melee range of you, and of each other, for Cleave to be useful, and you need even more adjacent enemies for Great Cleave. I don't know how often you intend to fight crowds of enemies, but if you do decide to go with Two Weapon Fighting, you could drop Cleave and Great Cleave to make room for the extra feats and never look back. Power Attack is still great though-- keep that.
As for your skills-- I'd say you really should put a point into Perception. It's just about the most used skill in the game. Profession (Soldier), on the other hand, is something you'll almost never use outside of talking about your backstory. I appreciate that you want the skill trained to reflect your character concept, but at next level I'd strongly suggest training Perception. I'd also say you can back off of putting points into Ride as well. Even if you get a horse, the simpler Ride checks are DC 5. You roll a 1, you add your +4 and still pass. Mounted combat tends to require higher rolls, but your feat selection seems to suggest that you don't intend to be fighting on horseback very much.
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I don't know if everyone in your party has stats that fantastic, but, if they dono't, you might want to go into being a Combat Maneuver fighter, instead of a plain vanilla type.
Your Int is high enough to support going for Combat Expertise, as well as Combat Reflexes, then you go up the Trip & Disarm chains. Your Strength is high enough that, with Power Attack, you can still do well against the enemies that are either untrippable or non-disarmable (or both), but you can let everyone else shine when you are busy irritating your enemies instead of squishing them like bugs. Also useful if you need to capture someone for information, or are in an area where any killing will get you arrested.
Once you get Greater Trip, you get an AoO for a successful trip, and then you disarm them. With Greater Disarm, their weapon(s) get thrown 15' ina random direction, making them even more unhappy than just being prone makes them.
Doing this with a Reach weapon makes you into more of a battlefield control specialist, too; and someone that can make more than one opponent unhappy.
Some things to consider in this type of build:
Fauchard (from the Cheliax book. 1d10 damage, crit 18-20)
Silversheen (from the Osirion book, makes items made from it immune to rusting, act as silver for overcoming DR)
Lore Warden (archetype, from the Pathfinder Society Field Guide)
On the Lore Warden archetype, it gives Combat Expertise for free, which is good for this type of build, along with giving you even more skill points, and more class skills (ALL Int skills become class skills, which includes all Knowledge skills). You give up the heavier armors, but with that Dex, that is not a big deal.
Several things:
- Don't set this in stone. See how the campaign goes, you may find that the circumstances of your campaign will demand different abilities. Sometimes what seems generally a good "optimized" build will not work in a particular campaign (but on the other hand the general gist of your builds will probably be useful in any build).
- You still have great stats. You can qualify for a lot of feats that other fighters can't qualify for because of stats. For example, with a high Int, you can qualify for combat maneuver feats related to Disarm, Trip, or Dirty trick---which can also be useful when you can't make a full attack with your TWF. Anyway, be aware you've got some options you might not get the next time around you roll stats.
- Did you mean to put Dazzling Display at 18th level? Because that's an odd feat to take at so high a level--it's one best for scaring away hordes of mooks which is way more useful at lower level, usually. I love the idea of Dazzling Display and I love that it and Intimidate gives the Fighter some cool tricks that aren't just "I hit it with my sword." But if you want to take it, I'd take it waaaaay lower down your build, and then take more feats off that chain to make it more devastating. You'd also either need Intimidating Prowess or a better Charisma to take full advantage of the ability, especially since at high level you need. And finally, you've thrown this on top of a shield bash build which seems... odd... I'd pick more TWF or shield feats instead.
- I'd suggest switching Dodge for something else--you're not taking anything that trees off from it and that +1 to AC is relatively meaningless given you're a fighter with a shield, you won't need it. I'd go Combat Expertise if you're going to pick up Combat Manuevers (plus you can take the hit to your to-hit if you're wanting more AC), and otherwise more shield and/or TWF feats with your build as is.
- All that said, play what seems most fun to you. This is not the video game, you won't "lose" if you don't build your character "right," and your stats are still, even after the reroll, able to give you some flexibility. Your starting first level feats are good for most builds, get a feel for your character and the campaign and build up from there. I'm not saying don't optimize or that optimization is bad--planning ahead is a good thing and it's good that you're doing it--but ultimately you need a character that you feel good about playing, not just what the messageboard theorycrafters say is "good," whatever the heck that means.
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I see you've got a scimitar as suggested, but you still need to get Bashing Finish (free shield attack on a confirmed critical hit) and Shield Master (no TWFing penalty on your shield attacks, and you use your enhancement bonus to your shield as a weapon enhancement when attacking with it ; so if you have -2 to attack because of TWFing with your +5 Shield, you effectively gain +7 to attack and +5 to damage with shield attacks as soon as you take this feat).
Also, +1 Defense spikes on your shield to have an up to +12 shield equivalent at the cost of your +5 bonus to attack and damage with the shield (shield : +1, shield focus : +1, enhancement : +5, dueling : +5).
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Let's see if I learned anything:Level 13, 20 Strength (+5 modifier), one-handed weapon in main hand, shield in off-hand, with TWFing feat (-2 to attack):
BAB: +13/+8/+3
Melee bonus: 13(BAB) + 5(Str) => +18/+13/+8?
Full-round attack, TWFing: +16/+11/+6/+1(Main hand) -- +16/+11(Shield Off Hand)
Full-round attack, ITWFing: +16/+11/+6/+1(Main hand) -- +16/+11/+6(Shield Off Hand)
Full-round attack, GTWFing: +16/+11/+6/+1(Main hand) -- +16/+11/+6/+1(Shield Off Hand)
=====Is that right?
If your main weapon is a one-handed weapon and the shield is a LIGHT shield, it's indeed a -2 penalty with the TWFing feat.
Just two big mistakes you made :
- Strength bonus increases your bonus to hit, not your BAB. You only get one additional main-hand attack when your BAB reaches 6, 11, and 16 ;
- TWFing gives you 1 off-hand attack, not two. So, the good way to read it is :
Level 13, 20 Strength (+5 modifier), one-handed weapon in main hand, shield in off-hand, with TWFing feat (-2 to attack):
BAB: +13/+8/+3
Melee bonus: 13(BAB) + 5(Str) => +18/+13/+8
Full-round attack, TWFing: +16/+11/+6(Main hand) -- +16(Shield Off Hand)
Full-round attack, ITWFing: +16/+11/+6(Main hand) -- +16/+11(Shield Off Hand)
Full-round attack, GTWFing: +16/+11/+6(Main hand) -- +16/+11/+6(Shield Off Hand)
Also, don't forget that off-hand attacks deal only half your strength modifier, and get half the normal bonus to damage when using power attack (with 18 Str, at level 1, a scimitar would do 1d6+4 on main hand and a kukri on off-hand would do 1d4+2 ; with power attack (-1 Att +2 Dam) it would be 1d6+6 for scimitar and 1d4+3 on off-hand).
Note that Double Slice doesn't increase your Power Attack damage with off-hand attacks.
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Umm you only need a Dex 17 not 19 to get Imp Two Weapon Fighting. If you mean Greater Two Weapon Fighting I'd suggest you skip it...not really worth that last atatck with such penalties IMO.With the Bashing Finish added in, I had to push GTWF to level 13. Either way, can you explain, or anyone, how this would work with a BAB +13/+8/+3? This is just calculating the amount of attacks, not including any penalties of any kind just yet as I am trying to get an understanding of how this feat works.
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Let's see if I learned anything:Level 13, 20 Strength (+5 modifier), one-handed weapon in main hand, shield in off-hand, with TWFing feat (-2 to attack):
BAB: +13/+8/+3
Melee bonus: 13(BAB) + 5(Str) => +18/+13/+8?
Full-round attack, TWFing: +16/+11/+6/+1(Main hand) -- +16/+11(Shield Off Hand)
Full-round attack, ITWFing: +16/+11/+6/+1(Main hand) -- +16/+11/+6(Shield Off Hand)
Full-round attack, GTWFing: +16/+11/+6/+1(Main hand) -- +16/+11/+6/+1(Shield Off Hand)
=====Is that right?
If by level 13 you don't have a belt or magic SOMETHING that boosts your Dex then you are doing soemthing wrong. 16 is the highest you need to start your Dex at and only use 1 increase to bump it to 17. And I stick by my comment about GTWF being a waste of a feat.
If your main weapon is a one-handed weapon and the shield is a LIGHT shield, it's indeed a -2 penalty with the TWFing feat.
It's more basic than this even: If you are using an one handed weapon and a light weapon then it's a -2 penalty with the two weapon fighting feats.
The shield doesn't have to be the off hand weapon either -- so if you want to use say... a heavy shield and a short sword you would still be on the one handed and light weapon charts.
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If your main weapon is a one-handed weapon and the shield is a LIGHT shield, it's indeed a -2 penalty with the TWFing feat.
It's more basic than this even: If you are using an one handed weapon and a light weapon then it's a -2 penalty with the two weapon fighting feats.
The shield doesn't have to be the off hand weapon either -- so if you want to use say... a heavy shield and a short sword you would still be on the one handed and light weapon charts.
But your main hand weapon would be the shield and off hand the short sword.
Edit-Doh! Only posted half of what I typed (stupid clicking favorite buttons). Was saying the above just to make sure you calculate your Str damage correctly.
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Quickdraw shield has a nice trick with the Quickdraw feat : you may don or remove it as a free action, meaning you can remove your shield to attack with your one-handed weapon as a two-handed weapon (1/1-2 damage on your attack, 1/1-2 Power Attack bonus) when you must approach an enemy and cannot do a full-round attack. Just remove the shield when you get close to the enemy, then don it back after the attack is made so you are protected during your enemy's round.
Also, I believe it allows you to use two-weapon fighting with your main weapon two-handed, as long as you remove your shield then don and attack with it so the attacks are resolved from higer to lower BAB...
I finally found the Fauchard, which is a 2handed weapon. I, unfortunately, cannot go that route as I am going One handed and Shield.
Out of curiosity, was the stat rolling method 100d6, drop lowest 97?
Remember that there's no aggro in the game.
I approve of this post. Another power gamer up top.
Except for Antagonize of course.
Try this character on for size. AS a level one character its as follows.
Str 18
Dex 14
Con 14
Int 13
Wis 8
Cha 9
Feats:
Level 1: weapon focus halberd/expertise
Level 2: two-weapon fighting
Level 3: Combat Reflexes
Level 4: spinning halberd
Level 5: open-minded
Level 6: weapon specialization (halberd)
Level 7: open-minded
Level 8: melee weapon mastery piercing
Level 9: open minded
Level 10: double-slice
Level 11: open-minded
Level 12: Greater Weapon Specialization (halberd)
Level 13: mage-slayer
Level 14: crushing strike
Level 15: open-minded
Level 16: overwhelming assault
Level 17: open minded
Level 18: close quarters-fighting
Level 19: open-minded
Level 20: weapon supremacy (halberd)
Yeah boyo! Rock that halberd.
I would favour the pole-axe instead, and pay a feat for that sweet 2d6 halberd with reach.
I will look into this then. I do not recall half the feats listed on here. Where are those located? And I am going to assume that open-minded is a feat at my choice.
I dont know all the possible books out there, so if these came from 3.5 books, then I will have to do more research on that as this build sounds really good.
They are pretty much all 3.5 feats. Open-minded is a feat that gives you 5 skill points each time you take it.
I, frankly, wouldn't recommend this build. First, this fighter would have an incredibly atrocious will save. A bad reflex save can hurt you, and a bad fortitude save can kill you, but a bad will makes you kill your party. There are tons of feats spent for extra skill points (which aren't a big gain with the fighter's limited skill list). It spends feats to become good at two-weapon fighting with both sides of a halberd, but the dex is too low to actually qualify for Two-Weapon Fighting or Double Slice until at least level 4 (Improved Two-Weapon Fighting is out of the question). It takes Combat Expertise but doesn't continue on any of the chains, which is not a strong option. It's really just kind of all over the place.
If you are allowed 3.5 sources, you should check out the old CharOp boards at Wizards. People did awful, wonderful things with a few hundred splatbooks worth of material.
A thing that might have been left aside, as most people consider it minor are your traits.
As a fighter, you definitely do not need armor expert. Armor training and a masterwork suit will take care of that. And unless you plan to be swimming, climbing and stealthing all the time, Armor check is'nt that of a big deal for you.
Quite a few traits increase saves by a point. It may not seem much, but for a fighter a +1 to Will saves is always good to have, and might save your whole party's life.
Rich parents is great at the start, but you'd barely notice the difference by level 2, and probably not at all at levels 3 and higher. You'll come accross masterwork stuff pretty soon in your adventures. So if I were you I'd drop those too and go for something else. Hey, your background already mentions you were bullied as a child, so why not take the most popular trait of them all, Reactionary, for a +2 to initiative? Or a +1 to a reflex save too? Or modifiy your background a bir, say you became a trainee of the Pathfinder Society and take the astoundingly good Defender of the Society trait? (+1 AC with medium or heavy armor).
Also, Iron Will is a must. It's true that a bad will save will make you kill your party, I almost just did that in one of our games (as a sword and shield fighter), over 1 failed save.
That said, even considering this I'm not so sure of your choice of 18 in Wisdom and 15 in Con. Putting your other 18 in Con would net you 20 more HP at level 10, with only 2 less on your will save, and 40 more at level 20. It is definitely noticeable. 15 Wis seems quite enough for a fighter, especialy if you do dump armor expert for a +1 to will saves trait (and if you happen to worship Iomedae, purity of faith in particular is crazy good).
Finally, with such a high dex I think you really should consider taking Combat Reflexes, probably in place of Weapon Focus. WF might give you more chances to hit (wich will barely be felt in the grander scheme of things with all your bonuses), but Combat Reflexes will give you downright more attacks.
Body armor is calculated for the whole body, but gloves, boots and such are magic item slots. So you can get stuff like winged boots, belt of giant strength and the like.
So far, you build appears top notch to me, just maybe put your highest stat in Strength. If you do not have that 3rd 18, 16 in Con will be way enough. Strength can never be to high.
As for deities, unless you are a divine class (and for religion traits) they have no mechanical impact whatsoever. They should however strongly impact your role playing if you chose to be especially devoted to a deity (like by taking a religious trait). But again, no mechanical effect at all.