What are some good and/or cool anti-caster builds you've come up with in your time? They can be a caster or not. Viability at a wide range of levels is a big plus here. Everyone knows AM BARBARIAN, but what else have you guys come up with?
One of my favorites is a hexcrafter magus. They would cast a lot of curse spells to inflict spellblights and focus on getting next to an enemy caster. They would have step up to stay next to the caster when they tried to five foot step away. They'd take the disruptive and spellbreaker arcanas, in addition to the curse strike arcana, whatever that's called. They'd have blighted critical, greater blighted critical, and blighted critical mastery. Probably a finesse build. While I'm not sure how effective soellblights really are, this build would be all sorts of fun and flavorful. It sounds like the new elf magus archetype in the ARG might complement it well with movement abilities and such. Thoughts on this concept? Builds and concepts of your own?
Tetori Monk with the proper feats. Give him flying at some point and it's golden. :)
Wizards, clerics, druids tend to be the best against casters, because only they can deal properly with all the tricks a caster can pull out.
This the character sheet of a spell breaker inquisitor from the Chronicles Pathfinder Podcast I remember listening to awhile back. Might have to change some stuff as idk if your GM is okay with tieflings.
Wizards, clerics, druids tend to be the best against casters, because only they can deal properly with all the tricks a caster can pull out.
Isn't it ironic that the best anti-caster builds are casters...
Litany of Sloth is really good with the Spell Breaker Inquisitor. Forgot to mention that.
Grappling monk or barbarian builds seem to shut down casters pretty effectively.
Grappling is only good against casters if you can prevent them from gaining freedom of movement. Obviously it is tricky to actually cast it once the grapple has been initiated, but it is a decently long duration buff, and there are other ways to gain it than just casting it.
As for the original question, I'll throw in that the brawler fighter archetype has some cool anti-caster tools.
Grappling is only good against casters if you can prevent them from gaining freedom of movement. Obviously it is tricky to actually cast it once the grapple has been initiated, but it is a decently long duration buff, and there are other ways to gain it than just casting it.
As for the original question, I'll throw in that the brawler fighter archetype has some cool anti-caster tools.
Granted, but in I rarely see any of the casters in modules and AP's that have had a freedom of movement item or the spell prepared. Except at really high levels. By then, if I am the ant-caster, I will try to have things like on me to make casting and magic difficult. But no it is not foolproof.
AM BARBARIAN.
Dwarven Witch Hunter Inquisitor with spellkiller inquisition, Glory of Old trait, and Steel Soul. +5 to all saving throws against their spells? Yes please.
Gunslinger is pretty good too. Nothing says "counterspell" like a bullet to the face from a readied action.
Grappling is only good against casters if you can prevent them from gaining freedom of movement. Obviously it is tricky to actually cast it once the grapple has been initiated, but it is a decently long duration buff, and there are other ways to gain it than just casting it.
As for the original question, I'll throw in that the brawler fighter archetype has some cool anti-caster tools.
That's why I mentioned Tetori, which has the ability to nullify Freedom of Movement. Sorry, caster, there is now literally nothing you can do.
AM BARBARIAN.
Dwarven Witch Hunter Inquisitor with spellkiller inquisition, Glory of Old trait, and Steel Soul. +5 to all saving throws against their spells? Yes please.
Gunslinger is pretty good too. Nothing says "counterspell" like a bullet to the face from a readied action.
Why dwarven? The SR they can get?
Also I really wish the Witch Hunger and Spell Breaker archetypes could be combined. I prefer the Spell Breaker more tbh.