I'd suggest skipping Vital Strike in favor of Furious Focus. The attack bonus will benefit you more than the damage die.
Increasing your number of attack rolls is a good way to get more hits, so choosing an animal from with 3 or even 5 attacks is good.
As mentioned above, flanking is your friend:)
How are you going to retrain a feat?
Do Fighters get to retrain their Bonus feats and their level progression feats?
Nice...
Though before to long you might want to pick Craft Wondrous Items again after a while if you don't have another character in the party with it.
If your GM is keeping you cash starved try asking him if you can use harvested materials from unusual creatures as components to make items in place of cash as it is more thematic and he can still limit your selection by saying "Hmmm well yes the iron spikes from that manticore can be used to make enchanted shield spikes or a magical morning star but it's not suitable for that amulet of natural armor ect."
Power attack, like deadly aim, is frequently a poor feat choice for 3/4 BAB combatants. You are already having to struggle to keep up with a full BAB progression, anything that reduces your to hit is generally a bad idea.
Bull's strength is your friend here though.
When you hit from below, you catch the opponent flat-footed.
Where do you see this BBT? I've not heard this before.
When you hit from below, you catch the opponent flat-footed.Where do you see this BBT? I've not heard this before.Whilst in the ground, you have total concealment.
It makes you effectively invisible.
OK, so "hitting while in the ground with total concealment" is not remotely the same thing as "hitting from below."
Also "burrowing" is not necessarily going to allow you to "hit from the ground with concealment". This might work in earth elemental form where you can literally move through the earth, but a medium sized creature "burrowing" in the ground is not going to be something that escapes notice, and if your target can't see you, how can you see your target? If you are concealed from your target by the dirt, then your target would also be concealed from you. Unless you can show me some rule that allows "peeking" through the ground to hit your opponent.
Power attack, like deadly aim, is frequently a poor feat choice for 3/4 BAB combatants. You are already having to struggle to keep up with a full BAB progression, anything that reduces your to hit is generally a bad idea.
Bull's strength is your friend here though.
so save it to use with furious focus on 1 hit wonder only i guess.
So, how is a wild-shaped druid using furious focus anyway?
When you hit from below, you catch the opponent flat-footed.Where do you see this BBT? I've not heard this before.Whilst in the ground, you have total concealment.
It makes you effectively invisible.
OK, so "hitting while in the ground with total concealment" is not remotely the same thing as "hitting from below."
Also "burrowing" is not necessarily going to allow you to "hit from the ground with concealment". This might work in earth elemental form where you can literally move through the earth, but a medium sized creature "burrowing" in the ground is not going to be something that escapes notice, and if your target can't see you, how can you see your target? If you are concealed from your target by the dirt, then your target would also be concealed from you. Unless you can show me some rule that allows "peeking" through the ground to hit your opponent.
Considering Incorporeal creatures still suffer 50% miss chance on their attacks while remaining within objects and a PC is allowed to ready an action to hit them as their attacking appendage exits the ground, I find it hard to believe a physically corporeal creature displacing the ground would have an advantage the incorporeal creature doesn't.
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Considering Incorporeal creatures still suffer 50% miss chance on their attacks while remaining within objects and a PC is allowed to ready an action to hit them as their attacking appendage exits the ground, I find it hard to believe a physically corporeal creature displacing the ground would have an advantage the incorporeal creature doesn't.
OK, so "hitting while in the ground with total concealment" is not remotely the same thing as "hitting from below."
Also "burrowing" is not necessarily going to allow you to "hit from the ground with concealment". This might work in earth elemental form where you can literally move through the earth, but a medium sized creature "burrowing" in the ground is not going to be something that escapes notice, and if your target can't see you, how can you see your target? If you are concealed from your target by the dirt, then your target would also be concealed from you. Unless you can show me some rule that allows "peeking" through the ground to hit your opponent.
Weird thing to get offended by.
I am sorry I offended.
Using burrow, to gain total concealment, stealth in process, then catch the opponent flat-footed, is a tactic I have seen used.
If it was totally wrong, and so was the players, and DMs I have seen using the tactic, then by all means, show me the error of my ways.
I could actually use that to my advantage.
Considering Incorporeal creatures still suffer 50% miss chance on their attacks while remaining within objects and a PC is allowed to ready an action to hit them as their attacking appendage exits the ground, I find it hard to believe a physically corporeal creature displacing the ground would have an advantage the incorporeal creature doesn't.
OK, so "hitting while in the ground with total concealment" is not remotely the same thing as "hitting from below."
Also "burrowing" is not necessarily going to allow you to "hit from the ground with concealment". This might work in earth elemental form where you can literally move through the earth, but a medium sized creature "burrowing" in the ground is not going to be something that escapes notice, and if your target can't see you, how can you see your target? If you are concealed from your target by the dirt, then your target would also be concealed from you. Unless you can show me some rule that allows "peeking" through the ground to hit your opponent.
Weird thing to get offended by.
I am sorry I offended.
Using burrow, to gain total concealment, stealth in process, then catch the opponent flat-footed, is a tactic I have seen used.
If it was totally wrong, and so was the players, and DMs I have seen using the tactic, then by all means, show me the error of my ways.
I could actually use that to my advantage.
I don't get offended on the internet BBT, I'm too old. =)
On a conceptual level I actually think you have a solid strategy. The problem is the rules don't play out that way, at least not beyond the first attack. The incorporeal special quality states that
An incorporeal creature inside an object has total cover, but when it attacks a creature outside the object it only has cover, so a creature outside with a readied action could strike at it as it attacks.
The moment a creature's appendage leaves the ground, the creature goes from total to only partial cover. This leaves it open to readied attacks.