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Hello,
I am finally been able to get play as a player rather than a DM and I want to show my group some fighter options they've been missing out during character creation and promote various dueling traditions that pathfinder has.
The idea was to create a master duelist true to Baron Aldori spirit of being the words best fighter of his generation.
I decided to combine some master of many styles levels and sword lord ffighter levels to get all needed feats at 4th level (human monk 2/fighter 2)
crane style and crane wing for parrying (2nd)
aldori dueling mastery (4th)
The idea is to get at 7th lvl spring attack. Use it to jump more than 15-20 feet from the target and parry his charge/assault with crane wing leaving him with none or only one attack if he's dual wielding.
My questions are:
Does crane wing work against disarm/sunder and other actions that might target the blade?
If by gaining: two weapon fighting, master craftsman and craft magical w&a would I be able create a magical Defending gauntlet that would boost my AC and still get away with having the off hand free?
Could armor bracers work stack with a defending weapon such as magical shield stacks with a magical armor?
Is this broken? I don't want to get on the DM's nerve because I wanted to show off something new. I know that Aldori Swordlords aren't very well received because they don't hold up to the rest very well but I believe that such high AC from defensive fighting and near impenetrable defence when dueling against an armed opponent could be quite a nerve wracking experiance for the DM.
First off, a character charging gets only a single attack despite using two weapons.
Your questions:
1) Not sure. It could be ruled either way as I see it.
2) No. You need to make attacks with the defending weapon to gain its bonus to AC. If you make attacks with the gaunlet it is not 'free'.
3) Yes. The bracers grants you an armor bonus, like regular armor. Shield (or your aldori dueling sword mastery) grant shield bonusses. The defending property grants an untyped bonus AC that stack with all other.
4) It hardly broken. However Crane Wing is quite potent, especially at lower levels. You've chosen the easy acces through MoMS, a level dip that some would consider 'cheesy/min-maxing/what-ever-term-you-use".
For the rest of the build, you damage is probably going to be pitiful, since you plan on making a single attack with spring attack.
And while I like the idea of moving out of range, I'd guess that it is rarely going to work as intended. While you move away, your party members don't have that flexibility, and the enemies can use their full attacks there.
On top of this, most of the sworldlord abilities (such as the AC bonus) only work if you are making full attacks, which you won't be, when you full attack.
Crane Riposte might be a better investment than spring attack, since it gets you extra damage when you use crane wing. It would also further reduce the penalty for fighting defensively.
I suppose that unarmed strikes would be out of the question for your TWF? I can understand, since the typical way of enhancing them is through the amulet of mighty fists, which both takes up your neck slot and costs twice as much as a normal item.
That used to be the only way, before they released the bodywraps of mighty strikes in Ultimate Equipment. This item takes up the body slot, costs 1.5x normal for enhancement, and has a bit of a painful restriction: it can only enhance a certain number of attacks per round(equal to the number of iteratives you have). This would be a problem usually, since most unarmed builds rely on flurry or TWF with only unarmed strike, but this is perfect for you since only half of your attacks will be unarmed strikes. It is still a bit costly, but not as much as AoMF.
Of course, if you are going Aldori swordlord, you are doing so in part to take advantage of DEX to damage without using agile, right? Sadly, you would still need to buy it for the bodywraps. Hard to get around that fact.