"Best" is very subjective.
Gnome Swashbuckler 1/Fighter 2 (lore warden)
Gnome Master Tinker- Crafts his own saw tooth sabres that he is prof cause he crafted them.
Weapon focus- Saw Tooth Sabres
Slashing Grace
Two weapon fighting
You now dual wield a pair of sabres dex to damage.
Best of all you're a gnome.
Full Orc Barbarian(armoredhulk)1/Alchemist(vivisectionist and ragechemist)1/AnyFullBABClass1
Strength 32 when raging and mutated.
That's 2d6+19 when swinging a greatsword at +13 to hit when using Power Attack and Furious Focus as your 1st and 3rd level feats. +1d6 sneak attack at times.
You also get full plate to have a semi-decent AC.
Heck, that's not even counting whatever benefits you can squeeze out of that third class...
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But you wouldn't be a gnome.
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Probably Kitsune Sylvan Sorcerer, to max that DC, high dc on compulsion spells (Sleep) to coup de grace people, combined with an animal companion for flanking/tanking etc...
Now if your dm allows you to use call animals to summon druids with the animal soul feat...this is by far my favorite setup ever for level 3. Summon druids and swarm the battlefield with summon nature allies, done.
I actually posted this a while back. It gives you massive HP and sleep hex DC;
Human racial heritage orc
1)scarred witchdoctor witch (con instead of INT for sleep hex/spells)
2)Barbarian (any archetype, bloodrager might be better now) +4 con
3) Alchemist (or any of the new classes/abilities with mutagen) +4 con mutagen
+2 con belt
= (10 + 1 (witch level) + 5 (ability score) + 4 from above) 20 DC sleep @ 3 with ability focus it's 22 DC sleep @ 3 (23 with a potion of bear's endurance instead of belt)
Carry a scythe for coup de grace
*Edit: with mutation fighter you might want to replace alchemist with fighter and get a high BAB and another feat to play with (if you don't really care for extracts)
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I'm pleasantly surprised by my Asmodean Cleric.
Feats: Combat Reflexes, Command Undead, Sacred Summons.
Variant channeling (Rulership). Domains: Trickery, Magic (Divine).
He plays like a Str 18 reach cleric with a consecrated longspear (Adventurer's Armory). He can channel negative energy to control undead, for a mass Daze, or charge his spear (out of combat) to cause a Daze on the next target hit. He can use Copycat for defense, then trigger his group buff from the Magic domain. He can Summon a Hell Hound as a standard action.
Dot dot dot
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Triple-classed Human with STR10 DEX10 CON10+ INT10 WIS10 CHA18+
This character can go an entire career without ever directly killing anything. Allies & the pet can handle coup de grace as needed.
1 level Dual Cursed Oracle of Heavens - protect yourself and your allies with Oracle's misfortune. Force foes to save twice vs your Save-or-Die spells. The Extra Revelation feat gets you Awesome Display, for super-powered color spray. CHA gives you high DC on spells like Command or Murderous Command. Protects entire party against critical hits. Every Immediate Action is already spoken for, for the duration of your career. If, for the rest of your career, all you ever did was use your Misfortune immediate action to maximum effect every round, you would pretty much pull your own weight.
1 level cleric of horus. Variant Channeling (Rulership) lets you daze-lock entire mobs. Your high CHA gives you a good DC. You must take the animal domain, to keep your AC at level. Other domain is your choice, there are many options. Selective Channeling feat is essential.
1 level sylvan sorcerer. With the boon companion feat tax you have a full animal companion from the start. Cast Color spray as a sorcerer spell, since you don't get it as an Oracle. High CHA gives good DCs.
Stick to Sylvan Sorcerer for 4th+ level. By 7th+ level your gimped casting levels will hurt, so consider planning ways to compensate. Color spray starts dropping off around 10th level. At 8th level you can get Loathsome Veil, which is the best Illusion[Pattern] spell ever. This build is pretty much the only way to apply Awesome Display to Loathsome Veil.
Defense is very strong. Both your animal companion and Misfortune keep you from harm. You have access to terrific buffs, especially with clever use of Share Spells. Excellent saves.
This character lacks the endurance of the slumber witch, but has many more options: Color Spray; Channel Negative Energy to Daze and Damage; Command; others. Here are some ways this character build drops powerful enemies:
#1 Move to 25' from foe, just behind your own martial front-liners. Command (as an Oracle spell using your CHA) the foe to 'Approach!'. Force a 2nd will save if needed. The foe wastes its next action, all your allies get an AoO, and the foe ends its turn surrounded by your front liners. Entire groups of players has been known to fall over laughing when this happens.
#2 Close range super-powered color spray forces will DC. Misfortune forces a 2nd will save. At 5th level a Quick Channel forces a 3rd will save.
#3 Channel negative energy to Daze all nearby foes. At 5th level you can quick channel twice per round. Force one foe to save twice (thrice!). The rest of your party mops up.
Orc barbarian. Get lesser beast totem and use extra rage power to pick up animal fury. You can put down around 40-something damage on a full power attack. My level 5 orc barbarian was pretty much unstoppable with that set up.
human fighter.
5 feats at level 3 FTW!
sry sir but I already posted a monk with 7 feats.human fighter.
5 feats at level 3 FTW!
7 much more limited choice of feats.
sry. trumped.
This build is pretty much the only way to apply Awesome Display to Loathsome Veil.
Straight Oracle into Mage of the Veil PrC is another. Yes, you lose revelation progress, but that's really not the end of the world.
Hey puss, how u getti g rulership on Asmodeous? Dispater has it but not Asmodeous according to my material.
Good question. Given that there's actually a Tyranny variant, it's actually pretty dubious.
Add one level of Master Summoner to any beatdown class.
Angel-Blooded Aasimar Barb1/MS1/Barb2 is wildly strong. Tier your eidolon to be a trap/perception biped.
You can heal yourself, enlarge yourself, hide in the dark, solve traps and flood the battlefield with 7ish monsters. Plus you have two combat feats available.
If you want a ranged build...
Third level is a sweet spot for a Zen Archer monk: You have Weapon Focus, Rapid shot (equivalent in flurry), and Point Blank Master for free. Take Precise Shot and Point Blank Shot as your bonus feats, then you only need a 13 Dex to take Deadly Aim, and all your other points go into Wisdom (which you use for bow attacks, AC, and will save) and Strength.
Go with a dwarf for Wis and Con, take Deep Sight for 120 ft of darkvision. With a composite bow, you can shoot people with no ranged penalty up to 110 ft, which makes for a looooong hallway for critters to run down before they get to you.
Get cold iron durable arrows and weapon blanches to blow through DR.
Any fighter build...
Weapon Master has weapon training kick in at third level, so that's a good one to consider.
I second the Holy Tactician Paladin build.
Picking the right teamwork feat depends on your other party members, but Outflank, Precise Strike, Escape Route, and Lookout are generally useful options for this build. (I have a variant of this build with a reach weapon, Combat Reflexes, and Bodyguard, too.)
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I like Drunken brute barbarian/Vivisectionist alchemist. If your DM rules accelerated drinker works with either mutations or extracts then your golden. Be a strength build to stack mutagen and rage for a +8 to STR. You have sneak attack as well. Move action drinking that wont provoke AoO. (Dependant on the GM ruling) . Extracts of enlarge person and true strike will serve you very well.
That is goofy because Diehard does absolutely nothing on a summoned creature.
A summoned creature also goes away if it is killed or if its hit points drop to 0 or lower
Whether it has Diehard or not, by RAW it still disappears as soon as it hits 0 HP or lower. Poorly written feat.
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That is goofy because Diehard does absolutely nothing on a summoned creature.
A summoned creature also goes away if it is killed or if its hit points drop to 0 or lowerWhether it has Diehard or not, by RAW it still disappears as soon as it hits 0 HP or lower. Poorly written feat.
If the designers didn't intend for GMs to make judgement calls, they wouldn't explicitly tell GMs to make judgement calls.
I like Drunken brute barbarian/Vivisectionist alchemist. If your DM rules accelerated drinker works with either mutations or extracts then your golden. Be a strength build to stack mutagen and rage for a +8 to STR. You have sneak attack as well. Move action drinking that wont provoke AoO. (Dependant on the GM ruling) . Extracts of enlarge person and true strike will serve you very well.
Accelerated Drinker doesn't work with extracts or mutagens, by designer comment. Potion Glutton from Inner Sea Gods is even better and works with everything.
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Sorry, not trying to derail thread. RAW it is useless to give a summon Diehard, RAI it was obviously meant to do something. If I was GMing I would let the summon stick around if it was at negative HP, I guess I was just feeling pedantic.
More ideas in this blog post.