I really wanna make a teleporty melee character.
basics...
1. PFS
2. early teleporting (probably means wizard or arcanist w/ school understanding exploit)
3. Picturing "Nighcrawler"-ish type character
4. More fun, less min/max
Unless I'm missing something, using the teleportation school is the only way to get multiple ports per day. Please let me know if there are other PFS legal ways to get low level porting.
This is for a tiefling (demon looking, tail, smell of brimstone after port), so a interesting choice I was thinking of using is claws alternate racial trait. 2 natural attacks at 1st level MAY help make up for small damage dice. I'm not sure if "improved natural attack" is a PFS legal feat, but larger damage dice is always welcome.
I'm thinking with the armor restrictions on casting, dumping (10 or less) str, and going weapon finesse with a higher dex, would help AC as well as ranged touch attacks (spells). Of course, the damage doesn't jump until I can get "agile" property (probably lvl 4 or 5). Since I'm focusing on teleporting, if we could somehow add sneak attack, that would be a great way to boost damage.
If it were possible, a magus with access to telerportation school would be IDEAL, but a wand mastery arcana with a wand of vanish might fit instead?
My initial thought is something like this:
str - 10
dex - 14 + 2 tiefling
con - 14
int - 14 + 2 tiefling
wis - 10 - 2 tiefling
cha - 14
1st feat - weapon finesse
possible classes:
arcanist w/ school understanding for 1st exploit
wizard (melee focused)
magus
multiclass options:
rogue/wizard
wizard/magus
wizard/monk
with claws, dragon disciple at 5th?
Well that's plenty to get the creative juices flowing.
Please help get me going in the best direction.
poke
Arcanist.
Dimensional Slide is what you want, and you get it at level 1.
@kestral - damage will wait until agile AoMF with that option. would claws qualify for slashing grace?
@RumpinRufus - I looked at Dimensional Slide, but it requires 1 point of reservoir per use, where school understanding (teleportation) provides 3+cha mod/day without reservoir, unless I want to raise wiz level for power to arcanist level by using 1 point. The school would leave the reservoir free for other abilities. But, it is a possible choice all the same.
Claws (and I think all natural weapons) are Light Weapons. Slashing Grace only works with One Handed Weapons. Categories that is, not like, whether you use one hand or not. So no, claws don't qualify.
The arcane school power acts as Dimension Door, which means after you use it, you can't take any actions until your next turn. That's a huge tactical disadvantage... especially if you're going to be a melee character. No teleporting into flank and then attacking, if you're a wizard. And it's also 5 ft/2 levels, compared to 10 ft/level for the arcanist.
For the ability to teleport and still take your standard action, I would go arcanist.
How about a small hellcat stealthing hunter? You'll be pretty much invisible.
Dimensional Agility actually does nothing to fix this. The Dimensional Assault line applies if you cast Dimension Door or if you use Abundant Step. The Shift ability that the Teleportation wizard gets is neither of those.
No matter how you do it, after you Shift, your turn is over. Arcanist doesn't have that problem.
@RumpinRufus - agreed on distance, the dimensional slide wins. I would lean towards shift due to resource (arcane reservoir) economy.
either arcanist or wiz are both using d6 hit dice. Meaning, preferably they don't want to be taking a hit, so the tactic to overcome the "no more actions" would be: move into melee, attack, THEN port away from melee.
In order to get Shift moving you any reasonable distance, you need a good number of wizard levels. Moving you 5 ft. does basically nothing to port away from melee, because they can 5-foot step. Moving 10 ft is also not enough once you get to mid-low levels, because enemies will have reach. So you need 15 ft of Shift before it's effective for what you're trying to do, which is already level 6 and you're behind 3 BAB.