For throwing weapons, wushu darts and wooden stakes are the ones you are proficient with by default that can be thrown in the brawler's flurry.
Not entirely sure how often it would come up after you grab pummeling charge (seems like it would mostly be fliers), but it is an option. Wooden stakes are free actually.
Pummeling style and charge are extremely powerful, solving a lot of problems with DR while giving you pounce basically. It is highly recommended.
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Are you asking for feats to take normally, or for feats to swap into with martial flexibility?
Typically, you're going to want to use your core feats to build your basic fighting style and your martial flexibility for more situational affairs. For example, if you want to focus on thrown weapons, your best bet (as lemeres mentions) is to specialize in using wooden stakes. Quick Draw is going to be very important to your build, as it'll allow you to draw your stake(s) quick enough to make a full attack with them. Likewise, you'll probably want to invest in a blinkback belt, which will teleport any stake that you throw back into your belt for further use. This, of course, depends on how much you want to focus on thrown weapons.
Picking up Combat Expertise is a worthwhile investment. Not because Combat Expertise itself is good, but it allows you to use martial versatility to pick up just about any Improved combat maneuver feat that you want without needing to invest any additional feats into that combat maneuver. For example, you can take Combat Expertise and whenever you decide that you want to trip, you can use martial flexibility to gain Improved Trip temporarily. Next time, you could take Improved Disarm instead, or Improved Dirty Tricks.
Iron Brush is also a viable thrown weapon.
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Iron Brush is also a viable thrown weapon.
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Oh, you are right, I had skipped over that one because... brush...
The wooden stakes at least got a pass because of the Blade movies. Side note: the description of stakes mentions how iron stakes are just the same thing. So that means metal is fine, and you can grab silver/mithral then. Because you want something that actually works against vampires.
Think of Versatility as you'er casting feats instead of spells.
You need your feat components.
Sand for sleep....combat expertise for...trip this round...steal the next.
Same with Power Attack, dodge, weapon focus,....and the list continues.
Iron Brush is the best ranged weapon because it has the same stats as the Wushu Dart but it also has a Sleight of Hand bonus.
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Here is a human brawler build I've been sketching out. It focuses on unarmed damage and grappling. I noticed you want trip. Its not in my core feats but still accessible through martial flexibility. You can have trip as your 2nd maneuver training...focus on grapple. Trip does poorly IMO because it is extremely difficult to do. If the enemy flies, has more than 2 legs, or has no legs you can not trip them easily. This is why I didnt waste feats on it.
Human 20 point buy
Str 17 (15+2), dex 14, con 15, int 10, wis 14, cha 7
Traits: martial artist (+1 all unarmed damage), accelerated drinker
Feats and class progression:
1HD Brawler 1- weapon focus- unarmed strike, power attack
2HD brawler 2- pummeling style
3 HD brawler 2/master of many styles monk 1- pummeling charge, combat reflexes
4 HD Brawler 2/ MoMS monk 2- Dragon style, (+1 str)
5HD Brawler 3/ monk 2- Dragon Ferocity
6HD Brawler 4/monk 2-
7HD Brawler 5/ monk 2- Improved grapple, combat expertise
8HD Brawler 6/ monk 2- (+1 con)
9HD Brawler 7/ monk 2- Iron Will
10HD Brawler 8/ monk 2- Greater Grapple
11HD Brawler 9/ monk 2- weapon specialization- unarmed strike
12 HD Brawler 10/ monk 2- (+1 str)
By dipping monk you gain several things...evasion being a huge thing. Monk saves for 2 levels is +3 to all 3 saves. You also get both stunning fist and knock out. Master of many styles lets you do dragon style+pummeling styles. With combat reflexes you could martial flexibility into snake style line....combat expertise+power attack allows Martial flexibility to grab ANY combat maneuver on the fly.
I recommend these items:
wayfinder+dusty rose prism (+2 to all CMB AND CMD)
jingasa of the fortunate soldier
belt of physical perfection +2
Holy Amulet of Mighty fist
Swarm bane clasp
Headband of wisdom +2
potions of enlarge person, barkskin, heroism, resist energy 10, and shield
Sounds like a fun build. Nice job.
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If you're going to do much tripping & are going unarmed - you should grab Vicious Stomp & Combat Reflexes. Once you grab Greater Trip, you'll get two AOOs every time you trip something.
Also of note - with the brawler ability to grab combat feats for particular situations, once you get up to being able to grab three, you can grab Spring Attack to combo with your double AOO. At that point, Spring Attack becomes pretty mean. (depending in large part upon the target)
Of note - while opinions may vary widely - I'd avoid spending a feat on Power Attack if you're going to be using manuvers most of the time. Power Attack isn't all that great without the 3:1 ratio of using a two-handed weapon anyway.
attacks of opportunity arent like sneak attack?
Attack of Opportunity
Sometimes a combatant in a melee lets her guard down or takes a reckless action. In this case, combatants near her can take advantage of her lapse in defense to attack her for free. These free attacks are called attacks of opportunity. See the Attacks of Opportunity diagram for an example of how they work.
Basically, it is a free pot shot that you get when the other guy is distracted with things like going reading, doing the song and dance involved with spells, picking a penny off the ground, rummaging through their backback, or try to ignore and walk right next to the guy using a sword bigger than he is.
You can look at the basic list of actions found in the table in this link. The table tells you if the action normally leaves someone open to attacks. Of course, feats and abilities can change whether a certain action draw an AoO or not.
The attack you make with an AoO is at full BAB (might be modified with power attack from your last turn though). You can normally only make one AoO per round, although combat reflexes adds your dex modifier to that number.
Overall, AoOs are not like sneak attacks, and you do not need sneak attack in order to make AoOs. Anyone can make them, and you just need to see the other guy with his pants down (taking your pants off in combat definitely draws an AoO... and usually draws one from both friend and foe...hehe..)
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Your build plan here is flawed, Pummeling style requires BAB+6, and P.Charge needs BAB+12. Also Combat Expertise requires Int 13
..did you read either the pummeling feats or the brawler class? There are specific exemptions to all of those.
The pummeling feats let you qualify faster if you are monk or brawler (2 and 8). And brawler just plain ignores the combat expertise prereq.
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The master of many styles can overlook the style feat pre-reqs.
Brawler's Cunning (Ex): If the brawler's Intelligence score is less than 13, it counts as 13 for the purpose of meeting the prerequisites of combat feats.
My build is not Flawed. Its all legal. Tho I posted it a few months ago when Pummeling Charge was banned in PFS. Apparently Its back off the ban list but only works w/ Unarmed strikes.