I wanted to build and play a character using the two-hand speed fighter style of Kirito from SAO/ALO. This does nto need to be exactly like Kirito but something close to it in mechanics anyway.
Now I was thinking Paladin on one side, mostly due to my love of the Paladin fluff, possibly the Paladin of Freedom variant rules from 3.5 (Changes the first aura you get then everything is the same).
As for my second class I was thinking Swashbuckler, only for the focus on critical hits and speed fighting with the blade.
Now I found a 3rd Party archetype called the Two-Weapon Duelist that allows you to wield two weapons and still use Precise Strike, but you must hit with both weapons before you can apply the precise strike deed effect, so if you fail to hit your offhand you do not deal precise strike.
Effortless Lace would allow me to use two longswords as light for the purpose of Two-Weapon fighting, and Slashing Grace would make them work with the deed.
There are two feats in the 3rd Party book I found to be powerful, Two-Weapon Panache and Improved Two-Weapon Panache. One allows you to use Precise strike while attacking with an offhand. So it does nothing for the person taking the two weapon duelist archetype. But Improved allows you to apply Precise Strike to both your primary and offhand attacks.
What do you all think? What race would be best suited? What feats should I focus on? What traits? I am gonna pick up flaws so I have extra feats too.
I don't have access to the 3rd party book to check out this archetype you're referring to, but it's still probably easier to use sawtooth sabers for TWF purposes so you don't need effortless lace.
Not gonna make any suggestions for gestalt as that's too messy for me to bother with, but slayer/ranger would be better over paladin, can get more skills and TWF fighting feats.
Kirito in the anime, his whole focus was he had the fastest reaction time and speed to follow which is why he was given dual wielding unique skill, it is what forced Kayaba to use his system assist ability to cheat to avoid being hit during their duel.
And he was not particularly Strong in SAO, in GGO he has a higher then normal Str type.
The reason I was thinking Paladin//Swashbuckler was Cha to all saves, all good saves to boot, Full BABa, Descent amount of skills.
TwF dealing a lot of damage overall especially with Precise Strike adding level to damage with every two hits. At level 7 he could add Precise Strike to every hit via a feat chain. Paladin allows him to focus on one particular bad guy and deal level to damage twice, with crit focus Paladin's smite multiplies on crits so a weapon that does a x2 on a crit will double level to damage from the paladin's smite even if it does not double the twf precise strike.
Kirito reall does not focus on sneak Attack damage as he fights mostly face to face, the increase in skills from Slayer is a good idea though.
Hunter using animal focus Tiger and Frog would do really well for a kirito focus, because of his speed and original use of only one hand with no other weapons or shield.
Though the divine hunter verminous hunter do well, killing off the companion to gain aspects for themselves does render most of those archetypes powers useless, trading out things I could otherwise possibly use.
I know this isn't very helpful, but I think building Kirito is kind of like building Deadpool: way to awesome to attempt :P
I'm not familiar with the anime, but just based off of what I've read in this thread it sounds like a fighter/monk[sohei] might be a good fit...
you'd have full BAB, all good saves, 4+ skills... the sohei can flurry in armor (which synergizes nicely with fighter), and can flurry with any weapon that they have weapon training for (normally they have limited options for weapon training, but since you get it as a fighter feature as well you can pick anything!); they also add 1/2 their level to all their initiative checks.
you want to be Dex focused so make a human (or half-human, or aasimar with 'scion of humanity')... for 4 of your first feats take: weapon finesse, weapon focus [sawtooth sabre], slashing grace [sawtooth sabre], and martial versatility [slashing grace]... that weapon focus is just a feat tax- you'll never use a sawtooth sabre- but with that combo of feats you get to use Dex for attack rolls and damage rolls for every weapon in the 'light blades' fighter weapon group (the only exception is the sawtooth sabre which only gets Dex to damage but not to attack rolls). Fight with a wakizashi or a kukri (or whatever you want), or two if you like the look (you'll be flurrying with them, not actually using TWF, so you only actually need one of them to make all those attacks).
I do not know, reaction time to me says more INT then DEX, especially in a system that reads nerve pulses.
I would not dump DEX at all, but I doubt a score above 14 is really needed. His skill points would greatly surpass his ability mod, which is also accurate to the anime where we see in a flash back a boar gut him. The thing I remember most when he was in battle or others were looking at his gear, he always had a really heavy weapon and treated the weight like it was nothing. This tells me he had a very high STR score.
Your choice in the end.
That was due to another skill called Extended Weight Limit, basically it acts like Ant Haul for the person, or Muleback Cords? The one that treats your Str score as six higher for weight limits.
But all these are really helpful, I have the Unchained preordered so I may wait and see what the new Rogue and such has to offer.