You are going to have a hard time. You need to use a Cestus or Unarmed Strikes on your main hand or be unable to reload your weapon as you need an empty hand (which Cestus or Unarmed Strike provides).
For Rage Powers:
- Reckless Abandon
- Beast Totem line?
- Undead Blood line up to Improved? (Greater is meh)
- Fey Blood line?
- Celestial Blood line?
- Surprise Accuracy line?
- Clear Mind?
Beast totem gives AC and pounce, that's awesome for melee people.
Elemental air bloodline rage powers gives flight which is nice.
Knockback could be good, attack them in melee, and then push them away and shoot them.
There's a set of rage powers that imitate bloodlines, right in the ACG. 100% legal.
Pounce works great with Savage Barbarian. Charge in, shoot, Opening Volley triggers, shred.
You didn't tell me how you'd solve the free hand issue.
That's an expensive way to go about it.
World serpent spirit totem tine isn't bad - the 6th level power gives you free align weapons, faster speed (at high levels) and isn't restricted to melee weapons. And it's alignment vs. all - not just evil. (UC)
Primal scent is always handy for a character that can't cast spells. (Also UC)
You didn't tell me how you'd solve the free hand issue.
Take two levels of Rondelero Duelist and use buckler slams as your melee weapon?
Regretably as a savage technologist you need to weild your gun in your main hand.
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Was just going go with quick draw feat. Shoot, drop and draw another.
Glove of Storing Might be cheaper, though though expensive at lower level.
costs 10,000, but saves you a feat and a lot of extra guns. Put your war axe in the hand with the glove.
Free action, store axe,
reload,
free action, recall axe.
Alternately, there is the tekko-kagi, that can function either as a bracer or as a weapon, so theoretically leaves your hand free in bracer mode.
That said, one of these days, I want to use quickdraw to make Derringer Meryl from Trigun
Or just use a cestus?
Quick Draw doesn't come with Quick Sheathe.
Dunno man.
I've played a Savage Technologist/Savage Barbarian archetype Barbarian and loved it.
Here's what I built:
1. Gunsmithing / Amateur Gunslinger (quick clear)
2. Reckless Abandon
3. Rapid Reload
4. Superstition
5. Weapon Focus (pistol)
6. Ghost Rager
7. Gunslinger
8. Disruptive
9. Point-Blank Shot
10. Scent
11. Rapid Shot
12. Spellbreaker
13. Opening Volley
14. (My dude died an epic death around here.)
One level of Gunslinger would probably be optimal for nonhumans, as it saves you the two feats.
What I did was mostly stick to targets (particularly casters) and harry them. I would either use my Cestus as my main weapon if they were close, or my gun if they were further away.
I had the ability of making a Cestus attack, and if i killed the dude, start riddling someone further away with bullets.
I think he was enjoyable.
Weapon cords and quick draw work wonders for reloading if you want a cheaper option than weapon storing gloves.
The problem with the class/archetype in PFS is you get no free weapon like a gunslinger and you can't even buy bullets without the gunsmithing feat. It ends up being best to dip into gunslinger to get these.
I second the Gunslinger dip. Or Spellscar Drifter Cavalier (order of the Flame, perhaps). Another way to solve the reloading problem is to splash Alchemist 2 for another arm or tentacle. You were working in what was likely a highly irradiated area, after all.
Spiked Gauntlet or armor spikes can fill in for the off hand weapon and still leave you free to reload.
Spiked light shield does the trick too.