Goal: to create a 20 point buy pole weapon user. He can be any aasimar sub race (from the Aasimars Heirs of Glory supplement).
I'm thinking of the character as either a fighter, paladin, or even a cleric. I'll be starting at 8th level.
Thank you so much for your help.
you know, I saw nifty guide a while ago that had a cleric optimized with a reach weapon and damage spells.
The jist of it was, blast with spells, as they come to attack you, your reach allows for an AOO.
Another good archetype is the polearm master.
Which gets around the whole "cant use a reach weapon to attack adjecent enemies."
Get the Phalanx Formation (Combat) feat and now you can poke through your own allies.
Those all sound cool.
I'm really not familiar with pathfinder so much. Most of my gaming has been D&D 2nd edition or 5th edition.
I hate being an askhole, but if you could point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it.
Any and all advice is welcome, and thank you again.
I think this is the guide I thought I saw, it gives you a nice low down on a cleric, specifically one with a reach far striking weapon.
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5kvBvq2DEHjRWctNG05X0JINm8
And here is the Polearm Master, It is a fighter Archetype. Archetypes are exactly the same a fighter's base class, except for where the archetype description says otherwise.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/fighter/archetypes/paizo---fig hter-archetypes/polearm-master
The feat I was talking about was
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/combat-feats/phalanx-formation-combat
It all boils down to what you want your character to be, as well.
Do you want to be extremely combat savy? A lot of players like exceling in combat. If so fighter will be good, and for out of combat just roleplay situations.
As a cleric, it will be a bit hard to shore up on some feats, especially combat related ones, but you will be more versetile and capable of spellcasting.
Also Sidenote, The Inquisitor class could very well replace the cleric class. Think of Inquistors as more combat orientate, less healing clerics.
Reach wielding paladins are amazing in PFRPG.
The internet tells you to always play an Angel Blooded Aasimar, the Angelkin (Blood of Angels). They get +2 STR and +2 CHA.
STR 18
DEX 12
CON 14
INT 10
WIS 8
CHA 16
Archetype selection is difficult because I don't know what you want. Do you like spellcasting?
Exotic Weapon Fauchard is also a pretty standard choice, along with Power Attack and Lunge.
Another cool build would be a Fighter with Spear Dancer Style, but it works better as a Human
S15 D16+2 C14 I12 W10 CH7
Dawnflower Dervish archetype
Defender of the Society, Seeker
1. TWF, Weapon Focus (Monk's Spade), Spear Dacing Style
2. Weapon Finesse
3. Spear Dancing Spiral
4. Spear Dancing Reach
Weapon Training: Monk (has better Versatile Training options than Polearm, but Monk's Spade is a polearm anyway :P )
5. Advanced Weapon Training > Versatile Training (Acrobatics, Escape Artist)
6. ITWF
7. Combat Reflexes
8. Lunge
9. Double Slice
Weapon Training II: Advanced Weapon Training > Armed Bravery
10. Advanced Weapon Training > Trained Grace
11. Two-Weapon Rend
12. Stand Still
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Another cool build would be a Fighter with Spear Dancer Style, but it works better as a Human
S15 D16+2 C14 I12 W10 CH7
Dawnflower Dervish archetype
Defender of the Society, Seeker
1. TWF, Weapon Focus (Monk's Spade), Spear Dacing Style
2. Weapon Finesse
3. Spear Dancing Spiral
4. Spear Dancing Reach
Weapon Training: Monk (has better Versatile Training options than Polearm, but Monk's Spade is a polearm anyway :P )
5. Advanced Weapon Training > Versatile Training (Acrobatics, Escape Artist)
6. ITWF
7. Combat Reflexes
8. Lunge
9. Double Slice
Weapon Training II: Advanced Weapon Training > Armed Bravery
10. Advanced Weapon Training > Trained Grace
11. Two-Weapon Rend
12. Stand Still
The character *must* be aasimar.
But thank you.
I'm wondering: if a paladin gets as many feats as a cleric, why is the build possible as a paladin but not as a cleric?
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Reach wielding paladins are amazing in PFRPG.
The internet tells you to always play an Angel Blooded Aasimar, the Angelkin (Blood of Angels). They get +2 STR and +2 CHA.
STR 18
DEX 12
CON 14
INT 10
WIS 8
CHA 16Archetype selection is difficult because I don't know what you want. Do you like spellcasting?
Exotic Weapon Fauchard is also a pretty standard choice, along with Power Attack and Lunge.
Spellcasting is cool, I do like it (in general), but I could take it or leave it with this character.
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Those all sound cool.
I'm really not familiar with pathfinder so much. Most of my gaming has been D&D 2nd edition or 5th edition.
I hate being an askhole, but if you could point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it.
Any and all advice is welcome, and thank you again.
I think this is the guide I thought I saw, it gives you a nice low down on a cleric, specifically one with a reach far striking weapon.
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5kvBvq2DEHjRWctNG05X0JINm8
And here is the Polearm Master, It is a fighter Archetype. Archetypes are exactly the same a fighter's base class, except for where the archetype description says otherwise.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/fighter/archetypes/paizo---fig hter-archetypes/polearm-master
The feat I was talking about was
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/combat-feats/phalanx-formation-combat
It all boils down to what you want your character to be, as well.
Do you want to be extremely combat savy? A lot of players like exceling in combat. If so fighter will be good, and for out of combat just roleplay situations.
As a cleric, it will be a bit hard to shore up on some feats, especially combat related ones, but you will be more versetile and capable of spellcasting.
Also Sidenote, The Inquisitor class could very well replace the cleric class. Think of Inquistors as more combat orientate, less healing clerics.
I don't know what it is, but I like that reach cleric - a lot.
I could take a coatl-blooded aasimar (+ 2 STR & WIS) and rock that build!
I need to find out what deities are in this world and see if I can get one that I like.
Those all sound cool.
I'm really not familiar with pathfinder so much. Most of my gaming has been D&D 2nd edition or 5th edition.
I hate being an askhole, but if you could point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it.
Any and all advice is welcome, and thank you again.
I think this is the guide I thought I saw, it gives you a nice low down on a cleric, specifically one with a reach far striking weapon.
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5kvBvq2DEHjRWctNG05X0JINm8
And here is the Polearm Master, It is a fighter Archetype. Archetypes are exactly the same a fighter's base class, except for where the archetype description says otherwise.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/fighter/archetypes/paizo---fig hter-archetypes/polearm-master
The feat I was talking about was
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/combat-feats/phalanx-formation-combat
It all boils down to what you want your character to be, as well.
Do you want to be extremely combat savy? A lot of players like exceling in combat. If so fighter will be good, and for out of combat just roleplay situations.
As a cleric, it will be a bit hard to shore up on some feats, especially combat related ones, but you will be more versetile and capable of spellcasting.
Also Sidenote, The Inquisitor class could very well replace the cleric class. Think of Inquistors as more combat orientate, less healing clerics.
I don't know what it is, but I like that reach cleric - a lot.
I could take a coatl-blooded aasimar (+ 2 STR & WIS) and rock that build!
I need to find out what deities are in this world and see if I can get one that I like.
See it sounds like you have a pretty good concept.
Another key feat to get eventually is combat reflexes.
This way, you can strike multiple opponents who are trying to get at you. 14 dex should be more than enough, and high str would be your main stat.
As far as wisdom, you could have that be your second highest. The benefit of being your highest is that your spells would be harder to resist, and would do more damamge.
Of course if you lower your wisdom you can still take advantage of the plethora of CLeric buff spells
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There are a TON of problems whit that reach/force build that was posted.
Combat Advice feat? A move action to give somebody a +2 bonus to hit is not very cost effective: that's a wasted action - and a wasted feat. Take a look at the Quick Channel feat if you want to improve your action economy: the ability to channel twice in a round (once as a move action, once as a standard) in emergencies is PRICELESS. You may also want to look at Extra Channel if you go the Quick route: you will find that you burn a lot of extra channels using Quick when you want to cast a spell and Channel n the same round.
Empowering an Instant Weapon spell has no additional effect, as there are no variable numeric effects.
Instant Weapon does not have the Force descriptor, so Toppling does not work with that spell.
The Bodyguard feat only works with allies who are adjacent to you - which means you can't use your reach weapon to make those AOO's.
Magic item to check out:
Phylactery of Positive Channeling
Wow. Beacon of Hope is a great find. It comes up in an SRD search but is not in the feat list. Another flavorful/interesting feat for Aasimar w the daylight racial spell is heavenly radiance.
Bodyguard requires you to be adjacent, but aid another requires you to threaten the attacker. Plenty of squares would allow you to be adjacent to an ally and threaten an attacker 10' away.
The force weapon thing isn't the best part of that build. To me, if you can heroism two ways (and therefore rarely run out), debuff with menace, give out +2 untyped to AC (or more w benevolent armor trait) and use a move to give a +2 stacking competence bonus with the combat advice feat while riding shotgun on a reach weapon, the cumulative effect is very good for a support build. As for Quick Channel - yes, it is good, but it consumes a lot of channels forcing you to take extra channel with the few feats you have, making your character sort of flat. Also, sucks big time when you run out of channels.