Greatsword + Hellknight Plate Fighter

[RaizielDragon]

I'm interested in a classic fighter that straps on the toughest armor he can find and swings the biggest sword he can find, tanking damage and dishing it out. With a lot of the new options released in the past months for Fighters, I think this has become a viable build, but wanted to get the input and thoughts of the community as well.

For Advanced Armor Training, I'm thinking about including Armor Specialization and Armored Juggernaut. For Advanced Weapon Training, Armed Bravery, Defensive Weapon Training, and Fighter's Reflexes.

For feats: Power Attack, Weapon Focus, Greater Weapon Focus, Weapon Specialization, Greater Weapon Specialization, Furious Focus, Improved Critical, Cleave, Great Cleave, Cleaving Finish, Improved Cleaving Finish, Vital Strike, Improved Vital Strike, Greater Vital Strike, Devastating Strike.

For race, considering either Human for the extra feat or Half-Giant for Powerful Build.

For items, obviously the highest +X Greatsword and Hellknight Plate I can find, along with a Str/Con belt, Cloak of Resistance, Ring of Protection, Amulet of Natural Armor, Wis Headband, and Gloves of Dueling.

I think that covers most of the build. Anything I am missing, or suggestions for replacing some of the items above?

[DominusMegadeus]

That's a pretty standard BSF, but you might wanna skip on the Vital Strike and get some Archery feats in case you need them.

[Davor]

Too many eggs in one basket. I'd recommend at LEAST picking up point-blank shot/precise shot/rapid shot. You don't need to be an archer, but you want to be able to do SOMETHING when your sword doesn't work.

Edit*: Lol, great minds.

[RaizielDragon]

Good point on a ranged option. Vital Strike was in case of not being able to full round, but I'm not overly attached to it. If I'm going to drop the number of feats by dropping all the Vital Strike feats, I think Half-Giant comes out on top for race, since I don't need the extra feat as bad.

Also, if I'm cutting back on feats, is there a variant multi-class that would work well with the concept?

Any archetypes recommended? I was thinking no, because I want to keep Bravery, Armor Training and Weapon Training, so there's not really anything to trade away at that point.

[KainPen]

Why Hellknight plate??? It is no different from full plate expect to hellknight prestige class. save your self the extra gp.

[RaizielDragon]

Doesn't it have 1 less ACP?

[Horselord]

RaizielDragon wrote:

Doesn't it have 1 less ACP?

That is only because it is masterwork.

[KainPen]

RaizielDragon wrote:

Doesn't it have 1 less ACP?

yeah it is already considered master work, so you can't master work it again. The only reason the armor exist is for the hell knight prestige class. basically they pay extra 350gp or what ever the difference is from master work plate and hell knight plate so their special class powers can work with it.

There are a few new feats from the new hellknight book that you could take that function with it also. but i did not see them on your list.