Finalizing feats for pure dex slayer.

[ViConstantine]

Sp the build is pretty simple all in all, the feats are listed in order of acquiring them, I just wanted some feed back to be sure that these feats worked with each other correctly as I dont have lots of time left to finalize this build before its use.

Str 13 Dex 18(20)human con 13 int 12 wis 10 cha 10. Some slayer abilities helping me to grab some feats for two handed weapons without the prerequisites. weapon finesse, weapon focus:glaive, bladed brush, slashing grace, power attack, dirty fighting, great cleave(ignored prereq, improved dirty trick, greater dirty trick, furious focus, kitsune style, quick dirty trick, accomplished sneaker, superior dirty trick and some other feat. I think with dirty fighter, bladed brush, and the 3 ranger combat styles this should all be totally doable without the proper stats.

[Chess Pwn]

Slashing grace seems off since you don't qualify to take it.

Are you using any of the Ranger feats to ignore pre-reqs on feats? If so, which feats are you getting with them?
If you're not set on which feats are from ranger feats you can get power attack as a ranger feat and thus not need the str 13.

Personally I view furious focus as a trap feat. With your high attack stat, and studied combat your attack bonus is likely high enough that with the penalties your first attack will hit on a 2 or 3 anyways, and thus that feat is basically doing nothing for you.

[ViConstantine]

Chess Pwn wrote:

Slashing grace seems off since you don't qualify to take it.

Are you using any of the Ranger feats to ignore pre-reqs on feats? If so, which feats are you getting with them?
If you're not set on which feats are from ranger feats you can get power attack as a ranger feat and thus not need the str 13.

Personally I view furious focus as a trap feat. With your high attack stat, and studied combat your attack bonus is likely high enough that with the penalties your first attack will hit on a 2 or 3 anyways, and thus that feat is basically doing nothing for you.

I qualify for slashing grace, all i need is weapon focus with a weapon for it (bladed brush should allow glaive to be used with it even though that sounds hilariously stupid but thats the whole point), i have the dex i need and the weapon finesse. The feats im using ranger combat to get are power attack, great cleave and furious focus as when it comes to two handed weapon feats they are really the only good ones from this list, technically i shouldnt even need my str that high its just to buff me out a little bit higher until i have the feats I need. I might even end up dropping it to 10.

[Chess Pwn]

Bladed brush doesn't make the glaive a kind of one-handed or light slashing weapon required of the chosen weapon for slashing grace. The glaive is a kind of two handed weapon that you can treat as one-handed for some stuff when you wield it via the bladed brush feat. Since the bladed brush does nothing to help you qualify I see no reason to think it's purpose was to allow you to do something it doesn't help you do. It's far more reasonable to assume that the feat was meant for swashbucklers to use precise strike with the glaive, since that's what the author of the feat said was the intention of the feat.

[ViConstantine]

Chess Pwn wrote:

Bladed brush doesn't make the glaive a kind of one-handed or light slashing weapon required of the chosen weapon for slashing grace. The glaive is a kind of two handed weapon that you can treat as one-handed for some stuff when you wield it via the bladed brush feat. Since the bladed brush does nothing to help you qualify I see no reason to think it's purpose was to allow you to do something it doesn't help you do. It's far more reasonable to assume that the feat was meant for swashbucklers to use precise strike with the glaive, since that's what the author of the feat said was the intention of the feat.

"When wielding a glaive, you can treat it as a one-handed piercing or slashing melee weapon and as if you were not making attacks with your off-hand for all feats and class abilities that require such a weapon (such as a duelist’s or swashbuckler’s precise strike)."

"Choose one kind of light or one-handed slashing weapon (such as the longsword). When wielding your chosen weapon one-handed, you can treat it as a one-handed piercing melee weapon for all feats and class abilities that require such a weapon (such as a swashbuckler’s or a duelist’s precise strike) and you can add your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier to that weapon’s damage. The weapon must be one appropriate for your size." The glaive becomes a weapon treaded as a one handed slashing or piercing weapon so YES it applies.

[Chess Pwn]

No, GLAIVE is not a kind of light or one-handed slashing weapon. Thus it's not a valid choice for the chosen weapon.

Weapon kind GLAIVE is not a glaive that you are wielding. Thus weapon type GLAIVE doesn't interact or fall under the bladed brush feat at all.

Sure you can treat the specific glaive you're wielding as a one-handed weapon for stuff. But you can't treat the other glaive over there you're not wielding as a one-handed weapon for anything. Thus weapon kind GLAIVE is still classified as two-handed weapon type and doesn't qualify.

[ViConstantine]

Ok fine, if that doesnt work what do YOU suggest be used for a weapon to make it viable?

[Chess Pwn]

use a rapier or starknife with fencing grace or starry grace.
Go str based and save yourself many feats.

[Chess Pwn]

well if you checked your other thread you'd be able to see this post saying the same thing I did. And this post saying it doesn't work.

but there's no way to get 1.5 dex to damage other than rogue.

Edit:
and here
and here
and here
and here
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are some posts of people saying slashing grace doesn't work with bladed brush.