I'm looking for the perfect hammers for a TWF fighter but so far it seems I haven't found much beyond light hammers or dwarven maulaxes which well as the name implies are axes.
Any suggestions for hammers which could be used for TWF?
Naturally the character will be a dwarf since no other race is beardly enough to handle the hammers.
I will be following STR Fighter's TWF guide for fighters so the build won't be an issue but really what I am looking for is solid equipment advise. We will be using the Automatic Bonus Progression but keeping the full WBL instead of 50% so no stat boost items etc which allows more flavorable choices.
Inspiration will be drawn from Muradin Bronzebeard amongst other dwarves be it Thibbledorf Pwent from Forgotten Realms or Bruenor Battlehammer.
Anyone experienced any hammertimes?
I havent built any specifically for double hammers, can you post the outline of what you have already though? i am curious how you are planning class and feats.
off the top of my head i would suggest light hammers are still the best option for a fighter, you can double dip all of you weapon feats to apply to both, ignore most of the TWF penalties and with the advanced weapon training you can increase the damage die on a light hammer up to greatsword levels.
The hammers really are for flavor so I doubt it'll affect anything of the build but sure I'll post the raw version. What I am looking for are the best possible hammer weapons for TWF.
Oh and we get combat expertise for free as a houserule so won't bother putting it there.Archetype: Two Weapon
1:TWF, WFOC: Hammer?
2:Toughness
3:Power Attack
4:WSPEC: Hammer?
5:Quickdraw
6:Improved Maneuver X?
7:ITWF
8:GRT WFOC: Hammer?
9:Armed Bravery
We just hit level 6 so I didn't bother building it any further yet.
The two weapon archetype was a bit of a trap before advanced weapon training, now it's plain awful.
So it would seem. Seems like I have to rethink this through again.
oh, ok. your archetype trades out Weapon training so you dont qualify for Advanced Weapon Training anymore :/
So again, light hammers might be your best bet, especially if you are going for Weapon Focus and Weapon Specilization since you would need to either eat larger penalties for TWF with full Warhammers (until you reach level 11 at least) or pick each feat twice to use them with a warhammer and a light hammer.
I dont think you qualify for Armed Bravery with this archetype, just as you cant pick Focused Weapon, you dont have additional weapon groups to pick from anymore.
Now this is new... and a big problem.
Any suggestions for an archetype or path for TWF now that the archetype is scratched off?
With the Advanced fighter weapon training ability Effortless Dual wielding from Blood of Beasts you are able to use any weapon from the selected weapon group as a light weapon allowing you to use any one handed hammer