Hi, I'm curious if there are ways a Mesmerist could lower enemy's AC for the party. The only things I can think of are feinting and sundering. While the feinting is more suitable for the mesmerist, I'm curious if there are other ways.
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Mind control -> lay prone. That's a -4 penalty to AC for melee attacks and causes them to provoke when standing up.
Command -> Fall: prone condition for 1 round/.
Grease: flatfooted if they move in or through.
Glitterdust: blinded
Howling Agony: -2 AC + other debuffs
Jealous Rage: -2 AC + other affects
Rage: -2 AC + other affects
Bestow Curse -6 Dexterity
Seriously, just read through the spell list.
Mesmerist has a ton of debuffs.
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Mind control -> lay prone. That's a -4 penalty to AC for melee attacks and causes them to provoke when standing up.
Charm person-> "Hey, could you help me find my contact lens? I dropped it"
Or use the first spell every mesmerist planning to be in combat should get - color spray.
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I'm going to assume your asking for non-standard build. Something along the lines of a melee Mesmerist that has not fully optimised DCs.
You always have dirty trick as an option. The conditions blinded, dazzled, deafened, entangled, shaken, or sickened offer multiple means of lowering both ac and save. At level 9 you can do it twice per round.
If you add in the enigma archetype to attack from invisibility to help you attack land.
Lots of spells on his list do it.
I'm going to assume your asking for non-standard build. Something along the lines of a melee Mesmerist that has not fully optimised DCs.
You always have dirty trick as an option. The conditions blinded, dazzled, deafened, entangled, shaken, or sickened offer multiple means of lowering both ac and save. At level 9 you can do it twice per round.
If you add in the enigma archetype to attack from invisibility to help you attack land.
I believe a fair number of those statuses don't lower AC.
I'm trying to make a support mesmerist. So he's planning on lowering the attack rolls, damage rolls and saves of the enemy through his stare, shaken, and sickened. But that doesn't make him easier to kill for the party, so I was seeing ways to lower AC to help that aspect.
A lot improve incoming attack rolls though. Honestly, rather than reducing AC, I think it is also just as good to buff allies. Finding ways to improve their attacks is an effective decrease to the roll they need to make to hit. But I think that is done much better clerics and witches, honestly.
You could look into to feats like Outflank, and use stuff like tanglefoot bags to help.
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It gives you the choice of blind or entangle (though blind is clearly better) and can improve your action economy as you can get multiple attempts at the same conditions. Also, you don't get compound stare until to level 13 so this allows you can get sickened and shaken on faster.
Admittedly, this is worse than spells in most cases. But you can use it all day, it targets a different defence and I think everyone else covered spells.
Inflict Pain is 2nd level and Synesthesia is 3rd level. Both spells impose a -4 on armor class. Inflict Pain works for one round even on a successful save, Synesthesia adds extra debuffs to Reflex save and hits the target with a 20% miss chance.
But don't forget to take Psychic Inception to make sure your stare and your mind-affecting effects retain their value!
It gives you the choice of blind or entangle (though blind is clearly better) and can improve your action economy as you can get multiple attempts at the same conditions. Also, you don't get compound stare until to level 13 so this allows you can get sickened and shaken on faster.
Admittedly, this is worse than spells in most cases. But you can use it all day, it targets a different defence and I think everyone else covered spells.
Plan is to shaken with Intimidating Glance or enforcer and use a cruel weapon to inflict sickened. Thus coming online much faster.
Broken Padded Armor + Beguiling Gift.
Broken Padded Armor + Beguiling Gift.
That's pretty evil. I like.
If they are using a shield, cast Beguiling Gift, handing them a crappy two-handed weapon.
Make sure it's exotic. And broken. And Large. And preferably ranged, so using it provokes an attack of opportunity.
That spell has huge opportunities beyond the standard "manacles" choice.
issue with the armor is doesn't it take too long to don? Like light armor takes at least 5 rounds to don hastily. That to me seems like they'd spend the round starting to put it on and then be done, never actually be bothered by the armor and just have dropped their items and wasted a turn.