Hi folks,
I need a bit of help with a warpriest I've been designing. He's the character I'd love to play in Wrath of the Righteous (if i wasn't the one that was going to be running it). I mostly have questions regarding some of his thematic stuff. My apologies for how long this might be.
Basic character stuff: middle or old aged halfling warpriest of ragathiel, missing an eye ( holy symbol either on an eye patch,or on a false eye) Career soldier, but at this point in his life, he's operating as more of a drill instructor.
Leaning towards a mixture of TWF and Mounted Combat, with a couple of feats used to add a more "religious" flavour (thinking Leadership for a hound archon or cassisian cohort). Destruction and nobility blessings. If he became mythic would take Longevity first to remove penalties.
1. I was leaning towards worship of Ragathiel, i like his celestial obedience. What do you think chances are of one of his warpriests actually:
A) reaching middle or old age? Or in the same vein, having a family at home? (As opposed to bachelorhood, not saying his family is dead)
B) Accepting semi-retirement from soldiery, as opposed to wanting to die in combat against evil.
That being said, I like Ragathiel but am open to suggestions for a deity or Empyreal lord that someone thinks might work better. I'm not super fond of Iomedae for some reason
2. Thoughts on multiclassing. I tend to prefer flavour over function, and I liked the thought of him finding deeper spirituality later in his career.
Kinda thought about starting him off as a cavalier, so he could have a loyal dog that might travel with him (and not die immediately). Again, not totally sold on it, just don't want a case of "dying mount, dies instantly!"
I know the divine commander exists, but not fond of giving up blessings. And yes I realise I could probably get exactly what I want with paladin instead of warpriest levels, but, again, it's a flavour thing.
And feel free to tell me to suck it up, or that it's not a feasible build. I'm just trying to finally build a character whose class level growth reflects how i want him to grow as a character.
You can get a mount as if a ranger with 2 feats, and full progression with 3. A bit easier to manage with a WP since they get bonus feats.
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You can try a gendarme + first mother fang cavalier. This give you mounted combat, combat expertise (bi-pass int requirement), and ride by attack (level one feat). Then just continue through with divine commander war priest.
Work toward spirited charge, outflank and pack flanking. I know you don't like giving up the blessing but if you don't have a scaling mount you have to bring 5 horses on every adventure or she'll out a lot of cash.
Also teamwork feats are amazing look into escape route for you and you mount and have full battle field movement.
If you want twf I think it's hard to beat sohei for mounted skirmisher at level 1.
Also, good luck with those age penalties. Old age is -3 to str, dex and con.
Build-wise, if he's particularly devout he'd be wielding a Bastard Sword - two of those would be ideal to save feats but not for TWF penalties. Chess Pwn also has a good point about the age penalties. Starting at Middle Aged is only a -1 penalty and you could pick an age close to Old if you wanted. You'd get some mileage out of Warpriest for buffs and bonus feats to complement the style. If your GM will allow it (or you're the GM) you could modify the Mantis Zealot archetype to grant Bastard Sword proficiency and replace the flavor text to represent a devout follower of Ragathiel.
However, I cannot give build advice without strongly recommending the new Ragathiel-devoted prestige class, Crimson Templar. It has both your flavor and mechanics covered, although you do lose spellcasting progression to take it. For your purposes, I think you could do no better.
You can get a mount as if a ranger with 2 feats, and full progression with 3. A bit easier to manage with a WP since they get bonus feats.
That would actually be a fairly solid idea. Thank you! I know about Nature Soul and Animal Ally, but what is the third feat you mentioned?
Also, good luck with those age penalties. Old age is -3 to str, dex and con.
I'm aware, and I'd only go with old age if he was in a mythic campaign, so that he could take Longevity. Otherwise I'll just stick with middle age that almost reaches old age. As i said, it's more a flavour thing than anything else
the third is boon companion to remove the level -3 and make it your level. Useful for a combat beast, less needed for a moving mount.