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What you have looks fine to me. Accuracy can be an issue. Having Dex to hit and only using a single Weapon helps that. I would consider fitting Furious Focus into the build, since you're going with Power Attack. Make sure to pick up whatever items you can to help your to-hit (Ioun stone for +1 competence, keep a potion or scroll of heroism on hand for big fights, etc).
The 8 STR might be an issue for encumberance. A Mithral chain shirt is 12.5 pounds. An Elven curved blade is 7 pounds. That leaves you 6.5 pounds for the rest of your equipment. A Handy Haversack is 5 pounds, leaving 1.5 pounds of other equipment that is not in the haversack.
First and second level are going to be rough, with a penalty to damage and likely a d6 weapon (something finesseable, like a Shortsword or rapier).
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I would take my first level as slayer for the increased starting HP. You might also reconsider Cornugon Smash...with only a 10 Cha, your intimidate won't be all that intimidating.
If you are aiming for flight, you might switch to a more ranged combat oriented build and snipe away at people from the skies.
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I thought about recommending a Slayer level early. With an 8 STR, though, Slayer at level 1 would be painful. +0 to-hit/-1 damage. Or +1/+0 with studied target. I guess you could take advantage of the rebuild rules and take finesse as the level 1 feat, then swap it out before playing at level 2. That makes it slightly less painful. It still delays dex to damage until level 4, and that's an important part of making this build not feel weak.
I just went through levels 2 and 3 on an Unchained Rogue with a Snakebite Brawler dip at level 1. But I took a 13 STR and GM credited the character to level 2. Also, it was two levels of Emerald Spire, so I only had to put up with not having Dex to damage for two games. Power attack at level 1 and 2d6 sneak attack at level 2 also kept the +1 damage from STR from feeling underwhelming. Now, at 4th, damage will jump from 1d8+4 (w/power attack) to 1d8+12 (w/ 20 DEX, Power Attack, and a +1 Elven Branched Spear) and 3d6 sneak attack with Gang Up helping me get flanking and the Dirty Fighter trait adding another +1 damage with flanking for 1d8+12+3d6 a good bit of the time.
The posted build would be +4 to-hit at level 1, +5 when masterwork becomes affordable, and 1d6-1 damage. That goes to +6/1d6-1 at 2nd. So getting a sneak attack is incredibly
3rd level leaps to +7 to-hit, 1d10+7 damage +2d6 with a sneak assuming a +1 weapon.
Something to remember, ranger feats bypass the requirement for that feat, but not feats that depend on it. So furious focus for example would still need 13 str to take, unless you were getting it via ranger feat too.
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Something to remember, ranger feats bypass the requirement for that feat, but not feats that depend on it. So furious focus for example would still need 13 str to take, unless you were getting it via ranger feat too.
Ah, good catch. For some reason, I thought it only listed Power Attack as a prerequisite. So Furious Focus is off the table.
Why not stick with Rogue and get the 13 Strength? Having low strength is actually quite detrimental throughout your career, particularly since you want to be carrying gear easily enough without going over your light load encumberance, which you're not going to be able to do with only 8 strength. Any rogue worth their salt is going to want equipment, and you have 2 levels to deal with that will be pretty painful without power attack. Moreso, get Exotic Weapon Proficiency early or don't bother and go with a rapier. Get Toughness at 3rd instead. Early levels will kinda suck for health (welcome to low con race choices for martials), but you'll want Weapon Focus at 2nd and can get Toughness at 3rd, then take Combat Trick for Power Attack at 4th. You'll be nice and set for some time then. Look at the edit
Secondly, you want to look for ways to get sneak attack more easily at later levels. My personal recommended build for Scouts is using Stalker Talent advanced rogue talent to get Up Close and Personal from the vigilante talents, which allows you to make a swift action attack as you tumble through a creature's space and get sneak attack. This usually means you move about 10 feet, so once you have tumbled you can then use your standard action to proc Skirmisher with an attack action. Combining this with Vital Strike, you have a good amount of damage, even though you need to invest HEAVILY into Acrobatics to get it all to work, and probably the Acrobatics skill unlocks just to be safe. To be doubly safe, get Slow Reactions to never provoke while tumbling even if you fail, and may Certainty if you can fit it.
I had a more detailed build somewhere but I didn't check if it was PFS friendly, but Stalker Talent is PFS legal apparently, (According to Archive of Nethys, anyway) so I would take that opportunity to really make good use of it!
Edit: And then I remember that Exotic Weapon Proficiency has a +1 BaB requirement. EURGH. Life is so much harder for races other than half-elves....
Oh well, get Power Attack at second and just go swinging a rapier or something. At least picking up Toughness at 1st will keep you alive and once 3rd rolls around for proficiency, you can just get weapon focus at 4th. I guess it's not too bad.
Be an unchained rogue. They are vastly better. If you don't have unchained , take a coin jar to the bank and get it.
Since they've listed Rogue's Edge and Weapon Finesse at first along with Toughness, they are Unchained.
Since they've listed Rogue's Edge and Weapon Finesse at first along with Toughness, they are Unchained.
Ahh i see, they have weapon finesse FROM the rogue not that they're taking it. Got it.