Good day to all!
My friend asked me for advice, but I'm not a particularly experienced player, he wants to build two weapons, with a set of tricks, and / or a small casting.
Help, what builds, classes are now considered the most suitable for such a character? The level of 7-8.
TWF and spellcasting don't really go well together since you need a free hand to cast most spells, Psychic casting gets around this, but then it's harder to cast in melee.
Most all 3/4 bab and full bab classes can TWF, so you're not really limited by class that much.
A Mindblade (magus archetype) can dual wield while casting spells at 7th level.
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Stygian slayer has some spell like abilities. There are also rogue talents slayers have access to in blood of shadows, like immediate action duplicate of yourself. This while playing a half elf with arcane training to use wands and scrolls (low level) without umd should give the PC a decent bag of tricks.
Another options is the iron caster fights build.
A mutation warrior fight gets some nice abilities, like flight, healing and extra arm.
A ranger would be perfect.
He can skip the Dex requirements and build STR. Get his TWF feats via Ranger style. He will have minor spellcasting like you wanted. He will have a set of tricks. He can get a companion.
Feats:
1: Power attack
3: Double Slice
5: Boon Companion
7: Iron Will
Ranger style feats:
2: TWF
6: Improved TWF
10: Two Weapon Rend- Avoid GTWF..it is a trap feat TW Rend is superior.
Let him take a Wolf, Constrictor Snake, or Small Cat as his companion.
He will learn Combat, spellcasting, and Companion rules.
A ranger would be perfect.
He can skip the Dex requirements and build STR. Get his TWF feats via Ranger style. He will have minor spellcasting like you wanted. He will have a set of tricks. He can get a companion.
Feats:
1: Power attack
3: Double Slice
5: Boon Companion
7: Iron WillRanger style feats:
2: TWF
6: Improved TWF
10: Two Weapon Rend- Avoid GTWF..it is a trap feat TW Rend is superior.Let him take a Wolf, Constrictor Snake, or Small Cat as his companion.
He will learn Combat, spellcasting, and Companion rules.
Which of the ranger archetypes will recommend?
Which of the ranger archetypes will recommend?A ranger would be perfect.
He can skip the Dex requirements and build STR. Get his TWF feats via Ranger style. He will have minor spellcasting like you wanted. He will have a set of tricks. He can get a companion.
Feats:
1: Power attack
3: Double Slice
5: Boon Companion
7: Iron WillRanger style feats:
2: TWF
6: Improved TWF
10: Two Weapon Rend- Avoid GTWF..it is a trap feat TW Rend is superior.Let him take a Wolf, Constrictor Snake, or Small Cat as his companion.
He will learn Combat, spellcasting, and Companion rules.
FOr a new player No Archetype.
But if I had to pick here are a few good ones:
Lantern Bearer
Freebooter- Drop Boon Companion.
But I was going with simplicity
TWF and spellcasting don't really go well together since you need a free hand to cast most spells, Psychic casting gets around this, but then it's harder to cast in melee.
Most all 3/4 bab and full bab classes can TWF, so you're not really limited by class that much.
The simplest way to do casting/twf is to get something punchy.
The gauntlets/cestus/etc. let you have a hand free, yet you can TWF.
And while the general principle that 3/4 is bad for TWF is true, some items do break from that mold.
Specifically, the dawnflower dervish (dervish of the dawn on some sites) archetype for bards. Instead of buffing the party, you get double buffed. This makes inspire courage range from 'just as good as rage' to 'basically making you a full martial' (15+8~ 20+4 of things like barbarian).
While this archetype comes with free dervish dance... that is the worst style for it. One weapon/one handed doesn't do anything special for it. In fact, since this archetype has a lot of static bonuses to damage (inspire courage, arcane strike), it would do really well with a many hit style, like archery.... or TWF.
So this hits like a martial, has 6 lvl spells, 6+ skills.... the only flaw is that it is rather fragile (d8 health and light armor/mithral medium armor restriction).
But rangers are good too. They tend to be far simpler- just a martial with a bit of spells added in.
There is always the Arcane Duelist Bard. I took Eschew Materials feat. My character is sword and board, but I don't see why the character couldn't be TWF. The AD eventually gets Heavy armor at 16th level.
The AD doesn't get Medium armor until 10th. So I relied on Mirror image until then. Even when I got the Mithral Breastplate, I still used the Mirror image.