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Easiest way to do this is to make a slayer. Full BAB, d10 hit dice, proficient in all martial weapons, 6 skill points per level and has 3 of the 4 social skills as class skills.
Staying full BAB and using strength with a two handed weapon is probably the easiest route. After power attack and furious focus, you can spend your feats on movement and survivability.
Slayer is an excellent suggestion. Paladin may be an option if you want to help the party and depending on what campaign you are in or what you want to do with your character. Cavalier if you need or want a horse/mounted combat build. Cavalier also has a lot of intimidation potential, if that's your thing.
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Twf sword (kukri or wakazashi) and board slayer is amazing.
The key abilities are twf at level h1/2, gtwf, shield master at 6, oppertunist and bashing finish at 10.
I like quick draw with a heavy shield. When you only get a single attack like in the first round of combat you can study and charge with power attack and two hand the shield. This helps keep your damage up every round of combat.
Twf sword (kukri or wakazashi) and board slayer is amazing.
The key abilities are twf at level h1/2, gtwf, shield master at 6, oppertunist and bashing finish at 10.
I like quick draw with a heavy shield. When you only get a single attack like in the first round of combat you can study and charge with power attack and two hand the shield. This helps keep your damage up every round of combat.
TWF is a trap. It's feat intensive and overall underwhelming in actual combat. If you want to go crit fishing, do it with a keen Greatsword. Leave the kukri in the kitchen where it belongs.
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That not actually true. It is feat intensive yes, but many builds including this one out perform two-hand weapons at higher levels
This build also has better AC and enchants a weapon, essentially, for free.
Note: my first post should have said improved twf not gtwf (gtwf is a trap).
This means twf is is 2 feats. Power attack Cornugon smash and hurtful are three and a top tier option for many builds.
Sword and board slayer is definitely the proper way to do the switch hitter TWF build. I've just seen the dual weapon thing fail more than excel.
Charging in with the shield in two hands with power attack is legit. QuickDraw scimitar(s) and swing away. Take the flame of the dawnflower trait for extra fire damage on critical hits. If that's your thing.
I would personally rather take Greatsword Battler and add vital strike to my charges with a Greatsword...
investigator str based.
Lv3 is mutagen, lv4 is studied combat adding 1/2 level to attack and damage, lv4 is also alchemical allocation for heroism. Throw inspired on your weapon and at lv9 get combat inspiration.
this lets your attack and damage just be awesome, and with at least 8 skills points a level and class features that boost skills and heroism you're really good at skills.
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I new build I have that I like it is a bonded investigator. With one level blood conduit bloodrager. This gave me the the feat to grapple well. With rage, mutagen study, resinous skin eventually polymorph spells.
I still have power attack to do what chesspwn is suggesting. But I also have a familiar that can drink you extracts and hit your grappled/pinned target. The familiar also gives you a second chance (though lower bonus) to make your checks.
Also I love the idea of an investigator binging devil to themselves to help them get into the mind of the evil they are trying to combat.
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I currently have a Half-Orc Fated Champion Skald for PFS with a level dip in celestial bloodline bloodrager. Gave up my blood rage power for a Valet familiar (celestial compsognathis for +4 init and can give out fast healing 1) and took the Amplified Rage and Skald's Vigor feats. Because my Valet familiar is always next to me, when I start my raging song I get +8 str and con from raging and fast healing 8. At level 9 he has a +1 furious bloodsong adamantine falchion and he hits like a truck. He also makes a great party face thanks to versatile performance and can throw out a good number of party buff spells.
TWF is a trap. It's feat intensive and overall underwhelming in actual combat. If you want to go crit fishing, do it with a keen Greatsword. Leave the kukri in the kitchen where it belongs.
1. Nobody crit fishes with a greatsword: that is what the nodachi is for.
2. Starting ~10th level an optimized fighter TWFing with kukri can out damage an optimized fighter with a nodachi. The TWF fighter will have access to more/larger static damage bonuses than the THF, and be more likely to crit with those bonuses (due to more die rolls).
TWF is a trap. It's feat intensive and overall underwhelming in actual combat. If you want to go crit fishing, do it with a keen Greatsword. Leave the kukri in the kitchen where it belongs.1. Nobody crit fishes with a greatsword: that is what the nodachi is for.
2. Starting ~10th level an optimized fighter TWFing with kukri can out damage an optimized fighter with a nodachi. The TWF fighter will have access to more/larger static damage bonuses than the THF, and be more likely to crit with those bonuses (due to more die rolls).
Every party needs a kitchen maid. Lol.
Full BAB TWF aren't bad, I just really like flicking $#!+ at dual wielders. I've played them, I'm as guilty as the next guy. If I ever play another TWF, it will absolutely be a Thunder and Fang build.
I've worked out a Grappling feature that could fit into any of a lot of characters that can be quite devastating.
Colour me interested. I've always like grappling as a way to control the battlefield, even if I used to do it with black tentacles more then with my melee build...
Unstoppable Dwarven Titan Mauler with an oversized Dwarven Longhammer, dwarven boulder helmet and heavy armor.
*Unstoppable is an alternate dwarven racial trait that gives Toughness as a bonus feat.
TWF is a trap. It's feat intensive and overall underwhelming in actual combat. If you want to go crit fishing, do it with a keen Greatsword. Leave the kukri in the kitchen where it belongs.Twf sword (kukri or wakazashi) and board slayer is amazing.
The key abilities are twf at level h1/2, gtwf, shield master at 6, oppertunist and bashing finish at 10.
I like quick draw with a heavy shield. When you only get a single attack like in the first round of combat you can study and charge with power attack and two hand the shield. This helps keep your damage up every round of combat.
Then go with double weapons. It provides you with the option to go 2 handed or TWF as you please. Slayers and rangers are the ideal users of such weapons, since they can do str based TWF builds. While the stats on such weapons are usually not that great, they allow you to get more of the per hit bonuses, so they work well enough.
Play an Inquisitor. For better skills and out of combat use, make it a Sanctified Slayer Inquisitor. Studied Target increases both your skills and your offensives, and is available at will, unlike regular Judgement. But there's much more an Inquisitor can do.
If you want more out of combat skill usage, then you can take the Conversion Inquisition to make all of your face skills (Bluff, Diplomacy, Intimidate) WIS-based instead of CHA-based. If instead you want more melee offense, grab the Destruction (Rage) domain to give yourself a fairly powerful attack steroid, and eventually gain access to Rage and Rage Powers. Once you have Rage, give your weapon the Furious enchantment and watch enemies melt before you. But that's STILL not all.
Inquisitors also have spells. The Inquisitor has tons of access to skill-boosting spells, like Focused Scrutiny and Hunder's Eye. The Inquisitor also has tons of access to attack boosting spells, like Divine Favor and Wrath. The Inquisitor even has access to the spell that boosts both: Heroism.
You literally cannot go wrong with an Inquisitor.
Play an Inquisitor. For better skills and out of combat use, make it a Sanctified Slayer Inquisitor. Studied Target increases both your skills and your offensives, and is available at will, unlike regular Judgement. But there's much more an Inquisitor can do.
If you want more out of combat skill usage, then you can take the Conversion Inquisition to make all of your face skills (Bluff, Diplomacy, Intimidate) WIS-based instead of CHA-based. If instead you want more melee offense, grab the Destruction (Rage) domain to give yourself a fairly powerful attack steroid, and eventually gain access to Rage and Rage Powers. Once you have Rage, give your weapon the Furious enchantment and watch enemies melt before you. But that's STILL not all.
Inquisitors also have spells. The Inquisitor has tons of access to skill-boosting spells, like Focused Scrutiny and Hunder's Eye. The Inquisitor also has tons of access to attack boosting spells, like Divine Favor and Wrath. The Inquisitor even has access to the spell that boosts both: Heroism.
You literally cannot go wrong with an Inquisitor.
This is good advice. You could be a half Orc, sacred tattoo, fate's favored (goes excellent with your divine favour spell) and use a 2D6 Orc horn bow. Shaman's apprentice gives you the endurance feat, which is nice.
Horn Bow is for a ranged build. This guy asked for a melee build, specifically.
Course, there's no reason not to have a backup weapon. And Inquisitors are one of the few classes that can switch hit rather effectively, since their attack steroids are rarely specific to melee or ranged attacks.
Horn Bow is for a ranged build. This guy asked for a melee build, specifically.
Course, there's no reason not to have a backup weapon. And Inquisitors are one of the few classes that can switch hit rather effectively, since their attack steroids are rarely specific to melee or ranged attacks.
That's true. I'm an idiot for suggesting the bow. My B.