| zKonz |
Ok, so my wife is playing a Dhampir Snakebite Striker, and I'm trying to help her build it (I have waaaaaay more time on my hands, and well, I like the character building and she doesn't). The initial idea was to have a Blood drinking grappler, but that seemed really one dimensional. The SbS offered more opportunities with Feinting/SA, etc. I'd like people to take a look at the initial class/feat progression and tell me what they think.
1st - (SbS 1) Blood Drinker (SA 1d6)
2nd - (SbS 2) Improved Grapple
3rd - (SbS 3) Combat Expertise
4th - (SbS 3/Ftr 1) Improved Feint
5th - (SbS 4/Ftr 1) Two Weapon Feint
6th - (SbS 5/Ftr 1) Greater Feint
7th - (SbS 6/Ftr 1) Blood Feaster (SA 2d6)
8th - Assassin? She's thinking about it and there's an immediate SA boost up from 2d6 to 3d6
9th - (Sbs 7/Ftr 1/As 1) Greater Grapple
Ok, so I'm thinking she needs to stick with SbS until at least level 14 so that she get Opportunist at 13th and 2d6 Unarmed Dmg at 14th.
The other thing I was going to suggest was Pummeling Style at 10th and Pummeling Charge at 13th. And maybe Weapon Focus at 11th and Weapon Spec as the second 13th level feat.
Pummeling Charge w SbS just blew my mind. Feint while charging. If the feint works, target doesn't get DEX bonus until the next round, immediately Brawler Flurry (4 attacks, 1d10 dmg) with 4d6 SA per hit (right? or is that wrong?), and that's just the first attack round! If she wants to go with Weapon Focus/Spec, the attacks are only at a minus 1 and there's another 2 points of dmg per hit. And at that point, she can decide if she wants to feint/flurry or move onto grapple/bite.
On a semi-related note, I was going to suggest she use a cestus on one hand so one of her attacks she could apply poison, but then she would have both hands free for grappling. I've seen some discussion about cestus dmg vs unarmed strike dmg, and we'd probably just need to follow up with our DM about it.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Haha, I know this was a lot. Thanks!