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Is there any rule or feat I'm missing that allows for substituting maneuvers like Trip for Strikes in reactions like Attack of Opportunity? I'm working on a whip user and my PF1 habits keep messing me up.
AoO says specifically to make a melee strike, same for Stand Still and Disrupt Prey.
The Riposte however let you do disarming instead of a strike, but for now the only way to trip with a reaction is to ready an action before.
Funnily enough, Whips are in the flail group, so if you crit with you AoO Strike, you make them prone.
So it's there...kinda.
And it's nice if they move, you crit-trip, they stand up, and likely they still have to Step to get to you with their turn now over.
As you can perhaps tell from that series, Reach w/ Trip might be a tad to powerful to do w/ a regular attack, especially when Fighters start adding extra Reactions. Too powerful like it often was in 3.X/PF1.
Honestly, it could be even worse. In PF2, move actions that provoke a reaction, but don't leave the square, like standing up, have the reaction trigger after the triggering action completes. That means that, unlike PF1, allowing trip as an AoO would allow you to retrip the enemy when they try to stand.
I could have sworn I just saw something that let you do this, though I don't remember now what it was.
Okay, I guess I wasn't overlooking any rules elements. And good points about the power level. Thanks all!
You can very loosely replicate this for trips by using a weapon whose critical specialization effect knocks prone, although that's obviously far less reliable.