Everyone is Goliath when you're a Halfling named David (Sling Build advice)

[Dreadmad]

Hi all!

I'm going to be starting a Mummy's Mask campaign with 3 others, and after their builds were planned out I realised my initial offering was pretty defunct. I need to bring Divine Spell casting and some sort of ranged damage, so I think I'm going to go with a Warpriest Sling build.

I was considering dipping a level of Fighter so I can get Precise Shot at level 1 but I don't think it's worthwhile to lose the progression of Spells/class features.

Halfling Arsenal Chaplain Warpriest

Traits: Fate's Favoured (plus something else, likely reactionary)

Stats: 13/18/14/12/13/13 (Stats are 16 down to 11, +1 STR at 4, +1 DEX at 8 & 12, +1 WIS at 16)

Feats:

1 - Point Blank Shot, Weapon Focus (Sling)
3 - Startoss Shower, Startoss Comet
5 - Slipslinger Style (switch over to a slingstaff here)
6 - Weapon Style Mastery
7 - Rapid Shot
9 - Clustered Shots, Weapon Specialisation

I think I can get away without taking Rapid Shot until I'm getting towards my iterative attack at 8 and just rely on taking an attack at 2 separate targets using Startoss Comet (downside being I can't funnel damage, but advantage being not taking the -2 to hit from Rapid Shot).

The plan is to stack flat damage (Slipslinger & Startoss Shower styles, Weapon Specialisation, Divine Favour, Weapon Training, Gloves of Dueling, Trained Throw etc) and go from there. Obviously it's a bit of a pain spending a swift action to activate my styles when I also want to be fervor buffing myself - but such is life for a less optimal weapon choice.

I also intend to buy some Boulder Bullets and pair with Vital Strike for some burst, but that can wait until later down the line.

[avr]

First, while getting precise shot at level 1 isn't essential you're going to need it some time.

Startoss shower & comet have startoss style as a prereq.

And yes you're right about swift action congestion being a problem. If it takes to round 3 to have both styles and a single buff up you have an obvious problem. Drop slipslinger and get deadly aim maybe?

[Dreadmad]

avr wrote:

First, while getting precise shot at level 1 isn't essential you're going to need it some time.

Startoss shower & comet have startoss style as a prereq.

And yes you're right about swift action congestion being a problem. If it takes to round 3 to have both styles and a single buff up you have an obvious problem. Drop slipslinger and get deadly aim maybe?

Absolutely right, I meant Startoss Style not Shower - that's not worth picking up until I have the BaB to support it.

As for Slipslinger, it's only advantage is a longer range and better crit multi really. I could drop that and the Mastery feat to pick up Large Target and Deadly Aim to start chunking up my flat damage.