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For whatever reason, the teleport strike is one of my absolute favorite magical attacks in any media... be it anime, Pathfinder, video games, etc...
I get that without serious retraining shenanigans, it is reserved for 13-15+ level play. So it rarely gets used, but it's awesome. It is reserved for late levels probably because it is only easily countered by 11th level Fighters with Disruptive/Spellbreaker/Teleport Tactician... or 11th level Arcane Duelist Bards, or the few other classes/archetypes with access to those specific feats.
I haven't ever played a character with the Dimensional Savant feats, but I might take my Arcane Duelist Bard that direction if we get to a high enough level.
I was messing around, looking at Witch's Patron Spells, found Dimension Door on the Space Patron's list... Witchguard Ranger with Dimensiinal Savant? Yes, please. Deific Obedience Barzahk for Terrain Dominance (choose Astral Plane) to essentially double your available uses of Dimension Door. Probably 4-5 available from your spell slots at level 20, 3+Wis from Deific Obedience/Terrain Dominance. Looking at close to 10 teleport pounces available per day... each could have like 7-8 attacks with Greater TWF (Ranger Combat Style feats) and Boots of Speed.
Speaking of Deific Obedience Barzahk... Divine Paragon Cleric 5/Evangelist 10 is another fun Divine Savant. Granted, fewer attacks, but full casting and LOTS of other fun stuff from having six divine boons.
Another fun use of the Travel Domain is the Wolf Shaman Druid. I haven't quite figured this one out since most canines only get one natural attack, making Dimensional Savant kind of pointless. But being your own version of a Blink Dog could be interesting.
I know I brought up taking my Arcane Duelist Bard down the Dimensional Savant feat path, but I think my favorite Bard for Dimension Savant in the Voice of the Wild archetype... Druid spells for Flame Blade, and grab Flame Blade Dervish at 5... Bladed Dash, Flame Blade, Dimensional Savant... it just seems to check all the boxes for cool factor.
Another one that is full of cool is the Bladebound-Bladed Scarf Dancer-Spell Dancer Magus... Elf dancing around with a sentient Bladed Scarf... zipping around with Bladed Dash and Dimensional Savant.
Obviously, your full BAB classes make it more interesting since they have more attacks. UnChained Monk is obvious, and makes a great Barry Allen (Flash). I like Panther Style/Claw/Parry to simulate being so fast you can hit them before they can even react to your movement. And using Flickering Step, I made a Titan Fighter with a rather large Earthbreaker... her name is Harley Quinn. Not that she is known for being fast, but Fighters can get teleport pounce, so yeah.
What are your favroties?
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An earthshadow rogue can dimension door as a SLA at 8th level, and the attraction for a dwarven rogue of being able to teleport into position with a couple of axes at the ready should be obvious. Using the 10th level talent as a bonus feat would help with the feat chain.
A solar mystery oracle can get a very limited dimension door (but named as such) at 5th level, and the spell at 8th. They don't benefit from it as much as some, but starting the chain at 5th level means dimensional dervish at 9th.
An earthshadow rogue can dimension door as a SLA at 8th level, and the attraction for a dwarven rogue of being able to teleport into position with a couple of axes at the ready should be obvious. Using the 10th level talent as a bonus feat would help with the feat chain.
A solar mystery oracle can get a very limited dimension door (but named as such) at 5th level, and the spell at 8th. They don't benefit from it as much as some, but starting the chain at 5th level means dimensional dervish at 9th.
How does the Solar Oracle start the chain at 5th level? Oracles do not get a Revelation at 5th level, yet have to be at least 5th level to take the Sun Stride Revelation... so you either start with Sun Stride/Dimensional Agility at level 7, Dimensional Assault at 9, Dimensional Dervish at 11, and Dimensional Savant at 13... taking Extra Revelation at 5 obviously doesn't allow one to also take Dimensional Agility at 5... unless I am missing something.
Dual cursed can get you a revelation at 5, just off the top of my head. A ring of revelation is probably too expensive at level 5. There may be other ways.
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if you stick to strict RAW and abuse these wordings (uses Ironbound Sword archetype samurai archetype):
Her samurai levels count as fighter levels and stack with fighter levels for the purposes of fighter and samurai prerequisites and class features. bonus feat (the fighter class feature) is 1 scaling ability.
and from vivisectionist
If a character already has sneak attack from another class, the levels from the classes that grant sneak attack stack to determine the effective rogue level for the sneak attack’s extra damage dice (so an alchemist 1/rogue 1 has a +1d6 sneak attack like a 2nd-level rogue, an alchemist 2/rogue 1 has a +2d6 sneak attack like a 3rd-level rogue, and so on). This ability replaces bomb.
take order of the blossom and get that 1d6 sneak attack. with vivisectionist samurai levels now count as rogue levels for determining how much sneak attack you have.
then i steal a build i saw here a few weeks ago
Level 10 Dimensional Savant early access:
Half-Orc with Shaman's Apprentice ART.
Samurai 1-6
1 +1 Feat, Endurance (B)
3 +1 Feat
5 +1 Feat
6 +1 Combat Feat (B)Horizon Walker 1-3
7 +1 Feat, Favored Terrain: Astral Plane
8 Terrain Mastery: Astral Plane
9 Flickering Step, Terrain Dominance: Astral PlaneFighter 1
10 Dimensional Agility (B), Dimensional Assault (B), Dimensional Dervish (B), Dimensional Savant (B)***
So at level 10 you end up with [6+Wis] uses of Dimension Door per day, and the full Dimensional Savant feat path.
then take 1 level of alchemist (vivisectionist)
Samurai levels count as fighter AND rogue levels for determining bonus feats AND sneak attack.
so its basically a triple gestalt of rogue and fighter abilities on a samurai, that can teleport and flank with themselves. pick up TWF and use that Wakizashi prof.
you get a sneak attack as a rogue of your samurai level, fighter feats as a fighter of your samurai level, and full samurai abilities.
hell, you could even drop those 3 horizon walker levels and grab flickering step and just pick up the teleportation mastery feat.
yes its dumb that works. yes its cheesy. No i don't think those abilities got a good proof reading. but that's what those things say...and who am i to argue against RAW
if you stick to strict RAW and abuse these wordings (uses Ironbound Sword archetype samurai archetype):
Her samurai levels count as fighter levels and stack with fighter levels for the purposes of fighter and samurai prerequisites and class features. bonus feat (the fighter class feature) is 1 scaling ability.
and from vivisectionist
If a character already has sneak attack from another class, the levels from the classes that grant sneak attack stack to determine the effective rogue level for the sneak attack’s extra damage dice (so an alchemist 1/rogue 1 has a +1d6 sneak attack like a 2nd-level rogue, an alchemist 2/rogue 1 has a +2d6 sneak attack like a 3rd-level rogue, and so on). This ability replaces bomb.take order of the blossom and get that 1d6 sneak attack. with vivisectionist samurai levels now count as rogue levels for determining how much sneak attack you have.
then i steal a build i saw here a few weeks ago
Level 10 Dimensional Savant early access:
Half-Orc with Shaman's Apprentice ART.
Samurai 1-6
1 +1 Feat, Endurance (B)
3 +1 Feat
5 +1 Feat
6 +1 Combat Feat (B)Horizon Walker 1-3
7 +1 Feat, Favored Terrain: Astral Plane
8 Terrain Mastery: Astral Plane
9 Flickering Step, Terrain Dominance: Astral PlaneFighter 1
10 Dimensional Agility (B), Dimensional Assault (B), Dimensional Dervish (B), Dimensional Savant (B)***
So at level 10 you end up with [6+Wis] uses of Dimension Door per day, and the full Dimensional Savant feat path.
then take 1 level of alchemist (vivisectionist)
Samurai levels count as fighter AND rogue levels for determining bonus feats AND sneak attack.
so its basically a triple gestalt of rogue and fighter abilities on a samurai, that can teleport and flank with themselves. pick up TWF and use that Wakizashi prof.
you get a sneak attack as a rogue of your samurai level, fighter feats as a fighter of your samurai level, and full samurai abilities.
hell, you could even drop those 3 horizon...
That is ridiculous.... O.o
Name Violation, that is just silly. Lol. I love it. The backwards application of the Fighter's Bonus Feats is ridiculous, but hey, it works. "I'll allow it!", as the ref in Celebrity Deathmatch would say.
AVR, the first time I read Dual Cursed, I mistakenly thought it traded away the 4th level Mystery Spell, not the Mystery Spell gained at 4th level... so I thought it would be getting rid of Dimension Door. But I was wrong, so now I see how a Dual Cursed Oracle with the Solar Mystery could feasibly kick this off at level 5... Sun Stride/Dimensional Agility at level 5, Dimensional Assault at 7, Dimensional Dervish at 9, and Dimensional Savant still has to wait until level 13 due to its BAB restriction. Dual Cursed stacks with Warsighted, too. Huh, not bad at all. For even more fun, you could be a Wayang and use their FCB to get Shadow Step and Shadow Walk on your spell list... kind of the opposite of Sun Stride. Lol.
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Shifter/Horizon Walker. A dude turns into a velociraptor which can clever girl you from across the room.
AVR, the first time I read Dual Cursed, I mistakenly thought it traded away the 4th level Mystery Spell, not the Mystery Spell gained at 4th level...
Ah yes, Gygax's old joke on us. Why they didn't fix that disconnect in PF2 (or rename one of spell level and character level) I'll never understand.
For even more fun, you could be a Wayang and use their FCB to get Shadow Step and Shadow Walk on your spell list.
Shabti could work similarly except they don't get a spell level added to the spells they steal off the psychic list.
Shifter/Horizon Walker. A dude turns into a velociraptor which can clever girl you from across the room.
You used a Jurassic Park quote as an action verb... I love it.