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Not including any class- or race-restricted feats, or anything in the linked post, above...
Weapon Focus and Dazzling Display unlock a whole slew of feats that are intended to demoralize opponents:
1. Brutal Coup de Grace (force a Will save from all within 30 feet to prevent being demoralized after a successful coup de grace)
2. Gory Finish (make a single attack at your highest base attack bonus; Intimidate all foes within 30 feet as a swift action if you reduce enemy to negative HP)
3. Violent Display (Dazzling Display as an immediate action when you land a successful sneak attack or confirm a critical hit)
There are a bunch of other feats as well:
- Martial Dominance (base attack bonus in place of your ranks in Intimidate; Intimidate as an immediate action when you confirm a critical hit against a creature)
- Bloody Mess (Intimidate as an immediate action when you take twice your character level in piercing, slashing, or bleed damage)
- Frightening Ambush (free action Intimidate against flat-footed opponent)
- Iconoclast (free action Intimidate to all followers of a deity within 30 feet when you sunder a holy symbol of theirs)
- Intimidating Confidence (free action Intimidate against creature on which you confirmed a critical; can be used with Dazzling Display)
- Signature Strike Style (targets of your called shots must make Will save or be shaken)
- Soulless Gaze (Intimidate as a swift action when you take all four Damnation feats)

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Cornugon Smash is the one that gets mentioned the most because it's the easiest to trigger. You just have to damage the target with a power attacking.
Most of the others have conditions that are harder to meet (confirm a critical, opponent is flat-footed, you killed one of their allies, etc.), have limited uses (Omen trait is once per day), and may have other limitations as well (Helmet of the Golden General is an intelligent magic item - and even if your group allows that, the +17 to intimidate is not at all a sure thing by the level you can afford a 62,000 gp item).
I tried for years to come up with a PFS-legal Deadly Stroke build and the only other reasonable option I ever found was the Viking archetype for the fighter. Either option takes two rounds - Intimidate and hit for Shatter Defenses in first round, Deadly Stroke in second - but that's way better than the three or more rounds other methods could take.

Masalic |
Cornugon Smash is the one that gets mentioned the most because it's the easiest to trigger. You just have to damage the target with a power attacking.
Most of the others have conditions that are harder to meet (confirm a critical, opponent is flat-footed, you killed one of their allies, etc.), have limited uses (Omen trait is once per day), and may have other limitations as well (Helmet of the Golden General is an intelligent magic item - and even if your group allows that, the +17 to intimidate is not at all a sure thing by the level you can afford a 62,000 gp item).
I tried for years to come up with a PFS-legal Deadly Stroke build and the only other reasonable option I ever found was the Viking archetype for the fighter. Either option takes two rounds - Intimidate and hit for Shatter Defenses in first round, Deadly Stroke in second - but that's way better than the three or more rounds other methods could take.
Well i did find something thought i wish i didnt have to reuse traits but, basically mock gladiator+enforcer and topping it off with shatter defences

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Yeah, wish we had better ideas for you. I ended up with the Viking because it’s the only option where the intimidate check isn’t reliant on anything else. It’s just “as a swift action” at 10th level. Which means you can move, intimidate (swift) and shatter defenses (standard attack) on the same round. If you are using enforcer and have to move to close with your target you don’t have additional attacks to trigger shatter defenses.
. . . Unless you take the Hurtful feat.
Then you could move (move) non lethal attack (standard) intimidate (free) and take another attack (swift) which can trigger Shatter Defenses. It’s a significant feat investment (and not PFS legal, which is why I couldn’t use it).