A subreddit for all things involving Pathfinder CRPG series made by Owlcat Games. Loves Quicken rods for True Strike Vital Strike. To the best of your ability, trigger the aforementioned AoEs on Animate Dead/Creeping Doom in the best case or onto one of your swarm clones in the worst. The thing to watch out for is because you have no armor and fewer spells than other Magus archetypes, your build is going to come online slower than you'd think. Team up with a Brown Fur Transmuter and you'll be 1-shotting entire rooms full of enemies with your Cleave and Cleaving Finish. Luckily, we only really care about ascended element enemies and non-elemental AoEs. Its not like we have many alternatives and its not the worst thing ever. For every four levels beyond 1st, the weapon gains another+1 enhancement bonus, to a maximum of +5 at 17th level. If you are cursed on someone, just kill them off (disable Swarm Feast on them as itd be very hard to do otherwise) and use Bring Back to resurrect. Casting a second geniekind gets rid of the first, and dragon form gets rid of geniekind. The unique Pathfinder ruleset also allows you to perform advanced combat maneuvers, like mounted combat. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. That's a perfectly viable sword saint build. The Vital Strike damage is insane, Cleave can hit almost the entire screen when enlarged, and you can self-cast a ton of helpful spells like True Strike, Displacement, and Restoration. Just beat my first playthrough as Pally Angel to Legend, and want to do a full playthrough without missing anything (secret ending included) as an Azata Sword Saint. Character builds in Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous are virtually infinite, with countless customization options and variations available to all, allowing you to make just about anything you. no, youre not missing anything. Also, absolutely do accept the Profane Gift from Nocticula. GuiGuix . 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Dont take mythic level where you take improved critical mythic until after level 13. The thing to watch out for is because you have no armor and fewer spells than other Magus archetypes, your build is going to come online slower than you'd think. My MC was failing all saving throws at that stage. I considered Eldritch Scion because of CHA but based on the skills in the character creation, it seemed a little less heavy melee damage and more spells oriented, no? It does all the good stuff without the need for transformation, so we retain spellcasting. Its okay: boars are sturdy enough. Adding these properties consumes an amount of bonus equal to the property's base price modifier. Use Quicken rods to Dimension Door should you need to one turn kill something badly. No it's just that this a new bug introduced from the most recent patch. You can very much expect anything you charge into to be dead, as well as anything around it in reach. We generally are perfectly happy sitting on the boar and casting, occasionally poking enemies with Outflank once in a while, but with all the buffs, we can hit if need be. This arcane pool has a number of points equal to 1/2 his magus level (minimum 1) + his Intelligence modifier. Buy an atonement scroll and go into chaos for the trickster. Well, with the latest changes to the ability score bonuses from animal focus giving an inherent benefit instead of enhanced. Pick your poison for now. Rain of Halberds, Extra Mythic Ability: Greater Abundant Casting*, Extra Mythic Ability: Rupture Restraints*, Mobility 3, Persuasion 5, Arcana 2, Athletics*, Use Magic Device (spare), Oracle - Improved Initiative // Nature // Hellbound // Natures Whispers // Cure Spells, Oracle - Toughness // Weapon Mastery: Greataxe (x2), Oracle - Shatter Defenses // Greater Spell Focus: Conjuration, Hellknight - Any // Nail // Demons of Strength, Magic Weapon, Shield of Faith, Divine Favor, Unbreakable Heart, Cure Light*, Barkskin*. The most important thing is that I can follow every level step by step, which spells to buy etc. To use this ability, the magus must have one hand free, while wielding a light or one-handed melee weapon in the other hand. the reason I was able to is because I have toy box installed and it has an option to allow hitting next when you normally would not be able to enabled by default. He can't use scrolls, so potions of mage armor seem to be the only option. How do you have the Trickster Paladin wielding a longspear with a Shield? By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Pathfinder is a tabletop RPG based off of the 3.5 Ruleset of Dungeons and Dragons. Go down the vital strike feat line and max out your strength. Full-blooded Elves are the best for that role.. Every weapon that can be used with Weapon Finesse is a good choice, but my personal favorites are Estoc and Rapier. Could take second Bloodline: Arcane here for 1 more Difficulty Class on our crowd control spells. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Should be fine now. Transformation, Stone to Flesh, True Seeing. Hi, just joined. I'd recommend starting Neutral Evil, then edging to Lawful for a level, so you can Scroll of Atonement back to where you were. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Lich gets you a skeletal fighter (can in theory become a caster later, does not work for now), and Azata gets you Aivu the dragon. * Or Deceitful/Completely Normal. Just budget your arcane pool, as its easy to burn through it with perfect crits on trash mobs. I'm looking for something similar or same since I'm basically playing the same character. Neither work. Do I need to take combat reflexes, do I need to go the cleave path ? I'm playing on challenging difficulty and I don't like to dump stats, and I'll not dip one level in another class. Or Combat Reflexes if you dont want to deal with itemization. Have you ever wondered what woud happen if Sosiel was built for combat and not for love? Lead your army and challenge mighty demon lords. I tried it. Cold was picked because Waterfall is a thing that exists. One of the main challenges I face is finding information for a simple main character build, as most of the builds on websites or Youtube seem to focus on min-maxing with massive attribute dumps. Animate Dead, Enervation, Greater Invisibility, Dimension Door, Remove Curse, Protection from Energy (C), Hungry Pit, Vinetrap, Thoughtsense or Echolocation, Stoneskin (C), Animal Growth, Break Enchantment, Heroism (G), True Seeing, Cats Grace (M), Dispel Magic (G), Plague Storm, Ice Body, Legendary Proportions, Waves of Exhaustion, Protection From Spells, Seamantle, Frightful Aspect, Foresight, Mind Blank (C), Heroic Invocation, Bone Explosion, Repurpouse, Exsanguinate, Deny Death, Feast Of Blood, Blessing of Unlife, Restore Undead, Grease, Entangle, Web, Pits, Plague Storm, Domain of the Hungry Flesh, Improved Abundant Casting // Lich: Sorcerer Spellbook, School Mastery: Any (except for Necromancy), Second Bloodline: Arcane Bloodline (Conjuration), Fighter - Greater Vital Strike // Shortbow or Longbow, Magic Devourer or Eclipse Chill // Cleric, Athletics, Persuasion, Mobility 3, Use Magic Device 1+, Witch - Hellbound // Raven // Iceplant // Mage Armor, Alchemist - Combat Trick: Shatter Defenses, Alchemist - Combat Trick: Improved Critical: Bite, Alchemist - Improved Improved Improved Critical, Alchemist - Combat Trick > Intimidating Prowess, Alchemist - Improved Improved Improved Improved Critical, Sorcerer - Extend Spell // Undead // Serpentine // Completely Normal Spell, Barkskin, Restoration (Lesser), Cure Moderate Wounds, Haste, Resist Energy (Communal), Delay Poison (Communal), Greater Invisibility, Echolocation, Restoration, Cure Critical, Death Ward, Freedom of Movement, Heal, Transformation, True Seeing, Legendary Proportions, Beast Shape IV, Mirror Image, Chameleon Stride, Cat's Grace, Glorious Beard, Summon Medium Beer Elemental, Greater Invisibility, Shadow Conjuration, Summon Large Beer Elemental, Microscopic Proportions, Summon Greater Beer Elemental. 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