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2013-04-03, 01:58 PM
Hello all. Hoping to get a little bit of input/help with a build I'm considering. Pretty new to Pathfinder so I'm fairly certain that I'm doing everything entirely wrong.
The group I'm in looks like Rogue/Fighter/Sorcerer/Ranger/Myself. I'm playing a(n?) Half-Orc Battle Oracle at the moment, but the Fighter is rocking the THF archetype and is slapping everything in half with his +1 Masterwork Greatsword of Hamboning (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnrlzc39edM). Seeing as he has melee-monster covered I want to retool my character, putting it more toward the support end of the spectrum, while still having respectable melee abilities.
I apparently also want to be snowflake as possible, because I'm leaning towards a Tengu Oracle with the Life mystery and Shigenjo archetype, which will be especially snowflake as it's an Eastern campaign. I'm also thinking of going with a 2-level dip in Ninja. Though there's some drawbacks (-1 BAB and lost caster levels/revelations), I'm thinking the dip will be worth it. Opens some solid class skills (Acrobatics, Perception, UMD!), a free feat, more stuff for the Shigenjo Ki pool, and . . . 1D6 Sneak Attack (lol).
We're also allowed traits, so I'm sure I'll go with Magical Knack to offset the CL loss. Though I'm not sure what to do with my second trait.
Concerning the Revelations, I think I'll end up with four of my choosing, since Oracle 18 loses one and Shigenjo overwrites another. The ones I want most are Channel/Energy Body/Lifesense (in that order), but I can't figure out what I want the fourth one to be. The rest of them don't impress me a great deal. Maybe Combat Healer?
As far as feats go, I'm considering the following-
1: Toughness
3: Selective Channel/Power Attack (Combat Trick)
5: Cleave
7: Furious Focus
9: Skill Focus: Knowledge (Planes)
11: Eldritch Heritage (Abyssal Bloodline: Claws)
13: Improved Eldritch Heritage (Abyssal Bloodline: Strength of the Abyss)
15: Improved Initiative
17: Combat Casting
19: Quicken Spell
Which looking at it now looks all over the place and out of order in a big way and there has to be a better way to go about this. And is Selective Channel really necessary? Wondering this as I plan on using Channel mostly out of combat. Like, I imagine I definitely don't want to use it in combat as I'll be two levels behind in Channel progression.
Also, I'll be coming in at Level 6. What kind of equipment should I show up in? Figuring out what to do equipment-wise is something that I'm particularly horrible at.
Please let me know what you ladies/gentlemen think of this. I'm especially wondering if this is the dumbest build ever made, because if it is I should probably stick to my Battle Oracle.
The group I'm in looks like Rogue/Fighter/Sorcerer/Ranger/Myself. I'm playing a(n?) Half-Orc Battle Oracle at the moment, but the Fighter is rocking the THF archetype and is slapping everything in half with his +1 Masterwork Greatsword of Hamboning (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnrlzc39edM). Seeing as he has melee-monster covered I want to retool my character, putting it more toward the support end of the spectrum, while still having respectable melee abilities.
I apparently also want to be snowflake as possible, because I'm leaning towards a Tengu Oracle with the Life mystery and Shigenjo archetype, which will be especially snowflake as it's an Eastern campaign. I'm also thinking of going with a 2-level dip in Ninja. Though there's some drawbacks (-1 BAB and lost caster levels/revelations), I'm thinking the dip will be worth it. Opens some solid class skills (Acrobatics, Perception, UMD!), a free feat, more stuff for the Shigenjo Ki pool, and . . . 1D6 Sneak Attack (lol).
We're also allowed traits, so I'm sure I'll go with Magical Knack to offset the CL loss. Though I'm not sure what to do with my second trait.
Concerning the Revelations, I think I'll end up with four of my choosing, since Oracle 18 loses one and Shigenjo overwrites another. The ones I want most are Channel/Energy Body/Lifesense (in that order), but I can't figure out what I want the fourth one to be. The rest of them don't impress me a great deal. Maybe Combat Healer?
As far as feats go, I'm considering the following-
1: Toughness
3: Selective Channel/Power Attack (Combat Trick)
5: Cleave
7: Furious Focus
9: Skill Focus: Knowledge (Planes)
11: Eldritch Heritage (Abyssal Bloodline: Claws)
13: Improved Eldritch Heritage (Abyssal Bloodline: Strength of the Abyss)
15: Improved Initiative
17: Combat Casting
19: Quicken Spell
Which looking at it now looks all over the place and out of order in a big way and there has to be a better way to go about this. And is Selective Channel really necessary? Wondering this as I plan on using Channel mostly out of combat. Like, I imagine I definitely don't want to use it in combat as I'll be two levels behind in Channel progression.
Also, I'll be coming in at Level 6. What kind of equipment should I show up in? Figuring out what to do equipment-wise is something that I'm particularly horrible at.
Please let me know what you ladies/gentlemen think of this. I'm especially wondering if this is the dumbest build ever made, because if it is I should probably stick to my Battle Oracle.