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Shadowscale
2017-01-28, 06:10 AM
Anyone have any reccomendation for useful feats 1-20 for the Two-Handed Fighter, I know the Advanced Race guide has a lot of feats that Half orcs can take in their and Full orc's section.
campaign starts at level 7
Just trying to piece together useful feats, items, traits and all to make the character effectively.
Was also going for a slightly tactical character thinking of trying to get decent INT and WIS

Flavor for the character is a vampire slayer type fighter if said flavor can apply at all was thinking a silver greatsword for general horror slaying
As always any and all help would be useful. Game is today.

the_david
2017-01-28, 01:49 PM
Have you considered playing a ranger instead? If you want to use a greatsword you could use the Two-Handed Weapon combat style from the Advanced Player's guide. For the vampire slaying stuff it would be as simple as taking Favored Enemy (Undead) and ranks in Knowledge (Religion).

Power Attack is always good, and if you really want to focus on that Greatsword you could take Weapon Focus (Greatsword). You might want to increase your will saves with Iron Will.

magwaaf
2017-01-28, 02:14 PM
thuis is a placeholder to get email response reminders lol, a friend of mine has a build for a 2h fighter that does ungodly amounts of damage per turn

Shadowscale
2017-01-28, 02:15 PM
thuis is a placeholder to get email response reminders lol, a friend of mine has a build for a 2h fighter that does ungodly amounts of damage per turn

May I see?

Tuvarkz
2017-01-28, 02:47 PM
Not counting the basics (Aka Power Attack, Improved Critical, etc etc)
I'd suggest:
Combat Reflexes, Cut from the Air, Smash from the Air- using an AoO to nullify ranged attacks is incredibly useful, and you can have this stuff by level 7
Shield Focus>Shield Brace- The Nodachi is a very strong weapon that can is a polearm and martial and thus works with these feats, and a masterwork darkwood heavy wooden shield is just 257 gp, with 0 ACP
Also, take the Abundant Tactics AWT+Barroom Brawler, which lets you use the feat multiple times per day for needed flexibility.
For level 7 build, I'd say
(1) Power Attack
(Fighter 1) Improved Initiative
(Fighter 2) Combat Reflexes
(3) Shield Focus
(Fighter 4) Shield Brace
(5) Cut from the Air
(Fighter 6) Furious Focus or Lunge
(7) Smash from the Air
You can grab Weapon Focus from the Wayfinder Resonance bonus, no need to waste a feat on it.

magwaaf
2017-01-28, 05:27 PM
May I see?

if he decides to answer a text or call and gicve it to me im gonna post it

Steven
2017-01-28, 05:34 PM
Not counting the basics (Aka Power Attack, Improved Critical, etc etc)
I'd suggest:
Combat Reflexes, Cut from the Air, Smash from the Air- using an AoO to nullify ranged attacks is incredibly useful, and you can have this stuff by level 7
Shield Focus>Shield Brace- The Nodachi is a very strong weapon that can is a polearm and martial and thus works with these feats, and a masterwork darkwood heavy wooden shield is just 257 gp, with 0 ACP
Also, take the Abundant Tactics AWT+Barroom Brawler, which lets you use the feat multiple times per day for needed flexibility.
For level 7 build, I'd say
(1) Power Attack
(Fighter 1) Improved Initiative
(Fighter 2) Combat Reflexes
(3) Shield Focus
(Fighter 4) Shield Brace
(5) Cut from the Air
(Fighter 6) Furious Focus or Lunge
(7) Smash from the Air
You can grab Weapon Focus from the Wayfinder Resonance bonus, no need to waste a feat on it.

Unless I'm misreading it or missing something Smash from the Air requires BAB of +9 so you're jumping the gun a little on that one.

Tuvarkz
2017-01-28, 05:44 PM
Unless I'm misreading it or missing something Smash from the Air requires BAB of +9 so you're jumping the gun a little on that one.

Yeah, I was misremembering (Pulled the build off of my head rather than doublechecking stuff), my bad. Guess the other two from between Lunge or Furious Focus in there, then.

Krazzman
2017-01-28, 06:04 PM
Tuvarks did a really solid recommendation there. Depending on powerlevel I would also pick up vital strike as well as weapon specialisation.

Another pretty awesome vampire slaying machine would be the paladin. Smite kills undead pretty hard and let's you heal yourself pretty hard.

Shadowscale
2017-01-28, 07:43 PM
Thanks all for the suggestions, I know fighter isn't super optimal, but I love playing it.