Pathfinder Pathfinder: Kingmaker Builds and Strats Thread

which takes up a precious amulet slot. Aint worth it.

 

Any legit STR builds? I feel like everything I see is DEX.

I'd like to do a melee fighting inquisitor but it seems like it just spreads out the skills and attributes too much.

 

Just take Heavy Armor prof and go with a 2h weapon, you should be fine going with a Str build for that.

 

Scaled fist. make sure to grab trip feat when it available and the trip style strike. Use Enlarge person strength, dex gear and fury fall by level 12 your a giant MMA nigger that trips everything that can be tripped for free and does 5-7 attacks upwards to mid 40s. Its pretty sad when tripping more reliable cc then spells. Fighting devourer or demons. Great combo with rogue. Dispel a defaced sister trip her with monk or ekuns dog thats like -4 ac. Then nok nok rogue ability that further lowers her ac.

 

Does Two-Handed feats affect a 1h weapon held with nothing in the offhand? Like if I focus on Scimitars but wield it 2-handed do I get bonuses there to further maximize its crits?

 

...actually does it work with that monk flurry thingy?

Edit: Also that level 3 rogue feat (weapon finesse) has both claws and bite on the list.

 

In Pathfinder, natural attacks and unarmed strike are completely separate and do not interact with each other. The Monk's Flurry of Blows ability works with:

It doesn't work with natural attacks.

 

Yeah, but how it is supposed to work and how it actually works can be two diferent things in PK. And flurry is on the bug list.

 

Natural attacks has never worked with Monk Flurry. Only Unarmed Strikes and Monk weapons do.

However, you can always tack on natural attacks as secondary attacks after your routine at -5 to hit for the natural attacks. This assumes that you are not already using the limb for your usual attacks (e.g., claws when you have already attacked with a handheld weapons). Monk Unarmed Strikes are a particular special case because it is explicitly stated that you can use other parts of the limbs to attack with, so you can actually do a claw-claw-bite routine after a full Monk unarmed flurry attack (remember that all penalties are cumulative).

 

That's nice, but I'm asking how it works in the game. Flurry has been reported to a) not work at all and b) work with all weapons.

 

You asked how it is supposed to work... I took that to mean in reality, not in bugmaker.

 

This is literally a thread about the game builds, not pnp.

 

Yes. If it is bugged, then what is there is not as intended. Isn't that why you asked the question to begin with: You don't know what is it supposed to be. The only possible source when the game itself is wrong is to go back to what it is based on.

I can't believe that I have to explain it to you.

 

You cannot expect Cael to talk about game builds when he is not playing the game. He is just shitposts in P:KM topic because people like you keep talking to him back.

 

Strength based Vivisectionist has been working well so far. Feral Mutagen gives a huge punch early, but enlarged reach Cleaving with a long spear from behind the tank is nice also. Sneaks are easy to trigger and do a lot of damage. Damage reduction has never been an issue thus far. Boosted Strength compensates for medium BAB.

Though will saves and HP are your weakness. Good thing you can eventually become immune to some will CC effects and to sneaks and crits.

Plus mutagen will eventually provide huge boosts to all physical (alternatively mental) stats (and armor), meaning your CMD (and CMB for trip with Fury Fall) should be trough the roof, on par with a pure fighter (and your sneaks debuff enemy Str for even easier tripping). Combat Reflexes will allow a lot of extra attacks with the boosted Dex. Also Feral Bite will provide free trips with a certain cloak.

You eventually get useful immunities, like paralyse, sleep; can pierce concealment with echolocation and, if you've got spare Discovery feats, even get high resistance to sneaks and crit (up to 75%). Or go Elemental Body III instead. In general you can cover most important buffs yourself: Shield, Barkskin, Displacement, Haste, Echolocation, stoneskin, Legendary Proportions, Elemental Body, Transformation.

 

hey whas a good sword saint build using 2hand weapons

 

2 handed stops maguses from using their staple spellcombat ability - casting and attacking in the same round.

 

Oh you don't have to, I understand what you mean completely:

 

And you proved that you don't. As I said, when the game itself isn't right, you have to revert back to the source material. You, of course, had to take it another way in a pathetic attempt to save face for being a fuckwit. Typical Codexian oldfag shit.

 

do ranged weapons count as 2handed for purposes of that sweet 1.5x dmg bonus? i know composite shit already gives you a 1.5x but does that count as the 2handed bonus or is that a specific composite bonus?

what dumb fucking question i could easily answer myself by doing a 5 second google search will i ask next????? stay tuned.

EDIT: oh, I got one!

sword and board builds, what's a good one? i read earlier in thread that Tower Shields are eww! no bueno! what about "bucklers"? shield bashing?

can you use tower shield to improved trip opponents? what about Sundering enemy arms using a shield bash????

 

Well I think I saw one shield bashing Vivisectionist Dex build. I think it was Nerd Commando / Pope Amole video? Overall less damage, needs tons of feats and blooms later, but the cool thing is that you can sneak attack with the light finessable shield...

 

Yeah, Pope has a video about it. I tried it out, in Ch.2 so far and it performs well.

Melee strength 2handed Inquisitor is what I rolled with. I'm only in Ch. 2 right now and the build is far from optimized but it performs quite well even without buffs, and becomes a killing machine with buffs which is cool since the inq gets a lot of buffs he can cast himself, plus the Bane and Judgments. Dipped into a level of Vivisectionist as well for the Sneak Attack. If you care, I could post a shot of the build I got going on.

 

Well, that's true. I haven't tested it in-game, so I don't know.

 

sword saints can't spell combat with two handed or sword and board.