Pathfinder Pathfinder: Kingmaker Builds and Strats Thread

Don't you also need to keep one hand free to get your Uncanny Dodge bonus?

 

Canny Defense AC. I believe so.

 

A very important question: can you effectively spell combat/spell strike with an estoc / bastard sword and at the same time enjoy the benefits of power attack str bonus that you get when you re swinging one handed stuff with both hands?
Need credible answers. Asking for a build.

 

yes look at the half orc magus

str builds are always better for damage and more feats efficent.

str builds suffer in defense: worse ac, worse reflex save, more item dependant

 

That... changes my plans. you sure? all the benefits? So basically i m wielding a scythe and do all the spell combat without hindrance? That seems very OP.
Yosharian I summon thee!

 

scythe is two handed. you can get the “hold with two hand one handed weapon” from str with all the non light weapons (not work with short sword or daggers for example).

 

I know that. Thing is its still a huge boon.

 

Kingdom management is still bugged and its easy to lose your whole kingdom due to it. Fuck. I broke down and turned on auto management.
They really need to look at this aspect of the game again. It offers very little reward for all the time it takes up.

e: This was supposed to go in the other thread.

 

well the loading time alone is a good reason for put all on auto.

 

This is wrong. With spell combat turned on, you're never going to wield a one handed weapon with both hands.

 

then how come I have almost identical attack/damage output with two handed greataxe and hargulka s mace (without shield)? and I also am doing spell combat damage. Also, crane feats shouldnt be working with a bastard sword according to yer logic but they do. This is puzzling.

 

This is why I'm not playing the game. Nothing is working as it should be.

 

Because pnp rules is one thing and their in-game implementation is another. From what you are saying it seems that in the game you can wield a 1-h weapon with two hands and still use spell combat. Enjoy it while you can because it might (or might not) get patched at some point.

 

Beware, auto is bugged. Put it on easy with invincible kingdom.

 

If it doesn't get fixed then it's an absolute joke

 

Because the bugs have taken over. Enjoy the ride.

There is a weird bug with Regongar where he will two-hand a one-handed weapon and this will turn spellcombat off, but the icon will show as if spellcombat is still toggled on, even though it's actually not working.

 

Not more than the ability to take combat trick several times. And it certainly isn't a bigger change balance-wise than the change to how flanking or sneak attack for ranged work. And the latter two aren't even bugs but seem to be conscious design decisions. The combat trick might be as well, can't be certain. Don't get me wrong, I hope stuff like this spell combat stuff get fixed but I wouldn't hold my breath. They might decide to keep it.

 

Another question: I've got Dugath's greatsword but am not particularly looking forward to delivering myself 1d6 damage every time I hit an enemy (which is most of the time). Any way to mitigate it?

 

Any sort of DR will do. So Adamantine armor, Stoneskin, Angelic Shape, Epic Proportions. It becomes quite easy after a while.

 

Really? It says something about negative energy or whatever so I thought normal damage reduction wouldn't go around it

 

The entire concept of Spell Combat is that it's like Two-Weapon Fighting. If you can perform Spell Combat AND maintain Crane Style while not having a hand free... that's not a design decision, that's throwing game balance out of the window.

Combat Trick being taken more than once should be really easy to fix. I agree that it's a problem as well, it makes quite a few classes basically Fighter+.

 

Gee, yet another thing that isn't functioning correctly. DR is not supposed to negate this damage at all.

 

Really? Unless your Damage Resistance says that it has an exception against magic it should stop it. Stoneskin for example gives DR against all except adamantine, so I don't see any problem here.

 

It's not supposed to work that way.

 

...So how is it supposed to work? Never played Pathfinder before, so I'm just going on from what the game tells me. In-game it is consistent at least.