Frighten makes enemies flat-footed just like shaken if you have Shatter, which is the only reason to ever even consider to use piece of shit dazzle. This is a second basic mechanic people who "totally not retarded" don't know while playing essentially the same game since 2018.
I do agree that kingmaker lacks a proper full arcane caster, but wrathfinder has nenio.
Would it kill you to use a Glaive or Bardiche lol?
Dazzling Display is piece of shit (usually) at full action, not so much as Standard. Terror has a solid proc, but that 17 DC goes obsolete pretty fast on higher difficulties while Hungerseed Scion with Intimidating Prowess can reliably land it’s Intimidate throughout the game. I’m a bigger fan of Fear than most but high # of attacks builds really don’t like having to waste a turn chasing stuff that runs away.
Things is, everything he puts into intimidate becomes useless the second when first caster in the party gains Frightful Aspect. You have whole party at your disposal - it just stupid to waste fighter's turn on the something all those priests, oracles and musicians could do better when he is the one person who would make the biggest impact hitting shattered enemy in the same round.
Uh, they can't. Not until level 15 (or 16 since I'm playing Daeran). And they can't do it better either since they'd need to burn a Mythic to get Standard Dazzling at a -5 penalty and I'm getting it with several bonuses at lvl 6. Doesn't need Weapon Focus either (though Shatter will).
With 7 characters in melee eligible for getting extra attacks off crits from outflank or seize the moment, I'd definitely take a masterwork Fauchard over a +1 glaive or bardiche.
Bardiche that drops in Daeran's Mansion is also Cold Iron so works well until you get the Relic. Sounds like you've already got the crit chain triggering well covered. I hear there's a Glaive that causes Fear too.
The odd thing is that both KM and Wrath give you two serviceable divine full casters to choose from with different strengths and weaknesses but stick you with a single arcane full caster who has abjuration and necromancy as barred schools (plus a bonus dead level if you don't want to go Arcane Trickster in Octavia's case). I wish they'd adopt Pillars 2's approach to companion classes where you can choose between two or three thematically appropriate classes upon first recruiting each one. It'd be neat to be able to have the option of recruiting Ember as a witch, sorc, or oracle, for example.
Don't you have Finnean for that?
I don't see how it would work for the personal arcs of Octavia or Nenio. And if to provide such choice the characters will have to be more... balanced... then I don't think I would like it, either.
Then people just cram everything into crappy memes, nerf themselves, then cry for Owlcat to make the game easier.
I wish they'd let you retrain characters to different archetypes. Wanting to try out a specific archetype and not being able to use the companion of that class kind of sucks when you either need a merc or to bastardize another character into the archetype.
