Shadow dancing war priest (PFS)


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I have been trying to make a fun shadow dancer that will not suck alot
so I think I will make it a war priest of Shyka
The build will use alternate channeling of darkness because he will hardly ever channel and when he does it will now make it dark.
He will be human with stats of
str 10
dex 18
con 14
int 10
wis 16
with feats of
1 weapon fenice dodge weapon focus rapier
3 combat reflexes and slashing grace
5 mobility
Shadow dancer

So what do you think I can do with this build and where should it go?

Scarab Sages

I would not take any channeling feats with a warpriest, channeling is a waste of fervor, even if you do make it dark.

Also, Shadowdancer has almost no synergy at all with warpriest, your fervor growth, casting, blessings, and bonus feats are all tied to your warpriest level.

If you want to use variant channeling to alter the light levels, you would be better of with cleric or a cleric/fighter mix pre-shadowdancer.

The Exchange

It also looks like your intent is to use a rapier as your weapon with slashing grace for dex-to-damage. Slashing Grace requires a slashing weapon.


Imbicatus wrote:

I would not take any channeling feats with a warpriest, channeling is a waste of fervor, even if you do make it dark.

Also, Shadowdancer has almost no synergy at all with warpriest, your fervor growth, casting, blessings, and bonus feats are all tied to your warpriest level.

If you want to use variant channeling to alter the light levels, you would be better of with cleric or a cleric/fighter mix pre-shadowdancer.

first it is not a feat it is a choice that you make, and I know I wont use it that much and it is only for dire times

and i think a negative energy channeling war priest has lots of synergy and it will let me heal my shadow and i might take an archetype that gives me 1d6 sneak attack

and blessing of darkness and blessing of death
(I made a mistake of the gods and i should be LN and a worshiper of Zon-Kuthon

Trahir wrote:
It also looks like your intent is to use a rapier as your weapon with slashing grace for dex-to-damage. Slashing Grace requires a slashing weapon.

I ment fencing grace which is slashing grace for a rapier

The Exchange

Fair enough on fencing grace.

As far as thoughts on where you could go from your idea of mixing Warpriest and Shadowdancer, these would be my suggestions:

May want to consider going to Warpriest 6 - you get BAB, saves, casting increases and a feat for taking the additional level

One of the Warpriest archetypes with sneak attack will cause issues because you give up your bonus feat which you don't currently have enough feats to afford doing. The other archetype with sneak attack may work fairly well for a character like this, but would require a diety switch. It would also make sawtooth sabers an easy option which do work with slashing grace and makes two-weapon fighting viable.


Trahir wrote:

Fair enough on fencing grace.

As far as thoughts on where you could go from your idea of mixing Warpriest and Shadowdancer, these would be my suggestions:

May want to consider going to Warpriest 6 - you get BAB, saves, casting increases and a feat for taking the additional level

One of the Warpriest archetypes with sneak attack will cause issues because you give up your bonus feat which you don't currently have enough feats to afford doing. The other archetype with sneak attack may work fairly well for a character like this, but would require a diety switch. It would also make sawtooth sabers an easy option which do work with slashing grace and makes two-weapon fighting viable.

I guess i will change my god and change my darkness blessing to the trickery blessing

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