dragonhunterq |
Hurtful is no longer legal and I have no idea what to replace it with. I have an intimidate/Melee focused Nagaji paladin (Chosen One). Mechanically he was always built to use hurtful and cornugon smash.
He is childlike and naive, and adorably simplistic out of combat, relentless and scary in a fight, with a knack for making people feel like a small prey animal. I'll be honest hadn't really thought about what I was going to do after 7th level - see what fit at the time I guess. The downside to this focus is that I have no idea what direction to go now.
Askaji
Chosen One Paladin 5
S 19
D 12
C 14
I 5 (Taking Lawful Stupid literally)
W 12
CH 16
Feats: Power Attack, Intimidating Prowess, Hurtful.
So questions are:
1) Is it still worth taking Cornugon Smash?
2) What do I replace hurtful with?
Sir Cowdog |
Honestly I think your GM should allow you to finish playing the character if you made it before Hurtful was deemed illegal. I don't think it's at all fair to wreck someone's planned build halfway through like that. However, if you haven't yet played the character, or if the GM isn't willing to budge on the Hurtful thing, you could request a complete rebuild or switch to another character.
But if you're stuck with it, then here are some ideas:
Weapon Focus -> Dazzling Display -> Shatter Defenses/Gory Finish
Cleave -> Cleaving Finish
Improved Sunder - Greater Sunder
Furious Focus -> Dreadful Carnage
The Hurtful+Cornugon Smash combo is VERY strong, and if your build is centered around intimidating, then there's not many ways to recover that free hit. Normally I'd suggest going for Improved Trip into Greater Trip for more AoO, but your character doesn't meet the INT requirement.
BadBird |
Its PFS, there is not an option just to continue on as is. I might suggest furious focus it is simple it works, and until you get your iterative you are essentially power attacking for free.
It's a reasonably effective option for turning 'odds are pretty low that you will miss' into 'odds are very low that you will miss', though to be fair it's boring. Depending on your deity and style of combat and such, there are potentially much more interesting options.
A two-step Eldritch Heritage chain could do all sorts of really fun stuff by 7, like going Skill Focus: Knowledge: Nature retroactively and picking up Eldritch Heritage: Fey for the awesome Laughing Touch power at 7. With a Conductive weapon you can charge enemies with a shut-down attack.
dragonhunterq |
Some good suggestions, thank you.
Furious Focus is simple and effective, but I was hoping to find something that retained the relevance of intimidate. Definitely a solid fall back option.
Is there an alternative to Blade of Mercy? (several issues: Iomedaean Paladin, would require extra traits feat and don't have the players guide). I do want to keep multi-classing to a minimum as I would like the familiar to stay on track, otherwise I would be considering 2 levels of cavalier (blue rose order)
Thug - not sure the flavour fits, Is there a way to pitch this less, um, thuggish and more, I don't know, 'penance stare-y'?