Pathfinder: WotR - Five Of My Favorite Builds

Talking about a few of my favorite builds to use in Pathfinder: WotR!

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00:00 Intro
01:50 Sword Saint Duelist
03:00 Unholy Nightingale
05:05 The Fear Monger
08:00 The Demon Slayer
09:18 The Holy Spirit

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[robertdanielpickard]

your builds breathed whole new life into a game i liked but was frustrated by

[TheKastyl]

Started playing a few days ago and picked the demonslayer, funnily enough I didn't know I'm gonna be fighting a lot of demons, I just wanted to play a ranger and this subclass sounded the coolest

[zacharyhupe]

Thank you for this video! With the Midnight Isles DLC, I find myself trying out many, many builds, very quickly. Having just a few quickfire build ideas really helps spark my imagination!

[Hrafnskald]

Magus/Duelist: I actually played in a tabletop Pathfinder party with someone who did this around 6 years back. They would deliberately trigger attacks of opportunity, riposte, and unleash their magic through spell combat. Hilarious to watch :)

[Shadraen]

One other thing about Phantasmal Killer and Weird: Look out for enemies that have True Seeing on them (either temporarily or permanently) as the spells are considered illusions, and True Seeing sees through all illusions, making them immune.

[nyarparablepsis]

I got happy goosebumps when I heard terms like 'prestige class' *enjoys the nostalgic 3/3.5 flashback* Paizo had the right idea with Pathfinder!

[numpty]

Could not have come at a better time for me. Thank you!!

[Makofueled]

You opened my eyes with your phantasmal killer build last year, and by extension really helped my enchantment bard I was working on since many of the same principles apply.

Thanks for the great content!

[Alister]

A few builds I keep coming back to, mainly as mercenaries to help my party:
-Sanctified Slayer (Inquisitor) Archer; build him as a domain monkey (take domain zealot and a bunch of domains), and in turn-based mode pop a domain power before each attack. This is most powerful in the early game, and makes it go much easier on unfair. You kind of need a solid ranged dps early on, and if you don't want to take Lann I feel like this is one of the best choices. You'll eventually have 6d6 sneak attack, but now that loremaster works you can take a level in loremaster and pick up sense vitals as a wizard spell for another 5d6. You also have 4d6 from greater bane weapon, and up to +10 attack from madness domain, +10 from good domain (or community), +2 to everything from nobility. It takes some micro to work well but when it goes off it is a very solid ranged.

-Psychokineticist with monk dip (basically a jedi): If you are bored of geniekind stacking, this is another way to have a solid frontliner. Make all your levelling decisions based on being a melee frontliner, so max out AC, take kinetic blade, max out wisdom for armor and kineticist DCs, and give yourself shatter defenses. Kinetic blade hits up to 4x per round (potentially more with the hammer of perfection or some mythic shenanigans), so has a pretty high ceiling for damage. Use an energy blade to hit touch (and your shatter defenses is letting you hit flat-footed, so it's pretty hard to miss). Note that you can cast greater magic weapon on it to increase its attack by +5. I suggest fire/ water/ fire for the elements, so you have the option of using blue flame blade for some serious burst damage, and the water shield for another +8 AC or so. Unfortunately pretty weak in the early game (like all kineticists), but very strong further on, so best to add to your party when you have a higher level and more of the appropriate gear available. Kinetic overflow with psychokineticist is a bit buggy, but it does let you add a bunch to your wisdom, which will boost your armor further; you just have to remember to look for the ability in the abilities pane.

-Any legend build with dispelling attack and destructive dispel: Be a legend, take the rogue's dispelling attack feat (via a dipping loremaster [or being a rogue I guess]), and then also take the destructive dispel feat (and have some means of sneak attacking; if you're a caster you can use sense vitals, which you can pick up with a couple more levels of loremaster). As a legend, every sneak attack will hit the enemy with a L40 dispel, which is near guaranteed to dispel something, and will then immediately stun them. Even if they don't get stunned due to immunities, you're peeling away all their buffs and they can't do much about it. You can ensure sneak attacks by either having someone flank the enemy, by using shatter defenses and making them shaken, by being invisible (and mind blank is supposed to now prevent detect invisible or true seeing from revealing you to them), or using prescient strike as a magus.

-Divine Hunter (hunter): This is a crazy versatile class, and I sometimes pick it up to use the pet for tanking. You are a hunter who also has access to cleric domains (with -2 to the level), but unlike an inquisitor, you also learn the domain's spells as spontaneous spells, which is actually more than even clerics get (they have to put them in their domain slots). You can game this to get some pretty handy spells like divine power. Take domain zealot and at least a couple of impossible domains. (Glory will give you access to divine power for +6 attack and damage, madness is just insane, but most domains give you some nice spells you can't otherwise normally get). If that wasn't enough, your pet also get the celestial template, giving it some resistances and the ability to smite at its own level. Unless they have changed it, the pet gets unlimited smites, one per round. It's a handy way to pull, but it adds up to +20 to the pet's damage, which you can game for some filthy mid-game dps by using acid maw, and (if I recall?) claws of a sacred beast, both of which add damage that gets the +20 added separately. The +20 also multiplies on crit, so having a skald around who can give everyone an extra crit multiplier is nice. As a domain user you can also stand near your pet and buff it with luck, touch of good, or visions of madness. Leopard pet will have the best AC (just don't use armor), and does have trip, but wolf/ dog gains more from skald song if the skald has beast totem (gains extra claw attacks, which the leopard doesn't). That said, the best move is to polymorph the pet into a dragon from the midgame on, for the stat boosts and extra armor (and extra attacks). Smiting celestial dragon pet is fun.

[shigerufan]

I like the "bitey mcbiteface" build where you stack a bunch of unarmed strikes and secondary attacks and just go out swinging every fight.

1: Pick half-orc or kitsune for their racial bite feat
2: Pick unarmed specialist as the background
3: Pick primalist bloodrager, serpentine bloodline up until level 8, replace the lv4 or lv8 bloodrage with Animal Fury and another rage power of your choosing
4: Mythic Rank 1 pick Brutality Incarnate to negate all resistances to your unarmed attacks
5: dip 1 level into scaled fist (how original) for the charisma armor and extra unarmed strikes, and the ability to pick up certain monk shirts that increase the power of your strikes
6: Stick with the Serpentine Bloodrager up until level 12 to add reach to all of your unarmed attacks while raging
7: Put the rest of your levels into Hellknight specifically for the Smite Chaos ability, which you can exploit for 20+ damage per miss with the Destructive Shockwave Mythic Feat (you should have 10+ attacks while raging at this point so that's pretty much guaranteed 200+ damage even on all misses for a full attack)

Notable Equipment: 3-finned helm for an extra gore attack or Demonic Resentment for extra power on rage (helmets), Claws of a Sacred Beast or Gloves of Martial Excellence for stronger unarmed strikes (gloves), Robes of Order or Malice (2nd is evil only, both limited to monks). The other equipment is pretty flexible.

More or less just for fun, the downside to this build is that the survivability is kind of bad early game, so I wouldn't try it beyond core.

[Runeforged]

Thanks Mortim I will definitely be checking these out!

[NotTheMachine]

Sword saint is what I’ve been playing too. Love a little magic and melee combo

[NecroticRampage]

Thanks for the ideas, keep these coming please I am currently in my first playthrough (kinda I've been softlocked twice before and quit around act 4) and will watch everything you put out on this game.

[_Dingu]

Been saving a new run for the Enhanced Edition, so this video hit at just the right time. Now if only I can just hold off until EE actually launches....

[henriknielsen]

The first build I made in this game was an Elemental Engine Kineticist, with azata and later gold dragon path. I think it got nerfed later on (not entirely sure), but back then it absolutely massacred everything. And it was mostly accidental, as I didn't really know what I was doing.

[samcurrie]

I like the fear monger build since it's really similar to my favorite, the Punslinger Azata build. Just take Best Jokes, zippy magic and heightened spell on a Feyspeaker druid to have an MC that has two animal companions and CCs everything that isn't immune to mind-affecting with heightened Hideous Laughter.

[-Kailinn-]

I'm really enjoying the Grenadier Alchemist, it's fun making things go boom.

[timfriday]

Loving your channel Bro. Came back to the game because of the new huge ass patch and been looking up a lot of stuff an your channel always comes up. Mad respect. thank you.

[JakeTalksGamesYT]

keep inundating me with Wrath, love your content

[DSzaks]

My favorite class to play in basically every cRPG is a mage tank. I just like the idea of taking what should be a super squishy class and converting them into the exact opposite of what they were designed to be. For Pathfinder that means the ol' Monk 1/Paladin 2/Fey Sorc X builds for stupid AC and Saves. I know a lot of people find this build to be rather boring/generic and cheesy but it always tickles me to send my half naked guy rushing into battles and emerge w/o a scratch. It's also a good support buffing class so you can focus your other members into more focused damage and comes w/ a pet to boot. It is pretty versatile if you want to switch things up for specific builds like dazzling display or branch out a bit into Bloodrager or Loremaster for some obscure feats. Not sure how viable it is on Unfair but for Core works excellently.