Because Blackguards are strictly melee fighters (King prohibits any males outside of himself from casting spells) I was initially thinking 2H Fighter with decent CHA, and go through Dazzling Display, PA, Intimidating Prowess, Cornungon Smash into Dreadful Carnage with some Thug dips for Frightening and the sneak bonuses. Outflank and Shatter Defenses too, maybe?

Anyway, I'll have a look at Vivisectionist, thank you.

Strictly be the rules alchemy is not magic and neither are alchemical 'spells'.
If you want to totally avoid all spell-casting in any form I guess straight fighter is ok. At least you'd get x4 crit. Irori deliverer12/2HF3/Ro4/Stalwart1 will somewhat work too.

I'll give the Slayer combo a try too. Thank you very much for your time :)

Make Amiri Great Again

Stats:
Str: 16>20
Dex: 13 > 14@4
Con: 16
Int: 10
Wis: 12
Cha: 10

Final Build: Barbarian 2/Alchemist(Vivisectionist) 4/Ranger(Freebooter) 10/Stalwart 1/Fighter(Any) 2/Slayer 1

Main skills: Trickery (max), Perception (max), Mobility 3
Suggested secondary skills: Lore: Nature(max). Stealth, Athletics

Detailed leveling breakdown:
Lvl 2: Alchemist
Lvl 3: Fighter - Dodge // Improved Unarmed
Lvl 4: Alchemist - CT>Crane Style
Lvl 5: Alchemist - Combat Reflexes
Lvl 6: Barbarian - Swift Foot*
Lvl 7: Alchemist - Crane Wing // CT>Outflank
Lvl 8: Ranger
Lvl 9: Ranger - Menacing>Power Attack // Cleave
Lvl 10: Ranger
Lvl 11: Ranger - Cleaving Finish
Lvl 12: Ranger
Lvl 13: Ranger - Great Cleave // Menacing>Shatter
Lvl 14: Stalwart
Lvl 15: Ranger - Improved Cleaving Finish
Lvl 16: Ranger
Lvl 17: Ranger - Vital Strike
Lvl 18: Ranger - Menacing>Imp. Critical: Bastard
Lvl 19: Fighter - Improved Vital Strike // Greater Vital Strike
Lvl 20: Slayer**
*Doesn’t really matter, just don’t take the bite. We don’t want her to be running after the enemies when raged.
**Nothing better I could think of. Could’ve left barb 1 and taken 2 archae for an extra feat, but that would slow the tempo and delay ranger6.

Alchemist spells: Enlarge, Shield, Barkskin, Lesser Restoration, Bull’s Strength
Ranger Spells: Lead Blades, Cat’s Grace, Delay Poison(Communal)

Early-game gear: Mythral plate, +2Int circlet, Oversized Sword>Glaive, Buffs.
Late-game gear: Oversized bastard +5(Varn DLC, Choose power), Ovinrbaane, Oak’s pelt, +8belt, +8Bracers, Gyronna, Manticore boots(or Opportunist’s Boots and barkskin from someone), Ring of ultimate protection+any gloves(or butterly gloves and+5AC ring), Any hat +6, Cloak of Shadows. Colossus Ring or Inner Demon, Lesser extend rod(s)

AC calculation:
10Base+6Dex+5Natural+5Oak+5Deflection+8Fighting defensively+5Gyronna+4Shield+8Bracers+4Vestments+4legendary+2Mutagen+1Dodge+1Stalwart+1Haste=69AC, 65Ranged AC. Decent enough.

Booter with enough stuff to do with single actions. Vital strike damage procs to cleaving finishes, so… She’s pretty much a human fireball with enough AC stacked to actually be on the frontlines. Scale weapon dice with legendary+lead blades

Would love to fit in crane riposte and weapon focus, but no space is left for that. With buffs Ab will be good enough and she doesn't do much of iterative attacks. Can skip Vital strikes for weapon focus, crane riposte and whatever else you might want, but since we are scaling standard actions here I like the above version better.

How about Graveyard of Giants?

It'll do, but Varn sword is vastly superior and ovinrbaane provides long shield buff.

Hi ty for this guide. I am using "what about dragons" build and i am playing solo on challenging. I have cleared Season of Bloom questline and reached level 13. Do you recommend any changes to build for solo play? I have tweaked some spell picks, aside from that i am following your build.

for solo you'd like more int for sure as you'd want to fit in trickery, perception, some athletics and other minor stuff.

ok thanks. Do you recommend pickıing up stoneskin?

Angelic aspect does the same job better. Although if I were to solo the game I'd take some variation of my melee sorc from unfair guide or sylvan/AT... or some variation of trip vivi. A1 unfair is brutal and you need much faster power spike than what dragon shifter that is already a very meme thing offers

My aim is using dragon form, casting spells and then going melee if necessary. I am going to have dragon form at next level up. Do you think it will be sufficient to finish the game with "What about dragons" build? I don't want to play without dragon form tbh.

yeah if you are already there it won't be much of a problem.

Remade Varn party from scratch.
Old one goes the way of dodo. The existence of that annoyed me(the party, not dodos).

Hey!

Do you have an unfair viable STR based TWF build or ideas for things to consider for it? How good would one be? I've been thinking about trying one but I'm unsure about the best way to go about it.