Posted June 03, 2020
Hi, first of all I would to thank you a lot for all the information you provided, whether it's here or elsewhere (reddit and steam comes to mind). While I usually have no trouble building my party on my own on this kind of game (completed PoE and Tyranny on PotD {2/3 into PoE2} and DOS2 on tactician, all with personal builds) I must admit that the depth of Pathfinder is something else.
I've spend ton of time reading about the mechanic and the class/feat/spell/etc., and it was often written by you, so thanks again, and I'm sure there's a lot of others silent readers who are grateful to you too.
Now for a bit of context I'm playing on hard difficulty and will go to the goblin fort next (108H in, yes I've slack a lot reading stuff and was struggling in the first act). While I'm not really having trouble right now, I'm still wondering on two main points and would love your help on them.
My current party consist of (mainly mercs, any feedback is of course appreciated) :
- Tank/DD (your Dex scion build) [MC]
- DD/secondary tank (your dragon build, though she still can't really tank but does a good job as a ranged DD for now)
- Summoner/Buffer/Healer (pure MT, using longspear to provide feat while avoiding to directly tank)
- DD/Buffer (pure bard + vivisectionist 1, focused on bow)
- Buffer/Healer (pure cleric, community domain, using some feat on DD talent like precise shot)
- flex spot (was initially going to be a DD/CC Sylvan Sorc, but I'm liking Kanerah or more recently Nok-Nok and was thinking of using one of them)
So my first point is, as you probably have noticed, I'm lacking CC with this comp and was wondering if my cleric/inquisitor could fit this role. If it's possible I suppose that I want to max my DC with feats like Spell Focus Enchantment ? Maybe to do that I would need to switch the Domain of my cleric ? I'm not sure as I'm not super familiar about what are the best CC spells you can get. Also bonus question, what are the best spells to get to buff my team ? (I find it hard to know what stacking or not without testing everything q,q).
My second point is more straightforward, can you maybe provide some advices on what are the best/worse feats given a certain role. I've seen the "Top Feats" section of your "Character Building DIY" post, but still have a lot of questions. For example, for a ranged dd, while Point-Blank Shot and Precise Shot are pretty obvious, I discovered after using it that Deadly Aim was pretty bad (and seen you confirm this afterward, like Hammer the gap), but what about Manyshot, Clustered Shots, Critical, etc. Another example would be Dazzling Display, at first I thought this feat was worthless, but it appears that it unlocks Shatter Defenses which is awesome. Kinda hard to know every feat and what it unlocks.
And once again thanks a lot for all the time you've taken to share your knowledge about this game !
I've spend ton of time reading about the mechanic and the class/feat/spell/etc., and it was often written by you, so thanks again, and I'm sure there's a lot of others silent readers who are grateful to you too.
Now for a bit of context I'm playing on hard difficulty and will go to the goblin fort next (108H in, yes I've slack a lot reading stuff and was struggling in the first act). While I'm not really having trouble right now, I'm still wondering on two main points and would love your help on them.
My current party consist of (mainly mercs, any feedback is of course appreciated) :
- Tank/DD (your Dex scion build) [MC]
- DD/secondary tank (your dragon build, though she still can't really tank but does a good job as a ranged DD for now)
- Summoner/Buffer/Healer (pure MT, using longspear to provide feat while avoiding to directly tank)
- DD/Buffer (pure bard + vivisectionist 1, focused on bow)
- Buffer/Healer (pure cleric, community domain, using some feat on DD talent like precise shot)
- flex spot (was initially going to be a DD/CC Sylvan Sorc, but I'm liking Kanerah or more recently Nok-Nok and was thinking of using one of them)
So my first point is, as you probably have noticed, I'm lacking CC with this comp and was wondering if my cleric/inquisitor could fit this role. If it's possible I suppose that I want to max my DC with feats like Spell Focus Enchantment ? Maybe to do that I would need to switch the Domain of my cleric ? I'm not sure as I'm not super familiar about what are the best CC spells you can get. Also bonus question, what are the best spells to get to buff my team ? (I find it hard to know what stacking or not without testing everything q,q).
My second point is more straightforward, can you maybe provide some advices on what are the best/worse feats given a certain role. I've seen the "Top Feats" section of your "Character Building DIY" post, but still have a lot of questions. For example, for a ranged dd, while Point-Blank Shot and Precise Shot are pretty obvious, I discovered after using it that Deadly Aim was pretty bad (and seen you confirm this afterward, like Hammer the gap), but what about Manyshot, Clustered Shots, Critical, etc. Another example would be Dazzling Display, at first I thought this feat was worthless, but it appears that it unlocks Shatter Defenses which is awesome. Kinda hard to know every feat and what it unlocks.
And once again thanks a lot for all the time you've taken to share your knowledge about this game !
Post edited June 03, 2020 by Zld-