pedrorq: Would that be with a level of Druid instead of Monk?
And I guess here I would take a 6th level of Sorc?

InEffect: Kinetic Valerie

Role: Tank/Disruptor

Stats:
Str: 14
Dex: 13
Con: 19 > 24
Int: 9
Wis: 10
Cha: 15

Final Build: Fighter(TSS) 5/Kineticist(Kinetic Knight) 11/Rogue(Thug) 4

Main skills: Mobility 3, Persuasion (max)
Suggested secondary skills: Perception (max), Use Magic Device (spare)

Detailed leveling breakdown:
Lvl 2: Kineticist - Fire
Lvl 3: Kineticist - Armor Focus: Heavy // Elemental Whispers: Lizard
Lvl 4: Kineticist
Lvl 5: Kineticist - Shield Focus // Dazzling Display
Lvl 6: Kineticist
Lvl 7: Kineticist - Outflank // Dazzling Infusion
Lvl 8: Kineticist - Fire’s Fury
Lvl 9: Rogue - Accomplished Sneak Attacker
Lvl 10: Kineticist - Fire > Dreadful Carnage // Water: Water
Lvl 11: Rogue - Shatter Defences // Weapon Focus: Kinetic Blast
Lvl 12: Rouge
Lvl 13: Fighter - Improved Unarmed Strike // Crane Style
Lvl 14: Kineticist
Lvl 15: Kineticist - Persuasive // Kinetic Healer
Lvl 16: Kineticist - Unraveling Infusion*
Lvl 17: Rogue - Improved Critical: Kinetic Blast // Combat Trick > Blind Fight
Lvl 18: Fighter
Lvl 19: Fighter - Skill Focus: Persuasion // Improved Initiative*
Lvl 20: Fighter
*optional can take Crane wing here while it's still bugged.

Gear: Mithral Plate, +AC gear, +Stat gear, Opportunist’s Boots.
What we achieved here exactly? 16BAB kinetic knight, which is actually pretty decent. Quite a bit of AC. Decent AB, considering we attack touch AC. High Dazzling checks, Almost full damage that kineticist would have if we qualify for sneak-attack, Massive debuffs to anything we hit. We actually hit so well that you might consider switching to Disorienting Injury.

Burn yourself as you please. She has way too much HP anyway. Use +4Con Overflow.

Pretty ok by the virtue of being kineticist(so long as you don’t compare her to actual kineticists). I kept Her TSS progression mostly so her initial level wouldn’t be a complete waste. And late-game tower shields are good(also we can’t really ramp water shield any higher than +9AC in this build anyway)

2nd Element can be whatever you feel like. We don't depend too much on that. Picked water so she can kinda maybe heal someone sometime.

Has uncanny dodge, blind-fight and evasion.

Good enough as far as I'm concerned.

pedrorq: How would you improve this KK build if you weren't hampered by Valerie's starting stats/class/abilities?

Would more levels of KK be a possibility, adding Earth as 3rd element for Bowling Infusion, or would that spread too thin?

InEffect: But what about Dragons!?

Role: Nuker/Tank/Damage Dealer

Race: Human
Alignment: any Lawful

Stats:
Str: 16
Dex: 14
Con: 14
Int: 7
Wis: 7
Cha: 19 > 24

Final Build: Sorcerer 15/Dragon Disciple 4/Monk(Scaled Fist) 1
Bloodline: Draconic(Gold or Red)

Main skills: Knowledge: Arcana 5, Mobility 3, Persuasion*
Suggested secondary skills: Whatever you like. You have 13 spare points. Use Magic Device is a good fit.

*Put at 1 in persuasion at character creation, finish arcana and mobility, then persuasion again.

Detailed leveling breakdown:
Lvl 1: Sorcerer - Spell Focus: Evocation, Greater Spell Focus: Evocation, Spell Specialization
Lvl 2: Sorcerer
Lvl 3: Sorcerer - Weapon focus: Touch/bite/claw***
Lvl 4: Sorcerer
Lvl 5: Sorcerer - Dazzling Display
Lvl 6: Sorcerer
Lvl 7: Dragon Disciple - Dodge
Lvl 8: Dragon Disciple - Toughness
Lvl 9: Dragon Disciple - Outflank
Lvl 10: Dragon Disciple
Lvl 11: Sorcerer - Shatter Defenses // Blind Fight*
Lvl 12: Monk** - Crane Style
Lvl 13: Sorcerer - Elemental Focus: Fire
Lvl 14: Sorcerer
Lvl 15: Sorcerer - Greater Elemental Focus: Fire
Lvl 16: Sorcerer
Lvl 17: Sorcerer - Arcane Strike
Lvl 18: Sorcerer - Quicken Spell****
Lvl 19: Sorcerer - Heighten Spell
Lvl 20: Sorcerer

*Optional. Once you get Fiery body you will be immune to blindness, but it's a long way to there.
**you can shift monk however you like even lvl 1 is not bad. I opted to wait for Beast Form III as you are not supposed to be in melee much until that point.
***Whatever you fancy. Doesn't matter, really.
****Optional. Quickened true strikes and vanishes are good, but rods can fill the role just as fine. Improved initiative is an option.

Spell Specialization:
Lvl 1-3: Burning Hands
Lvl 4-5: Burning Arc
Lvl 6-9: Fireball
Lvl 10-12: Dragon’s Breath
Lvl 13-16: Fire Snake
Lvl 17-20 Sirocco

Spells by level in order of importance:
Lvl 1: Burning Hands, Shield, Mage Armor*, Vanish, Enlarge Person, True Strike
Lvl 2: Burning Arc, Mirror Image, Glitterdust, Sense Vitals, Web**
Lvl 3: Fireball, Displacement. Haste, Resist Energy(Communal), Dispel Magic*
Lvl 4: Dragon’s Breath, Dimension Door, Animate Dead, Protection from Energy(Communal)
Lvl 5: Beast Shape III***, Fire Snake, Geniekind, Angelic Aspect
Lvl 6: Dragonkind I*, Transformation, Sirocco, Heroism(Greater)
Lvl 7: Dragonkind II*, Wave of Exhaustion, Firebrand, Legendary Proportions
Lvl 8: Dragonkind III*, Seamantle, Frightful Aspect
Lvl 9: Fiery Body

*You will get this as a Bloodline spell, don’t have to pick it.
**Optional. Some CC won't hurt, but it's whatever.
***Taken to give you a melee option. You can skip it if you feel like you don’t need it. You can’t cast spells in beast shape. With bard buffs, haste, and your high Str you should hit decently well

Metamagic:
Vanish(Quicken), Burning Arc(Quicken), Mirror Image(Quicken), Sense Vitals(Quicken) Fireball(Quicken), Haste(Quicken), Displacement(Quicken), Dragon’s Breath(Quicken), Dimension Door(Quicken), Fire Snake(Quicken)
Sirocco(Heightened) - lvl7.8.9. Dragonkind III(Heightened) lvl 9

Gear: +Cha helmet, Fire Robes, +Str+Dex+Con items. AC Bracers, AC items, elemental damage to attacks/natural attacks: alkali gloves and winter wolfs cloak for example. Metamagic Rods

Your standard nuker sorcerer with a good late-game plan. Dragon Forms allow you to cast. General plan when you get there is as such: decide if you want to murder them in melee or with spells/breath weapon. Buff. if you decided to go melee you will need to add geniekind, firebrand and sense vitals to your regular buff routine.

Pick dragon type according to enemy resistances. When(an if) you get to Fiery Body it won't matter as you would be immune to everything in any ice dragon form. Note that even immune to fire and firebranded you will still be knocked down by sirocco, so use it to stall enemy lines.

Quicken spells serve dual purpose. They are either your get-out-of-jail-free cards, or additional damage per round.

Use metamagic rods extensively. They will boost your damage by a lot.

Now bad news are it takes time to get to dragon forms. I opted for beast shape to get you going sooner. While you can’t cast spells in it, breath weapon works perfectly fine. Fire-breathing bears. Ha! With the assistance of buffs and outflank you will hit reasonably well. Turn off fighting defensively while in beast form. Every bit of AB counts there.

Fighting defensively doesn’t affect DC spells that we use. Click it from level 1 and never turn it off pretty much, except for beast form. With dragon form it won’t hinder you, as you can cast Transformation to ramp up your AB by that time. Note that Transformation prohibits spell-casting - buff before use.

Will have about 70+AC and 40+ AB late-game in case you are interested. Damage is not too shabby either.

There is no reason to go anything, but human.

drunkprince: hey mate, can i ask why you put so many points in Str?

drunkprince: im here once again making questions... Sorry for being a nuisance asking again and again, but how much the build changes if i go fire first instead of earth? and a second one, can you run the unfair build as an aasimar or human is mandatory? tho i really love the kinetic blade (aesthetically since i would love the Escanor build thus the first question) and you dont get it in unfair's build.

InEffect: if you go fire first you get garbage fire shield instead of actually good DR that earth gives so that's 1 feat lost. You also won't get your bowling anytime soon. There also might be issues in feat order costing 1 more feat from there, don't exactly remember by now, but that's quite possible. And if you skip earth you make kineticist one of the weakest classes in the game cause deadly earth bowling is the whole point of the thing. That's why I hate kinticists. They are either OP and you are snoozing on a keyboard or they are patently useless and you are asking yourself why you play that garbage.

Unfair kineticist straight up won't work on aasimar. You have to have PB/Precise level 1 or I don't know how are you going to deal with the mansion and live to level 3.

drunkprince: Hey guess who's back? :p this might be the last question.. well, you dont seem to have an archer build? should i follow companions build?
truth to be told i want aasimar/ranger for wings(aesthetically mostly+animal companion). how do you build one? i might go yolo multi with Eldritch Archer but since im not good in min maxing im asking the specialist.

Son_of_Faerun: Thank you so much for these guides. I just hit 20 last night with your Aldori Duelist build along with your Valerie, Linzy, Octavia Gozreh Merc and Jubi builds. My first playthrough, I did the auto level companions option and it was a disaster. This time, I am cruising pretty well on hard. I am already looking forward to trying the Dex Scion on unfair.

I really hope you do the same sort of guide for WotR next year...

InEffect: Feyspeaker Shifter

Race: Human
Alignment: LN

Stats:
Str: 18 > 22
Dex: 15>16@4
Con: 12
Int: 7
Wis: 10
Cha: 16

Final Build: Monk(Scaled Fist) 1/Druid(Feyspeaker) 17/Fighter 2
Domain: None
Pet: Leopard

Main skills: Persuasion, Mobility 3, Athletics 1, Stealth 1
Suggested secondary skills: Stealth, Athletics

Detailed leveling breakdown:
Lvl 1: Monk - Dodge // Weapon Focus: Claw // Crane Style
Lvl 2: Druid
Lvl 3: Druid - Boon Companion
Lvl 4: Druid
Lvl 5: Druid - Dazzling Display
Lvl 6: Druid
Lvl 7: Druid - Outflank
Lvl 8: Druid
Lvl 9: Druid - Crane Wing
Lvl 10: Druid
Lvl 11: Druid - Shatter
Lvl 12: Druid
Lvl 13: Druid - Natural Spell(+4Wis item)
Lvl 14: Druid
Lvl 15: Druid - Crane Riposte
Lvl 16: Druid
Lvl 17: Druid - Combat Expertise(+6Int item)
Lvl 18: Druid
Lvl 19: Fighter - Trip // Greater Trip
Lvl 20: Fighter - Fury’s Fall

Feyspeaker Spell Access*: Vanish(4), Mirror Image(6), Displacement(8), Greater Invisibility(10), Heroism(Greater)(14)
*Listed in order of taking. Unlisted levels don’t matter.

Important Spells:
Lvl1: Magic Fang, Acid Maw, Faerie Fire, Longstrider
Lvl2: Aspect of the Bear, Barkskin, Natural Rhythm, Cat’s Grace, Bull’s Strength
Lvl3: Magic Fang(Greater), Mirror Image, Spike Growth, Resist Energy(Communal)
Lvl4: Thorn Body, Echolocation, Displacement, Protection from Energy(Communal)
Lvl5: Aspect of the Wolf, Geniekind, Greater Invisibility
Lvl6: Summon Nature’s Ally VI, Cure Light Wounds(Mass)
Lvl7: Legendary Proportions, Creeping Doom
Lvl8: Frightful Aspect, Seamantle
Lvl9: Foresight

Gear:
Early game: Staff, or flaming nunchucks. AC items. 2xArcane protector in A2(one at the bandit camp at the bridge and the other on Bartho. Dude’s gotta die.). Add amulet of mighty fists when you start shifting.
Late-game: Perfection, Arcane Protector, Amulet of mighty Fists+5, Manticore Claws, Cloak of Winter Wolf, Ring of Circumstances(Str, Dex, Cha, Con), Bracers +8, Opportunist’s Boots, Belt/hat+8, Ring of Ultimate Protection, Any robe*
*No robes ever meld into the form afaik, so it doesn’t matter.

Shapeshift AB/Damage, what stacks: Magic fang(+1), Magic Fang Greater(+4), Manticore Claws(+2), Amulet of Mighty Fists(+5)=+12AB/Damage

Str Stacking, +8Belt+6Legendary+2Elixir+2RoC+4Smilodon=+22Str

AC Calculation:
10Base+2Perfection+3Arcane Protector+5Deflection+1Dodge+8Bracers+8Dex+9Cha+5Barkskin+6Frightful+6Legendary+4Smilodon+2Foresight-1Size=68A C. +4Crane=72AC. +4Wing=76 melee AC. +4Shield infusion=80 melee AC, 76 Ranged AC. Overkill, but we needed the crane feats for the earlygame anyhow.

Total AB Calculation 11BAB+17Str+2Perfection+12Natural Weapon Buffs-1Size-1Fighting Defensively+4Heroism=44AB self-buffed, 45 for claws.
+3Bard song+2Sacred(Ecclesi)+1Haste=50(51)AB. +4flanking=54(55) +2Abadar/nobility=56 +10-2Sacred Erastil/Community=64
All 5 attacks are made at full BAB.

Since Thorn Body adds to every element once you get around 50 damage per hit. Not insane, but pretty ok so long as you don’t compete with the saint in damage olympics. With trips and all that should be around 400DPR. You also have Pounce with a smilodon form, and more than enough AC to take a charge, so you won’t waste time running around.

Early game you support a pet and try not to face-tank too much. We’ve taken leopard mostly cause it gains AC/AB/Damage from just one cat’s grace, so we can have buffs too. We gain our first form roughly at the same time we get to A2 and start finding arcane protectors(and as our lame AB finally catches up to us). Wolf is not amazing, but it’s better than sitting around. You'd also need to get Jubi asap and take infusion first order of business on him, cause shield spell will do you some good. We’re mostly a tanky boy with a pet for now. It gets significantly better later as we’d be able to finally cast in the shapeshift at 13 and as such can cast magic fangs on ourselves. If you are ever stuck, druid comes with a lot of cheese. First of all spikes. Those have no saves against damage and do pretty decent damage. Just get your fast pet out there and kite stuff around those. It’s cheesy and it works. Then you also get creeping doom that does roughly the same automatically - keeping one of those ready is a good idea.

I'd be able to drag the thing through unfair, so I guess it's viable for that

Think that’s pretty much it. If you find something missing - blame the damned fey.