Techbandit: Sorry to bother again, but I've made my Abadar cleric focus on summoning feats and gave him some good charisma for extra channels. Is there really anything else to grab on him other than more channels and summoning feats?

InEffect: Depends on the class. If you just go necro/conjuration sylvan sorc, being chaotic is pretty meta since ruin is so much better on chaotic characters. For melee, you can do something like booter 10/Archae2/DD4/something 2 or literally any other build that would wear oak. The obvious issue is inefficiencies that come from that like sorc, for example, doesn't really need 25PB and can be done just as fine as a merc and so on.

Generally, alignment is most restrictive in terms of kingdom management and gear management, since you won't have anyone to put those awesome LG robes on and bulletin boards save a whole lot of time and effort on the kingdom side. Other than that there are a ton of viable builds that don't give a damn about alignment.

The reason why there are so many lawful and monk characters is just that it's the most efficient way around the block and the guide is at least mostly focused on making "good" decisions even if the character concept is not the best(cause the guide would be very short otherwise).

Artemis_Entreri__: I just wanted to say, you are amazing.

If it wasn't for you I probably would have quit this game already with all the extremely overwhelming'ness it has. It is such a huge overload of information at once and WAY different than the modern RPG. I have been slowly getting into the D&D scene over the past year. started with divinity 2 and then baldurs gate's and now this, (attempting PoE:2 again now that I properly got my feet wet).

Anyway just wanted you to know that your work is appreciated and helps a lot more people than you realize, 90% won't make an account or bother commenting but I guarantee they have this page bookmarked haha.

Cheers!

Edit: Do you have discord by chance?

InEffect: Thanks for kind words. The discord is InEffect#646

InEffect: InEffect#6465 messed the pasting.

Mind you, in case of pnp you absolutely should no aim to game the system. Even if your DM allows it, it will not be a pleasant experience for the rest of the table. On the other hand, stormwind fallacy is also a thing. Adventurers should be competent at the whole adventuring thing.

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.