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Imo, the unholy champion type of character is mostly support for GMs who want to make a bad guy using PC rules.

Obedience isn't a new cause, it's the Tyranny cause (Lawful Evil) but opened up to have the option of either holy or unholy instead of just unholy. That's why it's the only neutral cause triggered by the champion taking damage, with the only difference is a new name. Still undeniably the best selfish cause and I'm curious how you would change the rankings if you included the level 1 reaction feats, like Iron Repercussions letting you make the mental damage persistent to make the choice between that and kneeling even heavier.

Onside you are two wolves; its a good night at FureyCon

damn, I missed you. glad you're back!

I guess next is Tiger Style Monk vs Tiger Barb? LOL

this is the coolest thing i've ever seen

If you have a Party of Barbarian, Champion, Bard, and Cleric, or Wizard, or Sorc. You will have great AC, and can buff the front liners into the sky. :)

Very nice! I am thinking of being a Psychic now!

Just switched over to a "Justice" Champion (of Gyronna) in our Season of Ghosts campaign, which is wrapping up shortly. After which, we'll be transitioning to a modified Curtain Call. Should be a lot of fun. I talked the choice of deity over with my DM before making the switch. Without giving any spoilers, the character started off as an NPC with whom the party resolved things amicably, but who had definitely gotten the short end of the stick. Gyronna isn't really popular anywhere, but we figured the fact that she was on a pantheon (Perplexing Jest) with Sun Wukong (of whom, our Rogue is a follower) was sufficient justification for her to have cast enough of a gaze Tian Xia-ward to wind up offering power to a wronged young woman in a unique position. As an aside, the updated Nightmare Domain Spell Waking Nightmare combos really well with a Champion's Unholy aura. Frightened can't be reduced below 1 because of the aura, Waking Nightmare imposes Frightened 1 even on a success, and so long as that Frightened condition remains, every Strike anyone makes against them adds mental damage equal to Waking Nightmare's spell rank. Which isn't *why* I'm playing, mind; it's just a really nice combination I figured out that worked well with the character concept. Edit: Oh, yeah. Some folks might argue Gyronna has nothing to do with justice, but I think she'd argue the point. With a knife. And then, you know, call it justice. Mostly my character is going to be an extremely angsty teen with a mean-spirited journal and enough grudges to hand 'em out like Halloween candy.

I advice reading up on Percentage point on e.g. wikipedia and learn the difference between pp and percentage. I don't think I can link to wikipedia (TH-cam will suppress it), but I'll try as a comment to this comment.

Reach weapon fighter strike stride stride Now it is out of reach, the bugbear cannot catchup without using 3 actions and getting a reactive strike 🤓

Short story: PF2's DCs and roll bonuses don't act multiplicatively, but additively, and we don't mix up those measures. Percents are a weird cursed construct liked by nobody. By definition it is simply a unit of 0,01, but that is not the end of the story, because it is not used to just move the decimal, but to indicate the context that we are talking about relative difference. The few problems we have with it are: -relative difference is not always a useful measure -relative to what. The Attack Bonus situation is particularly crazy, because on ist own it doesn't mean anything, we need the target's AC for the full picture. After we get one, we deduct AB from AC, we normalise it against the D20 and only now we can do any comparisons beside "more is good". And another funny thing is... neither additive nor multiplicative analysis approach seems sufficient. Let's start with the even situation when we get AC-AB = 11, so 50:50 chances of hitting, or more precisely 1:9:9:1 chances for crit-miss : miss : hit : crit-hit. Getting a +1 to AB makes this 1:8:9:2. It is (obviously) 5 percentage points decrease in chance for (any) miss, or 10% decrease. If we consider full mechanics of critting, and assume that there is no meaningful difference between miss and crit-miss, we have ~18% increase in average dmg: 9*regular dmg + 1*double dmg / 20 = 11/20 regular dmg, vs 9*regular dmg + 2*double dmg / 20 = 13/20 regular dmg on average. When AC-AB = 5 we have 1:3:9:7, +1 makes it 1:2:9:8 - still 5 percentage points decrease for miss, but it is whopping 25% decrease. For full mechanics: 9*regular+7*double/20 = 23/20 regular, vs 9*regular+8*double/20 = 25/20 regular. It is below 9% increase in average dmg. Finally, the other side of the spectrum, AC-AB = 17, so 7:9:3:1, becoming 6:9:4:1 after a +1. Still 5p.p. decrease in chance for miss, and mere 6,25% decrease. Avg dmg goes from 3*regular+1*double/20 = 5/20, to 4*regular+1*double/20 = 6/20, so whopping 20% increase. We are turning crit-misses into only regular hits now, but since we are starting low we are getting more in relative terms. So, is it better to get a +1 when you already have high chances, or worse, or same? One number is equal, one is not, yet another shows completely opposite relation. Well, everything depends, we are only normalising chances to hit and calculating expected dmg in most simple terms. What exactly we are hitting, anyway? Is it a bag of meat at full health that needs to be reduced over time? Is it a bag that is already reduced to 1HP but will wreck havoc if missed? Are we even targeting the same bag of meat in each case?

Important thing about Monk is that their feats offer greater breadth and versatility, as well as synergy. Here are some things to consider, I hope I didn't mess up anything: -Stunning Fist is free-ish, it doesn't compete too much with other feats - maybe only with Brawling Focus in Legacy, but it is better than it; it has an effect on any hit with any FoB, not just a critical ( but, well, only with FoB); In remaster CrtiSpec is free at 5 anyway, but in legacy you could pick both by 4th level -Stand Still is brutal if you knock the opponent prone -Qi spells exist, and as early as 1st level you can hit with Ki Strike / Inner Upheaval with additional non-physical dmg that triggers Stunning Fist; together with Overwhelming Breath it completely nullifies Barb's resistance -Qi Form passively improves all your attacks and deals damage each turn -You can consider One-Inch-Punch or Disruptive Qi for more power behind your most accurate attacks; doesn't trigger Stunning Fist though; OIP can be improved with One-Millimiter-Punch to push the opponent back, which makes him waste actions even on success; -Shattering Strike is another option for bypassing resistances, though it is rather costly -Diamond Fists work well with your standard 4-attack strategy -DEX monk with apex DEX item has +3AC advantage, -Built for Athletics even DEX Monk has easy time at Trip attempts, and STR Monk makes it unfair with up to around +7 advantage; Barb should probably invest in Canny Accumen for Reflex though anyway

Im not sure if the Alchemist Witch Build works in thew way you think it does. Elemental Betrayal only gives weakness to specific traits: "Your patron uses its superior command of the elements, empowering them to undermine your foe. When you Cast this Spell, choose air, earth, metal, fire, water, or wood. The target gains weakness 2 to that trait." or the legacy version "You call upon the elements to undermine your foe. When you Cast this Spell, choose air, earth, fire, or water. Each time the target takes damage from a spell or effect with the chosen trait, it takes an additional 2 damage of one damage type dealt by the spell or effect. If you chose fire or water, the target also takes this additional damage when taking fire or cold damage, respectively, from effects or spells without the chosen trait." Electric Arc has the Electricity Trait, not the air trait so I don't think this works

There's a deific being called Szuriel (Angel of Desolation) who is the current Horseman of War (after killing her predecessor), and her edicts are simple: Edicts end all mortal life through war, obliterate faith.

Did some theory crafting with a grandeur cause blessed shield champion. If you have one or more ally adjacent to you, you can eventually use Shield of Reckoning to get three reactions, although thinking about it it would be even more effective with the justice cause as then the damage would stack. You wouldn't be able to use a two handed weapon as you might prefer, but being able to attack two-three times while giving your ally shield block would make up for that somewhat.

When it is this close, the one that goes will win. Surely that would be the monk

With unholy sanctification you gain the edict, “Do not put another’s needs before your own or those of your deity” and the anathema “Commit an entirely altruistic act, such as giving something away in charity” and “Put anyone’s needs before those of your deity.” Desecration has the edicts "subvert or corrupt everything in your path that is pure or holy, sow doubt among those holding ideals of purity or holiness" and no anathema (meaning you're only really limited by your unholy and deific anathema). Iniquity has the edicts "destroy that which offends you or stands in your way, take advantage of others, cheat, steal" and the anathema "bind yourself with a law other than what your deity requires" Lastly you need to follow the edicts and anathema of a deity. There's several deities that allow unholy sanctification (some along with holy sanctification), some are also quite hands off, and either way with how the anathema are worded there is minimal conflict. Still someone like Calistria fits well with the edicts "pursue your personal freedom, seek hedonistic thrills, take revenge" and the anathema "become too consumed by love or a need for revenge, let a slight go unanswered" Anyway the reasons I have presented these sets of Edicts and Anathema is to do a thought experiment, how would you make them work in a pathfinder baseline or semi-baseline game?

Not gonna lie, that intro made me extremely concerned that your audio quality was going to be bad.

Power attack gets better the higher the enemy AC is, and vice versa (attacking multiple times get better the lower the AC). Would have been cool to include the AC threshold where the two overlap for each weapon.

Close animation to this concept. th-cam.com/video/vJGvSbHmeco/w-d-xo.html Also, did you take into account the Monk's higher AC? (I wasn't paying that much attention xD)

The Grandeur cause fits my Angelkin Paladin so well. But even if my GM let me switch I'm not sure I'd want to. Maybe I can bribe him somehow to allow me to hybrid both of them xD

I don't think revealing light for 1 round is that good, since it would apply after the first strike and go away before the monsters next turn.

It's so hard to argue against Retributive Strike being the best reaction. It's damage resistance AND a counterattack. I always consider the other options but ultimately come back to this one.

This is a great video. I love to animation and editing. Honestly you deserve way more subs.

couple more things about Eldritch Shot: - benefits from potency runes - can deliver melee attack spels at range

Hello, congratulations on the video and the channel! Actually, I found out about it today through a cleric guide, forgive any grammatical errors, I'm not fluent in English and I'm using Google Translate! Anyway, I'm going to start a new campaign and I'll be the cleric, currently I'm interested in the Harm build, I have +4 Wisdom, +3 Strength, +1 Dexterity and +1 Charisma, ok Charisma is totally disposable, but would it be better to give up Harm and follow Heal? I have Harming Hands. Would following the cleric build from your video be more sensible? I also have FA in Medic. Sorry for the long text, but I appreciate the video and any help.

Love your vids❤

HE'S BACK!!!! I don't care if it takes Pharasma redoing the Universe 50,000 times over. I'd wait that long for the next video! Also, think you can redo your Champion soloing again?

You gain +2 from Sniper Aim at Lv6 gunslinger ^^ !!!

This is very very good work!

Always excited to see a new video from the one and only Crunch McDabbles!

What are the advantages of this path over, just starting as a Shadow Dancer?

I was just starting to wonder where you were!

Glad to have you back! Any chance to get combat visuals on their as well?

This video is awesome. I've been playing a remastered warpriest for the last couple months and it gets so much versatility. Tanks damage, deals damage, heals, supports.

I saved this for when I'd most need it: to jump start my brain during the endless tedium of work. Thank you for helping me make my workday far more bearable.

There's a crunch In the distance McDabbles comes closer With the voice of numbers HE IS FINALLY BACK!

Our man, the legend, Crunch McDabbles is back! Super happy!

Welcome back.

Return of the king

Pure wisdom. The title really is helpful for identifying the name of the cause.

So if the target is dazzled by revealing light, its also off-guard, right?

I'd love to see a revisited damage champion build for the remaster

Put a video of yourself talking in the corner!

I've had one player run a Redemption Champion, and honestly, it led to some top tier role-play. Granted, i could see it becoming bland at the wrong table. Still, if you're in a group willing to get into the narrative, it can actually work out really well.

Woo! Love all your videos. This one though, the mic was picking up mouth noises sometimes and made it hard to listen to. Example @5:11

Welcome back! Good to see you!

I'M SO HAPPY YOU'RE BACK

Welcome back! You got some of the best videos ever. So I'm glad you're still making more!