Make a Bloodrager with the Serpentine Bloodline you wont regret it

[Selvokaz]

Hire one as your melee MERC dps. I made one with a glaive as their weapon of choice, the increased reach from when they get the power to stretch their limbs permenantly means everyone is provoking AOOs. Combined with the con damage from their bite attacks should the enemy fail their poison check from her bite while raging makes this so much fun.

[Eonwe]

Doest the bite attack mess with the reach from glaive tho ?

[Selvokaz]

no, because the enemy is getting within biting range, its just that you get a free hit on them when they provoke at the 10 ft mark, then they step into melee range for their attacks but at that point you have another attack on them from being in biting range as well as hitting them with the glaive again for your normal primary attack. I picked Steelsoul as the archtype so shes pretty heavily armored regardless so chances are normal melee attacks will miss her because of the natural armor she gets plus heavy armor.

[Eonwe]

Oh yeah if you’re the one tanking i can see it working, i thought you used your glaive from behind the frontline.

[Selvokaz]

nah, this is a front liner, but since i use real-time, it does happen that some ally might get ahead of the bloodrager, in which case the reach is so so good, also i made a mistake i meant 15ft reach, because its 10ft with a normal reach but when a serpentine bloodrager gets to a certain level their reach increases by another 5ft.

[Bastion]

primalist is better long run for tanking. You can pick up gaurded stance and then the deamon totem tree. Also you dont lose your damage reduction and that end game is crucial. you still get the shield spell for ac though.

[Selvokaz]

the paladin is the tank, Sheela, this is just a melee dpser, also DR can be bought on armor and since the steelsoul can take armor training like a fighter, you can get higher AC as well as special attacks and i think even DR.

[AzureTheGamerKobold]

Originally posted by Selvokaz:

Hire one as your melee MERC dps. I made one with a glaive as their weapon of choice, the increased reach from when they get the power to stretch their limbs permenantly means everyone is provoking AOOs. Combined with the con damage from their bite attacks should the enemy fail their poison check from her bite while raging makes this so much fun.

I made a table top gnoll blood rager with like a 20-30ft reach... funny enough when you factor in enlarge and certain spells and the racial these all stack.

Enlarge 10 ft reach
Class ability 5ft reach
long arms spell 5ft reach
Pole arm 5ft reach

There are additional ways to increase reach in table top that i doubt is in this, but yes you can make a really silly reach character. Also because of the way reach works when your reach is that big, any creature he enters your reach, provokes an attack of opportunity--- i wonder if paizo programmed it right. This is discussed when you read about huge and bigger creatures! which you now have the same reach as they do! add stand still feat and anyone you smack loses there movement and you have a very nasty melee character that can stop anyone from getting close to your back line.

The downside? your AC will suck... so you must compensate for that in what ever way you can, i should test a reach character in this at some point.

[Selvokaz]

Originally posted by AzureTheGamerKobold:

Originally posted by Selvokaz:

Hire one as your melee MERC dps. I made one with a glaive as their weapon of choice, the increased reach from when they get the power to stretch their limbs permenantly means everyone is provoking AOOs. Combined with the con damage from their bite attacks should the enemy fail their poison check from her bite while raging makes this so much fun.

I made a table top gnoll blood rager with like a 20-30ft reach... funny enough when you factor in enlarge and certain spells and the racial these all stack.

Enlarge 10 ft reach
Class ability 5ft reach
long arms spell 5ft reach
Pole arm 5ft reach

There are additional ways to increase reach in table top that i doubt is in this, but yes you can make a really silly reach character. Also because of the way reach works when your reach is that big, any creature he enters your reach, provokes an attack of opportunity--- i wonder if paizo programmed it right. This is discussed when you read about huge and bigger creatures! which you now have the same reach as they do! add stand still feat and anyone you smack loses there movement and you have a very nasty melee character that can stop anyone from getting close to your back line.

The downside? your AC will suck... so you must compensate for that in what ever way you can, i should test a reach character in this at some point.

sounds like a great idea, i think every bloodrager should take enlarge spell at some point.