Eldritch Scion Dex build (HELP)

[Manarad]

I want to know what you people think of building a Eldritch Scion but instead of STR as favoured stat, with DEX. I know it will be a bit weaker than de STR one, but is it possible? or i'm going to be REALLY weak?



Any recommended stat distribution?

[Autocthon]

Honestly the "weakness" is just that you have a more strict feat budget. A Sword Saint is better at doing it, but that's more or less the same as pointing out that a Transmuter Specialist Wizard is better at casting Transmutation spells than a non-Transmuter.

You'll basically have the AC that you would otherwise have, and be better at avoiding touch attacks.

I'd recommend something like

10
16 (+Racial)
14
10
10
16

You want a racial bonus in your dexterity score to get to 18. If you wanted to get more min/max you'd take some points out of Wisdom and Constitution to get a starting 20 Dexterity after racial modifier.

[Manarad]

Originally posted by Autocthon:

Honestly the "weakness" is just that you have a more strict feat budget. A Sword Saint is better at doing it, but that's more or less the same as pointing out that a Transmuter Specialist Wizard is better at casting Transmutation spells than a non-Transmuter.

You'll basically have the AC that you would otherwise have, and be better at avoiding touch attacks.

I'd recommend something like

10
16 (+Racial)
14
10
10
16

You want a racial bonus in your dexterity score to get to 18. If you wanted to get more min/max you'd take some points out of Wisdom and Constitution to get a starting 20 Dexterity after racial modifier.

I know it will be subotimal but ita for RP. Perhaps I'll dump some levels in aldori defender for the same purpouse.

[Autocthon]

Originally posted by Manarad:

I know it will be subotimal but ita for RP. Perhaps I'll dump some levels in aldori defender for the same purpouse.

It's not really worth delaying your spell progression for the extra feats. You can use an agile weapn for a long time.

[haplok]

Dex builds generally do a little less damage - considerably less when you consider buffs like Legendary Proportions. For Strength builds its sometimes beneficial to two-hand the weapon for more damage.
Perhaps more importantly, as a Dex build you won't use Enlarge/Legendary Proportions, which increase attack range. And weapon reach is very valuable in Kingmaker, even moreso for a magus, who looses a lot of potential actions whenever he moves to engage another target.