Questions about Rogue Knive Master (Dirty Trick, Dazzling Display, Trip)

[Left-Hand Path]

Hi,

first of, I am not going for maximum effiencieny, I am just curious if the idea even works in practice. It is more of a "RP" build idea.

so I was thinking about instead of going Dazzling Display (which most guides recommend) I would like to try out either Dirty Fighting or Trip.

Dirty Trickseems pretty straight forward, inflicting Blind and thus beeing able to sneak attack as blinded denies the DEX bonus and it doesn´t provoke an attack of opportunity like stated for the PnP version.

If I read prone correctly, it doesn´t deny DEX bonus. On the other hand, knocking an ooponet down might help the rest of my party (taking away an action, enabling attack of opportunity etc.)

With flanking beeing much more easy compared to tabletop is it even worth going for it ?

If I try this is Agile Maneuvers mandatory ?

Edit: Bonus question: Is there a an online ressource where feats sorted like a skill tree ? Planing ahead feels kind of terrible as I am not familiar with the tabletop game.

[InEffect]

Dazzling is taken on most any char that rolls to hit just for the sake of shatter. We kinda don't want to use dazzle in combat at all if we can help it. There are better ways to apply shaken.

As to trip, the way it's implemented in the game the only decent way to trip is with the cloak that adds trip to bite attacks and stacking bites. Good sources of bite are motherless, DD and feral mutagen. The only sunergistic one could be vivi and 1 bite/trip per round is not exactly the greatest thing ever, but I guess that's what you are left with.

What trip mainly does is allows for more opportunity attacks. AB increase for melee is mostly incidental as by the time you trip reliably chances are your party already can't miss if rolling above 1.

[bkgamingacc]

Leave trip to monks or kineticist. Dazzling display is only taken as a prequisitive to a must have skill "shatter defences" . you dont actually use it.