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Assistant_Hack

Warpriest with a musket

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Greetings, you wonderful people you!

I'll be GMing Iron Gods soon and one of my PCs would like to play a warpriest with a 2-handed firearm and shoot big bullets with Vital strike, but we're unsure how to build it.

Currently we're going for one warpriest level first, then one Musket Master level to gain the weapon proficiency, the rapid reload and gunsmithing feat plus the 3 first deeds. After that it's back to warpriest until the end of the campaign.

Does anyone have a better option? Is there an archetype or class we're missing?

Thanks for your help!

Posted Apr 3, 2018, 7:50 AM UTC

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Mathota•

Well there is the deity Cixyron who’s favoured weapon is a musket. That will be a good way to grab proficiency.

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JustForThisSub321•

This is the correct answer ^

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Elisianthus•

It makes the damage scaling irrelevant, but a railgun or x-laser is hilarious with vital strike due to 5d6 200' line attacks. The railgun is objectively worse, but if you play as written, it's impossible to get one prior to book 5, whereas you can get an X Laser as early as book 3 as you need a graviton lab for a railgun, but just a regular military lab for the x-laser.

With tech firearms, which you can get online pretty easy, rapid reload and the like aren't as critical, so you can splash around wherever you want really class wise. I was a Spellslinger Wizard into Technomancer myself.

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JustForThisSub321•

Favorite Weapon, 1-20 Warpriest pew pew ez monie.

Though, here's the kicker - if you're going warpriest for sacred damage, why a musket?

Like, you can accomplish the same thing with a handgun if you chose, Vital strike on WP is just so good because you can do it with anything and get sick sacred weapon damage.

If you're not trying to rock the sacred weapon (Which I actually suggest) go Arsenal Chaplain archetype and proceed to regret letting him do that as he'll literally 1 shot everything.

pew pew

Oh, also, no dex to damage kinda sucks. =/

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Assistant_HackOPSomehow always rolls DD -1•

I did tell him the the damage scaling would make it less relevant to have a musket but he wants to use it because it looks cooler than a pistol or a bow.

But I'll recommand Arsenal chaplain to him, thanks

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Drakk_•

Greater Weapon of the Chosen can kind of let you crit fish with guns.

I would go with an oversized pistol instead, as muskets are hard to reload. Pistols can be reloaded as a free action by anyone.

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