Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous · Unfair difficulty

Martial Characters Combat Comparison

How do martial builds in Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous actually compare in a fight? The rules are Pathfinder First Edition rules as the game implements them, with its mythic paths, its own archetypes and its Unfair difficulty. Each build here is run through a rules engine at every level from 1 to 20, with the same party buffing it and against enemies measured from the game. You can see where every point of attack bonus and armor class comes from, how often the build hits and gets hit, and how many fights a rest of buffs lasts.

Quick intro

One build per playstyle. Builds are told apart by the classes they commit to (more than two levels); one- or two-level dips don't make a new build, so only the best of each kind is listed.
Same fight for everyone. Every build is the main character of the same party (Nenio, Sosiel, a skald and Seelah on her horse), with the same buffs, against enemies of its level on Unfair.
Four kinds of fight. The once-a-day fight with every buff, a spike fight you can repeat, the spike with scrolls, and a sustained ordinary fight with only long-lasting buffs.
Charge, Vital Strike, Dimension Strike, invisibility... Each attack style is counted in one specific way, or not at all yet; the attack styles table says which number includes what.
Numbers are not the whole story. They score every build against the same enemy, at full AC, inside the same party. Builds that aim at touch or flat-footed AC, or that make the party better, can look weaker than they play; how these numbers can mislead you.
Computed, not estimated. Every number comes from the build file and the rules below; the assumptions page says what is simplified or not counted yet.

Builds and breakdown pages

Level 20. Attack and AC are spike / sustained. Breakdown: every level, every bonus by who supplies it, enemy AC lines (full, flat-footed, touch) and fights per rest. Build: the character itself, level by level, and its file.

Build	Commits to	Attack	Target AC	AC	Enemy attack	Spike fights per rest	Pages
Eldritch Scoundrel (dips Scaled Fist/Vivisectionist, race: Aasimar) - Angel	Eldritch Scoundrel	+76 / +58	87	81 / 76	+76	3	Breakdown Build
Exploiter Wizard/Arcane Trickster/Loremaster (dips Steelblood/Vivisectionist, race: Human) - Lich	Arcane Trickster, Exploiter Wizard, Loremaster	+87 / +76	87	72 / 71	+76	3	Breakdown Build
Vivisectionist (dips Scaled Fist/Stigmatized Witch/Knife Master, race: Aasimar) - Trickster	Vivisectionist	+78 / +59	87	97 / 92	+76	2	Breakdown Build
Spawn Slayer (race: Half-Orc) - Trickster	Spawn Slayer	+82 / +70	87	52 / 51	+76	3	Breakdown Build
Titan Fighter (race: Human) - Trickster	Titan Fighter	+80 / +68	87	54 / 53	+76	3	Breakdown Build
Paladin, Demon Smiter (race: Human) - Angel	Paladin	+81 / +57	87	47 / 46	+76	3	Breakdown Build
Paladin, Shield Tank (race: Human) - Angel	Paladin	+80 / +56	87	65 / 64	+76	3	Breakdown Build
Sword Saint (race: Elf) - Trickster	Sword Saint	+73 / +71	87	55 / 54	+76	1	Breakdown Build
Gendarme (race: Human) - Trickster	Gendarme	+76 / +64	87	43 / 42	+76	3	Breakdown Build

Across the roster

Damage per round against the level's enemies, buffed

Chance to avoid an enemy of the level's attack, buffed (higher is better)

Damage per round as a share of a typical enemy's hit points

Attack bonus plus the AC penalty the build inflicts

Make your own comparison

Write a build as a YAML file, run one command and get its breakdown page. If it is good, send it as a pull request and it can join the roster. How to run it yourself.

Copyright and trademark notices

Martial Characters Combat Comparison is an unofficial, non-commercial fan project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed, sponsored or approved by Paizo Inc. or Owlcat Games. Pathfinder is a trademark of Paizo Inc.; Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is developed and published by Owlcat Games under license. These names, and the names of classes, feats, spells, items and characters, are used only to identify what is being compared.

The site publishes analysis, not game content: no rules text, item or spell descriptions, art or game files are reproduced. Game mechanics are described in our own words, and every number is computed by the project's own code from build files written for it. Facts about the game were checked against the community wikis and in-game observation.

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