Personally, I feel that some Dirty Tricks take a short enough time that it should be usable. You cannot perform a Bull Rush, Drag, Grapple, Overrun, Reposition, Steal, or Dirty Trick as an AoO. These 3 maneuvers are also the only 3 that can normally be done using your weapon (although there is a feat that also allows you to grapple using your whip, but this will not turn the grapple into an attack). This includes Trip, Disarm, and Sunder (this has often been debated, but current rules explicitly states that Sunder is done in place of a melee attack). Rule of thumb: if the combat maneuver can be done instead of a single melee attack, it can be used as an Attack of Opportunity. Not all maneuvers can be used, but the most important ones can. Combat Maneuvers and Attacks of Opportunity are the name of the game. To this end, one of your main tools is your ability to absolutely abuse Attacks of Opportunity, which you can use for Combat Maneuvers such as trip, which you can execute using your whip. You won’t do a lot of death and destruction, but you can certainly trip people up or disarm them using your whip, preventing them from getting to you or to your allies, or from using their weapons against them. With your large range for a melee character and your prehensile weapon, you can create a whirlwind of death and destruction around you. You’re not here to deal damage, but to keep the enemy from dealing damage using your Combat Maneuvers.
The main purpose of a whip-user is to become a controller on the battlefield. You can eventually deal some damage with it, but it really isn’t meant for that. Whips may seem a little underpowered in a DPR calculation. Special thanks to the /r/Pathfinder_RPG subreddit for helping me out with some reviewing. My intention is to expand on the martial use. Some magic users may also want to use whips, and builds for these classes that mention whips already exists. We will focus mostly on the martial side. Taking some inspiration from various guide writers such as Treantmonk, I want to explore how we can make this method of fighting effective in Pathfinder. And every now and then someone comes along who wants to use whips in Pathfinder. Source: Deviant Art, Liliesformary, quote from Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, original novel versionįrom adventurers like Indiana Jones, to vampire hunters like Belmont, to Dark Jedi in Legends continuity, whips can be found all over fiction.
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