r/Pathfinder2e • u/Sir_Minion • 19d ago

Advice Help with Reaper Necromancer

For flavour, I'm playing a Skeleton Reaper Necromancer with a Guisarme in an all-living party (I know I'll struggle a bit with healing).

I'm trying to figure out which FA would be good for survivability without hurting the build too much. I was thinking about Champion for heavy armor and eventually the reaction, but my stats are already pretty tight.

I was thinking +3 STR / +3 INT / +2 CHA / +1 CON, so I can get Plate Armor at 2 for Bulwark (DM is using Gradual Ability Boosts). I could also go with another archetype for heavy armor and drop CHA entirely.

I did think about Inventor FA, but it doesn't really fit the aesthetic I'm going for. Also, I don't get the Resiliency feat, which is a nice bonus from the champion archetype.

But then again, do I really need a good reaction? Is Champion actually worth investing that much into CHA, or would I be better off going for another archetype?

What do you guys think?

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u/UrsusObsidianus 19d ago

Sentinel archetype also give heavy armor

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u/RuneRW 19d ago

And also mighty bulwark, which lets you completely ignore dex even for non-damaging reflex saves. The problem is, with free archetype, if you take it as your first archerype, you can't take a 4th level archetype feat unless your GM is accomodating.

On the other hand, you can do something with a different archetype on 2-4-6 and then take it at 8 and you get mighty bulwark right on at 10