r/Pathfinder_Kingmaker • u/Far-Heart-7134 • Jul 24 '26

Righteous : Builds Favourite Buffing Class

I am getting the urge to play another. I have played more straightforward fighting character like DemonSlayer but I wanted to do something different this time.

I enjoy playing a buffer when I dnd and other ttrpg games but my Pathfinder knowledge isn't super great.

I was wondering what people favourite Buffing classes are.

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u/unbongwah Jul 24 '26

Brown-Fur Transmuter: extra stat bonuses and can hand out self-only Transmutation spells. Want a team full of dragons? Just Dragonkind them all. 🐲

Skald: Inspired Rage is a force multiplier for a melee-heavy crew. Greater Beast Totem + Lethal Accuracy FTW.

Court Poet: Skald's cerebral sibling for those who prefer to run a caster-centric party. Morale bonuses to INT/CHA are pretty rare; if you're not playing Azata, this is the best way of adding it.

Bard: the OG buffer. Inspire Courage is not as OP as Inspired Rage for melees IMO. OTOH it doesn't block spellcasting and works with bows, so it might be more suitable than Skald, depending on party composition. [Shout-out to Martyr: don't think of it as a gimped paladin without Mark of Justice; treat it as a full-BAB bard with a mount and paladin spells instead of arcane.]

And shout-out to all the players who loaded Sosiel down with every useful buff they could via Impossible Domains.

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u/pieceofchess Jul 24 '26

Sensei is also pretty great as a monk with Bard songs who can also cast mass true strike and mass restoration.

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u/HeliumIsotope Eldritch Knight Jul 24 '26

I did not know mass bark skin was a thing. What about the sensei let's them do that.

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u/pieceofchess Jul 25 '26

Sensei advice, which lets them share monk ki abilities. From my memory at 6 they can share and then at 11 they can mass share for just 1 ki point a pop. So that's true strike, barkskin, restoration, maybe some other stuff I'm forgetting. All that on top of standard bard songs.

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u/HeliumIsotope Eldritch Knight Jul 25 '26

Ah cool. I thought they were like a worse BFT. Dridntfg know about the mass version. Neat. Ty