ModFinder VS TabletopTweaks-Base

If you don't want to have to deal with updating your mods manually, try ModFinder.

Are you using ModFinder? If not, try it out, it helps automate the process.

ModFinder - Use this for WOTR for all your major mods. Easier to keep track

If you don't know, you can find recent mod developments in #mod-updates on the Discord server. ModFinder indexes GitHub mods, except it only runs on Windows, but you can read through its manifest.

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Take this, you'll need it

First of all if you're playing on PC you can install Tabletop Tweaks suite (Core, Base and Mythic Rework) mods that allows you to always one hand weapons to keep off-hand free. Modfinder is probably the simplest way to do it.

This build turns Woljif into a Battering Blaster. Designed with mods (namely Tabletop Tweaks) but can be "downgraded" for vanilla WotR.

Tabletop Tweaks has this as an option, it will rename any and all items to reflect their current enchantments on the fly, what you are looking for is "Dynamic Item Naming".

To match his portrait, you can stick with glaives for roleplay flavor or switch to fauchards for better DPS / more crits (also more procs from Outflank). If you like Warpriests, consider adding Tabletop Tweaks which has a number of improvements for WP abilities; plus it adds the Animal Ally feat so a mounted Warpriest is possible (or use the Divine Commander archetype also added by TTT).

I posted this Tiefling Shieldbearer a while back. I'd do things a bit differently for my own build, though, without the OP's constraints. There's a mid-game light shield) specifically for Shieldbearers so I was thinking DEX-based handaxe+shield. I'm also using Tabletop Tweaks which has various improvements for both Warpriests and S&B toons.

Redeemer Queen cultist angel. The game doesn't mention them because it wants to credit Ember with her ascension, but there were cultists of Nocticula as the Redeemer Queen before her ascension. Post-ascension Nocticula is still a goddess of darkness, and even inspires rebels in Nidal be being a very different sort of shadowy diety than Zon Kuthon. Expanded Content will let you pick Nocticula as your diety, though only as a demon lord.

Install Tabletop Tweaks and take the Animal Ally feat. This is effectively a 3-feat tax since you also need Nature's Soul and Boon Companion.

If you are down for mods, install TTT, take Mage's Disjunction, take Metamagic (Selective)(net +0), take Favorite Metamagic for Selective, cast Selective Mage's Disjunction, enjoy saveless, roll-less, AoE dispel, that ignored Spell Resistance, guaranteed every time.

Tabletop Tweaks to add a lot of new features and make WotR's ruleset closer to PnP (some buffs but also a lot of nerfs to Owlcat cheese like over-stacking AC bonuses). A number of other modders use TTT-Core to build their submods.

If you don't mind mods, TabletopTweaks adds Animal Ally, which makes it easy for anyone to get a mount.