Phial Blade Master

You've finalized the basic mechanisms of your Phial Blade. Choose a Shield and a One Handed Melee Weapon you own. For the purposes of this Archetype, these are your Phial Blade's Light Mode. You may spend a Day of Downtime to change the One Handed Weapon and/or the Shield you've designated to a different one. Your Phial Blade gains a Heavy Mode, combining the Weapon and Shield into a single Two Handed Weapon, which has the same traits as the Light Mode, but increases the Damage Dice by one step and deals Slashing Damage, irregardless of the Light Mode's damage type. Whenever you Draw your Phial Blade, you may choose which Mode it is in. Additionally, You can change the Phial Blades mode with two interact actions, which do not need to be consecutive. Finally, you gain the Morph Strike Action.

You transform the Phial Blade and Strike in a fluid motion. Change Modes, then Strike. If you are changing to Heavy Mode, this Strike gains a +2 bonus to the damage per weapon damage die. If you are Changing to Light Mode, you Raise your Shield after the Strike is made.

Your Phial Blade gains the Phial Gauge trait if if doesnt already have it. Additionally, you gain the Condense Phials: Strike action, allowing you to energize your Phial Blades Light mode for a boost to damage.

You drain your Phials into your weapon's Light Mode.You expend all your Phials, and for the next Minute, all your Strikes with your Phial Blades Light Mode deals 1 bonus damage from your Phials.

Your Phial Blade gains the Phial Gauge trait if it didnt already have it, and you gain the Shield Block general feat. Additionally, you gain the Condense Phials: Block action, allowing you to drain your Phials to empower your shield.

Leads into: Explosive Rebuff

You channel all your Phial energy into your shield, allowing you to block more effectively while generating retaliatory blasts. Raise your Shield, and expend all your Phials. For the next Minute, increase your Shields Hardness by 2 when using the Shield Block reaction. Additionally, for the duration, when your Shield is raised, any creature that targets you with an Unarmed Melee Strike or a non-reach Melee Weapon Strike takes 1d4 damage from your Phials.

Your Phial Blade gains the Phial Gauge trait if it didnt already have it. Additionally, you gain the Amped Phial Discharge action, allowing you to make even more powerful strikes in Heavy Mode.

You make a heavy strike designed to take full advantage of explosive power of your weapons Phials. Make a Strike with your Phial Blade. For the purpose of this strike, your Phials deal 1d8 damage instead of 1d6.

Your Phial Blade gains the Phial Gauge trait if it didnt already have it. Additionally, you gain the (Phial Trip) action, allowing you to attempt to knock down your enemies with your Phials detonations.

Leads Into: Crashing Phials

You make an attack to leave a foe off-balance, and then use your Phial detonation to knock them over. Make a melee Strike with your Phial Blade. If it hits, rather than dealing Phial damage, make an Athletics check to Trip the target, ignoring Trip's requirement that you have a Hand Free, and with a +2 circumstance bonus to the check. Both attacks count toward your multiple attack penalty, but the penalty doesn’t increase until after you’ve made both of them.

You've added a special mechanism that allows you to more quickly gather phial energy, with a particular method of striking. Make Two Strikes. For each succesful strike, you load an extra Phial. If both Strikes are succesful, you load 5 phials instead. Both strikes contribute to your Multi-attack penalty as normal, but if they both target the same creature, combine the damage for the purpose of weaknesses and resistances.

You use the momentum of one strike to reposition and strike again. Stride up to Ten feet, and then make a Strike with your Phial Blade. If your phial blade is in Light Mode, you then raise your Shield. If your Phial Blade is in Heavy Mode, this strike gets a +1 bonus to damage.

You can squeeze a little extra energy out of particularly solid strikes. When you get a Critical Hit with your Phial Blade and have less than your Maximum Phials, you immediately Load a Phial.

You put your body behind your massive weapon and swing, shoving enemies to clear a wide path. You attempt to Shove up to five creatures adjacent to you, rolling a separate Athletics check for each target and ignoring the requirement that you have a hand free. Then Stride up to half your Speed. This movement doesn’t trigger reactions from any of the creatures you successfully Shoved. Each attack counts toward your multiple attack penalty, but don’t increase your penalty until you have made all your attacks.

You trigger a special mechanism in your shield, using a Phial to deal more damage and either knock the foe away or off balance. Expend a Phial, dealing it's normal damage to the Triggering creature, and then either automatically Shove it 5 feet or cause it to become off guard until the start of your next turn. The triggering creature chooses whether to be moved or become off guard. If it chooses to be moved, you choose the direction. If the Shove would cause it to hit a solid object, enter a square of difficult terrain, or enter another creature's space, it must become off guard instead of being moved.

You follow up one strike with a quick shield strike, utilizing the phial ejection mechanism in your shield for added damage. This Strike uses the same profieciency as your Phial Blade's weapon, uses the same runes as your Phial Blade's Weapon, has a base damage of 1d6 Piercing Damage, has the Agile Trait, and does not load Phials. This strike applies your Multi-attack Penalty as per normal. If you have any Phials Loaded, your phials deal an additional 1d4 damage, so long as the strike does not critically fail.

You've expanded your Phial Blades capacity, allowing you to stockpile more energy at once. Increase your maximum Phials to 10.

Note: This version of the Reflexive Shield feat is intended for use with an Archetype and has a different level for access than the original feat.

You can use your shield to fend off explosions and the like. When you Raise your Shield, you gain your shield’s circumstance bonus to Reflex saves.

Note: This version of the Shield Warden feat is intended for use with an Archetype and has a different level for access than the original feat.

When you have a shield raised, you can use your Shield Block reaction when an attack is made against an ally adjacent to you. If you do, the shield prevents that ally from taking damage instead of preventing you from taking damage, following the normal rules for Shield Block.

You've tweaked the output of your Phials to break through the defenses of even the most well-armored foes. Any damage dealt by Phials ignores an amount of Hardness equal to your Phial Blade's Item Bonus + 1.

You activate a savage mechanism that turns the bladed shield into a whirling, ripping blade. If your Phial Blade is not in Heavy Mode, you change it to Heavy mode. Then make a Strike with your Phial Blade. On a hit, this strike deals 2d4 bonus Slashing damage. If you spend three actions, you may also load 2 phials.

You make an explosive, dramatic attack, expending all your phials at once in a grand flourish. Make a Strike with your Phial Blade. On a hit, you expend all loaded phials at once, each Expended Phial dealing their normal damage. Hit or Miss, you then change your Phial Blade back to Light Mode. This counts as two attacks for the purpose of your Multi-Attack penalty.

Leads Into: Ultimate Amped Phial Discharge

This version of the Quick Shield Block feat is intended for use with an Archetype and has a different level for access than the original feat.

You can bring your shield into place with hardly a thought. At the start of each of your turns, you gain an additional reaction that you can use only to Shield Block

You've enhanced the power of your Phials. Whenever your phials would deal Damage, that damage is increased by 1. Additionally, if this damage is caused by a Strike that was a critical hit, the target is subject to a secondary effect determined by the Phials damage type.

You've tweaked your phials in such a way as to convert their energy into a pulse of healing, alchemical mist. Expend all Loaded Phials. You and Each creature in the area are healed for 1d4+2 HP per phial expended. If you spend three actions, you may first make a Strike with your Phial Blade, potentially loading a Phial if you are in Light Mode.

* This version of the Mirror Shield feat is intended for use with an Archetype and has a different level for access than the original feat.

You reflect the spell back against its caster. Make a ranged attack against the attacker using your highest proficiency with a ranged weapon. If you can cast spells, you can choose to make a spell attack roll instead. If you succeed, your opponent takes the effects of a successful spell attack roll for their own spell (or the effects of a critical success if your attack roll was a critical success).

You maximize the impact of your phials to dash your foes down even more easily. When you use (Phial Trip), instead of making a Strike followed by a Trip, attempt a single Strike with your Phial Blade. If you do and the Strike hits, instead of rolling a check for the Trip and dealing no Phial Damage,your Phials deal damage as normal and you automatically apply the Critical Success effect of a Trip.

You channel energy through your weapons phials into a massive, dramatic blade and attempt to cleave through multiple foes at once. Expend all your Loaded Phials, and Make a single Melee Strike with your Phial Blade, comparing it against the AC's of all creatures in a line that is 20 feet long and 20 feet tall. On a hit, each expended Phial deals 3d10 damage. Each creature this Strike misses instead takes 3d6 damage per expended Phial (Basic Reflex Save).

You have added new mechanisms to your Phial Blade that amplify the effects of Super Amped Phial Discharge even further. When you take the Super Amped Phial Discharge Action, you may choose to have the strike deal 2 additional Damage dice. If you do, each creature in either a 30 foot line, or a 15 foot cone, starting on the space behind the target of the initial strike, also takes the damage dealt by the expended Phials (Basic Reflex Save). Once you do this, you cannot use this feature again until you spend at least an hour resetting the mechanisms and tending to your Phial Blade.