[3.8] Bob's Burning Legion (exploding animated weapons since 1969)

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Shleep wrote:

I'm wondering what makes a scion ascendant your preference, rather than a straight-up pathfinder. From what I'm seeing, ascendants get like 4-5 more skill points and other semi-useful stats from their pool of choices, but pure pathfinders can get ailment immunity from flasks as well as a counter for bleed in the endgame.

I feel like ailment immunity and anti-bleed are very valuable for endgame, but maybe there's something I'm not seeing. I'm also curious about the build's defensive layers. I had a lot of fun with your chains of command build last year and it was surprisingly tanky in dangerous guardian maps. Can this build perform similarly?

Adding to the viability of a pure pathfinder option, it could also potentially generate flask charges with master surgeon and a high crit ball lightning with flammability CoH. Maybe this is unnecessary and blasphemy flammability is better? I'm itching for your input.