Favored Enemy Build

[Tom116]

Just looking at all the ways to get FE's out there, makes me wonder of building around getting them all might be worthwhile lol

I see:
-5 from ranger levels
-1 from DWS T5 (lots of FE stuff in there too)
-1 from gnome/deep gnome
-2 from Harper + Vistani
-1 from an easy twist in Primal Avatar

So that's +20 to damage on 10 types of creatures. Gnome getting an int bonus could do int based since it goes into Harper for the FE anyways. Just seems like a funny idea

[C-Dog]

+20 damage is nothing to sneeze at. And all can be useful- even DG's Reptilian FE includes Kobolds, and they're in almost everything.

[unbongwah]

-1 from gnome/deep gnome
-2 from Harper + Vistani
It's mostly a question of opportunity costs. This config is 17 APs gnome / 12 APs Harper / 2 APs VKF, leaving only 49-61 APs for ranger trees depending on how many (if any) extra racial APs you have from racial TRs. That's not enough to grab everything I'd want for a pure ranger, regardless of whether I went with TWF or archery, particularly since it costs 32 APs to grab tier-5 DWS's extra FE. Likewise a tier-2 Twist for what's effectively "just" +2 dmg vs all FEs is not the best use of one's Fate pts, IMO. [And Primal Avatar is just okay as a melee ED vs LD or DC.]