09-26-2018, 04:52 PM
If you want to go tank envoy, I really suggest taking a look at the Star Knight archetype. Armory added a lot of stuff to leverage Intimidate, and the Star Knight's challenge dovetails nicely with your unwieldy weapon notion (plus heavy armor without multi classing). With a little investment, you can make a target shaken (Intimidate as part of attack), off-target to everyone one but you (knight's challenge) and -2 to weapon damage (grim trophies armor upgrade) at 2nd level. When you get to level 6, you can pick up a Cruel fusion to add sickened to the stack, and a Ferocity Blazon to double the duration of all these debuffs. Conveniently, that is also when the Dragonblood theme power kicks in, adding a round to the duration when you demoralize.
You do give up a bunch of improvisations to do all this, but applying a -6 to hit, -4 to saves, skills, and damage for 2-4 rounds makes for a pretty tanks Envoy,
You do give up a bunch of improvisations to do all this, but applying a -6 to hit, -4 to saves, skills, and damage for 2-4 rounds makes for a pretty tanks Envoy,