Tactical feat

Tactical feats, or Combat feats are feats that correspond to melee special attacks requiring a DC check to succeed.


 * Hamstring (Has no DC)
 * Quivering Palm
 * Sap (Has no DC)
 * Sunder / Improved Sunder
 * Stunning Blow
 * Stunning Fist
 * Trip / Improved Trip

Many special attacks granted by class enhancements and also some Epic Destiny abilities, especially those in the Grandmaster of Flowers and Legendary Dreadnought trees, are also considered in the same category and benefit from items and enhancements which improve the DC of all tactical feats. Assassinate and Bluff are excluded.

Ability score
Traditional tactical feats (Sunder, Trip, Stunning Blow) rely upon the Strength modifier of the player rolled against various monster stats. Any items or spells, such as Rage which improve your Strength also improve your DC.

The important ability score can be different for class-specific special attacks, for example many Monk attacks rely on Wisdom.

Racial abilities

 * General improvements to Tactics DC can be found in the racial trees for Dwarf enhancements, Warforged enhancements, and Bladeforged enhancements.
 * Sunder specific bonuses can be found in the Half-Orc enhancements racial tree.
 * Purple Dragon Knight enhancements: Add 1/3 of Charisma bonus to DC if higher than Strength
 * With Bond of the Fallen as the chosen feat, Aasimar's third core racial enhancement grants +2 Tactics.

Class abilities

 * Artificer Battle Engineer: +3 to Sunder DCs
 * Cleric: War domain adds half cleric level to tactical DCs
 * Druid: Nature's Warrior enhancements +3 Trip,
 * Fighter: Kensei enhancements (+5 universal), Stalwart Defender enhancements (+2 universal), Vanguard enhancements (+3 for stunning)
 * Monk: Shintao enhancements (+2 stun, sunder, trip in fire stance)
 * Paladin: Vanguard enhancements (+3 for stunning)
 * Rogue Thief Acrobat: +3 to Trip DCs
 * Any: Harper - Add Insight bonus to damage and the DC of tactical feats equal to 1/2 of your Intelligence modifier
 * Any: Falconry - Add Insight bonus to damage and the DC of tactical feats equal to 1/2 of your Wisdom modifier

Feats

 * Improved Sunder: +4 to Sunder
 * Improved Trip: +4 to Trip
 * Onatar's Forge: +3 to all
 * Past Life: Fighter: +1 to all, stacks up to 3 times
 * Scion of the Astral Plane (Legendary feats): +4 to all
 * Tactician (Epic Destiny Feats): +2 to all
 * Tactical Training, Tactical Combatant, Tactical Mastery, Tactical Supremacy

Items
The following item enchantments increase tactical DCs: Combat Mastery, Vertigo, Stunning, Dazing, Sundering, Shatter

Epic Destiny

 * Legendary Dreadnought features the Tier I ability Legendary Tactics which can grant up to +6 to all tactics feats and can be twisted.
 * Grandmaster of Flowers has innate abilities (non-twistable) which gradually increase tactics DC, up to 3 by Level 5.

Please note that some of Epic Destiny combat abilities may not accept these bonuses, even if advertised, due to mistyping bugs in the game.