[3.P] Sharpening the Mind: A Guide to the Pathfinder Soulknife

[Onixknight]

Hey Psyren, I have a question for ya,
So Im playing a Deadly Fist Archetype for the soulknife, (where your unarmed attacks are enhanced by your mindblade, kinda like a monk variant for the soulknife, you even get Improved Unarmed attack at lv.1) and I was wondering, can you take this blade skill and essencially get a +2 ac bonus with no drawback of actually having a sheild?

Mind Shield - This has been errata'ed;You get a +2 shield bonus to AC as long as you have a hand free. This is now useless for anyone not using the 1H shape; although you could simply use the 2H shape and take a hand off it at the end of your turn for an AC boost? Anyway, sword and board is bad, and therefore so is this. (Worse in fact, since you can't put any helpful buffs on your "shield.")

Also, this is my build so far, if anyone would like to give some pointers that would be great too!

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1st level feat- Combat expertise
2nd level Blade skill- Focused Offense
3rd level feat- Up the Walls
4th level Blade skill- Focused Defense
5th level feat- Combat reflexes
6th level Blade skill Deadly Psysic strike

And thats all I've got so far, some help building the rest would be much appreaited! I kinda wanna go for a tanky type that can still dish out some respectable dmg. ^_^