I see you've thought this through. Bravo.
The problem with this build (because of Bladecraft) is that I have a ton of directions I COULD go. I could optimize TWF, or shields, or AoOs, or tripping, or bull-rushing. I could also be a lot more aggressive with my vestige choices than I'm being. So I've had to make some choices about what to focus on, and I actually have decided to focus significantly less than I could.
You'll see all this when I actually post the build, but the choices I've made are:
- Use Binder as a vehicle for 4 relatively minor things: (1) making my feat selection a tiny, tiny bit easier; (2) up my Will save somewhat; (3) collect a few interesting but not essential abilities; (4) be a bit deadlier against undead (less so than I
could be).
- Optimize shield use, and a tiny bit of AoOs, instead of any of the other optimizations I could do (no optimizations for tripping, bull-rushing {no Dungeoncrasher, for example}, or charging). Part of that is from Bladecraft making it easy to dabble in various strategies, and part of it is from me rarely getting a chance to use shields in an interesting way.
- Put effort into optimizing my Leadership & my army & cohort. That's a big draw for the game, and it'll make me a worse fighter but a more fun character.