Teamwork Feats and Bane kick butt. The Judgements are meh in that they take alot of levels to get anywhere. The Wisdom to Inititive is nice and the Stalwart is amazing. A few nice spells (I'm looking at you, Blistering Invective).
However, I do love clerics the most just from some of the great abilities from the Domains. I am only playing an Inquisitor as a change from my normal Cleric loving PC.
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Inquisitors are almost on par with Rogues and Bards in the skill-monkey role, additionally, via Bane, the class list's focus on buff spells, and Judgments (which are actually quite good...the to-hit bonus makes up quite thoroughly for being mid BAB, for example), they are more than capable of being some of the hardest hitting characters available, and with relatively minimal buff times (since Bane and Judgment are Swift actions).
They don't do so good as dedicated spellcasters, but at straight combat and being the party's skill character, they're first rate.
It's a clerical magus.
Sort of. Its a 3/4 bab class with six levels of casting and a lot of gish class features, but it doesn't mix sword and magic in the way a magus does(spell combat is a gig of its own.)
Anyways, the inquisitor fits quite a few roles. Its got a lot of wisdom synergy, skill points, and it has spells. I always thought of it more as a skill monkey with cool combat options. His ability to gain inquisitions and domains/archetypes can open up quite a few roles(namely, face with conversion.) It doesn't usually fall behind in the combat department like a rogue or a bard might sometimes, but his spell list is mostly buffs and tracking.(Imo anyway, Its been a while since I've played one and it wasn't at a higher level. YMMV and all that.)
Epic divine archers. Seriously, just try picking out domains to benefit a cleric archer... it's a sad thing with all that melee focus. Judgement and Bane are two awesome ways of adding damage to your bow, and you can sub out teamwork feats for rerolls on your manyshot attack. It's devastating.
So essentially, it's the equivalent of a "divine bard"?
That depends on how you define bard. Inquisitors don't buff teammates nor are they great conversationalist without an inquisition or an archetype. They can however crank sense motive and intimidate sky high, and have bane and judgments to keep them combat effective. Without archetypes, they can identify monsters and with improved monster lore they can do it better than a bard I think.
They are both however skill monkeys, but in play they are going to feel very different. Judgements/bane/self buffing for the inquisitor, performance/charms for the bard.(though both spell list do quiet a bit more). They are also likely to do different skills and feel in roleplay. Does that make sense?
no, as mentioned already, it's more like divine magus with more buffing/utility/healing focus than blasting.
(which is kind of a superfluous distinction to note, as that already is the distinction of arcane/divine)
...obviously without the specific spellcombat features, but with specific bonuses/abilities for combat on top of 3/4 casting.
it's not like if magus was re-wrote without spellcombat but with a bunch of other magic/combat synergy abilities,
the basic concept of fighter-mage hybrid class still wouldn't be present and recognizable.
i have always called it the 'divine batman': good combat, good utility (magic and skill-wise), resilient, etc.
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It's not a cleric, it's really a thinking man's fighter.
Just hit level 9 with mine, and there's really nothing the character can't do. (Dwarves choose not to swim, mind you).
I've layer fighters before, and you're great until you're useless. Whether it's incoming magic, or strange DR, fighters can get stuck. Inquisitors adapt and overcome, with better defenses.
intimidation out the wazoo even with a Cha dump
huge sense motive backed up by auto-activating discern lies
being a walking monster manual
utility spells including various detections, silence, and invisibility
recovery spells
buff spells, even a few communal/group ones
benefit from teamwork feats without anyone else needing to take them
good saves backed up by stalwart
and they hit like a train
Now, on most of these they are not THE best, but unlike a lot of other jack-of-all-trades classes they can easily be not just second but a close second in nearly the entire list at once.
So essentially, it's the equivalent of a "divine bard"?
well yes, I always saw it as a bard that was so much of a .....BAARRRDD *cue face of disgust*
in realistic terms, this means that they are skill monkeys with access to plenty of decent utility spells (spontaneous too). But rather than the buffer that slings a couple of spells and then sits in back and plays a lute, this character gets plenty of abilities that help in combat: judgments, bane, heck even bonuses to knowledge skills.
Now, is this 'bard hate' that I have been spewing fair? No, but the point is image for a newb. One class is a musician that helps others be awesome. One has all the prerequites and moral ambiguity of Batman. Do you want to be batman?
Now, in comparison to cleric? It has flexiblity through spontaneous spells, plus it can do alignment scans at will. In comparison to oracle? .... Well, it carries less baggage since it doesn't curses, but does get a domain. Also, I again go to image. It is oracle light mixed with some bard /skill monkey is what I am saying.