Ways to max Profession

[VanceMadrox]

For one of my PFS characters I want to get his Profession: Merchant bonus as high as possible. The character is a Dwarf.

I'm looking to see if I've missed any possible areas:

Skill Ranks
Wisdom Bonus
Class Bonus
Prodigy Feat
Skill Focus Feat
Breadth of Experience Feat
Trait Bonus.
Cracked Ioun Stone.

Can anyone come up with anything I don't have?

[Leisner]

Masterwork tools?

[MrSin]

If you were anyone but a dwarf you could take the Caravan Vanity so you can use diplomacy instead and you would have access to charisma instead of wisdom, and you would be able to apply it to skills actually likely to come up in game. Ideally you would go caster for the high casting stat so you could focus on the attribute related to your day job.

Why do you want to increase your profession check so high anyway?

[Kildaere]

I don't have the book/guide handy but I don't think "flawed" ioun stones are PFS legal.

I could be wrong. Double check.

[MrSin]

Kildaere wrote:

I don't have the book/guide handy but I don't think "flawed" ioun stones are PFS legal.

Flawed and cracked are legal, however they never have resonance. You can always check the additional resources page here on the site.

[Sober Caydenite]

VanceMadrox wrote:

For one of my PFS characters I want to get his Profession: Merchant bonus as high as possible. The character is a Dwarf.

I'm looking to see if I've missed any possible areas:

Skill Ranks
Wisdom Bonus
Class Bonus
Prodigy Feat
Skill Focus Feat
Breadth of Experience Feat
Trait Bonus.
Cracked Ioun Stone.

Can anyone come up with anything I don't have?

There are several vanities that provide a small bonus to Profession. Spend some PA to get a shop or a bar. The Traveler's Anytool from Ultimate Equipment can change into any MW tool for any Craft or Profession, and is handy to have while adventuring, as well. Only 250 GP.

[VanceMadrox]

Character is going to be a Dwarven Inquisitor and the skill is Profession merchant.

The only vanity that applies only adds to Day Job checks, not the skill directly sadly.

I'm aware of the Anytool but not sure what it could shape itself into that would apply to Profession Merchant.

[Suthainn]

A set of scales maybe?

[JKalts]

Suthainn wrote:

A set of scales maybe?

That'd be the go-to. The best part of Merchant is that it's incredibly open-ended: you could use the Anytool for anything from a winch to load/unload heavy crates, a ruler to measure out lengths of fabric or other goods per yard, scissors, even a cup for you to test the density of "supposedly" gold items. You are limited only by the goods you trade in, your imagination, and the maximum complexity of whatever you need to emulate.