Sorcerer / Ranger Multiclass for Society games- help please!


Advice

Silver Crusade

Hi all,

I'm not sure what I want to do with my society character- I'm one XP from 2nd level, and need to make up my mind.

Fluff wise, my character was orphaned and raised by an old gnomish druid, but turned out to have a knack for Sorcery. So I'm playing a Human Sorcerer with the Fey/Sylvan Bloodline and a Tiger animal companion. He's focused on utility and buffing spells.

Stats/Feats/Traits
Str 10, Dex 16, Con 12, Int 14, Wis 8, Cha 16
Alternate Racial Trait: Eye for Talent (+2 to one stat for the companion, give up human bonus feat)
Feats: Boon Companion, Eschew Materials
Traits: adopted, animal friend, magical knack (sorc)

I had intended on multi-class to Ranger at 2nd level (above fluff reasons), and was considering the Falconer archetype. Is there a way to take the second (bird) animal companion? Or do I have to give up my Tiger to do so?

The intent is to dip two levels into Ranger for the archery training, then go back to sorcerer- so going straight Ranger may be the better choice?

I'm also considering the Eldritch Knight prestige class.

Advice?

Thank you!


In PFS, the rule seems to be you can have more than one animal companion, but you can't use more than one in a scenario.

So your Sorcerer/Ranger would have both the bird and tiger. But when playing the character, you have to choose which is accompanying you on the adventure.

Scarab Sages

The 2 level dip into Ranger is going to get you very little. For archery all it's going to gain you is a single archery feat bypassing prereqs, for which losing two sorcerer levels seems really steep, at least to me. Although it does get you access to the Ranger spell list for purposes of using wands and scrolls (though two levels won't get you any to actually cast yourself)

What are you trying to accomplish with the dip? If you were raised by a druid, might it make sense instead to take a dip in druid for your backstory?

Silver Crusade

Well, I wanted a druid "feel" for the character, but actually dipping druid just duplicates most of my sorcerer bloodline abilities (plus wisdom is my dump stat, lol). 2 levels of Ranger gets me weapon & armor proficiencies, Wild Empathy, Tracking, and a Combat Style; as well as more skill points than a druid, sorc, or fighter. I plan on using a crossbow, and can take precise shot with my combat style, bypassing the prereq of Point Blank Shot.

I didn't notice the '1 companion per scenario' society rule before, so that certainly rules out taking the Falconer archetype. After looking back at the Eldritch Knight, it's not worth giving up my bloodline abilities at those levels. So that's right out as well.

Dark Archive

The only way eldritch knight is a worthwhile choice is to get early entry with something like a aasimar martial class 1/arcane class 1/eldritch knight x. This works because Paizo has stated that the spell like ability of the aasimar (daylight) counts as being able to cast 3rd arcane spells for the prerequisite for the class. It is legal for PFS. For the most part it is not worth giving up spellcasting levels and bloodline abilities unless you want to be a true gish.

Silver Crusade

I was just statting the build out in Hero Lab, and dipping two levels in anything hurts my Animal Companion progression too much. So, it's going to have to be a single level, if I do it at all. Now I'm not so sure that it's worth it. Hmm...

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it kind of sounds (to me) like if you want to take a martial/caster PrC you might want to think about Arcane Archer... any PrC is going to gimp your companion. if you just want to add some melee prowess you have a couple options- you have a single level left from Boon Companion, so you could dip 1 level of ranger (or any other martial class); or, you could look at the Mad Dog barbarian archetype- their rage gets delayed (to fourth, i think) but they have an animal companion as a druid, so you could take as many levels as you want without any penalty to that.

there is another option... but it would require some reorganizing and probably buying a new supplement- and switching animals, i think... there's a feat tree that get's you an animal companion with an effective druid level equal to your character level- so you can multi-class however you want, and even switch bloodlines. the catch is that there's a pretty restricted list of companions (i don't think tiger is on there, i know wolf is...). the feats are Nature Soul and Animal Ally (from Faiths and Philosophies) and Boon Companion. it obviously takes a while to come together, too.

edit: ps- i'm not really up to date on society play, so someone else will have to let you know which of those options are legal (sorry)

Dark Archive

Deurn Ironbelly wrote:
I was just statting the build out in Hero Lab, and dipping two levels in anything hurts my Animal Companion progression too much. So, it's going to have to be a single level, if I do it at all. Now I'm not so sure that it's worth it. Hmm...

The boon companion feat can fix any gimping of your companion from multiclassing.


I know this is a pretty significant departure from your original idea, but have you considered Beast-bonded Witch?

You get a companion animal (ie. familiar) and a semi-Wildshape.

Sea Witch gets Wild Empathy, and can be combined with Beast Bonded.

Also, the Magaambyan Arcanist PrC allows you to add Druid spells to a prepared arcane caster.

So you can get a very "druid-y" witch.

Silver Crusade

Thanks for the advice everyone. I think I'm leaning towards either a dip into barbarian or sticking with the original 2-levels-of-Ranger plan. It's not optimized, but it works with the original character concept better.

You guys have definitely given me some ideas for my next build though- the witch looks interesting, and I hadn't really explored the barbarian archetypes before.

Thanks!

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