This is for PFS and he is about to hit level 5
Strength 14
Dexterity 13
Constitution 14
Intelligence 12
Wisdom 8
Charisma 18
Feats - Extra Revelation, Selective Channel, Power Attack
I was going to go for Quick Channel at 5 but some feats from the ACG are tempting.
I like Battlecry, and I do find myself casting bless a lot so obviously having a faster/better version of bless is tempting. I would have to divert some skill points I wasn't planning on using to pick this up at level 5 though.
Also a bit lured to the War Blessing feat. If I could use Charisma instead of Wisdom for the Sun Blessing I probably would pick up this feat as divine casters tend to lack a way to target reflex saves, but I digress. Picking up something like Healing/Fire blessing and possibly qualify for Energy Channel later.
Though speaking of Energy Channel, I was also planning on getting the Grayflame weapon enchant, but getting both feels like it might be too much and eat too many uses of channel anyway.
You could grab a longspear and Combat Reflexes. Cast on your turn, make attacks of opportunity on their turns until you're ready to mix it up.
He does prefer a longspear (+1 adamantine) , but lacks a way to reliable way to become enlarged (and wouldn't get an extra AOO due to lowered dex even if he did). Potions aren't even a good solution either since his curse is Haunted.
Plus the number of times he would have gotten multiple AOOs anyway is just about zero. (PFS and tatics doesn't seem to go over well since 'That is what my character would do' mentality is a bit prevalent and people don't even want to treat it as a tactical game).
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Divine protection @ 5 and divine interferance @ 11.
There is no negotiating those on an oracle. They are like the optimized pick.
Channel feats blow and I would recommend against them. As well as not having enlarge or dex for reach.
I would focus on my casting and be a arm and anvil for the group. Id just avoid all weapons in general and let the melee guys do that kind of damage. If your hard up for a damage spell spiritual weapon, summon monster 3+, blade barrier, divine trident are some decent ones. You can effectively use them all combat long. Focus on other spells that then debuff or control the field. Wall of blindness looks fun...i would combo it with haunted curse and bull rush them into it or a blade barrier.
As far as group healing get boots of earth and use your life link ability to keep everyone topped off after every fight.
You could also go eldritch heritage and add arcane spells to your list and pick up a familiar to increase action economy.
Divine Protection is not PFS legal.
You also can not use Eldritch Heritage to pick up arcane spells as a recent dev clarification made clear. I don't think it hit the FAQ yet, but it was a post on the boards I believe.
Spiritual Weapon is a terrible oracle spell in PFS, if it used Cha instead of wisdom to attack then we would talk, I do suspect most homegames would allow cha instead of wisdom though.
Divine interferance and Wall of Blindness are almost certainly things I will pick up, but are way beyond the level range I am talking about.
What are Boots of Earth?
As gor spiritual weapon it has been FAQed and errataed to work with your primary stat.
Do you happen to have the quote for this handy? I'm not able to find any FAQ or errata regarding this. As far as I can tell Spiritual Weapon/Spiritual Ally still use wisdom to hit.
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Unfortunately, in PFS an oracle does have to use Wisdom as its rule.
As written, those effects say "Wisdom" (because they were written before the idea of the oracle class as a Charisma-based caster), so an oracle has to use her Wisdom modifier.
However, it is a perfectly reasonable house rule to allow an oracle to use her Charisma modifier (or bonus) for cleric spells that refer to the caster's Wisdom modifier (or bonus).
(emphasis mine)This tells us that it is a perfectly reasonable houserule. Now, lets go to the Additional Resources, which contains the houserules legal for PFS in general. Looking there, there is no reference to spiritual weapon and thus officially you cannot use your primary casting stat to spiritual weapon.
@OP:I'd consider Furious Focus if you are going into melee regularly, or Improved Initative or Toughness if you aren't. Furious Focus gives a nice return to you, especially at level 6(level after you get it), and really helps low-Str 3/4BAB classes, while Improved Initiative and Toughness are both good feats when you have a spare feat slot.
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Boots of the Earth are a magic item from Inner Sea Gods, a lovely and extemely useful book with a very high PDF cost. They offer fast healing 1 for a cost of 5000 gold, plus other benefits. If you've got half the party attached to you via life links, you're going to want this. Provided that your boot slot isn't already taken.
Hmm
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What deity do you worship?
Fateful Channel from inner sea gods should be a great choice if you want to follow Pharasma.
Actually, there are a ton of interesting deity-restricted channels in that Book. Milani's gives a plus to morale and saving throws. Shelyn gets a clarifying channel that helps people fight off charms and mind-affecting effects. Cayden Cailean's liberating channel was amazing, but its too high level a feat for PFS. Inner Sea Gods has some really interesting feats for divine types in addition to good background on the deities and some of the most affordable magic items out there.
Hmm
His deity is Sarenrae.
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I don't find Sarenrae's channel anywhere as interesting as some of the others, but you might feel differently. Here's a list of Sarenae-related feats, traits, spells, etc,, many from ISG.
Hmm
That is really useful thank you.
Quickened Divine Favor + Righteous Might is something worth considering if I want to push more into melee, but that is still a few levels away.
Burst of Radiance is amazing. I don't own the source but I'll pick it up. Sound burst is his current level 2 spell.
Chains of Perdition is also something I was looking at. However it still suffers from not being clear about Oracles using Charisma but at least there is a stronger case to be made for it. I just really want to avoid table variation.
I think that I'll pick up Battlecry and possibly retrain if/when I pick up Banner of Ancient Kings. Flagbearer by itself isn't worth taking I feel.
Also human.
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Aasimar life oracles have that favored class perk that's just insanely powerful, you're talking 8d6 channel at 10th level and the DC will be somewhere well into the 20's.
As far as feats go, I'm a firm believer that spontanious casters shouldn't be without heighten spell. Being able to pump up the DC on a control spell can be invaluable, especially if you have taken spells that affect different saves. My PFS life oracle has murderous command and hold person for will save, sound burst for fort save, and well ... now that my oracle is 10th, flame strike for reflex save (are there even any controlling type spells that target reflex on the cleric/oracle list?).
I'm also not a fan of spending feats on stuff your character will never be doing in higher levels unless you fully plan on re-building. Once you get to level 9 or 10 it will be exceedingly difficult for your oracle to hit and do significant damage in combat, so focus on feats that will boost what a life oracle does best: cast spells and channel.
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This spell fills the area with a brilliant flash of shimmering light. Creatures in the area are blinded for 1d4 rounds, or dazzled for 1d4 rounds if they succeed at a Reflex save. Evil creatures in the area of the burst take 1d4 points of damage per caster level (max 5d4), whether they succeed at the Reflex save or not.
SWEEEEEET.
Thank you.
See Rory, you and I seem to be cut from the same cloth.
You can hit and deal damage when you have 14 str and decent preparation. Obviously if damage is all you are going for then you'd choose a different Mystery, but being a switch hitter caster/support is fine in my book.
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As far as feats go, I'm a firm believer that spontanious casters shouldn't be without heighten spell. Being able to pump up the DC on a control spell can be invaluable, especially if you have taken spells that affect different saves. My PFS life oracle has murderous command and hold person for will save, sound burst for fort save, and well ... now that my oracle is 10th, flame strike for reflex save (are there even any controlling type spells that target reflex on the cleric/oracle list?).Heighten Spell is worse than Persistent Spell in pretty much any situation you will encounter in PFS. +2DC from heightening two levels is a far smaller increase in your chance of landing the spell than forcing an enemy to reroll a successful save.
Have a look at the maths:
If the enemy saves 50% of the time 2 levels of Heighten changes that to 40%. Persistent changes it to 25%
If the enemy saves 80% of the time 2 levels of heighten changes that to 70%. Persistent changes it to 64%.
If the enemy saves 20% of the time 2 levels of heighten changes that to 10%. Persistent changes it to 4%.
The only time you want to even consider heighten is for heightened continual flame to tell deeper darkness to sod off. As far as races goes I would take human over aasimar any day of the week. Adding a few d6 to a pretty poor ability like Channel pales in comparison to adding 2 extra spells known of levels 1-5 over your PFS careers. Half elf is better than either of them as you can get both the human FCB and Paragon Surge.
Can you go over all my characters to tell me how horribly I'm designing them please? Thanks!
I like Ancient Banner of Kings, however there is a fairly hefty cost associated to it. I feel that Battlecry is better then Flagbearer (without the flagbearer) though, so until you can actually acquire the banner then you should hold off on the flagbearer feat. This was something I was sort of aware of, but did not consider it as an option until you mentioned it.
Currently have Channel, Energy Body, and Lifelink. My plans for revelations are to pick up Combat Healer at 7 and Lifesense at 11. One thing I must say, Energy Body has been fairly interesting so far and actually being able to acquire the elemental subtype is really good, not requiring to breath, immunity to poison, flanking, criticals, along with move action/passive healing, and damage to undead. I'm actually wondering if the Aasimar FCB would be better spent on Energy Body rather then Channel Energy, but that may be a discussion for another time.
I'm guessing you are aware Quick Channel is a move action and not a swift, and indeed was what I planning to get before the ACG options were released. The only ability it really conflicts with is the move action self heal from Energy Body.
Fey Foundling is amazing and not something I was aware of when I made my character, though I'm not sure I would have taken it even if I knew. Consider that one of my odd preferences.
How do you have three revelations at 5th level? You should only have two.
And I agree that battle cry is a great choice for your level 7 feat. The re-roll affect is amazing, and action economy is king.
Extra Revelation Feat will allow you to pick up another Revelation, and the Duel Cursed Oracle Archetype will allow you to pick up 2 additional Revelations, 1 at 5th level, the other at 13th. I think he was going the feat route.
Time to make Oracles with the Ancestor Mystery and the Spirit Guide archetype for the Shaman Healing hex line of abilities. One could almost pretend that you are a life oracle at level 7 with link and channel.