Help checking retraining math?


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Silver Crusade

Hello all! Because of some recent errata, I've been considering some retraining, and I thought that while I'm at it I might as well try to figure out what it would take to reach my ideal retroactive build.

This profile should contain an accurate character sheet, but I'll post the most relevant parts of what I have now and what I would like to get to:

Current:
Paladin (Oath of Vengeance) 8
Str 13 Dex 22 Con 14
Int 7 Wis 7 Cha 18
Feats:
1: Weapon Finesse, Power Attack
3: Dervish Dance
5: Extra Lay on Hands
7: Amateur Swashbuckler (Opportune Parry & Riposte)

Retraining results desired:
- One level of Paladin to one level of Swashbuckler
- Weapon Finesse to Greater Mercy
- Amateur Swashbuckler to Combat Reflexes
- 8th level ability score increase switched from Dex to Cha (final scores 21 and 19 respectively)

Retraining math:
- 1 paladin level to one Swashbuckler level: 7 days
- Weapon Finesse: can't be retrained because it's a prerequisite for Dervish Dance (even if I retrain into Swashbuckler first and have Swashbuckler Finesse, as I understand it - please correct me if I'm wrong). But I could retrain Dervish Dance into Toughness or something, retrain Weapon Finesse into Greater Mercy, then retrain *back into* Dervish Dance. Total: 3 feats for 15 days
- Amateur Swashbuckler to Combat Reflexes: this is free, as I have the illegal pre-errata version and can replace it with Combat Reflexes because that feat has no prerequisites.
- Ability score retrain: 5 days
Total: character level 8 x 27 days x 10 gold per day per level = 2,160 gold and 27 prestige points.

Have I done this right? Can anyone confirm whether or not the Weapon Finesse / Swashbuckler Finesse nonsense is needed?

Grand Lodge 2/5

Assuming Swashbuckler's Finesse works for Dervish Dance, you can retrain Weapon Finesse directly to whatever for only 5 days and not have to swap out the temporary feat. It only works as you've said with the strictest most legalistic interpretation of the rules. Dervish Dance has a legal prereq now with Swashbuckler's Finesse (again, assuming there isn't something in the wording that precludes it) so you can safely retrain Weapon Finesse.

If you have to abide by their wording, then they will also need to explain to you why you're ever able to retrain it if it was at some point used as a prereq because the same logic that tells you to retrain the way you're doing also forces you to keep the feat forever because it was at some point used as a prerequisite.

At the point you're retraining it, you have another valid prereq so are no longer using Weapon Finesse as a prereq and still have legal feats at the end of retraining.

I'm curious, though, what does a dex of 21 and a cha of 19 give you that you didn't already have with a dex of 22 and a cha of 18? (besides losing a point of dex, that is)

Silver Crusade

Cha 19 and the Greater Mercy feat are required for the feat Ultimate Mercy.

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