Sorcerer 1 / Oracle X. How to get the most out of this dip?


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Silver Crusade

Hi,
I'm playing a 1st level Gnome (Pyromaniac) Winter Oracle (Blackened curse) as a vessel of Ice and Fire (no, I'm not George R. R. Martin) in the Reign of Winter AP. At first I was going straight battlefield control Oracle through Freezing Spells, but considering that a lot of enemies will be immune / resistant to cold damage, that Oracle doesn't have ANY spell that work with Freezing Spells excluding Cone of Cold at 12th level, and that the blaster Sorcerer left the group, I thought to dip in Sorc (Orc/Draconic [fire]) to become mainly a blaster with A BIT of bc (Freezing Spells and an Elemental Spell rod on [fire] spells when it's needed later on).

YES, I KNOW that in this way I'll be 1 full spell level below a wizard, but this is not a competition, and I think that 1.5x10d4 + 30 fire damage with an intensified empowered Burning Hands at 9th level is always nice. Plus, I'm going to use the Bloodline Familiar option to get an Arctic Hare familiar in place of the 1st level useless (to me) bloodline power, gaining Alertness and Improved Initiative (I'm also probably going to get the Mauler Archetype and Boon Companion just for fun :)).

My question: are there any standard ways to get the most out this dip? The first thing that comes in my mind is what can I do with 1st level Sorc spells slots? Arcane Blast would be nice, but it requires arcane-CL 10. Any other advice is well accepted. Feel free to ask / discuss about this character. Thank you!

Some basic information about the build:
-Magical Knack [Oracle];
-Empower, Dazing, Quickened Spell metamagic feats to get Spell Perfection at 15th;
-Leadership at 7th.

Scarab Sages

Use your sorc spell slots for Recharge Innate Magic, and use them for character level produce flame spell.

Silver Crusade

That was exactly what I was thinking, but I already have 2 uses per day (Pyromaniac and Fey Thoughts), so I wouldn't use it more than 1 / 2 times per day. Plus, this spell is already on the Oracle spell list, and carrying a scroll to use when needed would be the same. But this is definitely a very good option that probably I will choose.

This, or True Strike to be cast on the familiar through Share Spell for some Trip or Bull Rushes during the same round :).

Silver Crusade

Recharge Innate Magic is maybe the right way to go. I could ask the GM to make me change the druid spell taken with Fey Thoughts (I used the second Produce Flame just one time, missing the hit), in order to take another one. I'm in doubt between Hydraulic Push and Longstrider. Hydraulic Push is really nice in my opinion, and being able to cast it at full CL, 5 times per day (1 + 4 recharges) is just sweet, but I don't know how much can it be considered situational. Beside, 5 uses of Longstrider give me +10 ft of movement 10 hours per day at second level, which become 15 at 3rd and can be considered permanent later on, and for a small character focused on Burning Hands (15 ft cone, position-dependent) it may be considered a salvation.

What do you think? Any other druid spell to be noted? Before you say Entangle, it's quite good, but we are 2 ranged characters (a Witch and I) and 1 melee + animal companion (Hunter), so it would probably be more of a hindrance for him than for the enemies.

Scarab Sages

Frostbite is a fine spell, although it loses some appeal if you can't rime it.

Silver Crusade

Yeah...but I've 6 on Str (the actual score, not the modifier :P) and my BAB will not get to +1 until level 3. So...maybe a melee touch attack is not the best option. Any advice about Hydraulic Push?


Melee touch attacks work with Weapon Finesse.

Silver Crusade

Right, but I'm not taking Weapon Finesse just to cast Frostbite :) Any other thoughts? Also about the dip in general?


Why not have recharge innate magic as your fey magic spell so that all your other spell-likes are infinite? :p

Silver Crusade

Because I already asked that here

http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2t0zf?Gnome-questions#1

but my GM said no :P Plus, in this way I would have a bit more versatility.

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