Which spell list would be better for a melee combatant type character, the hunter's or the mesmerist's?
If you have an animal companion or a single big weapon (lead blades) it's got to be the hunter. If you can prebuff stuff like mirror image or mindshock makes the mesmerist tempting; I assume its list comes with the +10 concentration DC in melee problem? If both of those conditions (or neither) applies then I don't see a clear winner.
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Hunter. Even sans Animal Companion (with the Fey Trickster Archetype of Mesmerist, for example), it's got some very nice tricks.
This is particularly true as you can grab Fey Spell Lore and (in many ways more importantly) Fey Spell Versatility to get some of the good stuff from Mesmerist as well (Fey Spell Versatility can get you Mirror Image, for example, plus Good Hope), getting you a bit of the best of both worlds.
Oooh Fey Spell Versatility is really cool.
Yeah, this is for a mesmerist and I'm trying to decide which version. Vanilla, the Vexing Daredevil or the Fey Trickster