I was thinking the 3rd level in Ranger was necessary for Endurance so she can sleep in Medium Armor. I strongly prefer armor you can sleep in, and I have recently run into severe problems with a lightly armored melee character being shredded by 3rd level adventures.
Wand of Donning, or whatever its called.
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If you like crazy builds, a Siegebreaker Fighter can do some silly things with Bullrush and Overrun. At low level it is a little tame, but as you get up in levels it can be really funny as you juggle a number of opponents through the meat grinder of Shield Slam, Spiked Destroyer, Breaker Rush, and Bulette Rampage damage while still having having the rest of your iteratives free.
Normally you get blocked by the wording of Shield Slam that prevents you from moving after using it once, however thanks to the free Overrun attempts as long as you have remaining movement you can perform your free Overrun maneuver. This lets you stop just past your opponent, turn around, and then try to bullrush them again. This is a harder check because it uses your next itterative/off-hand attack BUT if you knocked them prone from Overrunning them then it isn't hard to pull off a chain of devestating blows. You might only be able to do one Spiked Destroyer attack per round, but you can chain together potentially 7 Bullrushes and 7 Overruns by duel wielding shields.
That is 14 applications of Breaker Rush and 7 applications of Bulette Rampage if you manage to hit all of the iterative shield slams. Really, since we assume Haste at high level, this means you are stuck to only getting off 8 combat maneuvers during the turn since that is 4 Overruns at 15ft each. Less if the creature is larger than medium, as you need to Over-run through all of their squares.
Sadly, this really needs Impossible Speed from a Mythic Champion to work perfectly. That gives you the +130 base speed you need to become a bull in a china shop.
Have you seen arcane training? It is half elf racial trait. I have several martial with it. It allows you to use wands and low level scrolls with out having to dip or use umd.
The trade off is that it basically costs you all your favored class bonuses.
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If there were 2 feats toughness and use all wand and scrolls like a first level wizard I know which I would pick every time.
The exception are the few insanely good fcb like knowing extra spells for spontanious casters, extra slayer talents, extra combat feats for the warpriest. These all very clearly give much more than a mid tier feat like toughness.