Reposting my post from reddit, perhaps you more thoughts on the matter?: Post
Note: I want to only use official paizo content.
Hello! I’ve never played pathfinder only d&d about 15 years ago and currently don’t have a group so this is more theorizing in case I will play pathfinder at some point.
First thing I’m trying to make a riftwarden gish who uses a sword (no conjured swords so no phantom blade), I’m fine with taking only the first level in the class for the ability counter-summons, also this is a build for a theme I know that the ability isn’t that amazing, I need to be able to cast magic circle against evil and summon monster to take the class so I looked at the classes that provide those spells at the archive of nethys, if there is a better source to check the information please let me know.
The obvious gishes magus and warpriest aren’t going to work because magus can’t access those spells and war priest gets magic circle too late, blade adept is too weak (right?) so the only ones that seems to fit are the oracle and cleric, the battle mystery is the obvious choice but I’m not sure it’s fits the theme of the character, also I want to have a reason to use the sword even in late levels and I read that even if the arcane mages could fight as well as the fighter they would have no reason to because of their spells, is it the same for the oracle/cleric? Also if I take the herald caller archetype would I be able to use this ability as a spontaneous caster? I could also use the crusader archetype and/or holy vindicator.
Now about the group dynamics, I worry that the oracle would be annoying for the gm and other players perhaps for being too good at countering summons because of his spontaneous casting, I realize that the ability is situational but in said encounters why would the dm even bother having summoning enemies if the oracle is going to counter them very easily, for this reason I thought to choose the cleric so I can use the ability less reliably, but then I will be cautious about using the high level monster summon since I might be able to counter a summoning spell of its level or lower later, not to say that I won’t use them at all if I have no reason to think that there would be summoning.
Unrelated question are there swords that summon creatures or some other ways to summon a creature from a weapon? The ones I have found are sword of tempests and fire goddess’s blade.