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I've been reading up on the Occult Adventures class, and something has been bugging me about the Occultist, which otherwise is shaping up to be my favorite new class. At 8th level, they gain the ability to repeated call a weak outsider, similar to lesser planar binding, in conjunction with the Magic Circles class power to cast Magic Circle Against X spells. However, Magic Circles comes with the restriction that you can't create magic circles against your own alignment, which means that you can't bind an outsider of your own alignment.

Is it really intended that a LE Occultist is unable to bind devils without spending one of his very precious spells known on Magic Circle Against Evil? The Outside Contact even mentions that the outsider resents you, even if you share an alignment component, which makes me think this can't have been the intention.

Robot's Bane

I have a level 5 Ranger (Galvanic Saboteur) with Constructs (+4) and Humans (+2) as favored enemies. By my reading of the feat, if I were to pick it up, I would now have a +8 on attack and damage vs robots, yes? +4 for being constructs from FE, and +4 being Robot's Bane, which uses my bonus from FE (Construct) in place of the bonus normally granted (+1 at this level). The line at the end of the special section implies that only the bonus to AC and saves should be replace with FE, but it doesn't actually disallow the attack and damage bonus. I know it's too good to be true, so what am I missing?