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Tursas wrote:Jonathan DesLauriers wrote:Paired Oppoptunists - Gives the owners of this feat a + circumstance bonus on AoO and when both you and another ally have this feat when both of you are threatening the same enemy and one of you provokes and AoO you do as well.This works with another ADIACENT ally. But adiacent allies can't flank!It's true that adjacent allies can't flank.
An effective way to use Paired Opportunists is to wield a reach weapon and ride e.g. an axe beak. The pair of you will get double+ AoOs. Combine with other AoO generating techniques, as suggested by the OP.
Hmmm. I didn't read it that way. The way it read to me is that you get the +4 bonus if you are adjacent to the ally and threatening the opponent. You get the triggered AoO if you are threatening. So, if you are threatening and not adjacent, you get a triggered AoO without a bonus. Plus, you only get one AoO unless you have Combat Reflexes. If you got the triggered AoO only when you were adjacent, you wouldn't need another sentence to describe it. The first sentence could have just included it in all the effects of being adjacent to an ally and threatening the opponent.
So, using this with Outflank, even with two people, if one of the flankers hits it should be followed by two total AoO (one each), for a total of three attacks. Your critical triggers an AoO from your flanking ally as per Outflank and their AoO grants you an AoO with no circumstance bonus as per Paired Opportunists. If you have Combat Reflexes, it does seem to loop and I wouldn't normally say that except for the one sentence in Paired Opportunists which says "...(even if the situation or an ability would deny you the attack of opportunity)."
It's pretty clear that you can't get anything beyond your normal compliment of AoO with Paired Opportunist, but with Combat Reflexes there is no reason to believe your enhanced compliment can't be used other than pure "That's broken" sensibilities. As written, though...Ugh.