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Boars are almost begging for Diehard. I know it's not the best feat mechanically, but it's good RP, as is Toughness.

I was very happy with lightning reflexes on my 3.5 mounted paladin. The area effect spells were the worst, can't avoid with mounted combat, can't purchase barding for your reflex save either.

When you factor in evasion, it becomes even more worth it, in my opinion.

Lighnting reflexes is worthless if I'm using indomnitable mount to make the boars saves................

Thanks, I like the bag of holding idea, add a bottle of air and he can stay in there as long as he wants.

I am a gnome cavalier riding a wolf, soon to be boar.

I'm gonna go straight Cavalier as an exploration into the class. For me PFS scenarios are rarley a challenge, so metagming the class build isn't what I want, I'd rather metagame a single class (I said I wasn't challenged, but I'm not suicidal). Until I find a regular campaign, PFS is what I'm using to play things I've never tried before.

I'm going to definately take indomnitable mount and get a bag of holding, but now that I'm skipping wheeling charge, I need my mount to be able to be more agile on the charge.

I was thinking that at 4th level I'd boost the Boar's intelligence to 3 when I get him. This will allow me to design him with Improved Unarmed Strike (hoof) and then get Dragon Style. This will allow the boar to move through allies and difficult terrain on the charge.

He's going to max out at 5 feats, so I was considering dodge, mobility, spring attack. That way he will eventually be able to make an attack as we move past using my Ride By Attack feat. If he had one more, I would get lunge so he would have the same reach as my lance.

So, for a boar mount with 5 feats, being ridden by a small cavalier with the above build (minus wheeling charge for indomnitable mount) would you change anything? Take Med and Hvy Armor proficiency's vs the mobility tree?

Thanks

Don't forget your mount's feats.

I was hoping you'd say that.

As of yet I have no idea what feats to give my wolf, then my boar when 4th level arrives.

Someone in another thread mentioned Dragon Style, but is that legal?

What would you do?

This is Wraithcannon, posting as my PFS character in case you want to look at my stats.

Thanks for some great advice all.

Was planning on going straight Cavalier but that cav 6 fighter 6 build is nasty, maybe I'll try that next time. I'd have to pass on the shatter defenses and leadership though (No guarantee there will be a rogue in the random group I'm assigned to play with and Leadership is not allowed in PFS play).

The Gendarme archtype is nice too, wish I had UC when I had started this character. My only problem is that there are only 4 good feats listed out of the bonus feat selection, so you have to spread them out over the course of 11 levels or get stuck blowing them on less than stellar choices.

For example Bart, you took 3 of the 4 right away. Mounted Combat, Ride By Attack, and Spirited Charge. While this makes you very powerful in the short term, the only one left on the list that's worth a damn is Power Attack.

That leaves Improved Bull Rush (small guy on a medium mount, not happening, not even if it were Trample), Spring Attack (already have ride by attack, where is this useful), and Unseat (only good vs another mounted foe, situational at best, plus not that many mounted bad guys in PSF).

So if I were going to take Gendarme, and incorporate Mike's advice about protecting my mount, with the PFS 12 level cap I think my build would look like this as a straight cav.

1st mounted combat, shield focus
2nd (Dazzling Display)
3rd mounted shield
5th ride by attack, indomitable mount
7th wheeling charge
8th power attack
9th mounted blade
11th spirited charge

Kind of sucks taking spirited charge so late in the build but I really saw no other choice if I didn't want to blow a feat on something that wasn't useful, and crunching the numbers makes me think PA is better than SC damagewise.