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OK a lot of responses to respond to, Thanks for all the advice here. I will try to consolidate the main issues I am hearing. And yes this is PFS.
1) My build- level 4 separatist cleric of horus (animal and travel domains)/1 life oracle with alternative channel daze.
Defensive stats: ac 27, 15 con and 5-8 on all saves.
Offensive stats: DC 19-20 daze 14x/day
Intelligent Ape pet with +7 to hit and 2d6+4 damage on his bow and feats for it. Grabbed durable adamantine arrows for him to deal with constructs (about the only thing I can't seem to daze)
2)Party Comp: Why pregens, because everyone else has died. As such we have been playing Rogues, Hunters, mages and swashbucklers a lot. Recently we only have had enough players show up that we have 2 newbies, me and a npc pregen. The community really dwindled after a first set of TPKs a few months ago. This more recent set of near TPKs has all but destroyed our group. I guess People just aren't interested in investing time into characters when they are going to get murdered.
3) Tactics: Yes we have been very careful as I cited in the first post. Searching every 5 feet and flanking and whatnot. I have been pretty much trying to tank for the party when not able to daze stun and have been very unsuccessful at maintaining the enemy's attention. Things like attacking defensively have been shown to really just waste a turn since you are unlikely to hit and won't get attacked. We have been consistently flanking where possible. Part of the issue is enemies just ganking us hard. Seems like every mindless zombie somehow has amazing hide check.
4) Maybe bad luck? I'm not sure I would call it luck anymore. The first few coup de graces in I would have said maybe but at this point any form of control on behalf of the enemy is pretty much a party killer.In one instance a 3 round stun killed half the party due to coups. The rest left trying to run for their lives. At any rate bad luck has played it's part I'm sure but it surely isn't only that.
5) GM: My GM is a self professed good guy GM and he has actually fudged a number of rolls openly in favor of our party. I'm not sure what the scenarios are calling for but he seems to let on that he is trying to be lenient. Though I do wonder at times about the idea that all intelligent creatures coup de grace during battle.
6) Specific issues: Constructs in general have just seemed really mean to our party. I know I am not good vs them so I have taken retraining to get a pet that can hit them with adamantine arrows. I would have never expected them to be such a HUGE issue but since we discovered that they are immune to channel energy they seem to be in EVERY scenario. Since my to hit is below abysmal, I try to just but a target and tank but as stated before they seem to just ignore anything that isn't hitting them. So I feel like there is little else I can do but flank and aid another. Usually flanking is better but sometimes that ac can help. Most of the party has ac in the 20-22 range and that doesn't seem to cut it vs these guys who regularly have hit in the 24-27 range and they seem to always hit for 12-20 damage. This last one took us 7 rounds of battle before we were even close to bringing it down. By that time 3 of our 4 party members were downed or dead. Last scenario played was storming the diamond gate, preceded by among the gods and silver mount collection.
Our original wipe was in mists of mwangi. So far I have lost 3 characters in the past year and currently have the highest level character anyone in our group has attained.
So i guess that is all the information you would need. I will be back on tomorrow for responses. :) Thanks for all the input. You guys are great.