Search Posts
My archetype ship has long since sailed: Wild Hunter. I am tempted by a flying mount but again, right now the way I'm trying to play the character is: 'Eventually I would like to use improved/greater overrun to get myself into the thick of it and use snapshot, combat reflexes, improved snapshot to do lots of AoO damage.'
The heavy horse is wartrained, so I believe I get to count all three of its attacks as primary (bite and hooves). But you are correct about the 1.5x strength bonus for the wolf, I hadn't thought of that.
The companion archetypes don't let you bypass bab or other prerequisites of the feats themselves, do they?
I've been referencing your guide heavily in my first ever Pathfinder game... currently at Ranger 6. Really appreciate the work you did to help a newbie make sense of all the feats and strategies. I found your guide after a few sessions when I was on the verge of giving up the game entirely and it's been a big help in allowing me to understand and enjoy the game. If you're going to refresh the guide then here's one thing that confuses me: you talk about using Greater Overrun during levels 6-9, but it's not available I think until companion has +6 BAB. Which means waiting until their 10th feat level, at Ranger level 13 (or, if you added the boon companion feat to your tree, then Ranger level 10). I'm not sure if that changes how soon you'd encourage your rangers to overrun and mix it up in melee.
I've played about 8 total sessions of Pathfinder so please forgive any poor reasoning/assumptions. I'm playing a ranger mounted archer. When it came time to get my animal companion, my GM ruled that my current heavy-horse could become my animal companion. Both of us realized that the HEAVY horse was not on the official companion list, but he allowed it because the horse and I had been through a lot together. HOWEVER: he ruled the first two animal companion feats for the horse would be Endurance and Run instead of anything I might otherwise pick. So I got to pick my first feat (Power Attack) at companion level 5. I'm now about to hit level 7 (I have boon companion so my companion's level is also 7). Eventually I would like to use improved/greater overrun to get myself into the thick of it and use snapshot, combat reflexes, improved snapshot to do lots of AoO damage. Almost everyone online (including this forum) seems to recommend wolf animal companion, but I'm wondering if that's just because they don't have heavy horse as an option. What do you think, keep the horse or swap him out? Stats as of level 7, include advancement and animal companion bonus (hopefully I did this right):
Well, one of the 2 guides that I linked to has corrected their build to delay Greater Overrun. So I guess the good news is that I properly understood the rules. The bad news is that the builds I was following aren't quite as useful as I thought.
Hi. First time playing an RPG and I'm confused about animal companions and their feats. I'm playing a mounted archery ranger, currently level 5, and have been roughly following Lastoths Guide to Archery Rangers which I found on this board's 'Guide to the Class Guides' sticky post. One notable exception: I am planning to take boon companion at level 7. One of the build's strengths is getting AoOs, thus giving my mount feats like Improved Overrun and Greater Overrun is valuable. My confusion is how early the online builds (and some posts from other players) are granting these feats to their companions. The way I read the rules, Greater Overrun requires BAB of +6, which the wolf doesn't get until companion HD 8 which happens at druid level 9. Yet Lasthoths says: "level by level... 6-9: Now you can fire into cover. Once you have snap shot remember to put an arrow in anyone your mount overruns, assuming you have Greater Overrun." ... and the craziest part is that his build doesn't have boon companion, meaning at ranger level 9 that looks to me like a druid level 6 and thus a companion BAB of only +4. And another popular build suggests taking boon companion at level 7 and suggests Wolf Feat Selections: 7) Power Attack, Improved Overrun, Greater Overrun;. But again, at level 7 with boon that means druid level 7 means companion BAB of only +4. Additionally, I've seen a few posts of players talking about their companions and feats and they have given their companions some feats even though I can't see how their companions could have met the feat prerequisites. What am I missing here? Do feat prerequisites not apply to animal companions? I see that the rules say Animal companions with an Intelligence of 3 or higher can select any feat they are physically capable of using. GMs might expand this list to include feats from other sources. but i didn't read that to mean that they get to bypass the feat's requirements... Thanks in advance. |
