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If item crafting is available I suggest crafting Eye Piercing for everyone once you start getting the cash necesary for such an investment. Maybe have everyone in your party invest into the project.

Shadow Piercings.

Morten Dreier

Salvation of the Sages, GM: 1d20 ⇒ 6
On the Border of War: 1d20 ⇒ 18
The Lions Justice: 1d20 ⇒ 14
Shrine of the Sacred Tempest: 1d20 ⇒ 10

If you go down this path be sure to give Monk of the Mantis a look.

Later on in the Dimension feat chain you count as flanking with yourself. So getting a bit of sneak attack could be pretty nice.

And here is my Bloodrager. It is a simple brute that uses spells to enhance his ability to dish out alot of damage.

I'll try building a bloodrager. Should be fairly simple to use.

So I am playing a Shaman with the Lore Spirit and have gained an animal companion that I then Polymorph and cast the Emblem of Greed spell on.

And now I want to see how many extra bonuses can be found to boost this amazing spell. Please do dig deep and greedily into the various Paizo sourcebooks.

So my question is what easy CL boosters are out there?

Right now I have Spell Specialization giving me a +2.

What else could I be doing to boost it?

So I have a level 11 Lorewarden that I am going to be rebuilding.

While I understand most of the rebuilding rules I have one thing that I have not been able to find anything about.

My character was a Scarab Sage character. And he was Risen.
So can I now on the "new" character take another faction?

There’s also Scarred Legion which can help them with will saves and intimidate checks.

That is a nice one. Too bad that it is a morale bonus. Those are fairly common.

Broken Wing Gambit might be a very good idea as I can aid people's AC by +7 when I Bodyguard them.

I would have to rearrange my skills from level 7 to primarily be bluff though.

PFS. So very random what the team looks like.

So my Succor Oracle has just hit level 7. And I've picked up Teamwork Mastery in preparation for when I reach level 9 and can take Harrying Partner's.
The build is btw an aid bot Succor Oracle halfling. Sheet

Now what I would like to get some advice on is what teamwork feat should I pick up now? I've thought about Outflank or similar. I do after all have Coordinated effort as a bonus spell from the Succor Mystery so I would be able to share the feat with all my allies.

Anyone have any good ideas?

First relevant text.
When you voluntarily use one or more actions or feats that apply penalties to attack rolls with your melee weapons.

Inappropriately Sized Weapons: A creature can’t make optimum use of a weapon that isn’t properly sized for it. A cumulative –2 penalty applies on attack rolls for each size category of difference between the size of its intended wielder and the size of its actual wielder. If the creature isn’t proficient with the weapon, a –4 nonproficiency penalty also applies.

Okay so the spell says that it helps with actions or feats that causes penalties to your melee attacks. While the Inappropriate Sized Weapon does indeed give a penalty to your melee attack it is not an action nor a feat.

As such I do not believe that the spirit will aid you if you are using such a weapon. Nor do I believe that it would help with the to hit penalty that you are given by using a broken weapon.

I would second Louise Bishop's advice regarding Battering Blast.

Also consider getting Wayang Spellhunter and Magical Lineage for Glitterdust. And then get Persistent spell at level 3.
This should be you helping your team finish encounters not you finishing them yourself.

If you wish to get summoning as one of your "things" then take Acadamae Graduate and find a way to be immune to the Fatigued condition.
My favorite is the Cord of Stubborn Resolve.

I've yet to have any issues with my one dual-cursed oracle with regards to misfortune. Not the way I RP him on the other hand...

As other have said it is all about the way you interact and talk with the GM about the ability. And make sure that it is not slowing things down.

(I play him as a slightly pacifistic pothead of a kitsune)

Unchained Monk (Monk of the Mantis) with Accomplished Sneak Attack.
Get the Dimension door feat chain at 9th with you retraining quite a few feats.

Be small and have a Dex and Wis bonus. Get a Amulet of Mighty Fists with Agile.

With a Ring of Ki Mastery you will be fantastic as a stealthy character.

You can dd in make a full attack and be out again. While flanking and sneaking with all of your attacks.

But no matter what class you go with be sure to have the feat:
Dampen prescence.
It allows you to hide from those with Blind sense and Blind sight.
So pretty vital in the higher levels.

I would say that all Aroden's Spellbanes are chanceled out. But that is just my opinion/ how I would run it as a GM.

In other words speak with your GM (and thank god that such a situation currently will not happen in PFS)

Oh yes. Source Severance is fantastic! And then just find a way to also get Aroden's Spellbane so you can negate his inevitable Aroden's Spellbane.

Here is a Build doing something similar to what I described earlier:

Build another Wizard. Use Mind Blank + Greater Invisibility plus the feat Dampen Prescence.

School wise I would suggest Conjuration or Divination.

Also make sure you buff your initiative to rediculous heights as fighting a level 19 Wizard will be all about winning initiative.

Other things to consider:

Aroden's Spellbane(Greater Dispel Magic), Contingency, Greater Planar Binding w. a Familiar(Emissary) using Touch of Glory (fittingly one of Iomidaes domains).

Also you could go Arcane trickster using the Accomplished Sneak Attacker to only having to dip into rogue or another sneak attacking class (have to give sneak at level 1 though).

Just buy a Goz Mask instead of using feats/ having to multiclass.

Oh, human Monk. Well then I think the alternate racial traits are the only way.

The bloodline arcana for the Orc bloodline gives darkvision.

From Divine Anthology

The spell Visualization of the Mind. Level 2 Cleric/Shaman/Wizard.
+5 bonus to either Cha, Int or wis checks. 24 hour duration. Costs 200gp in material components. Note that this is a meditative spell and uses slightly new mechanics (spontaineous casters cannot cast them and a few other things)
(Not PFS legal)

I would suggest taking a look at the Unchained monk.

Here is a PFS Grippli monk I have. Lots of damage and really good defences. Personally I have gone into Monk of the Mantis for an assassin feel to my monk.

Your wizards ought to have Dampen Presence and Nondetection combined with invisibility and some way to fly when going out and planting their devices of mass destruction.

If I was any good at links I would post ol varsivius (order of the stick) fight with the black dragon.

And that fight would have been quite different if Vaarsuvius had access to Aroden's Spellbane and could exclude Antimagic Field around her.

Consider looking at Aroden's Spellbane for extra defense. I have used with level 17+ wizards multiple times with great effect.

Aroden's Spellbane

Spells to exclude could be: Invisibility Purge, Dispel Magic, Greater Dispel Magic, Waves of Exhaustion, Maze.

Note. If picking dispel magic and/or other popular spells he will not be able to cast them either.

From what I can see turning into Yig is legal in PFS (looking at Additional Resources). Though it seems a bit overpowered all things considered.

keren_man wrote:

Sweet! I would love to try the Longspear Bard, although I feel it is quite MAD? STR for the damage, CHA for spellcasting, CON as well as INT? How you'll distribute the ability scores?

Favored Class Bonus:

+3 HP
Rest Extra Spells Known

Alternate FCB's are not from the CRB. So the OP will not be able to make use of that (unfortunately).

the Diviner wrote:

Core Monk < Tetori Monk.

In other words I believe that a tetori archetypes monk is far superior to a vanilla CRB monk. Also consider taking a look at the Qinggong Monk archetype (with Barkskin being a fan favorite)

unchained monks have access to qinggong powers with out needing the archetype and gets full bab and all its other abilities make it vastly superior to the tetori monk

How is an Unchained Monk a Vanilla Monk? Vanilla must surely mean a monk straight out of the CRB with no archetypes or the alike.

Though if we are talking about Unchained monk vs. Tetori and you want easy to use then absolutely use the unchained version.

One build I was looking at was Paladin 4 (Oath of Vengeance)/Monk 1 (Scaled Fist)/Sentinel 10 with god Shelyn. Take crusader's flurry with glaive. Shelyn deific boon adds charisma to hit and damage on smites

Unfortunately you loose the Channel Energy class feature with the Oath of Vengeance class feature so you do not qualify for Crusader's Flurry.

Core Monk < Tetori Monk.

In other words I believe that a tetori archetypes monk is far superior to a vanilla CRB monk. Also consider taking a look at the Qinggong Monk archetype (with Barkskin being a fan favorite)

Of the ones currently out there I personally use 1, 2, and 4 the most.

Core only RA, eh. Well personally when I go for hard mode I go all in and make an all out Harsk table. But sure for easy mode here is some advice.

Assuming it uses traits be sure to have Perception as a class skill and then mx it.

Either get a way to disable traps or a way to trigger them or a way to circumvent them (this can be dangerous when you have to flee from an encounter that has gone south).

Whatever you pick make sure you can do several roles when someone goes down so that you always have someone who can deal with healing/traps, ect.

Bard. With a Monk and a Fighter buffing them might be really good. As some have noted there is a bit of possibilities of social encounters down there. And you can do skill money like no other i Core through 6+Int skills and Versatile performance.
I suggest building it as a ranged Bard that buffs and can do a bit of healing in a pitch.

Cleric. Same as the Bard you can be quite the buffer. This just gives you more options of taking on the role of Healer. Though quite often casting spells that makes your guys kill people faster or stuff that prevent damage will be more effective.
With a trait like Seeker you can get Perception and with your high Wis you can find traps like no other in Core!

Wiz. Crowd control. Buffing. And a few blast spells for the odd swarm. Given that you start at level 5 you are over the painful low levels where you have very few spells per day. But even then you still have to make sure you ration them. So make use of your scribe scroll feat and have a small scroll library with you for every occasion.

Sort of forgot to send mine... I hope that the creativity of others make up for that! Hopefully there will be some awesome ones.

The Devilbound template from Beastiary 4 has some of the same feel.

Huge - Corpse Lotus (4 attacks with Grab plus Constrict)
Large - Strangle Reed (2 attacks with Grab plus Constrict)

If you buy an Anaconda's Coils then the medium sized Mi-Go becomes quite cool.

Medium - Mi-Go (4 attacks with Grab, fly, DR/Slash, Resistance to cold, electricity, and fire)

Note that all of these are plants. I had some notes on a plant based wild shape user lying around but there might be some good ones for animals as well. I expect some of the aquatic forms work well for this.

Anyone know of a scenario or module with an Oracle in it? I am having some difficulties with figuring out formatting for the character I want to submit.

This link will take you to the general pfs discussion forum.

And at the top you can see the Pathfinder forums and can get to any of them with two clicks.

That's the best way I've found so far.

the Diviner wrote:

A few tips.

I would suggest reducing your Int to 19. 20 is rarely worth it at level 1 in my opinion. And then use the points on increasing either Dex/Con or Wis.

I am planning on taking CWI very early. I'm not sure why you'd say take my Int from 20 to 19? Sure I could use the points, but why 19 and not 18?

J

Because with 19 you have four extra points you can put into your other stats. And that 19 will quickly become 20 at level 4. I generally never go 18(20) in a stat at the start. But each to their own. I just think the 4 points for increasing it by 1 point is too much.

A few tips.

I would suggest reducing your Int to 19. 20 is rarely worth it at level 1 in my opinion. And then use the points on increasing either Dex/Con or Wis.

As it appears that crafting is something you use in your games I suggest getting Craft Wondrous item at some point.

And if you like the various cloud spells then consider either the Goz mask or the Fog cutting lenses (I personally prefer the mask).

Also depending on your group such a tactic could allow any ranged character to shoot at enemies in such a cloud while they are flat-footed.

(Another creative uses of this would be to go Arcane trickster using the Accomplished sneak attacker feat and a single rogue or another sneak attacking class level.)

An item you should link to: Padma Blossom

A binding focused Mythos Cultist should consider going Darkfire Adept. Especially with the new prestige class feats that makes you not lose casting progression or CL.

Another feat you should add is: Noble Scion (Scion of war).

For a charisma caster being able to use cha for initiative is pretty amazing.

Using all of your resources to increase your characters defences will simply mean that the enemy ignores you and slaughter the rest of the team first. So whatever you do make sure your offense is also up to snuff. And being unhittable is in general not very fun for everyone involved.

My suggestion would be to allow CR appropriate enemies to hit about 20% of the time and make sure your offence can kill them within two rounds.

Prestigious spellcaster will not work for Evangelist. Evangelist does not have the "spells per day class feature" and would therefore not be helped by the feat.

Are you building her to be level 20?

Oh and I would suggest to give her Spell Perfection on a spell of your choice. And give her a lesser quicken rod for those quickened Ill Omen.

And make sure to optimize her initiative as at that level her losing init will most likely be the end of the combat. While her winning will just allow you to debuff and use crowd control.

Oh and here is a few tricks she might use:

Use a Goz mask/ Freedom of movement and a Solid fog.

Get Mind blank and use invisibility spells.

How about an Unchained Rogue/ Unchained Barbarian Android? Using two-weapon fighting and high crit chance weapons such as Kukris.

Say Rogue 3/ Barbarian 10 sounds pretty effective with dex to hit/damage with both weapons. And if you can get two +1 adamantine furious kukris.

Maybe using the Savage Technologist if you can get your GM to make some changes to it to make it compatible with the Unchained Barbarian.

Here is a build I made when it looked like we would be playing Iron Gods. Android Rogue Barb. sheet

My level 7 PFS monk has a pretty impressive AC that is achieved by going Dex to hit/damage.

Grippli. So Small and bonus to dex/wis.
Using Unchained Monk and the Barkskin Ki Power.

I am at 30 AC while buffed.

10 base, 5 Dex, 5 Wis, 1 Monk, 3 Barkskin, 1 Deflection, 4 Armor(mage armor), 1 size = 30 AC, 23 Touch, 25 Flatfooted.

Unbuffed is 7 lower standard and flat-footed.

Is there a communal mind blank spell?

In 3.5, I played in a group with many paranoid epic and/or nigh epic campaigns, and everyone got mind blank items as soon as possible.

I wasn't as paranoid and not as used to very high level campaigns, so my druid got his name wrote in the dead book but quick. My replacement character, an epic level warlock, got an auto-mind blank ability, which was nice.

It does. http://www.archivesofnethys.com/SpellDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Mind%20Blank,%20 Communal

Unfortunately my party was a bit too effective so we were hold back a level throughout the most of the adventure path. So we never got access to level 9 spells.

I wonder how well the Arrowsong Minstrel stacks up to these archer builds? It got the usual Bard buffing goodness that it can give out to others while it's archery should be decent as well since it can use it's Spellstrike on the first round while starting Inspire Courage and then full attacking after that.

Though I think it's DPS will be quite a bit lower than the others it can as any bard do lots of other things than simple combat.