Why would you play a Hunter?

[Imbicatus]

fel_horfrost wrote:

Starbuck_II wrote:

Petty Alchemy wrote:

Verminous archetype.

Fast heal for life , woot.

Fast healing is cool and all but the real prize is fortication on you permanently. Was that a crit from a great axe wielding giant? Nope

And being able to change between them as needed with a swift action.

[Cap. Darling]

Imbicatus wrote:

fel_horfrost wrote:

Starbuck_II wrote:

Petty Alchemy wrote:

Verminous archetype.

Fast heal for life , woot.

Fast healing is cool and all but the real prize is fortication on you permanently. Was that a crit from a great axe wielding giant? Nope

And being able to change between them as needed with a swift action.

Those two are the same focus.

[Imbicatus]

Cap. Darling wrote:

Imbicatus wrote:

fel_horfrost wrote:

Starbuck_II wrote:

Petty Alchemy wrote:

Verminous archetype.

Fast heal for life , woot.

Fast healing is cool and all but the real prize is fortication on you permanently. Was that a crit from a great axe wielding giant? Nope

And being able to change between them as needed with a swift action.

Those two are the same focus.

Ah, going from memory. Still being able to swap between focuses as needed is seriously under-valued by most of the hunter's detractors.

[Calth]

I am still not a huge fan of the hunter. I mean, if you arent playing a primal hunter, which I think is significantly better than the base class, you are better off going with a sacred huntsmaster Inquisitor, which is basically a Hunter+. You trade, for the most part, early focus access, the third focus, and some mostly worthless nature flavored abilities for bane, a domain, better skill abilities, and a better spell list.

[mplindustries]

Calth wrote:

I am still not a huge fan of the hunter. I mean, if you arent playing a primal hunter, which I think is significantly better than the base class, you are better off going with a sacred huntsmaster Inquisitor, which is basically a Hunter+. You trade, for the most part, early focus access, the third focus, and some mostly worthless nature flavored abilities for bane, a domain, better skill abilities, and a better spell list.

I disagree on the spell list. Early access to Ranger spells is what I consider the best seller for Hunter.

[Serisan]

mplindustries wrote:

Calth wrote:

I am still not a huge fan of the hunter. I mean, if you arent playing a primal hunter, which I think is significantly better than the base class, you are better off going with a sacred huntsmaster Inquisitor, which is basically a Hunter+. You trade, for the most part, early focus access, the third focus, and some mostly worthless nature flavored abilities for bane, a domain, better skill abilities, and a better spell list.

I disagree on the spell list. Early access to Ranger spells is what I consider the best seller for Hunter.

Stole the words right from my head.

[Calth]

mplindustries wrote:

Calth wrote:

I am still not a huge fan of the hunter. I mean, if you arent playing a primal hunter, which I think is significantly better than the base class, you are better off going with a sacred huntsmaster Inquisitor, which is basically a Hunter+. You trade, for the most part, early focus access, the third focus, and some mostly worthless nature flavored abilities for bane, a domain, better skill abilities, and a better spell list.

I disagree on the spell list. Early access to Ranger spells is what I consider the best seller for Hunter.

Sorry, but Ill trade the inquisitor list for the hunter list any day of the week. It has more and stronger buffs (Ill take divine favor over lead blades in a heartbeat) for the PC itself, and improved share spells lets you share those spells with your AC. The only thing the hunter list has going for it is the summons. And you actually get a little better than 6th level casting, since there are a couple decent 7 and 8th level cleric spells on the inquisitors list. Had they actually made a legit hunter list with cherry picked early access from the druid/ranger list (as inquisitor is picked from paladin/cleric) it might be different, but as is, the inquisitors list is more powerful.

[Zwordsman]

Well that sorta depends on what you want from your spell lists though..

Feral hunter made exactly the kind of weirdcharacter I had wanted with regards to specific style of casting and such.

[HyperMissingno]

Inquisitors can't bring in a bunch of animals with scent and fire a pheromone arrow to give them all a +2 to attack and damage to a target. They also can't get Outflank at the second level (nor can nonhuman ones get Precise Shot by that level either) and I'm sure there's more things they can do that inquisitors don't have. I just don't have the search fu to dig those things up at the moment.