Feat Granting Additional Smite Evil?

[Captain Sir Hexen Ineptus]

I was just wondering if Pathfinder had produced any feat or trait granting additional smite evil use/s for the paladin.

Thanks

[Steel_Wind]

No, not yet.

There are extra lay on hands and extra mercies and more effective channeling of coure -- but no "extra smite".

They have reverted the smite evil ability of the Undead Scourge back to its mondo awesomeness of +2 per level every time, but they lose the ability against evil dragons and outsiders.

One could easily envision a variant archetype that does the same for outsiders, and drops it for undead and dragons. Demon Scourge is an easy gimme.

They have effectively reduced the number of times per day for smite in some of the variant archetypes.

However, I have not seen any feat that gives an extra smite. Given how powerful the ability is, I am not sure that we will ever see such a feat or archetype class feature, either.

I guess we will see what Ultimate Combat and Ultimate Magic brings. I hope it brings all kinds of interesting stuff -- but more smiting is not what we need, imo. The Paladin class already can signifcantly unbalance the game in terms of Paizo's APs and modules. Parties with Paladins in them face challenges very differently from ones that do not and the challenges must sometimes be toughened up to compensate for this as it stands.

This is a good indication that the Paladin class is inherently unbalanced as written. The Paladin's smite evil ability when coupled with a critical hit is a game changer as the static modifiers can go insanely high.

[Areteas]

Tangentially related question -
Is there any feat for divine casters equivalent to Spell Focus / Greater Spell Focus for arcane casters (boosting save DC's)?

[Fatespinner]

Areteas wrote:

Tangentially related question -

Is there any feat for divine casters equivalent to Spell Focus / Greater Spell Focus for arcane casters (boosting save DC's)?

Divine spells are still divided into schools just like arcane ones. Hold person is an enchantment, for example, and a 2nd-level cleric spell. A cleric can take Spell Focus/Gr. Spell Focus (Enchantment) to boost the save DCs.

[Steelfiredragon]

I wonder if a paladin that took ability focus: smite evil would have the stuff raided for smite evil...

btw there is an archetype that might up it for demons andd devils.
the angelic warrior in the ultimate combat.

[Captain Sir Hexen Ineptus]

Steelfiredragon wrote:

I wonder if a paladin that took ability focus: smite evil would have the stuff raided for smite evil...

btw there is an archetype that might up it for demons andd devils.
the angelic warrior in the ultimate combat.

Smite Evil would work, except there is no save for the Smite ability of a paladin.