As a long time player of Bards, I appreciate their versatility in the fact they can use a melee, a bow, or cast a spell. We have decided to put those characters away for a bit and start new charcters, and I want to keep the versatility.
I was thinking of an Inquisitor of Desna giving me the travel domain.
With Inquisitors, I wanted to know what are they better at, shooting (Comp. Longbow) or melee (Morningstar?
I was also thinking of the Magus. I read the 3rd edition of it, and it sounded fine, no too OP, so I think it shouldn't be nerfed when the book comes out in April. In terms of weapons, I was thinking of a scimitar and take a WP in whip for chanelling spells through it. Has anyone tried them and where they good? The only weakness I saw was a lack of trained skills, but I could remedy that with a dip in another class. Does anyone have suggestion what the best dip would be? Thinking Ranger, or Rogue.
Any other suggestions on classes would also be appreciated.
As a long time player of Bards, I appreciate their versatility in the fact they can use a melee, a bow, or cast a spell. We have decided to put those characters away for a bit and start new charcters, and I want to keep the versatility.
I was thinking of an Inquisitor of Desna giving me the travel domain.
With Inquisitors, I wanted to know what are they better at, shooting (Comp. Longbow) or melee (Morningstar?I was also thinking of the Magus. I read the 3rd edition of it, and it sounded fine, no too OP, so I think it shouldn't be nerfed when the book comes out in April. In terms of weapons, I was thinking of a scimitar and take a WP in whip for chanelling spells through it. Has anyone tried them and where they good? The only weakness I saw was a lack of trained skills, but I could remedy that with a dip in another class. Does anyone have suggestion what the best dip would be? Thinking Ranger, or Rogue.
Any other suggestions on classes would also be appreciated.
with inquisitor or magus, these are both bad classes as a candidate for dipping.
You don't want to lose the cool level progression in either, every level has something you want.For inquisitor Id go with the repeating crossbow, travel domain is neat.
For magus (I have a 9th level Magus) I have a falcata the party found at level 5, spent the exotic proficiency to use it and since the weapon is keen, it's pretty boss on damage.
As a close cousin I think I might go scimitar at level 1.
I would NOT spend a proficiency on whip, that would be a waste.
If you like switch hitting, either inquisitor or magus are good.
Inquisitor has healing, magus has better action economy if you are up close and personal.
Depending on what else is in the party, I'd probably play an inquisitor, if they have enough healing through other classes, magus.
Thanks for the advice.
With the Magus, is there anything I should avoid, basically anything that is going to be Nerfed when it comes out?
Primary stats for him would be INT, and Dex (with Weapon Finesse)or am I missing something?
Magus is more damage oriented (hell I kick asses with my lvl 5 magus) and the Inquisitor is more skill and support oriented.
No matter what both are nice classes.
Also I wouldn't dip into any other class with them, they are good enough at theit own.
For Magus go to high Dex & Int (maybe Elf), my Magus use a scimitar with dervish dance.
Don't forget to pick the nice blast spells, later with spell pool it's nice to be able to cast shocking hand with spellstrike (oh, a crit!) again and again and again. :)
Problem at the magus will be that you maybe have to modify your character as soon as the Ultimate Magus is out, because they will change something.
Thanks for the advice.
With the Magus, is there anything I should avoid, basically anything that is going to be Nerfed when it comes out?
Primary stats for him would be INT, and Dex (with Weapon Finesse)or am I missing something?
my advice would be to not fall into the dex trap, everyone who has made a dex/rapier/weapon finesse magus has been totally dissatisfied in levels prior to 5th.
another thing i for got to mention, most magus will have int around 16, so you are getting +3 to skills, so you really arent hurting for skill points... kinda like a wizard.
If you can put 14 or more into str so when you two hand with spell strike you get alittle something out of it.
A ranged inquisitor can deal a lot of damage. Adding the bane weapon property to your longbow at 5th level will have you dealing 1d8+2d6 (plus Str for a comp. bow and any enhancement bonus) a hit. Throw in Rapid Shot and Many Shot at latter levels and you can potentially be doing 4d8+8d6 (plus Str and enhancement bonus) a round at 8th level. At 12th you get greater bane which means an extra 2d6 (4d6 total) when using bane. By that time you should have a flaming, frost, shocking, or corrosive (APG) bow and be casting greater magic weapon everyday for extra damage and a better chance to hit.
Travel domain is an excellent choice for any inquisitor, IMO.
The other way to go (if you don't care so much about damage) is to turn your inquisitor into a tin can and focus on AC buffs and sword and board.
I don't know too much about the magus yet, but I would suggest taking Dervish Dance, which would let you dump Str and focus entirely on Dex while keeping a hand free for spells. Just watch out for you weight limit! Armor tips you over really fast.
necro..... this is a post from 2011
Sounds like he went Inquisitor