So I made an Inquisitor, but I'm trying to figure out the extent to which Solo Tactics is actually beneficial. The three Teamwork feats I have are Precise Strike, Outflank, and Paired Opportunists. Precise Strike seems straightforward enough, but the other two are a bit trickier.
The ability:
Solo Tactics: At 3rd level, all of the inquisitor’s allies are treated as if they possessed the same teamwork feats as the inquisitor for the purpose of determining whether the inquisitor receives a bonus from her teamwork feats. Her allies do not receive any bonuses from these feats unless they actually possess the feats themselves. The allies’ positioning and actions must still meet the prerequisites listed in the teamwork feat for the inquisitor to receive the listed bonus.
The feats:
Paired Opportunists: Whenever you are adjacent to an ally who also has this feat, you receive a +4 circumstance bonus on attacks of opportunity against creatures that you both threaten. Enemies that provoke attacks of opportunity from your ally also provoke attacks of opportunity from you so long as you threaten them (even if the situation or an ability would normally deny you the attack of opportunity). This does not allow you to take more than one attack of opportunity against a creature for a given action.
Outflank: Whenever you and an ally who also has this feat are flanking the same creature, your flanking bonus on attack rolls increases to +4. In addition, whenever you score a critical hit against the flanked creature, it provokes an attack of opportunity from your ally.
So, in a theoretical position where I'm flanking an ally, I'd get the +4 from Outflank. But if I crit, does my ally get an AoO, despite not having the feat? Or is it the other way around, if my ally crits I get an AoO?
And if my crit did trigger an AoO from my ally, would that AoO then provoke an AoO from me?
whenever you score a critical hit against the flanked creature, it provokes an attack of opportunity from your ally.But if I crit, does my ally get an AoO, despite not having the feat? Or is it the other way around, if my ally crits I get an AoO?
And if my crit did trigger an AoO from my ally, would that AoO then provoke an AoO from me?
The feat says that when you crit, the creature provokes from your ally.
The FAQ flipped that around, and says the feat grants the ally the ability to cause the creature to provoke by critting it.
The intent, therefore, was for the feat to grant YOU the ability to take an AoO when a flanker crits the creature.
Either way, if your ally does not have the feat, then you can't chain them together. If your ally DID actually have the feat, you could create a loop of AoOs as long as you both keep critting and have AoOs left to take.