maybe not your thing but you did go with half-orc.
Take urban barbarian level 1
then inquisitor with the anger inquisition so your rage rounds will begin to stack later. the immediate attack vs someone that just hit you isn't bad either.
Once you've got inqiz level stacking with barb at -3 for rage then you can take a second level of barb for a rage power a good one is reckless abandon as it doesn't have a level requirement and improves with barb level. moment of clarity also good if you want to throw out a spell during rage.
so you get a barb2/inquiz18
You just need to be tactical and mindful of rage and your spells and don't be afraid to drop out of rage early and suffer the fatigue if you need to pop off some spells
If you want to be a scary guy, half-orc inquisitors are very well suited to it. Try to keep Intimidate maxed and take the Cornugan Smash feat (Cheliax book). Basically anytime you use power attack you can make an intimidate check as a free action.
You opponents will be shaken most of the time. Any sneak attacking friends with shatter defenses will love you.
The animal companion thing is a neat aspect of the feather domain, but how useful it is it going to be when handle animal is an untrained skill and you have a penalty in charisma?
You gain a +4 circumstance bonus to Handle Animal checks regarding your animal companion, and they automatically learn a few bonus tricks that you do not have to teach them.
Enchanting Armor is extremely cheap. Enchanting weapon is also not nearly as expensive as Standard Prayer Beans (45800). Also avoiding prayer beads protects you from Dispel Magic & lets you have something useful for your 3rd level spells (like Heroism).
Intimidate will work if you put rank on it on every level. You only get -1 from your CHA. For exaple considering against WIS bonus (+2) the Iquisitor Stren Gaze bonus will eat that up at the level 6. I've seen many "overkills" regarding Intimidate as a GM. Usually, if a creature can be intimidated a resonably high (=what you will get) is enough. The rest the players are doing is almost a waste of feats (why I'm saying almost :D).
On the teamwork feats you don't qualify for Outflank at the level 3. Also remember that you can change the latest during the adventure. I think Shake It Off is usually one of the best, if you don't scout a lot. Well Outflank also for melee chars, but as said it can't be taken until level 6.
On the STR issue. Yes Inquisitors are late bloomers. So I would probably do STR 18 choice on the optimization sense... Especially with reach weapon.
You need to swap precise strike with out flank as out flank has BAB requirement of +4 so you can't take until you are 5th level.
So now the list of potential domains includes Animal (fur) and Destruction (Rage). Any other good ones I shouldn't miss noticing?
any reason your not looking at Inquisitions ?
So now the list of potential domains includes Animal (fur) and Destruction (Rage). Any other good ones I shouldn't miss noticing?
Plant (Growth) allows you to enlarge yourself for WIS+3 rounds per day, but it is a swift action each round, meaning a lot of swift action juggling from round to round.
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My favorite domains:
Travel - ignoring difficult terrain, dimension hop, faster base movement, all great abilities.
Liberation - Freedom of movement is awesome! Also the 8th level power lets your allies ignore some of the more common nasty conditions in the game.
Glory (and Heroism!) - The first level power works well with intimidate or diplomacy, it's a +Level bonus to a charisma based bonus and you have an hour to use it. With Heroism, at 8th level you can give everyone in your party heroism for rounds per level which is also pretty great.
Lots more are fun... I've been thinking of building a cleric so riffling through them quite a bit. I also like feather a lot for the same reasons you do. But personally, I've sworn off Animal Companions and Eidolons for my PFS characters though, big tables are way too common.
If you wanted to go with an Iomedaean there's a feat that allows you to select fighter only feats for the longsword. Not sure if it's on the PFS list. It's from The Sixfold Trial.
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Yeah, swift actions are a bit scarce with the inquisitor. That said, you get three judgments per day at 9th level and four at 10th, you can use the other judgments for the easier melees and treat the domain power as a sort of super judgment for the whole party in the bigger fights. The is likely going to be far more effective and action in a big fight than your single character judgment. In the longer slugfests you can get bane, heroism, and your judgment all once.
Edit: I just noticed you list Outflank as your third level inquisitor feat. I believe that requires +4 BAB.
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Actually, I think all the inquisitor archetypes in Ultimate Magic are solid. They just do rather specific things which may or may not play into your character concept.
Well then again, I can't see ever using Exorcist.
Infiltrator would make a good party face. Particularly if you took the Glory domain :D
Preacher is a decent choice if you don't like the teamwork feats. I'm a huge fan of rerolls and being able to choose whether you use the ability after the roll is done is great. It reduces your chances of wasting your bane ability significantly. If you are making a ranged weapon based inquisitor preacher is probably better since the best teamwork feats require flanking.
Spellbreaker is sort of okay-ish if you're playing a ranged inquisitor (in which case losing the teamwork feats is less of a penalty), but it's straight nuts for any character taking just a few levels of Inquisitor, since you get the big impact feature right at level 1, fully scaled.
I'm doing the exact same thing right now.
I like the Witch Hunter archetype, especially in PFS where you don't need to discern lies often and you go up against a lot of enemies with class levels and spells to identify.
I personally like Travel the best, but the Luck domain is also very good.
As for inquisitions, they're not allowed in Society.
Witch hunter is awesome. Keep spellcraft maxed and you have a free scaling bonus to saves vs enemy spells.
I made A dwarf with Hardy and glory of old. +5 vs spells at level 1.
Add witchunter and a max spellcraft and you basically autopass spell saves.
Dwarf is not bad either.
I took Rage subdomain with Reckless abandon and witchunter as my domain powers.
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Make an Inquisitor of Shelyn! The crunch works pretty well but more importantly she is the diety least likely to have inquisitors. You can be on a quest to annihilate people with bad taste. That's the kind of over-the-top RP that can actually come across in a PFS game.
Her favored weapon is the Glaive and a reach weapon will let you avoid AoOs and each ally will give you 2 or 3 squares you can flank from and make use of those teamwork feats.
Shelyn gives the excellent Luck domain, too. I think you'll be fine without your own flank buddy, our PFS tables are always overflowing.
Half orc. Rage inquisition. Rage advances as a barbarian -3.
Take the Amplify Rage teamwork feat form Orcs of Golarion. Due to the solo tactics Inquisitor class feature, when you rage this will give you +4 on top of your normal bonus to STR and CON for raging.
Activate judgements, rage. Rinse repeat.
Doesn't work you still need a raging ally.
You count as an ally.
No you don't. Solo tactics lets you benefit as though your allies have the feat even when they don't, but they still have to be performing the correct actions. You don't count as your own ally for purposes of "your ally must be doing X" for teamwork feats; otherwise a large number of them would work for any character who took them even if nobody else did. (Escape Routes, for instance, would become "you never provoke attacks of opportunity for moving.")
Ah, I see. The entry banning Inquisitions in UC is oddly phrased. I assumed they were all in there.
I sort of agree with you on Touch of Luck, but I do think it's better than Touch of Glory unless you're taking Dazzling Display (although Blistering Invective would be a decent and cheaper method.) Aura of Heroism is fantastic but on the other hand it costs a swift action. In my experience the reroll mostly gets used on saving throws or CL checks, which I think balances out between a cleric and an inquisitor.
I think it compares favorably with Liberation, too. Liberation is solely defensive. Giving somebody a reroll to escape a grab isn't as good as just springing them, but the ability is much broader in its use.
(I still think Travel is the best. My Inquisitor is of CC.)
Sadly you can't get lance for free, the gods he mentioned are minor demigods and not legal for PFS. There is however an Empyrial Lord (Ragathiel) who has the Bastard Sword with OK domains and the Eldest fey Maghd who has the scythe and Luck. None of the demigods would appear to give access to subdomains. I really wish the Lovecraftian Outer Gods were legal for PFS.
EDIT: Moar
Lessons of Chaldira is amazing and I didn't know about it but you have to be devoted to Chaldira Zuzaristan, who has only Good, Trickery and War with the Short Sword. Trickery's Mirror Image ability isn't bad for Clerics but I can't see you getting a ton of use out of it.
If you want to do party face duties Illuminator(Sarenrae) gives +2(!) to Diplomacy along with Heroism and scimitars.
If you take a high-threat weapon Anatomist (+1 to confirm) might be good.
The Expert Duelist and Unorthodox Strategy factions traits are nice defensively. The latter is Silver Crusade and gives +2 to Acrobatics while avoiding AoOs. Tumbling is something I personally do a lot of.
So I just looked up the fouchard and wow, that's a great reason to play a half-elf. I say drop Feather for Travel. You'll can use the speed to just walk around threatened areas and won't have to clutter the table with yet another mini. Booned Companions are super-awesome but PFS gets so crowded sometimes.
It's not quite as bad as a Master Summoner bringing in 1d3+1 riding dogs each round, but I was mostly just doing that to be a dick.