They don't just look amazing, they are. Looks good to me right now. If you take this oath, don't you usually go for "Extra Lay on Hands" every now an then?
Sacred Servant combined with an oath of vengeance does not make much sense to me (but maybe you have a special plan). One feature giving you extra smite, the other feature taking it away...
If you want be a fighting machine with the travel domain, play an inquisitor.
Don't take Vital Strike, don't take Cleave. Vital Strike is already meh all by itself, Cleave is much too situational.
Don't worry too much about your future feats. In my eyes, the class is already optimized all by itself. So you could take "Skill Focus: Profession (Shoemaker)" for all it's worth.
Weapon Focus, maybe Quick Draw (sooner or later you will need a bow to smite some opponents), leadership (e. g. cleric buddy with the good & healing domains). Improved Critical & Critical Focus.
Int 7: Looks like one skill point per level, you really want to do that?
No, you need Perception (everyone needs Perception) and you need Knowledge (religion) and Knowledge (nobility) too for knowing your enemies and knowing your allies.
That Intelligence will cripple you, in the long term, if you are not careful. On the flip side, you don't need mega-strength: a paladin gets a stack of damage and hit bonuses from smite, so you don't need to compete so hard in the muscles stakes.
Unsanctioned Knowledge does look pretty nice. If I switch Int and Wis I could get the 13 int with a +4 Headband someday.
Any way to get Perception as a class skill?
There may be a trait somewhere that does it. Otherwise just get ranks in it. Seriously, if you can get rid of the 7, do so. I don't know if you are using dice rolls or point buy, but if the latter lose the 7.
I'd put Int on -8, apart from that it looks good.
Just wondering, what type of armor will you be using?
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My favorite straight-up Paladin: (technically he's a quarter-orc wielding a Greatsword)
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Human Paladin (Oathsworn - Oath of Vengeance)
Attributes:
25 point build
STR - 16 (+2 racial bonus, +1 at 4th and 8th level, +2 at 11th, 15th and 17th level)
INT - 10
WIS - 8
DEX - 12
CON - 14
CHA - 16 (+1 at 12th, 16th and 20th level)
Feats:
1st - Power Attack
1st - Furious Focus
3rd - Extra Lay on Hands
5th - Deadly Aim
7th - Skill Focus: Survival
9th - Eldritch Heritage (Orcish Bloodline)
[Touch of Rage (Sp): At 1st level, you can touch a creature as a standard action, giving it a morale bonus on attack rolls, damage rolls, and Will saving throws equal to 1/2 your sorcerer level (character level -2) for 1 round. You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Charisma modifier.]
11th Improved Eldritch Heritage (Orcish Bloodline)
[Strength of the Beast (Ex): At 11th level, you gain a +2 inherent bonus to your Strength. This bonus increases to +4 at 15th level and to +6 at 17th level.]
13th - Dreadful Carnage
15th - Intimidating Prowess
17th - Greater Eldritch Heritage (Orcish Bloodline)
[Power of Giants (Sp): At 15th level, you may grow to Large size as a standard action. At this size you have Reach and gain a +6 size bonus to Strength, a –2 penalty to Dexterity, a +4 size bonus to Constitution, and a +4 natural armor bonus. You may return to your normal size as a standard action. You may remain in this size for up to 1 minute per character level per day; this duration does not need to be consecutive, but it must be used in 1 minute increments.]
19th - Stunning Assault
Skills:
Intimidate +1 every level
Survival +1 every level
Knowledge: Religion +1 every odd level
Diplomacy +1 every even level
I don't worry about Perception because pretty much everyone else in my party has it and mine would be the lowest anyway (Wisdom penalty). Diplomacy and Knowledge were taken because they are appropriate to a Paladin, but mine isn't especially good at it, having spent most of his life away from society fighting evil.
Traits:
Bully (+1 Intimidate, Intimidate is a class Skill)
Poverty Stricken (+1 Survival, Survival is a class Skill)
I took Deadly Aim to help balance him out a little when dealing with things at range - remember, you can Smite with a bow too and not every situation allows you to close to melee range in order to get your full attack action.
Find out if your GM allows the trait Opportunistic Gambler (an Adventure Path trait) because if so it will allow you to use Touch of Rage on yourself and have the effects linger for 1d4 rounds afterwards. Very potent, especially when dealing with non-evil foes.
You might get some advice to take 'Quicken Spell-Like Ability' to use with Touch of Rage or Power of Giants, but I'd stay away from that controversy if I were you. I'd also stay away from Sacred Servant.
The character background was a kid who grew up as an urchin on the streets, bigger and stronger than the others and forced to do what was necessary to survive (hence the Bully and Poverty Stricken traits), until he found God that is.
A little bit of advice on spells - take full advantage of those you can cast as swift or immediate actions. Heroe's Defiance should be the first spell you take (and probably the second as well) to make yourself almost unkillable, then consider Grace (1st), Divine Favor (1st), Litany of Righteousness (2nd), Paladin's Sacrifice (2nd), Blessing of Fervor (3rd - granted by Vengeance Archetype and a great spell), Sanctify Armor (3rd) and Shield of the Dawnflower (4th).
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Mercurial - you have a lot of really great builds. Do you mind if I grab some of them and put them on this website, D20 Min-Max, giving you full credit and linking your posts? The website is an organized compilation of builds and guides for pathfinder, and but it always needs more builds and guides.
Mercurial - you have a lot of really great builds. Do you mind if I grab some of them and put them on this website, D20 Min-Max, giving you full credit and linking your posts? The website is an organized compilation of builds and guides for pathfinder, and but it always needs more builds and guides.
Anything I can do to help I'd be happy to. I haven't ever really put together full guides with all of the options out there, just characters that I like to play and some advice on playing them. For me its really about character and backstory, but within the framework of that backstory I want the characters to be as optimized as possible.
I'd advise dumping DEX (unless you need it for a feat) and getting INT a little higher. Perception is useful, but overrated. Don't dip just to get it as a class skill. Intimidate is rarely used, I wouldn't waste a trait on it.
Intimidate with Intimidating Prowess and Dreadful Carnage means that the first thing you kill will inflict the Shaken condition on everything on the battlefield for the rest of the fight. That's -2 to attacks and -2 to saves among other things every fight which can be very big and doesn't even cost you an action to perform.
Where is this Orcish bloodline you reference? I don't see it in the books I said I'd be using. I don't mind you guys helping me out, but make sure it's something viable.
Plus the trait isn't in the books I can use, and without it, Touch of Rage is a poor option.
Orc Bloodline is here.
Touch of Rage is just a bonus - what you're working towards is +6 inherent Strength and then ANOTHER +6 Strength, +4 Consitution, +4 Natural Armor bonus, Large weapon damage AND Reach in combat.
Its worked out very, very nicely for me.
Damn, can't use it. Looks ridiculously good for 3 feats. I'd have seen those and put them in any melee build.
It's certainly a very good option, but it does come with costs. 3 feats are a lot for a paladin. As for the other classes, most will not get as many benefits unless they have a reason for not dumping CHA in the first place.