I was always under the impression from what people have said that if you retrain a Fighter Feat at a particular level, the retrained feat replaces your level up one, but after reading things over, I think this is actually how it works:
Retraining - Only applies to Fighter Bonus feats. Upon Reaching Level 8, you aren't happy with your chosen feat at level 4, so pick your new level 4 feat (was Dodge, but is now Point-Blank Shot) and lose your old one. You now qualify for Precise Shot, so pick that as your level 8 feat. You have now retrained something.
Guessing this is the right way to do things and not the way people explained to me before. ¬_¬
It would make no sense at all if you spent a level 8 feat slot to retrain a level 4 feat slot, losing the feat gained at level 8. So yea, I don't think you lose a feat other than the one you swap out for.
This is probably a really stupid and noobish question, but I've gotta make sure I'm right because this is one ability I haven't ever used for my Fighter builds and I'm thinking maybe I should from now on.
Cleave would be good at lower levels, but be nice to swap out for something better later on.
I don't really know what the best feats are to have earlier on and swap out later.
Upon reaching 4th level, and every four levels thereafter (8th, 12th, and so on), a fighter can choose to learn a new bonus feat in place of a bonus feat he has already learned. In effect, the fighter loses the bonus feat in exchange for the new one. The old feat cannot be one that was used as a prerequisite for another feat, prestige class, or other ability. A fighter can only change one feat at any given level and must choose whether or not to swap the feat at the time he gains a new bonus feat for the level.
You replace a choosen feat with another. You dont loose a feat.
Yea, see that's what I originally thought, but when I asked friends they said you lose one, so I figured 'd get this cleared up once and for all as it just made no sense to me.