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Good stuff. Note that in your wands section, you recommend several wands of personal range with tactical advice regarding use on multiple party members. Wands with personal range are only usable on the person using the wand. To use on multiple party members, you'd have to pass it around. Shield and disguise self were a couple that I noticed.
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First, let me say, "Good show!" And follow that up with some comments, errata and suggestions.
Part 2 - you might want to specify that the rod is a rod of Quicken Spell, Lesser.
Another metamagic rod you might consider recommending is the rod of Extend Spell, Lesser, for only 3,000 gp. It doubles the duration of the three 1st to 3rd level spells it is used with. Mage Armor for 2 hours per level, just for one, fairly useful, use of the rod.
And, also, don't forget the Pearls of Power. So, you've used up your last Magic Missile? Use a Pearl and you have the spell back available...
Handy Haversacks can actually hold a total of 120 pounds of gear, not just 80 pounds. They have three pockets, the main one which holds the 80 pounds, and two side pockets which hold 20 pounds apiece.
And, for archers, the essential Efficient Quiver is never a bad thing. Even for non-archers, the ability to have multiple spears and javelins available is not a bad thing to think about.
For time savers, don't forget things that may not give you extra actions, but that burn your enemies actions, and possibly even give you and your allies extra attacks.
A tripped enemy is prone, so he either takes a -4 to attacks, some weapons are not usable while prone, and provokes AoOs when he stands.
Equally, a disarmed enemy has to either pull out his backup weapon, which is usually not as good as his primary weapon, or provoke an AoO by picking the weapon lying at his feet back up.
Sunder is a fine tactic for PFS, although it usually is not recommended for home games. Again, the target is potentially taking a penalty to hit & damage, or has no weapon/armor/spell component pouch available anymore.
Other combat maneuvers can also have useful functions.
Seeker of Secrets is no longer part of the core assumption, unfortunately. Although a lot of folks still have it from when it was. The Pathfinder Society Field Guide is the replacement core assumption book.
Which also brings up the flexible fighter archetype from that book, the Lore Warden. Along with still being, more or less, a fighter, he has more class skills and more skill points to spend on them.
On Ioun Stones, you might want to mention the wayfinder, even if the inferior stones don't get resonance in PFS, they can still be put in a wayfinder for security, and the wayfinder can still cast light. And remember, the standard wayfinder only costs the PFS PC 250 gp, and adds a +2 bonus to Survival checks to avoid getting lost.
UMD: Dangerously Curious gives you not just a +1 Trait bonus to UMD, but it also makes UMD a class skill for you, so you don't have to take a level in a class that gives you UMD as a class skill.
Wands: Your first level UMDer has a75% chance, since he needs a 5 or higher. Assuming no other magic items that provide a benefit, like the Circlet of Persuasion or a Headband that adds to Charisma, at 4th level your hypothetical UMDer has a 100% chance of success.
Remember that skills do not have automatic failure or automatic success, so even a 1 can succeed, if your bonus is high enough and the DC is low enough, and a 20 is not an automatic success, if your bonus plus 20 is not high enough to meet the DC for the test.
Again, for UMD, you will frequently have a choice for which stat to use for casting. If a spell is on the Wizard/Sorcerer spell list, you can choose to use either Int or Cha as the casting stat. Indeed, given the Empyreal Sorcerer archetype/bloodline, you might even be able to convince your GM to allow Wis as the casting stat...
Wands: No wand of Wish, since wands can only be made for spells up to 4th level. Sorry.
Also, if a spell has a range of Personal, like Gravity Bow and Lead Blades, you can only get the spell on you if you can use the wand, one way or another, yourself.
You might want to add Abundant Ammunition to the list, though. Not personal, and your ranged character will love you for it, especially if the combat needs them to use some of their more expensive ammunition...
Mundane mounts & work animals: Remove the elephant, it is not legal for purchase in PFS.
The links for the Discount Adventuring Kits, Arrow Packs, and the Handy Haversack Pack lead back to the same page, instead of the PDFs.
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*Very* nicely written pieces and lists (and the new-to-RPG-and-PFS players I'm currently mentoring already love your OP Character Build Sheets!)
Other than saying Thank You! for posting these links, I caught one tiny tiny tiny thing:
The spring-loaded wrist sheath is a swift-action to utilize rather than an immediate (errata'd).
Not trying to nitpick, just noticed that offhandedly as I was reading. Again, thanks for posting this!
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Thanks for fixing the links.
I hadn't looked at the animal companion link before, since I only have one PC with a companion, and that one is a halfling Cavalier, so his choices are fairly limited, and he is only 1st or 2nd level.
However, on looking, it is fairly obvious that the companion article is fairly old, and there are several changes and updates that should be made to it.
Bestiary 2 & 3 ACs are now legal, IIRC.
Training needs to be updated, since it is no longer one training attempt per Chronicle, but ranks in Handle Animal attempts per chronicle. You probably also want to note that the PC's first animal companion comes fully trained when it is first acquired. Only when you replace your AC do you need to worry about the training situation. Hopefully, by then, the PC should be able to come close to taking 10 to succeed at the training attempt. Also note that you can train an AC for a purpose, if you have enough training attempts to cover all the tricks for the purpose.
Oh, and it is double "Attack" trick, not combat training. Combat training might come across as the combat purpose, rather than just the Attack trick.
Also mention that your AC gets 3 tricks per point of Intelligence it has, so that can help, at some point, since you sometimes want more than 6 or 7 tricks...
On companions becoming large, as another thread showed, you can choose, instead, to take a slight power loss, and give it +2 Dex and +2 Con instead of having it become large.
For riding a flying companion/mount, you might want to include a caveat that encumbrance is insanely important, since natural fliers can only fly, IIRC, with a light load.
For a land mount, you need to keep track of total encumbrance and armor effects, since that affects their speed, and therefore how far they can charge.
