At the moment, I'm a level 3 character in my first Pathfinder campaign. My character is about as far from being optimized for combat as you could get. Instead he's based more on helping our group outside of combat.
He started out as a Bard Archivist at first level. At second level he took a level as a Lore Oracle with the focused trance revelation. We just hit level three and I've taken a third class as a Mindchemist Alchemist. By level five my plan is to be a level two Mindchemist, level two Archivist, and level one Lore Oracle.
At this point I plan on taking a Pathfinder prestige class. I was originally thinking of going Chronicler, but I was just pointed out the Delver and Savant and I wanted to get everyone's opinion on those three prestige classes. :)
Thank you! All opinions welcome.
What do you do during combat? Take a nap? That's a massive amount of time you're basically doing nothing. I'm not saying you shouldn't try and be awesome at out of combat things, I'm just saying, you shouldn't totally neglect combat.
During combat I'm usually taking pot shots with my bow, placing heals here and there, giving my allies bonuses, and generally helping out. We have a monk, barbarian, rogue, and sorcerer so we aren't really lacking on damage. So far my focus on out of combat skills has only helped the team. This includes an extra 1000 gold as reward for an adventure. So if you count this towards arming the group with more pots, gear, etc... I would say I'm helping out quite a bit in combat, if not by direct interaction, by helping the team out in other ways.
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At the moment, I'm a level 3 character in my first Pathfinder campaign. My character is about as far from being optimized for combat as you could get. Instead he's based more on helping our group outside of combat.
He started out as a Bard Archivist at first level. At second level he took a level as a Lore Oracle with the focused trance revelation. We just hit level three and I've taken a third class as a Mindchemist Alchemist. By level five my plan is to be a level two Mindchemist, level two Archivist, and level one Lore Oracle.
At this point I plan on taking a Pathfinder prestige class. I was originally thinking of going Chronicler, but I was just pointed out the Delver and Savant and I wanted to get everyone's opinion on those three prestige classes. :)
Thank you! All opinions welcome.
If you're dead-set on taking a Prestige class at this point, I would strongly recommend something that will boost one of your casting classes at every level, so you're not ending up with just level 1 spells at 10th level. One possibility is the Veiled Illusionist which would work very well with your Bard spells (though you'll need to be Bard level 4 before you qualify). Another option, since you said you have a bunch of gold, would be the Prophet of Kalistrade which lets you actually cast more varied spells by using money as part of the casting. The Loremaster would definitely make sense as well, as you've stated earlier. If you DID want to start being useful in combat, consider the Lore Warden Fighter, which would make you must better at those ranged pot-shots.
What do you do during combat? Take a nap? That's a massive amount of time you're basically doing nothing. I'm not saying you shouldn't try and be awesome at out of combat things, I'm just saying, you shouldn't totally neglect combat.
Depends. In PFS you can expect a long adventuring day, with a high combat encounter/hour ratio. In some games I've been in, if there's one fight for every 60 hours of game time, that could be considered a lot of violence.
Most games will fall somewhere in between those two setups.
Having said that, I'm not big on Prestige classes - but out of the three "Pathfinder" prestige classes you listed, the Delver seems interesting. Trapfinding is yet another cool thing you can do to help out.
We do a lot of adventuring and NPC interaction in my group. We will typically have at least one combat per session. Sometimes, once in a great while, we will have two combat encoutners in a session.
Our DM is very adept at setting up our games to match our groups. Our fights are always close and our NPC interaction and RPing is generaous since most of us are there to do more than just hack and slash.
Cartman- The Pathfinder Savant that I listed actually does get to progress in spell levels.
https://sites.google.com/site/pathfinderogc/classes/prestige-classes/other- paizo/n-r/pathfinder-savant
Though, this isn't the most intersting of the three PrCs taht I like. I am a bit baffled that the other two seems to be very much bard oriented but don't progress the bards casting. :(
Flavor and fun first!