At 2nd level, the cavalier can make a short prayer as a standard action, filling him with confidence in his abilities. At any point in the next minute, he can receive a competence bonus on an ability check, attack roll, saving throw, or skill check equal to his Charisma modifier. He must declare that he is using this bonus before the roll is made. He can use this ability up to four times per day, once for each type of check or roll. In addition, the cavalier adds 1/2 his cavalier level to any levels of paladin or cleric he might possess for the purposes of determining the effects of channel energy or lay on hands.
A few questions to clear my confusion.
So you add half your Cavalier level to your effective Cleric or Paladin level. Does this determine uses per day as well as number of dice or just one or the other?
If I have, say, 12 levels of Cavalier, 2 levels of Paladin, and 1 level of cleric, to what degree can I channel/lay on hands? What if I just have 4 levels of Paladin to get the channel ability (and the 12 Cavalier.) What if I can channel both as a Cleric and as a Paladin?
Also, if I take the Mount Divine Bond ability as a paladin, to my Paladin levels tack for my Cavalier mount? If yes, do I get Share Spells or Light Armor Prof? Do I get to summon my mount?
Thank you kindly.
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The stacking determines the dice and DC. Your number of uses doesn't increase by level, but rather by Charisma.
Levels of Channel in Paladin and Cleric do not stack. It's in the FAQ. So you could only stack Cavalier and Paladin OR Cleric levels.
Both Cav and Paladin have class features called Mount, but that doesn't mean they stack, the same as Channel. You'd have two mounts, unless your DM houserules it.
Also, if I take the Mount Divine Bond ability as a paladin, to my Paladin levels tack for my Cavalier mount? If yes, do I get Share Spells or Light Armor Prof? Do I get to summon my mount?
Thanks very much.
So, should I multiclass Cavalier, I should only go either Cleric or Paladin to channel. Thank you!
Edit: Also, thanks for the link, most helpful.
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Also, if I take the Mount Divine Bond ability as a paladin, to my Paladin levels tack for my Cavalier mount? If yes, do I get Share Spells or Light Armor Prof? Do I get to summon my mount?There is a thread about this issue.
That thread says nothing other than that a lot of players disagree with a Dev. The only other semi-official response is from Mike Brock in the PFS boards where he says a Samurai can't ride a Tiger.
Until a "rules guy" comes along and overrules James, and fully clarifies how Cavaliers, Paladins, Druids, Rangers and any other pet class plays with each other, I can't see why people are still clinging to what they think the rules should be. I don't care what the book says. If James says they always intended for pet classes to not stack with each other, that overrules what you see in the book.