Pimp my Horse

[DBlue]

Alright guys, I'm looking at playing a Cavalier, or a multiclassed cavalier with the horse master feat. I have very little experience with animal companions.

I've got a very good idea what I'm going to do rules wise for the character(Ride by attack lance when mounted, trip focused when not mounted), but I have no clue what to do with the horse. And I want an awesome horse.

How would one go about optimizing a cavalier's horse? Should I aim for hp and saves? Damage? Anything really excellent? Any trap feats?

Is bumping Int to 3 a good investment? Would spring attack or trample be a better route for the horse? Would either of those actually work with ride by attack?

[blackbloodtroll]

You might find a number of ideas in this thread.

[DBlue]

blackbloodtroll wrote:

You might find a number of ideas in this thread.

Thank you, but I had already read that thread; it is concerned with the best way to acquire a powerful animal companion, and has minimal advice on the build of the animal companion itself.

[Name Violation]

combat reflexes.
agile frame.
add point to int.
bodyguard feat.
extra traits feat. pick up adopted and take the helpful halting trait and divine tactician ( strategist?)

give mount magical barding with benevolent ability

make sure it has flank and aid tricks

[Name Violation]

at level 7 the mount can give you like 7 ac as an AOO

[+5 Toaster]

well first you have it stand on the corner of the roa...uh nevermind.

[7heprofessor]

Raise Int to 3 at your first opportunity.

Look into the Charger Animal Companion archetype. It gets some of the Cavalier's bonuses. Then, just take Multiattack as one of its feats since it loses it for barding training.

The Improved Iron Will feat is essential in my book as animals have poor will saves and it's likely to be targeted at some point seeing as it's getting you around everywhere.

Either way...just my 2 cp

[goldomark]

I take 50% of the profit. Is it a pretty ho... rse?

[Wrath]

I knew pathfinder was fairly liberal, but I had no idea that inter species erotica had taken off yet. I'm fairly sure if you pimped your horse in most of Golarion you'd get arrested.