Stacking Strength Bonuses

[Milo33]

I'm playing a magus with a sorcerer dip going into Dragaon disciple. So I'm looking at any means to boost a characters strength. You'll get an enhancement bonus from a belt. I've got an alchemical bonus from dipping ragechemist. Got an inherit bonus from cross-blooded in abyssal. I'm having the wizard casting Vengeful Outrage on me for a +6 moral bonus to Str. Plus the dragon diciple class gives me an untyped bonus to my Str. I'm avoiding rage because I still want to be able to spell cast. Also getting a size bonus on my Str from a self buff. Any additional suggestions? My UMD is pretty good, so other spell options are also on the table.

[Kazumetsa Raijin]

I cannot think of any other Str bonuses that would stack offhand.

[Finlanderboy]

inherient bonus. From tomes and wishes.

[ChainsawSam]

Generally speaking, Strength buffs come in three different flavors: Enhancement, Morale, and Size.

Enhancement: Belt
Morale: Vengeful Outrage
Size: Self Buff

Unfortunately, as far as Strength goes, that is about it for you. It is worth pointing out that Rage wouldn't help you anyway as it is also a Morale bonus and wouldn't stack with Vengeful Outrage anyway. You're about out of options.

There are additional bonuses available, but we're usually talking Sacred or Profane bonuses reserved for the obscure self-buffs of Divine Casters. Also the duration of these tends to be pretty short.

Inherent Bonuses exist, but you're looking at a Wish spell or one of those magic books with the permanent one-time +X (in this case a Manual of Gainful Exercise, each +1 costs 27,500 more than the last).

Of course there is more than one way to skin a horse. You could instead look for bonuses directly to Hit or Damage rather than the strength stat itself.

[Imbicatus]

If you go cross blooded Orc/dragon instead of abyssal, you can add a +6 size bonus from power of giants in addition to the inherent bonus.

[Milo33]

Cool. Thanks for the advice.

[Heymitch]

Finlanderboy wrote:

inherient bonus. From tomes and wishes.

No, the Abyssal or Orc bloodlines are giving an inherent bonus to Strength that caps at +6. Tomes and wishes won't stack.

[Kiinyan]

Buy a courageous weapon and make it +4. That will boost all morale bonuses (including the boost to Str from vengeful outrage) by 2. Also, I second the Orc bloodline from improved eldritch heritage. Your form of the dragon handles size bonuses fairly well. If you're an Orc/half-Orc I believe you can have boiling blood cast on you for another +2 but I don't know what type of bonus it is.

EDIT: Boiling Blood is morale sadly

[Milo33]

Nice ideal about the courageous weapon!

[master_marshmallow]

Alter self gives a +2 size bonus on any medium form you take.