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You can click the picture of my charcater to see m build or go here:
http://paizo.com/people/ErodelAlorius
Basically I designed him to be a bookworm wizard with lots of knowledge, speciliazing in Knowledge Arcana (with which he can take 10 at any time with a +12 for a total of 22). I wanted to make him a very devoted and classic kind of Pathfinder, someone whose not in the Society their own gain or ulterior motives but for the sake of exploration and discovery itself. My last character Exelithur Vindragon (http://paizo.com/people/ExelithurVindragon) was a Bard take on this concept, however where he tried to be more melee requiring decent STR DEX CON CHA and INT scores he was a bit too spread out and therefore not too great at any one thing. I tried to find a way to fix this and decided that I wanted to focus on his INT so a WIzard was the obvious choice. The Scroll Scholar Archetype was exactly waht I wanted for the character and when I found the Pathfinder's Focus trait it was perfect. Overall I think I'm much happier with this concept.
I definitely want him to go into one of the Pathfinder Prestige classes (Pathfinder Chronicler, Pathfinder Field Agent, or Pathfinder Delver) and I'm leaning towards the Field Agent because of his affinity for his compass which he will be upgrading into a Wayfinder at his earliest chance. Field Agent would still allow him to gain spells if I choose that as my first Field Agent training and then I'd be getting upgrades to my Wayfinder which seems very thematically appropriate that a devoted Pathfinder, and officianado on Knowledge Arcana would be so involved in restoring, tinkering, and improving his once old and broken compass/wayfinder. The Pathfinder Delver and Chronicler seemed to be more in tune with a Bard or Rogue design and wouldn't grant me any more spells so I'm debating strongly agaisn it. I realize in the long run it'd probably be more beneficial ability-wise for him to stay as a Wizard class than to go into Field Agent but the thematics of the character are very important to me, very much more so then optimizing my character's build to be as effective a monster killer/trap disabler/spell caster/whatever as possible. A lot of what I read on these forums is most often about optimizing builds and designing characters to "dip" into classes they have no right "dipping" into in order to take advantage of some ability while throwing the thematics of hte character out the window. Characters should be more than just stats. The world paizo has created is immense, deep, and utterly wonderful and embracing and delving into that world and its opportunities is what makes the game fun. I don't want just another shallow stereotpical optimized wizard build, Erodel is a unique character all his own, and becoming a Pathfinder Field Agent seems right up his alley.
So basically I would love to hear what you guys think of my character build, stats, thematics, and all keeping in mind that his effectiveness in game is as important his personality and style. Also if I've accidently used something not allowed in PFS please let me know and I'll look for a fix!
You guys were a great help last time!
Thanks!
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I'm a wizard enthusiast, and no offense, but your character is making me cry a bit. Ok, let's get started.
1) Never, I repeat NEVER take the unilateralist school. It is never worth it, for any reason. Take divination. The spells aren't fantastic but the school abilities are amazing. Plus the free spell per day is priceless.
2) I highly prefer my arcane bond to be a familiar, most commonly a talking one. A raven has no combat potential but it's a flying scout and messenger. However, I think you're doing the bonded item right with that trait.
3) I want to yell at you about putting so much effort into your knowledge skill, but I understand the fluff reasons. My wizard Tiasar here is a planar enthusiast and adds a freaking ridiculous amount to his knowledge (planar) checks.
4) Speaking of knowledge (planar), I'm appalled you don't have it as a knowledge specialist. Pick it up by dropping history or geography, they are barely ever used.
5) Why do you have leather armor? Arcane failure chance = bad. Stay away from.
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Secrets Revealed: At 5th level, a scroll scholar gains the ability to cast comprehend languages and identify as spell-like abilities.
You don't need identify or comprehend languages in your spellbook this early. No DM would put level 1 characters in a situation where they would need that. Save the identify for later, laugh at comprehend languages as your maxed out linguistics skill gets you a ridiculous amount of languages. Pick up sleep or color spray instead. They're godlike 1st level spells.
7) Your feats make me cringe. If you're not going to train escape artist than you need defensive combat training so you're not completely defenseless against grapples. Grapples destroy wizards.
8) Speaking of feats, remember in PFS "scribe scroll" is replaced by "spell focus". Add that feat.
Cheers! :)