Inner Sea Gods: Exalted Prestige Class - PrC pros and cons

[Purple Dragon Knight]

I'm really happy about the new god entry format and the exalted, evangelist and sentinel boons. Exalted boons you can get just by taking a feat but then you have to wait to level 12 for the first boon and level 16 for the second (the second boon is usually the "working boon" ie. the one most relevant to the god in question).

Exalted PrC allows for those boons to be taken much earlier, but you may need to sacrifice your domain power for it, if you're a cleric.

If you start off as an oracle, the Exalted class is a super tough sell, because you no longer get revelations from leveling up in that class. At least that's how I read it...

Paladins also get some neat abilities as they level up... I'm guessing a pally would run in the same problems taking Exalted levels (i.e. sacrificing additional smites per day, aura of justice, etc.)

Any thoughts on that class? am I missing something? I find the advantages of the Exalted boons are few and far between and unless you're a cleric, sorcerer or wizard, I'm not sure who this would benefit.

[Purple Dragon Knight]

shameless bump! :)

I've been experimenting with Evangelist (absolutely amazing for fighters, bards, rogues)

I was wondering if some of you have looked at Exalted and Sentinel PrCs, and if so, what build would you recommend with these?

[Chillsabre]

Personally, I think the classes that gets these boons earlier (Exalted, Mystery Cultist, Demoniac, Exalted and Sentinel) were balanced in accordance with the boons they grant.

There are no straight path to building characters in PF and although some work better mechanically like the evangelist, I think granting all of these PrC the aligned class line would warrant everyone taking these over beginning classes in exchange for the loss of a single level in the previous class.