I've looked at the prestige classes before but never quite saw how they could be as melee orientated as a dedicated fighter, barbarian or paladin. Also I couldn't see a prestige class that was as good a caster as a dedicated wizard or sorcerer.
The DM I'm playing with is only allowing the core rule book and advanced players guide.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
Most of the time, prestige classes just aren't as good of an option in Pathfinder as they were in 3.5. To be honest, it seems to me that the PrC's that get the most use are the ones that allow you to blend two classes better than a simple multi class. Arcane Trickster, Eldritch Knight, Mystic Theurge, and the like.
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Core and APG only prestige classes are not that great. That said, there are some options that work.
Eldritch Knight can be great with early entry, but with core only that isn't available.
Dragon Disciple is good if you are trying to max STR, and is a functional arcane gish option for Core+APG only.
Stalwart Defender is a good Martial class option.
Arcane Archer + Eldritch Knight can be good if you want a mystic archer.
There is the Winter Witch that is pretty good (and it's one of the only caster buil that can focus on one element without being useless sometime). But here, we are more in front of some Witch Archetype than a real Prestige Class.
But anyway, put 1 pts in perform Sing and ''Let it go!'' all the way while freezing the monster!
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I played the heck out of 3.5, with living campaigns alone I got 2 characters to 16 and probably a dozen total to 12+. Back then if you didn't take some sort of prestige class you were seriously gimping yourself. Every base class had a prestige class that helped you do things better. Clerics had Radiant Servant, Wizards had Archmage, Martial had Templar, Holy Liberator, Bear Warrior, Dervish, etc.
Pathfinder makes it so the prestige classes are only slightly better than the base class at the expense of something, and often they're not better at all.
