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I would suggest that you give build examples such as an archer, mounted and standard melee build. I am playing an archer build at the moment using Divine Hunter archetype. It is far more powerful this way with what you gain with the archetype than the much weaker teamwork feats for archery.
Okay, I'll work on that. I'll try to put a couple builds together the best I can. ;)
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Shouldn't you play test and do months worth of research and writing before dropping a guide? Being first is cool and all but being tested and accurate is more important in a guide.
Kind of jumping the gun at this point I feel. Do some toying and in a few months hit us up. It was only this week the finalized version of the book came out.
Also, not everyone has access to the information. Making a guide for a class greatly benefits from having discussions with people to gather more ideas and what not. Without the SRD of PRD having the new information it will be a little restricted. Also, the amount of people looking for information (and looking at your guide) will be a lot larger once the classes are readily accessible.
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yeah, I was thinking about waiting on it, too, but I just wanted people to get a little teaser. I will be tweaking it based on other people's ideas, don't worry. It won't be done for a LONG time, and is not in any way the most accurate or official guide, just the first one, and possibly the only one.
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Half Orcs get +2 on any stats, can get a racial +1 on saves (+2 with a trait invested as well), have dark vision and have some great racial traits (giving a bite attack for example) - they are a blue race easily.
I don't know about Blue, because other races have traits that directly benefit the Hunter Class, like Halflings and Gnomes. I think I will make it green though.
Just a minor issue, but can I suggest reducing the font size? It's kinda huge.
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Will you be expanding advice to the other races?
Doting this!
OMG! I forgot about the other races. lol...
I suppose I'll start with the PFS ones and then branch out. I have to admit, I was mostly looking at both bonuses and Favored Class Bonuses, and their aren't any for the expanded races in the ARG
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Survival has popped up many times in PFS scenarios and homebrews I have been in.
It should be at least a green, considering that it is the skill you use if you want to track someone or navigate dangerous terrains.
As for races, PFS-legal races are a good start. Just remember that there are many races accessible via boons, not just the open for use races.
On Favored Class Bonuses, maybe they will having those in the Advanced Class Origins? Aka, ACG is for core and the rest get placed in Advanced Class Origins?
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Survival has popped up many times in PFS scenarios and homebrews I have been in.
It should be at least a green, considering that it is the skill you use if you want to track someone or navigate dangerous terrains.
Okay, I've never used it, but I will go ahead and boost it to green because of a few requests.
Thanks for the great guide, i was curious if you planned to ever go back and add more to it?
Half Orcs get +2 on any stats, can get a racial +1 on saves (+2 with a trait invested as well), have dark vision and have some great racial traits (giving a bite attack for example) - they are a blue race easily.
Half elves also have an alternate racial trait that gives a +2 to the save you worry about: Will saves.
They also get a +2 against enchantments (or the 'make me chop the wizard's head off' spells; particularly troublesome for hunters since they have powerful animal companions...which would follow your orders while you are mind controlled)
Anyway, my main purpose here is to discuss an alternative route with the primal companion hunter which goes in an extremely different direction.
Primal companion hunter has a line about what happens if your animal companion dies- you are the one that gets to use those evolutions. With the +str and +natural armor evos alone, you are hitting on par with an inquisitor (with way more uses; minute/level is like fights/level since most last less than a minute). Throw in things like flight, extra senses, DR, a smite-ish ability, and more... you have options.
I know it goes against the main idea of the class... but really... this is a watered down and balanced synthesist. No silly double health thing, no replacement of your base scores, no constant ability to bypass most of the dungeon... really, it is a lot easier to convince GMs to use.
It also stacks with divine hunter, which is nice because...well... you aren't going to use those teamwork feats too much with this approach. Might as well grab a domain while you are at it.