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I am not greatly experienced at pathfinder and my first PFS character is an Oradin (Life Oracle\Paladin) that i took because we always seemed low on healing but i still wanted to be a melee type guy.
My character is currently lvl 3 Angel Blooded Aasimar(Paladin 2|Oracle 1) with Channel Energy as my revelation. I was planning on going to Oracle 3 to pick up life link and then paladin Hospitalier all the rest of the way. Now i have another idea and would like some feedback.
I am considering only taking the Oracle to 1(Gains the channel energy and opens up divine magic for wands etc) then Paladin to 4 with the hospitalier and Temple Champion archetypes. This gives me another channel pool and 1 cleric domain.
Ok, with that cleric domain i was going to take the Chivalry Inquisition to gain a bonded mount. Does this seem legal?
Then i was going to swap to Samurai Order of the star the rest of the way, thereby gaining 1/2 levels to my channel pools and my lay on hands.
Does this seem ok or will i end up with a very underpowered guy? There seems to be a lot of synergy here and i still get the mount, even 1 level earlier than a paladin i think. If it works that is.
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I'm afraid this approach won't work on several levels:
- You can't take both hospitalier and temple champion archetypes as they both modify aura of justice. Them's the rules even if you never plan on getting to 11th level.
- I'm fairly sure only inquisitors can take inquisitions. They are not cleric domains.
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I'm afraid this approach won't work on several levels:
- You can't take both hospitalier and temple champion archetypes as they both modify aura of justice. Them's the rules even if you never plan on getting to 11th level.
- I'm fairly sure only inquisitors can take inquisitions. They are not cleric domains.
I believe the rules for Inquisitions do allow Clerics to take them, but they are usually less strong than actual Domains.
Inquisitions are like domains. Other classes that use domains can take inquisitions but inquisitions are typically weaker than the domains those classes can already choose because they don't grant domain spell slots or domain spells. If an inquisition's granted power calls for a saving throw, the DC of the save is equal to 10 + 1/2 the inquisitor's level + the inquisitor's Wisdom modifier. The inquistor's caster level for granted powers and spell-like abilities is equal to her inquisitor level.
It could work, though if one were to get nit-picky, you're not really getting the domain class feature so much as selecting a cleric domain to take the level 1 domain power from.
Most inquisitions are junk in place of a domain, but Conversion, Heresy and Chivalry are really, really good in the right place.
The main problem is you end up trying to do "too much" and don't have a solid base of abilities. You have to compare to what the other characters are going to be doing at those same levels. As is, the Oradin kinda doesn't start to shiny until mid levels anyways if I remember correctly.
I think you'd probably end up unhappy with what you would consider an underpowered character. Also in my experience unless you are running a small character and medium mount. Mounts tend to be excluded from many game play "areas" (depending highly on the adventure obviously).
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It could work, though if one were to get nit-picky, you're not really getting the domain class feature so much as selecting a cleric domain to take the level 1 domain power from.
Most inquisitions are junk in place of a domain, but Conversion, Heresy and Chivalry are really, really good in the right place.
Also, Reformation.
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I see what you are saying, like I said I just don't have the experience to know what other characters at the higher levels will bring to the table.
I must have misread the Archetype table on d20pfsrd because I thought I worked out that they didn't clash.
Anyway thanks for your advice.
I also find the large mount thing a bit disappointing in it's lack of usefulness. A lot of the characters I want to build are based around this but I guess I shall abandon the idea and look for something else.
Would you suggest that I take the Weapon bond when I hit level 5 on my ordain then?
Thank you for your responses btw
If I would have to build a channeling oradin, I wouldn't go hospitalier straight without questioning myself. Life oracle channel is enough, especially with a high charisma and oracle favored class bonus for asimaar. What you realy want with paladin is divine grace, free weapons and armors proficiency and that smite evil, that will turn you into a tank against THE villain of the day with this +CHa bonus to AC (all that with 2 paladins level).
Now that you have you core ability, you can go full channel and pick a few other paladin level to gain an extra channeling pool with the hospitalier, but doing so, you loose some of the power of your oracle channels. What you really need is to maximize your channel effectiveness as a life oracle. In your place, I would go full oracle after a 2 level paladin dip and select feat such as alignment channel (evil) and selective channel, then grab a nice martial reach weapon. You now have a character that can buff his team (aura of courage, spells), fight (attack of opportunities, smite, 3/4 BAB +2), heal (channel, spells), and burst undeads and outsiders with a powerful channel energy (you need this phylactery of positive channeling). The reach weapon help you to attack even if you channel or cast this round, thanks to the attack of opportunities opponents will provoke by moving around you.