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Outflank
Benefit: Whenever you and an ally who also has this feat are flanking the same creature, your flanking bonus on attack rolls increases to +4. In addition, whenever you score a critical hit against the flanked creature, it provokes an attack of opportunity from your ally.
Paired Opportunist
Benefit: Whenever you are adjacent to an ally who also has this feat, you receive a +4 circumstance bonus on attacks of opportunity against creatures that you both threaten. Enemies that provoke attacks of opportunity from your ally also provoke attacks of opportunity from you so long as you threaten them (even if the situation or an ability would normally deny you the attack of opportunity). This does not allow you to take more than one attack of opportunity against a creature for a given action.
My reading of this is as follows: While Paired Opportunist does not grant the +4 bonus to AoOs unless the partners are adjacent to one another, they DO gain the ability to 'share' attacks of opportunity while they both threaten the same enemy, regardless of whether or not they are adjacent to one another. The adjacency text only appears in the first sentence, and indeed the sharing AoO text specifies a positioning requirement that is different than adjacency. Therefore, to my eyes, if a duo with Paired Opoortunist and Outflank is flanking an enemy and one of them confirms a critical hit, the enemy then provokes an Attack of Opportunity from the other.
Thoughts?
and lo, did I see
another crit fisher
herald the coming
of the x4 hitter