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Well, you could go with a primal companion hunter. While it powers up your animal companion with eidolon evos...you could keep those evos to yourself if sacrifice it to your dark lor....I mean....."if it meets a tragic fate protecting orphans".
That can get you eidolon evos for minutes per level (or as any witch knows from the flight hex 'fights per level'). That can lead to all sorts of fun with stat boosts, flight, extra senses, natural armor, etc.
Also, hunter rounds out your reflex save (which might be an issue for traps compared to a barbarian?), it has better skills, and it has spells.
Primal companion hunter also stacks with the divine hunter archetypes, since you will not need all those team work feats after you eat the heart of your animal comp....."tragically lose your animal companion in a game of fetch with knives". So getting a domain instead sounds nice, giving you nice powers and interesting spells known.
Paladin. Especially the unarmed archetype for cha to AC with light armor.
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Bards are pretty good at compliments.
Good lord no, the Synth would drop the DCs of your Hexes/spells.Barbarian. End of discussion. Ok fine, look the barb would have the most health attainable in the game without super cheese, adds martial prof, faster speed, rage, and more. Can't go wrong here.
The ONLY other class that even begin to compare for complimentary or min maxing is a summoner. Note that this should not be allowed under ANY circumstances and if the GM agrees just walk away from the table cause he has ZERO understanding of game balance. A synthesist summoner or master summoner if allowed would be potent to say the least. Synthesist gets ridiculous health and has eidilon health on top of that (super cheese) and still be pounding away. Master summoner can spam the field and then hex in near perfect safety all he wants. Both archetypes have 9th level spells hidden in a )the level format so your never hurting for spells as witch/summoner.
Yeah, you would get the eidolon's 'meh' consitution. The synthesist only works when the scores you try to max out are mental ones (so better synergy with regular witch)
Now, if this was the primal companion hunter getting evos, that is a different story. One of the things done to water down that build compared the normal synthesist was that you keep your own stats. And in this case, you can really work with that- start with ~18 con, and take the ability score increases (CON) to it.
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Kineticist, from Occult Adventures.
Bloodrager > Barbarian.
Normally I wouldn't say this, but for the case of the witch gestalt, it's true. Mad Magic allows Bloodragers to cast from any spell list they have access to while raging, effectively for free. Barbarians also get Mad Magic, but they are limited by having to select 2 poor powers first (Moment of Clarity + Perfect Clarity). Furthermore, they actually have to use Moment of Clarity to get the benefit of Mad Magic, which costs a Swift action to activate. In other words, Barbarian precludes you from ever being able to cast swift action and Quickened spells while in Rage, which definitely hampers you in the long run.
That said, you don't really need to stay very long in Bloodrager if you don't want to. Dipping into the Draconic Disciple Prestige Class and if possible, the Rage Prophet Prestige class, can make you quite a bit more powerful on both the martial front (Ability increases + natural armor) and the casting front (Add CON to DC...again).
Choose the Water Patron which allows you to go Water Elemental, I think that spell eventually gets you like +8 Con.
If you go Aberrant Bloodrager, you can be an Aboleth.
Complimentary? Bards are generally the most diplomatic characters and give the nicest compliments.
Complementary? I'd have to agree with the bloodrager, probably an arcane bloodrager for the defensive options, neither witch nor bloodrager is really good with such otherwise.
Alchemist for the Mutagen and the flexibility of the Extract list.
It will give you all good saves, versatility that the witch spell list needs, and you could drop bombs for vivisectionist if you are inclined.
Ranger would give a d10 HD with all good saves and full base attack. It has 4 levels of spells including fun stuff like Lead Blades, Gravity Bow and Instant Enemy and prerequisite free style feats.
Gunslinger (Musket Master) also gives all good saves with a full BAB and a d10 HD with the ability to hex, cast or shoot giving lots of versatility.
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It's not anywhere near "at will". The Eidolon isn't summoned quickly; you're going to have to put it on well before the fight.
Staying away from the rest of this argument, Summon eidolon is a 2nd level spell and thus available at 4th level. Once you have it, this is basically not true, and you have your eidolon on whenever you like.
Summon Eidolon is a terrible waste of spell casting. There are much better things to do with a second level spell than make a build that depends on it to put your armour on.
Synthesists and CON casting are not a good mix.
Arcane, Aberrant and Abyssal are all good, whatever flavor works best for the character should be fine.
Bloodrager or Barbarian plus Mad Magic
No love for the paladin it seems. Why?
You are going to have high hp, swift action self heals, high saves, smite evil and a fighting companion.
with enlightened paladin you get cha to ac whilke wearing no or light armor (and you don't want to wear lots of armor as an arcane caster anyways. You get IUS with half the monk damage progression meaning you have both hands free for casting and meta magic rods and can still melee. You amulet of natural armor will boost you bite attack, that you should have as a half-orc, too giving you an additional iterative attack.
You can use hex strike!
And your personal trial damage bonus will increase your damage spells, too should you cast any.
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Paladin//Scarred Witch Doctor is more MAD than Bloodrager//SWD. The bloodrager is perfectly happy with a starting Cha around 12, and it has a class feature that boosts the SWD's most important stat (Constitution). The paladin wants a higher Cha than the bloodrager to benefit from its class features, and it doesn't come with the Con boost.
The bloodrager also has some very nice defenses including DR, uncanny dodge, will save bonus while raging, and, depending on bloodline, can have bonus save-boosting feats, energy resistances, immunities, blur and displacement spells (which witches don't get), or a 1/4 level luck bonus to AC and saves. Improved Initiative is a common bloodline feat and it's a very nice one for casters. Some bloodrager bloodlines, including abyssal, grant claws at level 1, which has a similar benefit to the enlightened/Iroran paladin's UAS.
Paladin's still got some good stuff, but... bloodrager.
Raging Vitality is a good idea, BTW.
Are there any ways boost perception with that combination? I'm noticing wisdom will be fairly low.
Easiest way is to put ranks in it. It's a bloodrager class skill so that helps. Eyes of the Eagle give you a +5 bonus and are fairly affordable at mid-high levels.
Some folks are saying bloodrager over barb. Im not experienced in bloodrager so why is it better than a barb or urban barb for the specific role the OP seeks? I would guess that if hex DCs are a concern then having a +4 to con with urban barb at level 1 would be awesome.
Normal rage gives you +4 Con. Also +4 Str and +2 Will. The main benefit of Controlled Rage is the Dex-boosting rage, not the Con option (though the ability to use skills normally could be important to some, and losing the AC penalty is a plus).