Need advice applyng VMC to a Converted Character.

[The Factotum]

Hello all,

Recently my group has changed GMs and the new one prefers the Pathfinder system. While I too love the system we had been playing a 3.5 Based game with Pathfinder material. Well it seems now its going to switch to a Pathfinder based game with 3.5 Material.

My character is about to become a level 6 character, our session was last night and we haven't updated characters yet.

My class was Factotum, and I have read through some of the forum and people say its a great fit into Pathfinder so I am not too worried about that. But I am stuck on which VMC to use. I am being allowed to retrain all feats to make this work.

I have two flaws
Insomniac (Must succeed on a fortitude save to get a full night's rest.)
and
Wild (Whenever entangled, pinned or bound, immediately become panicked.)

And I am human, so with those and the feats gained through normal leveling I would have 5 feats if I lose my 3rd level feat to VMC.

Now I am heavily focused on using Knowledge rolls, I had Knowledge Devotion and I think I will be keeping it. This feat in short makes use of knowledge rolls to deal extra damage.

My two main options for VMC is the Bard and the Magus.
Bard for the Bardic Knowledge and possibly the performances, it is flavorful to the Factotum style.
Magus due to the synergy with the Int focused Factotum and spellstrike can be used using his Arcane dilettante class feature. Also Arcana can be used for various effects. (even possibly adding damage via Precise Strike deed)

Any advice for me?

[Dekalinder]

Ehm, what exactly are you converting if you are able to keep both the class and the feats that no longer exists in pathfinder?

Anyway, spellstrike does not work with SLA AFAIK.

[The Factotum]

Dekalinder wrote:

Ehm, what exactly are you converting if you are able to keep both the class and the feats that no longer exists in pathfinder?

Anyway, spellstrike does not work with SLA AFAIK.

Converting it over, also changing up the Opportunistic Piety ability to make it channeling.

And I did not know that, hmm.

[Secret Wizard]

Imho, straight, VMC-less Investigator or Alchemist can do a good Factotum impression.

[The Factotum]

Yeah i seems like the Investigator was suppose to be a near perfect match of the Factotum. But I do believe the designers at Paizo did make the Factotum

[kestral287]

I'm honestly not sure that Magus VMC's Spellstrike doesn't work with SLAs... it doesn't care about spell source, after all.

Wizard has some good ones. What exactly are you looking to get out of Magus

[The Factotum]

Well magus gives the arcane pool which is always useful on a 3/4bab build. Arcana can be added to add things such as precise strike onto the damage from things like iaijutsu focus and knowledge devotion.