Smite as a free action?


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I'm hoping one of you experts can figure this out. I'm working on a charisma based paladin with a small dip in mysterious stranger gunslinger.

I'd love to be able to use smite (+cha to attack, +pal lvls dmg) and the grit deed focused aim (+cha to dmg for the round) in the same round...but both are swift actions.

Are there any feats, abilities, items, etc which could reduce either of these abilities to a free action? I was hoping there might be something like a quickened smite feat which allowed you to expend 2 charges to cast it as a free action. Unfortunately, short of a houserule, I can't find any reasonable way to do both in the same round.

There is a 6th level mythic spell "borrowed time," but that unfortunately is out of reach for this particular build.

Thanks for any feedback.


Take a page from 4e and have it so that the use of 2 swift actions eats up your move action.

Barring that, I don't know of any Pathfinder feat that allows smite as a free action.


use smite first round, then focused aim all rounds afterwards.

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Corset of Delicate Moves - best friend of swift action classes.

Burn your move into a swift once a day. Warpriests, Mesmerists, and Maguses rejoice!

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Keith Apperson wrote:

Corset of Delicate Moves - best friend of swift action classes.

Burn your move into a swift once a day. Warpriests, Mesmerists, and Maguses rejoice!

Neat item. Definitely great for a Magus. I'll likely pick it up on mine.

Does it work with Fervor? I know Fervor is Supernatural, not Spell like, but it is still casting a spell. I suppose you could use it for the swift healing, if nothing else.

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