Crossbow slayer bolt ace

[swifthunter420]

Hello everyone I've been away for awhile but coming back my group is starting a new campaign giant slayer ap and I wanted to make a really awesome dwarf slayer bolt ace its a 20 point build and I'm willing to use other races also just thought dwarf was cool but going to take 5 lvls in bolt ace for dex to damage I was wondering what would be good feats to take for this build were going to roll our stats when we start so any item,feat or general advice would be awesome thanks everyone.

[Declindgrunt]

bolt ace? ive never heard of it. Is it a feat? or an archtype?

[Blakmane]

Gunslinger archetype.

[Declindgrunt]

ah
thats awsome!

anyways since your using a cross bow the very first thing your gonna want to go for is crossbow mastery as it will let you not have to worry about reloading in addition to that pick up rapid shot, deadly aim and improved crit and you will be doing an awsome amount of damage!

heres my build

alder stonesplitter
dwarf bolt ace(gunslinger)
after racials 8,18,14,11,14,8

feats:
lvl 1 point blank shot

lvl 3 precise shot

lvl 4 rapid reload (+1 dex)

lvl 5 rapid shot

lvl 7 crossbow mastery

lvl 8 deadly aim (+1 dex)

lvl 9 improved crit

he would stick with a light crossbow and a decent melee weapon until 4 when he can reload a heavy crossbow as a move action.
This is if you stay bolt ace with a full attack and no magic gear youd have +9,+9,+4 with a 17-20 x3(crit) with each bold doing 1d10+11 and if you crit 3d10+33

[My Self]

Recommended feat order:

1: Point Blank Shot
3: Rapid Reload (Light Crossbow)
4: Rapid Shot
5: Precise Shot
7: Crossbow Mastery (Light Crossbow)
8: Deadly Aim
9: Improved Critical (Heavy Crossbow)

You should use a light crossbow until 7th level. You can take full attacks with it once you have Rapid Reload (Light Crossbow), can take 2 shots a round with it at 4th level, and can take 3 shots a round with it by 6th level. Once you have Crossbow Mastery at 7th level, you can use your heavy crossbow instead of your light crossbow.

[Declindgrunt]

if your dm is ok with you chnaging crossbows. If hes not, the way rapid reload / crossbow mastery are writen you have to pick a type of cross bow then so youd have to pick heavy crossbow at lvl 3 with rapid shot to use them with your full attacks

[Asteriski]

There's no rule saying you have to use the same crossbow for Rapid Reload and Crossbow Mastery. If you do, it no longer provokes to reload, but Bolt Aces already have that. I've been using a Repeating Heavy Crossbow on mine, and I've been enjoying it.

[Vratix]

The guide in this thread from N. Jolly is about the gunslinger class as a whole but it extols the virtues of the Bolt Ace at some length and gives a good deal of helpful advice.

[Torbyne]

The thing that stands out to me with an Ace Slayer is grabbing the Snapshot rogue talent to get off a quick shot in the surprise round. After that you can snag some free ranged feats with the Slayer Talents but you arent really skipping any prereqs since the dip in Ace takes so many levels.

[swifthunter420]

So I was reading of companion are the halfling jinxes any good it seemed interesting?