Hello Forums, this is the Ninja's Puzzlebox requesting a bit of help from the wise minds that frequent this forum, and some of the other crazy people as well.
I am currently looking into making the best mapmaker, that works thematically and mechanically. It is a gestalt game running at 25 point buy, and has all classes opened up to it that is Paizo Published. For thematic reasons I am going Occultist, since I think that is the best class that fits what I'm going for, but I'm at a loss at what I should go for the other side.
The obvious option may be wizard, arcanist, or investigator, and since we have 2 powergamers that like to focus on combat as long as I can contribute a little I'll be happy. If someone has any ideas feel free to express them, as I brainstorm myself.
Race has been decided, occultist is 1/2 of my gestalt classes, and I'll need Knowledge (Nature, Geography), Survival, and either craft maps, or profession Cartographer. Heavily focusing in Int, and starting at level 3.
STR: 12 DEX: 18 CON: 14 INT: 19 WIS: 12 CHA: 10
Heres a thought, why not aim for the Pathfinder Chronicler? They have alot of versatile abilities such as Deep Pockets and Bardic Knowledge, and since it appears to stack so well with bard you could go bard to back up those class features for full progression or instead gain weaker progression by having the base class for that side be something like Investigator
Oh, Pathfinder Chronicler, I usually don't prestige so I haven't checked into a lot of the prestige classes. That might be interesting to play with. I do know that a lot of GMs don't like Gestalt and prestige classes, but I will see if my GM will allow it. It seems to have a lot of flavor that matches with what I'm going for.
Also, Rednal, that is what I was thinking with the investigator too, its one of the top chooses I was thinking about.