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As the beast-bond witch can transfer feat to her familiar, when the charactor gets +5BAB or 5 lv in related skill, could she transfer feat like Battle Cry (from ACG) to her familiar? Assuming that the familiar can talk and perform oratory.
My PFS charactor hexcrafter magus 7 /diviner 1 /beast-bound witch 1 have a free feat and I'm expecting to transfer it to my lyrakien familiar. Battle Cry seems to be a better one and Antagonize could also be a solid choice.
My understanding is that the beast bound witch transfers the choice of feat to the familiar. The familiar then chooses a feat based on what is eligible for them.
Correct, the witch only gets to transfer the feat slot, the familiar still has to qualify for feats on it's own.
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The above being said, I believe the answer to your titular question is yes: a familiar does have a BAB and skill ranks, and might therefore use these to qualify for feat prerequisites as long as they aren't prohibited from using the feat for other reasons (inappropriate form, other pre-reqs, etc.).
I haven't checked the particular feat you mentioned, so I don't know whether or not your familiar would qualify in this specific instance.
I think the issue for this player is that he's got a level 1 familiar granting class, and 8 other class levels, and he wants to know if he can apply his total character level's BAB to qualify for the familiar's feats.
And the answer there is no, the familiar needs to qualify on their own.
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Familiar Basics: Use the basic statistics for a creature of the familiar's kind, but with the following changes.
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Attacks: Use the master's base attack bonus, as calculated from all his classes.
A familiar uses your BAB, no matter how it is derived. It becomes the familiars statistic, and the one it uses for all purposes. If you are a wizard 1/fighter 10 then your familiar has a BAB +10.
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The above being said, I believe the answer to your titular question is yes: a familiar does have a BAB and skill ranks, and might therefore use these to qualify for feat prerequisites as long as they aren't prohibited from using the feat for other reasons (inappropriate form, other pre-reqs, etc.).
I haven't checked the particular feat you mentioned, so I don't know whether or not your familiar would qualify in this specific instance.
I think the issue for this player is that he's got a level 1 familiar granting class, and 8 other class levels, and he wants to know if he can apply his total character level's BAB to qualify for the familiar's feats.
And the answer there is no, the familiar needs to qualify on their own.
"The familiar must meet the prerequisites for any feats that it learns this way."
The answer on whether you use your statistics or the familiars statistics to qualify for the feat is certainly that you use the familiar's statistics... BUT...
"Use the master's base attack bonus, as calculated from all his classes. "
The answer is absolutely yes it can take those feats because the familiar's BAB is the same BAB as its master's as calculated from all of its class levels. So, a Lyrakien familiar will qualify for Battle Cry or Antagonize.
How the "Transfer Feat" power works is that you are giving your feat slot to the familiar, not transferring a feat itself.
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Indeed I have familiar magus arcana, so the familiar's effective level is 8, that's why I can get a lyrakien.
It's just the wording "a familair USES your BAB" (what dragonhunterq quotes) is confusing.
To hopefully un-confuse you... this is the first part to that section...
"Use the basic statistics for a creature of the familiar's kind, but with the following changes."See? You "use" the base creature's statistics and then "use" the statistics that are changed in the rest of the section. If you attempt to say "it says use the master's bab, so it doesn't actually have that bab" you would have to say it doesn't have any stats at all, since it only "uses" the stats of the base creature. No, the correct way to read this is that the familiars statistics which are modified by their master are the creature's new real statistics.
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Indeed I have familiar magus arcana, so the familiar's effective level is 8, that's why I can get a lyrakien.
It's just the wording "a familair USES your BAB" (what dragonhunterq quotes) is confusing.
To hopefully un-confuse you... this is the first part to that section...
"Use the basic statistics for a creature of the familiar's kind, but with the following changes."See? You "use" the base creature's statistics and then "use" the statistics that are changed in the rest of the section. If you attempt to say "it says use the master's bab, so it doesn't actually have that bab" you would have to say it doesn't have any stats at all, since it only "uses" the stats of the base creature. No, the correct way to read this is that the familiars statistics which are modified by their master are the creature's new real statistics.
Ah thank you I understand now!
Indeed I have familiar magus arcana, so the familiar's effective level is 8, that's why I can get a lyrakien.
It's just the wording "a familair USES your BAB" (what dragonhunterq quotes) is confusing.
To hopefully un-confuse you... this is the first part to that section...
"Use the basic statistics for a creature of the familiar's kind, but with the following changes."See? You "use" the base creature's statistics and then "use" the statistics that are changed in the rest of the section. If you attempt to say "it says use the master's bab, so it doesn't actually have that bab" you would have to say it doesn't have any stats at all, since it only "uses" the stats of the base creature. No, the correct way to read this is that the familiars statistics which are modified by their master are the creature's new real statistics.
This analysis solves so many familiar questions.