First off let me start off by saying I wouldn't have come up with this build if not for the amazing and wonderful individual known as Mercurial,
I really enjoy the way they format their builds and their Kitsune Feyblooded sorcerer build helped kick this build off, heck most of this build was inspired by their feat choices as it will be painfully obvious.
And with that out of the way let's move into this build shall we?
This build is mostly just for fun, I wouldn't exactly call it optimized! But it's fun.
Human Sorcerer Wildblooded (Fey bloodline, Sylvan mutation)
Human favored class bonus, Focused Study
Attributes: 20 point buy, racial bonus included
STR - 8
DEX - 14
CON - 10
INT - 12
WIS - 12
CHA - 19 (17+2), +1 at 4,8,12,16,20
Traits
Reactionary
Seeker
Feats
1st - Boon Companion
1st* - Skill focus : Knowledge
nature
3rd - Spell focus : Enchantment
5th - Greater Spell Focus : Enchantment
7th* - Improved Initiative
7th - Eldritch Heritage : Arcane Bloodline, Bonded Item
8th* - Skill Focus : Perception
9th - Spell Penetration
11th - Improved Eldritch Heritage : Arcane Bloodline, New Arcana
13th* - Quicken Spell
13th - Persistent Spell
15th - Greater Spell Penetration
16th* - Skill Focus - Handle Animal or Intimidate or Bluff, your choice really.
17th - Greater Eldritch Heritage : Arcane Bloodline, Spell Power Enchantment
19th - Iron Will
19th* - Lightning Reflexes
The character should get the following bonuses to Enchantment spells
+1 to the dc at 3rd and 5th level
+2 to the Compulsion sub school spells within the Enchantment Spells list from the Fey bloodline bonus
+2 DC from greater eldritch heritage at level 17
as you can see you lose out on a +6 to the DC's of important spells like Hold person and the dominate person/monster spells which is painful!
But you do get an animal companion which helps soften the blow.
That's all she wrote folks, ultimately it all comes down to whatever you want to do, if you want higher DC's, better dex and a reroll to overcome spell resistance go with Mercurial's Kitsune build.
If you want an animal companion as a sorcerer that scales like a druid's and never need to cast fly or reduce person on yourself past level 15? Here ya go!
Final notes ;
Without a doubt Mercurial's build is better in terms of usefulness I think, since the DC's are higher and you get access to some pretty neat kitsune based things which other sorcerer's could only dream of.
As for animal companions to choose?
Well that's up to you, heck if you really wanted to you could choose to get a familiar as opposed to a bonded item from the eldritch heritage feat and have a small animal family for fun.
Feel free to point things out because I'm still not 100% well versed with the RAW rules involving wildblooded mixed with eldritch heritage, if it's against the RAW then I might just edit Eldritch heritage out of this build and come up with something different.
(Oh yeah did I forget to mention you can enlarge person your animal companion because of the share spells(EX)?
Because you can. Have fun with that.)
I too liked Mercurial's build.
You already know that a Kitsune is more powerful, the only way for the powergamer :).
I had a variation. That is to take the False Priest Archetype. You give up some stuff, some of it good, but what you get is better. The real carrot is this:_
"False Channel (Su)
At 9th level, the false priest can use his own magic to power spell completion and spell trigger items that use divine spells. He expends a sorcerer spell slot that is at least 1 level higher than the level of the spell he’s trying to activate, then makes a Use Magic Device check. If he succeeds, the item’s spell occurs and the item or charge is not expended. If he fails, nothing happens. Whether he succeeds or fail, his spell slot is expended.
This ability replaces the bloodline power gained at 9th level."
Once you get to level 9 you can use cleric spells, if you have the scroll, which are dirt cheap, and can make a UMD roll, by using up a spell slot one level higher.
That is great anyway. But for this build, which is very specialised, suddenly at level 9 you gain wondrous versatility, it is even better.
There are actually several ways to do the Kitsune sorcerer. The undead bloodline allows you to enchant undead and Serpentine allows you to enchant a bunch of other things.
The Fey bloodline gives you another +2 to enchant things, as does the 3rd party Vampiric bloodline if allowed. And the Arccane Bloodline is very powerful.
You can get 2 bloodlines via the Crossblooded archetype.
So there are numerous ways to make this kind of character, and no way to do everything desireable at once.
Minor note: it is actually the Razmiran Priest archetype; d20pfsrd changes Golarion-specific names to generic ones for legal reasons.
Only real difference for your character is that if you are in Golarion the archetype requires you to be, well, a priest of Razmir.
Yep.
Which means you want Fey or Vampiric [if allowed] to be any sort of particularly effective enchanter.
If you are not a Kitsune that is, Kitsune are fine, well, much more than fine, just with the racial and class bonuses.
ah I see, well I was mostly just going for a "Sorcerer with an animal companion that keeps up in levels."
|
My -1 in PFS, Zahra, is fantastic.
She's a human sylvan sorcerer with a tiger. Other than her weakness with skills, she is a very strong character and has been strong all the way through. Instead of investing heavily in enchantment, I invested heavily in the conjuration school and used my FCB for getting extra spells.
Having a diverse number of spells and a well-trained animal companion with lots of tricks means that there is a wide variety of combats that she can contribute to.
Having run a kitsune enchanter and a human sylvan sorc... I would say that the human build was stronger over all.
Hmm