Higher levels open up more deeds, some of which can be attractive depending on your group and playstyle. But for the most part, you are correct - once you've reached DEX-to-damage at 5th level, you've gotten the meat of what most people consider attractive about the class already. At that point, many people choose to progress in other classes as may fit their character.
What purpose do you have for using two different kinds of guns? Spending an extra feat (Rapid Reload needs to be selected separately) and four additional class levels just to be able to use two different kinds of guns effectively seems like an extremely bad deal, and you'd be better off picking one type of gun and using it exclusively.
You're not crippling yourself if you stick with gunslinger, there are just more attractive options out there. If you want to pick up a second gun with gun training, go for it.
If you plan to use two different guns, DEX-to-damage on two different guns is valuable to you, and continuing in gunslinger will be beneficial. Leveling up in gunslinger isn't necessarily bad or crippling; many just decide that there are toys from other classes that they want more.
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We could use a player companion for advanced gun training.
Targeting at level 7 is pretty nice. Ranged disarm, trip, and confusion that don't go against CMD and have no saving throw, and all you need to do is hit.
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Most people do see gunslinger as a 5 level class, but if you want to do a lot of AoE damage with mortars, and it's allowed in the campaign, that doesn't sound too bad since martials usually don't have access to AoE's. Most people multiclass with warpriest or fighter so they can buff themselves quickly and have enough bonus feats to open up other fighting styles besides ranged.
Most people do see gunslinger as a 5 level class, but if you want to do a lot of AoE damage with mortars, and it's allowed in the campaign, that doesn't sound too bad since martials usually don't have access to AoE's.
Who says you have to be a martial? It's a rather late-blooming build, but going Wizard/Eldritch Knight after your five levels of Gunslinger is workable. With the Prestigious Spellcaster feat that gives you 8th level spells and +17 BAB by 20th level, which is pretty solid.
I did a little digging to see if I could find anything that would let Lady-J dodge the rather onerous level requirement to get a second type of firearm with dex-to-damage, and sadly couldn't find anything. I thought maybe the Weapon Specialist advanced weapon training option might work, but sadly it's limited to feats and can't work with class features. Four more levels of Gunslinger seems to be the only option to use both the gun and the mortar with dex-to-damage.
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Most people do see gunslinger as a 5 level class, but if you want to do a lot of AoE damage with mortars, and it's allowed in the campaign, that doesn't sound too bad since martials usually don't have access to AoE's.Who says you have to be a martial? It's a rather late-blooming build, but going Wizard/Eldritch Knight after your five levels of Gunslinger is workable. With the Prestigious Spellcaster feat that gives you 8th level spells and +17 BAB by 20th level, which is pretty solid.
I did a little digging to see if I could find anything that would let Lady-J dodge the rather onerous level requirement to get a second type of firearm with dex-to-damage, and sadly couldn't find anything. I thought maybe the Weapon Specialist advanced weapon training option might work, but sadly it's limited to feats and can't work with class features. Four more levels of Gunslinger seems to be the only option to use both the gun and the mortar with dex-to-damage.
I believe 3 levels of trench fighter fighter gives you dex to damage with firearms, but I don;t recall if it is specific to a certain type of firearm, and I believe it is assuming modern firearms or at least more modern than emerging firearms.
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Im playing a full gunslinger in my friends campaign, im level 16 currently and everything in my path thus far has been obliterated in the first round. Guns are just stupid strong. Paired with the right feats it gets fantastic. In my opinion it depends on your archetype. I dont go full normal gunslinger. I chose musket master and just had a blast with it. Dex to damage, I think its level 5 or 7 I could reload my rifle as a free action? Too much fun. Highly recommend if you dont want to be up in your enemies face and still want fat damage.
Guns aren't necessarily stupid strong. They are expensive to use and require a lot of feat investment, and at least 5 levels of gunslinger to be decent. Bows are still better and require less gold and feat investment to be good with. They also don't pigeonhole you into x levels of a certain class to do decent damage.
Alchemist is pretty good after gunslinger: mutagen, extracts, amd extra arms to help load/hold moar gunz.
Personally I went Myrmidarch Magus on one of my own Gunslingers. Was at a magic academy so it seemed to make sense at the time.
Targeting at level 7 is pretty nice. Ranged disarm, trip, and confusion that don't go against CMD and have no saving throw, and all you need to do is hit.
The problem with all the lvl7 deeds is that you could probably kill the target instead if you made a full attack.
I believe 3 levels of trench fighter fighter gives you dex to damage with firearms
One specific firearms at 3rd level, plus an additional one every 4 levels thereafter.
Guns aren't necessarily stupid strong. They are expensive to use and require a lot of feat investment, and at least 5 levels of gunslinger to be decent.
You're right, guns aren't strong per se - they're broken. If you don't have the necessary stuff, they suck, if you do, they're overpowered. Firearms have a poorly designed quantum leap kind of scaling with investment. You don't need levels in Gunslinger, though, because everything is attainable by feat (although two-handed firearms kinda need Mustek master 3).
using guns are expensive and if i can reduce the cost by using melee when needed i will
Wait, what? 1.2gp per shot shouldn't qualify as "expensive" at 10th+ level.
the mutagen will cost me ac
Wait, what? You get +3 AC from the dex bonus, +2 AC from the natural armor, and -1 from the wisdom penalty.
How do you reload your weapons, and how do you clear misfires? I also don't really see a reason to go unarmed (maybe Empty Quiver Style?), but maybe that's just me. With stats like that, you can basically do anything, anyway.
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Maybe guns are overpowered after you have about 6 or more feats spent on being good with them, even more so than with a bow. You need point blank shot and precise shot for the usual ranged penalties, rapid reload and rapid shot to get off a decent amount of attacks per round, and deadly aim (plus most likely requisite gunslinger or trench fighter levels to get dex to damage) in order to do a reasonable amount of damage per shot. You are also going to want clustered shots for that pesky dr. Granted you are attacking touch ac most of the time, but you are jumping through a lot of hoops and spending a lot of gold to do it.