Rage Prophet VS Holy Vindicator

[Alzhan]

So, I'm an oracle with the life mistery and some yolo melee tendency.

Knowing that, what is the most fun/best of those 2 prestige classes?

i can tell that Holy Vindicator might be a bit tankier, while Rage Prophet is a barbarian with some magic but i would like to hear your opinions on those 2 classes.

[thelivingmonkey]

Let me start off by saying the Holy Vindicator is my second favorite prestige class (and I, following unpopular opinion, like prestige classes in pf, don't hate me), so I may be biased. Second, the general consensus (which I agree with despite my proclivity for them) is that prestige classes are, almost always, worse than just sticking with your regular class. Third, you are giving up at least three levels of spell casting with Holy Vindicator, and at least FIVE with Rage Prophet. It is very likely you will be at least marginally weaker, and at most significantly weaker than if you stayed with oracle all the way.

That said, I would suggest holy vindicator. You only lose 3 levels of spellcasting and it is full BAB, vs Rage prophet which is 3/4. Rage Prophet is generally for already multiclasses oracle/barbarians, and the way I see it it's better for barbarians who dip oracle for some utility casting and for rage cycling w/ lame curse. Holy vindicator has some nice abilities to boost healing (you have life mystery already), crits (you could grab a decent crit weapon for when spells won't do the trick), and tanking (which is always nice). Rage Prophet was designed to lessen the hurt of barb/oracle by boosting a mostly barb character's spellcasting capabilities and some of their other abilities.

In the end, so long as your group isn't uber optimized, do whatever sounds fun to you. Good luck, hope this helped/didn't have any misinformation.

[Alzhan]

For Holy Vindicator going for only 8 lvls might be better. The main feature to me are the vindicator shield and the maximazed srlf healing,and a better ac.

The rage prophet instead has far better saves, much better hp and spell's DC .

In any case i plan to take the prestigious spellcaster feat to mitigate the loss of the caster lvlv

[Alzhan]

Invisible ninja bump

[nicholas storm]

Having played a holy vindicator before, I like that prestige class. At the end of the AP, everything needed a natural 20 to hit me with the AC buff up.

Another thing to consider is that for a melee divine caster, the power gamer alignment is LG at high levels, due to bestow grace of the champion. Lawful barbarians can't rage.