I've been looking at the various Item Mastery feats and I've been thinking about making a martial character that takes Vision Mastery and Flight Mastery at low levels to give them an edge.
To make room for the feats, I was thinking of a Strength based Polearm type. That way he can try to hover over opponents and kill them without allowing reprisal attacks thanks to reach. Other than Power Attack and Combat Reflexes I can't think of any must have feats, though I'd like to pick up the two Mastery feats as soon as possible.
The main idea with the dips is to get the fortitude necessary to use the feat mastery ASAP, and maybe retrain away some of the dips later.
So I was thinking Human for race, to get 2 feats at first level on any class.
1st: Paladin, because Fort+Will save.
2nd: Fighter, because this lets us retrain a 1st level feat to Vision Mastery and then use the bonus feat to pick up the feat we just dropped.
3rd: Brawler, because Fort+Ref and Martial Flexibility 4/day. Pick up Flight Mastery as 3rd level feat.
4+: could continue dipping classes to get more uses of Flight Mastery. Unfortunately the Martial Classes remaining only have Fort+Ref or Ref only for good saves. This would require 2 more levels to get to +10 Fort, and only 1 more level to get the max of +12 fort for 3 uses of flight per day as a 6th level character.
And the higher level you get the less impressive 3 uses of fly becomes. The ideal should be to get some other more permanent means of flight while you retrain class levels away from your dips into a single class and eventually retrain away the Flight Mastery and maybe the Vision Mastery. Vision Mastery might stick around because its worth a feat to be able to cast See Invisible for a martial. You'll be able to UMD a wand eventually but not sure its worth all that effort. Especially since it isn't a class skill, and you have no reason to invest in Int.
Long run I think I favor Fighter for a reach character, but it would be just as easy to go Paladin as well, though that dilutes the stats. Brawler is possible too, but the class is more focused on light weapons.
Feel free to suggest alternative classes, or alternative orders. Stat arrays, even change the weapon focus and race. Just try ti make sure this melee flies at 3rd level.
