What 5th Trait should I grab


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For my Destined/Arcane Bloodrager I picked up 'Additional Traits' just to get Reactionary and my bonus feat to get Improved Initiative as I am incredibly tired in going last

What should my 2nd Additional Trait be?

My Traits so far are:

Blood of the Pharoahs (Campaign)
Desperate Focus (Magic)
Fate’s Favored (Faith)
Reactionary (Combat)
Drawback - Naive

So what do you think should be my fifth?


Pathfinder Starfinder Society Subscriber

If you can't think of a 5th trait, an obvious choice might be to just buy off your drawback. You can roleplay the character initially as naive, but since you wouldn't have it as a mechanical drawback, you can freely outgrow it without consequence.


Do you have a religion decided on for your bloodrager? There's a fair few religion traits worth a look but for obvious reasons many are associated with one specific religion or another. Similarly race and region.

Also, social traits (the main other category) are often dependent on which social skill you like to use (and on your using one at all). Do you like to intimidate people?


You can also use the social trait Adopted to grab Elven Reflexes assuming you're not an elf already. It's the exact same thing as Reactionary and leaves room for a different trait from the combat list.

Silver Crusade

Depending on your stats, you could take Irrepressible to use Charisma instead of Wisdom vs charm and compulsion effects.


Community-Minded (Region: Rahadoum) makes all morale bonuses you create last 2 rounds longer, e.g. your CON bonus from bloodraging & the Will save bonus from Greater/Mighty Bloodrage.

Sound of Mind (Region: Zi Ha) can offset the Will save penalty from the Crossblooded archetype.

Strength of the Sun (Sarenrae) gives a +1 bonus on all CHA based checks (e.g. ability/concentration/skill checks).


Glory of Old (regional: Five Kings Mountains)
In your veins flows the blood of dwarven heroes from Tar Taargadth. You receive a +1 trait bonus on saving throws against spells, spell-like abilities, and poison.

It's regional so you can take it without being a dwarf...

Dark Archive

Wayang spellhunter to reduce a Meta magic feat cost by 1. Take empower or intensify spell?
Empower mirror images maybe?


Transmuter? Add +1 Caster Level to all Transmutation spells you cast, then you can pick one from the animal-themed 2nd level transmutations such as Bull's Strength or Cat's Grace and 1/day cast it with double duration. That's kinda nice.


If you don't mind worshipping Nethys (and as a caster, why shouldn't you?), try Underlying Principles and get UMD. You presumably have some charisma.

I like Armor Expert, but it requires dropping Reactionary for Adopted/Elven Reflexes which smells of cheese.

Otherwise, one of the Will Save boosters like Auspicious Tattoo.

It greatly depends on your race, stats, etc.

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