Anima Mage in E6

[TangoZilla]

1   BE1   Combat Casting, Endurance, Precocious Apprentice, Dodge
2   BI1
3   BE2   Improved Binding
4   AM1
X   [Retrain BE2 > AM3]
X   [Retrain Precocious Apprentice > Versatile Spellcaster]
5   AM3   Mobility
6   AM4
X   [Retrain AM4 > SD1]
(BE=Beguiler; BI=Binder; AM=Anima Mage; SD=Spelldancer)

[Phaenix]

You are only going to have one vestige per day (unless your group makes a Binder capstone feat for a second one, but those are usually limited to those who take a single class for 6 levels). You'll need to Bind Naberius to buff, so might want to consider buffing every other day (using Extend + Persist), and bind a different vestige on off days. If you do access to a second at the same time, Paimon offers a bonus to Perform (Dance).

[TangoZilla]

If I take Expel Vestige, though, I could bind Naberius to do my buffing, and then try to bind another vestige for the rest of the day however, correct?

[PhaedrusXY]

If I take Expel Vestige, though, I could bind Naberius to do my buffing, and then try to bind another vestige for the rest of the day however, correct?

Yes, you could. Malphas is a fantastic vestige for scouting. Paimon offers some decent combat buffs as well.

[TangoZilla]

Malphas seems great, with an effective Binder level of 6 I'll be able to be invisible for as long as I want

I tried looking through the Consolidated Binder Handbook here on this forum for some of the online/alternative source vestiges but a lot of the links seems to be broken. From what I can tell the only vestiges of 1st-3rd level outside of ToM are Primus and Ahazu from Dragon and Dungeon magazines. I don't have the issues they're in, but are they worth tracking down?

[PhaedrusXY]

IIRC, Ahazu was pretty good, but had some insane binding requirement like you had to be standing in a certain part of the Abyss. So without Ignore Special Requirements, you can forget him.

The Green Lady is a great online vestige, if you can use it. It was from Dungeon or Dragon originally, I think.
http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizoPublishing/olderProducts/dungeon/generalDiscussion/archives/statsForTyralandiScrimm#9

Edit: Sent you a PM.

[TangoZilla]

Thanks a ton, Phaedrus. The Green Lady seems like a prime vestige to bind. Regarding the Turn/Rebuking it grants however, is it still limited to 3+Cha times per day? From your link it says "as a cleric" but it also has the five round cooldown like a lot of vestige granted abilities. Also how does that apply to abilities that use Turn attempts to fuel them like Divine Might or a lot of the Devotion feats?

[PhaedrusXY]

Thanks a ton, Phaedrus. The Green Lady seems like a prime vestige to bind. Regarding the Turn/Rebuking it grants however, is it still limited to 3+Cha times per day? From your link it says "as a cleric" but it also has the five round cooldown like a lot of vestige granted abilities. Also how does that apply to abilities that use Turn attempts to fuel them like Divine Might or a lot of the Devotion feats?

For question 1, no one knows. Discuss it with your DM. I personally think you can use it every 5 rounds with no cap on maximum uses per day is how it is intended, but YMMV. That's explicitly how all binder abilities that are useable every 5 rounds work. It all depends on how much you read into the "as a cleric" statement. I think that just tells you how the general mechanics of turning work, but I could see how you'd read more into it and place the 3+cha limitation on it, too.

For question 2, it is useless for DMM, but would work for Devotion feats that require only 1 Turn/Rebuke attempt.

[Akalsaris]

I have a level 6 anima mage that I doubt will ever hit 7th (Helloo PBP games), so I built him as if it were E6. 

I went with devoting him to an elder evil and taking all the feats for Dark Speech and all the vile feats I could.  Naberius heals the con/cha dmg from using dark speech, master's will (+5 to practically any d20 roll as an immediate action and healing the 1 con immediately!), and corrupt speech, which lets me play a fantastically evil character 

[PhaedrusXY]

I have a level 6 anima mage that I doubt will ever hit 7th (Helloo PBP games), so I built him as if it were E6. 

I went with devoting him to an elder evil and taking all the feats for Dark Speech and all the vile feats I could.  Naberius heals the con/cha dmg from using dark speech, master's will (+5 to practically any d20 roll as an immediate action and healing the 1 con immediately!), and corrupt speech, which lets me play a fantastically evil character 

Yeah... this would make for a nasty NPC villain. Hmm...

[PlzBreakMyCampaign]

• Rebuilding of levels is allowed (and is liberal)

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[Havok4]

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Are you not the person who made a build that has its first level in a prestige class due to excessive rebuilding?

[McPoyo]

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Are you not the person who made a build that has its first level in a prestige class due to excessive rebuilding?

You mean this wondrous creation: Blackguard 7/Dark Hunter 3/Shadowbane Inquisitor 10? I don't have written down who posted that when I copied the thread.

[Havok4]

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Are you not the person who made a build that has its first level in a prestige class due to excessive rebuilding?

You mean this wondrous creation: Blackguard 7/Dark Hunter 3/Shadowbane Inquisitor 10? I don't have written down who posted that when I copied the thread.

I think it was actually a ubermount build.

[PlzBreakMyCampaign]

• Rebuilding of levels is allowed (and is liberal)

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Are you not the person who made a build that has its first level in a prestige class due to excessive rebuilding?

You mean this wondrous creation: Blackguard 7/Dark Hunter 3/Shadowbane Inquisitor 10? I don't have written down who posted that when I copied the thread.

I think it was actually a ubermount build.

For ECL2 PrCs? Guilty as charged, but I don't use rebuilding. My Prerequisites Handbook has pretty much every trick in the book - but only mentions this one.

ECL2? Oh yea. Tons of PrCs. But not ECL1. Without rebuilding it would require serious, serious shenanigans (like very hungry ogres) to do that

[McPoyo]

That build didn't even use rebuilding. It used paladin levels traded for blackguard using the "add levels of shadowbane inquisitor to evels of paladin" to qualify.