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[Arcane-surge]

Thanks. I thought so, but I wasn't sure.
That's ridiculous. Huzzah for being essentially immune to Warlocks and ranged Incarnates with a single fourth level spell. Hellfire Warlock? Bloodlines? Legacy Champion? Bring them on. If you didn't take Hideous Blow or Eldritch Glaive, it's all for naught.

[Negative Zero]

Yeah, that's how arcane magic works. Oh, Eldritch Blast? That's nice, Ray Deflection. Oh, Spell Resistance? Yeah, let's put a -20 on that. Archers? Cute. Wind Wall. It's ridiculous how easily Wizards can totally invalidate entire characters.

[BowenSilverclaw]

Q488: What ways are there to increase your effective Paladin level (even above your total HD/level if at all possible) when determining your Special Mount's abilities or to boost your Special Mount in some other way aside from Prestige Classes that simply advance your Paladin level as if you were still a Paladin and theurgic feats like Devoted Tracker?

[JaronK]

Q488: What ways are there to increase your effective Paladin level (even above your total HD/level if at all possible) when determining your Special Mount's abilities or to boost your Special Mount in some other way aside from Prestige Classes that simply advance your Paladin level as if you were still a Paladin and theurgic feats like Devoted Tracker?

I'm not sure this is quite what you wanted, but the PrC Paladin from UA gives you PrC Paladin level +3 stacked onto your mount, so that's a +3 in addition to the normal PrC stacking.  There's also the Holy Mount feat that makes your mount levels stack for all divine classes... the combination of which could yield this, for example:

Cleric 6/PrC Paladin 3/Ordained Champion 5/Full casting divine PrC or more Cleric 6

With Holy Mount (and Mounted Combat, a requirement) that would give you 23 levels of Paladin mount progression by level 20, and you'd generally be 3 levels ahead on all your levels past level 8.  Plus, 17th level Cleric casting beats the heck out of Paladin casting, and all you lose is a few remove diseases per week and a few smites... but your Ordained Champion and Cleric abilities more than make up for that.  Through in Battle Blessing and you can really rock out the swift action casting.

Hope that helps.  Sadly, Bloodlines were errataed not to work, so I don't know of any other ways to do it.

JaronK

[BowenSilverclaw]

Yeah, I'm familiar with those methods, thanks though

Okay, here's another one for you:
Q489: By RAW, is it possible to combine Prestige Paladin with one of the Paladin variants (looking at Prestige Paladin of Tyranny here)?

[Kuroimaken]

Yeah, I'm familiar with those methods, thanks though Smile

Okay, here's another one for you:
Q489: By RAW, is it possible to combine Prestige Paladin with one of the Paladin variants (looking at Prestige Paladin of Tyranny here)?

Shouldn't be any reason why not.

[Emy]

Q490: Can Luminous Armor be put in a Runestaff?

[BowenSilverclaw]

Yeah, I'm familiar with those methods, thanks though Smile

Okay, here's another one for you:
Q489: By RAW, is it possible to combine Prestige Paladin with one of the Paladin variants (looking at Prestige Paladin of Tyranny here)?

Shouldn't be any reason why not.

I figured as much, but I figured I'd check. Thanks

[BowenSilverclaw]

Q491: I seem to remember a feat that allowed you to increase your maximum skill ranks by 1 (so you could have 8 ranks in a skill at level 4 for example), does anyone know what feat that would be and where it's located?

[ErhnamDJ]

Q491: I seem to remember a feat that allowed you to increase your maximum skill ranks by 1 (so you could have 8 ranks in a skill at level 4 for example), does anyone know what feat that would be and where it's located?

I think it's called Primary Contact.

Edit: Ahh, Cityscape. 

[Agita]

Q491: I seem to remember a feat that allowed you to increase your maximum skill ranks by 1 (so you could have 8 ranks in a skill at level 4 for example), does anyone know what feat that would be and where it's located?

A 491
The Primary Contact/Favored feat chain, from Cityscape.

[BowenSilverclaw]

Arigato

[Dumb-Age Master]

Q492: Is there any feat/item that allows you to add your WIS bonus to your AC? Because I really don't want to have to dip into a level of monk, or any other class, for that matter.

[Agita]

Q492: Is there any feat/item that allows you to add your WIS bonus to your AC? Because I really don't want to have to dip into a level of monk, or any other class, for that matter.

A 492

Ask and you will recieve.

[Dumb-Age Master]

That's just the bonus AC from monk, not the WIS bonus, isn't it?

[Agita]

That's just the bonus AC from monk, not the WIS bonus, isn't it?

Incorrect. It also gives the Wis bonus, as the Wis bonus and the extra AC bonus are both part of the same ability.

[Dumb-Age Master]

Hmmm...it's kind of expensive, though. Any feat that can accomplish the same?

[BowenSilverclaw]

I'm afraid not...
Monk 1,
Swordsage 2,
Ranger 2


Those are the only other options I know of, but they're all dips...

[Dumb-Age Master]

Swordsage 2...It says it only applies in light armor...what if I'm wearing no armor?

[behemot]

Q 493: If im for Swordsage, can i "prepare" one of my manevres twice? For example 2x sudden leap. Or there are some feat trick which make it possible for swordsage to have manevres faster than after one standard action of medditation.