Would this be possible in Pathfinder?

[Kingreaper]

The Pathfinder Fighter preview was pretty bad, I think we've all agreed.

But it showed something, level 14 fighters get 15 feats. (I dunno what they get on levels everyone else gets a feat, clearly one such level is a feat)
And level 14 humans get 16 feats. As pathfinder is meant to be backwards compatible, and I've recently seen some feats that almost made me reconsider fighters in 3.5 (if only they had more skill points)

So, would it be possible/effective to have a level 14 fighter in PF with these feats, all from 3.5 (apart from Iron Will):

PF: Iron Will (+2 to will at low levels, +4 at higher, apparently)
(1 feat)

PHB: Point Blank shot, Precise shot, Mounted Combat, Mounted Archery,* Rapid Shot, Weapon Focus (longbow), Weapon Specialisation (longbow) Greater Weapon Focus (Lonbow
(8 feats)

*I generally actually play urban campaigns, where this'd be useless. But I'm about to play a wilderness one, so it could be cool.

PHBII: Ranged Weapon Mastery (piercing):+2 to damage and attack roll with piercing ranged weapons.
Penetrating Shot: Ranged weapon attack can hit all enemies in a 60 ft line.

(2 feats)

Complete Warrior: Improved Mounted Combat: Ignore penalties for firing ranged weapons while riding
Ranged Disarm: Make a disarm attempt at range.

(2 feats)

I considered the other ranged attack abilities, but they just don't seem as useful really.


Races of the Wild: Born Flyer: +4 on flying related checks. Count as having a natural fly speed.
Improved flight: Only if it allows me to boost my mounts maneuverability. Not quite clear on that one.
Woodland Archer (tactical)
(3 feats)

I'm gonna have a flying mount, why wouldn't I at level 14?


Is this possible in pathfinder? If it would be, I'll be very interested in it.

[mxyzplk]

Without researching all the prereqs for each feat... Sure, if those are your feat choices, why not? Note there are some more archer feats in the Pathfinder PHB than in the normal PHB (Improved Precise Shot, Pinpoint Targeting, etc.)

I'd also note in the separate playtest feats they released was Penetrating Strike and Improved Penetrating Strike, which with both allow your attacks with a weapon you have Focus in to ignore 10 points of typed DR or 5 points of untyped (/-) DR, which you might take to avoid one of the chronic archer problems; low damage output from individual arrow shots being severely degraded by DR.

[Kingreaper]

Without researching all the prereqs for each feat... Sure, if those are your feat choices, why not? Note there are some more archer feats in the Pathfinder PHB than in the normal PHB (Improved Precise Shot, Pinpoint Targeting, etc.)

I'd also note in the separate playtest feats they released was Penetrating Strike and Improved Penetrating Strike, which with both allow your attacks with a weapon you have Focus in to ignore 10 points of typed DR or 5 points of untyped (/-) DR, which you might take to avoid one of the chronic archer problems; low damage output from individual arrow shots being severely degraded by DR.

I have checked prereqs, it'd take huge str and dex, but that's standard ranged fighter material, mostly what I was interested in was checking whether Pathfinder allows full feat use from 3.5

Because I'm sure it'd be a long time before they got enough feats of their own to make a worthwhile fighter.

That anti-DR one, would it apply to hardness?

If feats from 3.5 are accepted, then I should look into Pathfinder, because Fighters actually aren't that weak with all this.

[Master Of Desaster]

Well from what I remember from the BETA rules your feats are "standard" as in 3.x but maybe with better effects.

regarding the number of available feats - I think it's one feat every odd level and as fighter a bonus feat at 1st and then every even level. humans keep their bonus feat and a fighter gets those "Weapon Group/Armor Specialisation" style things.

However you cannot exactly say right now what each feat does.

It seems that there will only be few feats that increase over time, but instead you get to choose more of them - although it was suggested quite often in the test forums that several feats should go the "increases by HD" route (but that may be rejected for compatibility reasons).

[mxyzplk]

Yes, you can choose 3.5e feats as well, though certain ones might not make sense or be restricted by your DM as usual.

I don't believe DR and hardness are treated the same, but I haven't seen the final rules yet so can't be sure.