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Oh, that's perfect! The Dragontaur will probably be using light armor anyways, since with an inherent +4 to dex, he could be pushing 18 pretty easily. At ECL 9, it's pretty easy to get a CL 9 Extended Mage armor for pennies on the dollar, so he wouldn't invest in Mithral Chain Shirt unless he was going for enchantments. In fact, even compared with a +1 Studded Leather Armor, you basically need to say "I'm getting a +1 Chain Shirt or better" for it to be worth it.

So a +2 Mithral Chain Shirt Barding/Armor would cost
(100 base + 1000 mithral) x 4 (large winged nonhumanoid) + 4000 (+2 enhancement) = 8400
and a +2 Studded Leather Armor would cost
(100 base + 150 MW) x 4 (large winged nonhumanoid) + 4000 = 5000
a +1 Mithral Chain Shirt would cost
(100 base + 1000 mithral) x 4 (large winged nonhumanoid) + 1000 = 5400

So it almost always seems worth it to go with the Chain Shirt, unless I guess you only wanted +4 AC, but then you might as well get the Mage Armor spellcasting.

It seems like between Lance, Composite Longbow, and just using a 0 ACP armor, the dragontaur won't need any class levels after all.

Aug 15, 2012 -- 7:01PM, dgallaty wrote:

Aug 15, 2012 -- 3:08PM, Eluria wrote:

or potions of mage armor and NPC services extended mage armor prebuff, if you prefer to spend the money elsewhere


another super critically awesome bonus for centaur -- you can wear horseshoes of the zephyr

I've had a centaur character that I've been toying with, and every time I think that I have him tricked out, you throw in another idea, and I have to go back and reconsider his options. Darn you to heck!

Here's my guy, Vice, I had been toying with.  I just don't like Monks or Grappling...

I've been doing some more brainstorming on the CN Travel/Chaos WilD Elf Cleric that focuses on Summoning. I think one of the biggest issues is that Summon Monster and its kin are all 1 Round cast time spells. The ability to move then cast a standard action spell is pretty nice.
The more I flesh him out, though, the more I like him. In terms of starting gear, I want to spend about 1k on MW weapons and armor, then saving most of the rest of the money for a Pearl of Power level 2. As it stands, he's going to be sitting on 1 level 2 slot, a domain slot, and a bonus slot. If he wants SMXII every fight he's going to need a Pearl of Power. Granted, he'll get a 2nd level 2 slot at ECL 4, but getting it halfway through ECL 3 would be much nicer, and the Pearl of Power will be nice to have anyways. The only issue is that if I want to get 450 gp worth of expendables in scrolls, tattoos etc, suddenly he won't be close to pearl money for some time-- probably not until he's nearly level 4. It'll still be useful for a level 4 character, but it almost seems like it might just be better to get 1st-level Pearl, or a Cloak of Resistance or even just a Wand of Bless to shore up my minions, and get the Pearl of Power later, or not at all.
Nathas likes his Pearl of Power, but his character is entirely predicated on using spells to save/die his opponents, so he needs 1-2 spell slots every fight of specific spells. Farlus mostly will be using his spells to get extra damage and give him flanks and the like, so maybe he can get by not having a level 2 Monster with him every fight.
So I guess I'm wondering if it would be worth it to go for a 2nd-level Pearl, or if I should try to make do with one of the fights in the 3FC not having an SMII slot to be used. Maybe I should just stat out everything else and this might become apparent.

I agree that focusing too much on level 2 doesn't seem wise when you short yourself short term and also when level 2 will become obsolete over time.  You seem capable in combat, but I like to look at the roster of active characters and see what I'll face and see what weaknesses need fixing when purchasing.

On a side note, I'm making a ranger/rogue mageslayer and I was curious about somthing.  Does search work with track, or is it just survival?  Also, if I qualify for the scout skill package with search, can I use survival, or only the sill I have 5+ ranks ins? 

My question, though, is that if I have under 5 ranks in survival but 5 ranks in search, would I stil get to use survival to find their tracks?  Also, if I have the track feat, could I use track on search?