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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LiL KiNG" data-source="post: 5486498" data-attributes="member: 83799">Swift Hunter for sure.  Swift Ambusher looks decent enough, but it only stacks your Skirmish damage, the rest of it is pretty bad - Skirmish die can be used in place of SA dice for feats, whoopie.  Plus most of your Scout abilities and skills are already very Roguish.   We've got a swift hunter in our group right now (see thread Harpies... what the french? toast!) and it stacks Skirmish, Favored Enemy progression AND allows Skirmish damage to apply to your Favored Enemies, even if normally immune - per the feat!Right now the party's Swift Hunter is a Barb 1 (CC lion totem pounce)/Ranger 2 (TWF)/ Scout 2 (he just went up a level from those stupid harpies) so right now he doesn't have the Swift Hunter feat, but already he is dealing massive amounts of damage on his charges thanks to Skirmish.  If he can hit something first its usually dead, only downfall right now is his terrible Will (and slightly lower hitpoints then a fighter/barbarian since Ranger and Scout are both D8 hit die classes).  Once he takes Swift Hunter at level 6 he'll get another Favored Enemy and increased Skirmish - only thing he'll miss out on with his Barb dip is his 5th Favored Enemy. Mechanically you seem to get a lot more out Swift Hunter over Swift Ambusher.  This is all IMHO of course, maybe someone out there actually put together a decent Swift Ambusher...</blockquote>