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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zad" data-source="post: 1062073" data-attributes="member: 90">Is AA a poor class? That's up to you. Personally I like it but it has a few problems to be aware of.You will always be a very weak caster. You'll have practically no spells to speak of and the ones you do have won't be much use for imbuing onto arrows. Just realize this is how it is <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />You said a few levels of "mage" but weren't specific. I'm assuming from the int score you meant wizard and that's a fine way to go. It really won't matter much.You need at least 4 levels of fighter, because of course you want weapon specialization. BAB requirement for a AA is +6 so you need 2 more points of BAB.Your choices are:ftr4, wiz2 and go to AA at 6th orftr4, wiz4 and go to AA at 8th.So at 10th level you're eitherftr4/wiz2/AA4 orftr4/wiz4/AA2.Reasoning here is if you're going to take one level of wizard (which you must) you may as well take the second to boost your BAB since ftr5 gets you nothing.  So the question becomes do you want access to AA sooner, or would you prefer to be casting 2nd level spells? That's up to you of course.For feats, you want to make sure you have weapon focus, weapon spec, rapid shot, point blank shot, precise shot, and get imp. precise shot when you can and consider improved rapid shot (from dragon mag) to simplify your math. Manyshot has some uses too.When choosing spells, stick to things that buff you generally. Anything the enemy gets a save against is likely to fail horribly since you're a weak caster. Take note of Glitterdust as a useful spell to paint invisible creatures.As for the hummingbird, if a toad can give +2 con, then a bird can give +2 dex, although personally I think +2 to a stat is too big a benefit for a familiar, given the benefits the others give. (I haven't checked the 3.5 table tho)</blockquote>

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