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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nifft" data-source="post: 2702859" data-attributes="member: 6562">My comments: - Sneak Attack & Favored Enemy -- both are different expresisons of the same mechanic.- Since Hated Foe doesn't stack with Favored Enemy, it won't do anything useful ever. Drop it.- Sever Soul, Deep Strike, free Improved Crit -- again, you're just finding different ways to deal more damage to celestials, which is reduntant. Pick one mechanism and stick with it (Favored Enemy, Sneak Attack, or some other damage bonus). Far easier to balance one thing than to map out all the possible interactions of multiple things.My suggestions:- Celestials are highly mobile. They can teleport, dimension door, fly, hover, etc. Taking that away makes them vulnerable in a variety of ways.- Will is your most important save -- Celestials don't have a lot of explosive reflex powers, nor do they throw a lot of poison, disease, or ability damage at you.- Smite Good is a fun mechanic for disposable bad guys. Who cares if you only get Smite 1/day, if you only get one attack in your whole life (as an "on-camera" NPC)?- If you don't go with Smite Good, then I'd suggest Favored Enemy over Sneak Attack. Seems more appropriate for a full BAB class.Perhaps you could make a variant Ranger instead of a PrC:Alignment: Must be Evil.+ Gain Aura of Evil (as an Evil cleric of the same level).+ Class Skills: gain Knowledge (Planes) and Speak Language (Abyssal, Celestial and Infernal only).- Lose Wild Empathy / gain Detect Good at will- Poor Fort save / + Good Will save- Favored Enemy: Good Outsiders is your only option. You gain +2 vs. Good Outsiders at 1st level, and an additional +2 at 5th, 10th, etc. You never gain additional Favored Enemies.- Lose Combat Paths. Instead, you gain the following:+ 2nd level: Your melee weapons (and natural attacks, if any) always count as Magic and Evil for overcoming damage reduction.+ 6th level: When you crit an Outsider with a melee attack, that Outsider cannot use any teleportation power (including dimension door or plane shift) for 2 rounds.+ 11th level: Whenever you strike an Outsider with a melee attack, that Outsider's SR is reduced by one. SR returns all at once, one hour after your last strike.- Lose Animal Companion.+ Improved Spellcasting: Gain access to all spells on Blackguard spell list (including corrupt weapon), and gain +1 spell slot at each spell level (so 1 spell at 4th level instead of "0"). -- N</blockquote>

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