Talk:Professional (Pathfinder)
Lots of stuff deleted from here, history if you need it -slitherrr (talk) 22:08, 11 July 2015 (EDT)
I propose a change to "Insightful Defense" to make it more mechanically sound--right now, it's bonus type isn't clear, and its progression isn't in line with similar abilities from other classes in Pathfinder (it gets to +5 at level 10, and can go past that if the Professional focuses Int). I suggest a modified version of Nimble from the Swashbuckler:
Insightful Defense: At 3rd level, a professional gains a +1 competence bonus to her Dexterity bonus to AC when wearing medium or lighter armor (or no armor). Anything that causes the professional to lose her Dexterity bonus to AC also causes her to lose this dodge bonus. This bonus increases by 1 for every 4 levels beyond 3rd (to a maximum of +5 at 19th level).
This allows the bonus while in medium armor (in line with the professional's proficiencies), but limits it with the max Dex (which the swashbuckler doesn't have to worry about), so it should keep the prof from being able to stack it too hard with armor bonus + dex mod, and it also makes the progression a bit more sensible. I still don't know if it completely works, because this class would be horrible to single class all the way, but it's at least more precisely defined than the current situation. -slitherrr (talk)
