This is of course generally useful… however there are items you can buy that do similar (indeed more powerful) things. Sniper – The reduced penalties with the bow only has use if you intend to grab two levels of arcane archer (more on that later) however the third level ability extends the range you can sneak attack at. At later levels you’ll be able to debuff while you blast. This means they’ll hit less, deal less damage and have penalties to their save throws. Thug – at third level you can choose to forgo 1d6 sneak attack damage to make targets sickened. However you might want to consider the following Archetypes instead of a simple rogue: Rogue is still a solid choice for getting into the arcane trickster: You get evasion, a rogue talent (you can get more by spending feats), and trap sense. Ro gue : Plain ol d vanilla rogue, three levels in this and you have your sneak attack dice. There are multiple ways to gain sneak attack in pathfinder currently, but not all of them are equal, and some of them are better or worse depending on how you plan to cover your spell casting needs: The easy parts of getting in are of course the skills and the alignment, I’m not going to cover these as it isn’t worth the time, instead I’m going to focus on the arcane casting and sneak attack prerequisites: The arcane trickster has the following prerequisites:Ģ nd level arcane spell casting and the ability to cast mage handĭisable Device 4 ranks, Escape Artist 4 ranks, Knowledge (arcana) 4 ranks. I intend to go over the multiple ways you can enter the class, what tends to work well with the class, and what tends to not work out as well so pitfalls can be avoided. It is also one that it is easy to make mistakes in if one isn’t careful and aware of what works and doesn’t work with the prestige class. The arcane trickster is a complex and interesting prestige class. Abraham Spalding’s Guide to the Arcane Trickster.

Arcane trickster guide