[PF] Oh geez what did I get myself into

[Archmage Joda]

Ok, so, I'm brainstorming for character ideas for a Pathfinder Gestalt game. Yeah. Anyway, my initial attempt relies heavily on 3rd party material, and while my GM is fine with that and doesn't really care, it kinda leaves a bad taste in my mouth to do so. So, I had a couple other ideas for viable combinations.

First, I had the idea of Sorcerer//Oracle. I think I can basically piece this one together myself. Pick decent spells from arcane and divine magics, get some metamagic feats, it's all good, especially since both are charisma casters.

The other idea I had is where I need help: Wizard//Alchemist. See, I know how wizards roll, but I don't really know what to do with the alchemist side to make the two synergize and complement each other especially well. Of particular note of sticking in my craw are what to do with feats, and how to go about picking my extracts and discoveries on the alchemist side.

Since I want it to complement my Wizard side, I was thinking of using the Mindchemist archetype for the cognatogen, but beyond that, I'm stumped. I would like to focus on the mutagen and extract parts of alchemist over the bomb throwing aspect, if at all possible. Any help from the playground, I would greatly appreciate.

[StreamOfTheSky]

I prefer gestalts where one side is caster, the other is giving mostly passive buffs (like fighter bonus feats or something).  Because you still have the same amount of actions per round in gestalt.  Doesn't matter how many options you have with your standard, you only get to use one of them.

So for Wiz//Alchemist...screw the bombs.  Be a Vivvisectionist Beastmorph Alchemist.  You'll have sneak attack and a bunch of buffs that will persist as long as your mutagen is active.  Nice, passive things you can combo with wizard (using ray spells w/ the sneak attack, for instance).  You can go Mindchemist, too (it replaces nothing that the other 2 archetypes do).  As written, Beastmorph functions with Cognatogens as well, since they count as mutagens for all purposes other than what's described.

You can use the discoveries for wings, extra arms, partial crit immunity, and so forth.  You can also use them to get a Tumor Familiar to either have 2 familiars, or a familiar AND a bonded item.