Pathfinder: WotR - Eldritch Font Arcanist Starting Build - Beginner's Guide [2021] [1080p HD]

Human with: 9, 14, 8, 19, 10, 16. Fixes the useless 25 int and makes it a useful 24 in the end. Alternatively you can toss the dex and get yourself some solid constitution instead. This way you can avoid doing ranged attacks entirely.
Humans gain an aditional feat which is so fking good. its always so fking good!
Skip mage armor, magic missile and expeditious retreat, you get these as free scrolls on making your character and can instantly learn them.
Burning hands will deal more dmg, more often, to more ppl then any exploit so I'd suggest you get your hands on an early advantage using it, no need to aim so can't miss unless the enemy is far away.
My suggestion for feats: "Spell Focus: Evocation" > "Spell Specialization: Burning Hands"
For Exploits: Potent magic
This allows you the ability to add +4 caster level to your burning hands at lvl 1 three times, allowing you to deal 5d4 dmg (5-20) to all target within a 15 foot cone three times.
Sadly we can only do this 3 times due to Font of Power not working properly. It's supposed to give us +1 spell slot and -1 spell to prepare and as of right now its just the -1 :(
It's 3 casts if 19 int and it's 4 casts if you have 20 int and it's supposed to be 4 casts at 19 and 5 at 20. very sad :( Hope they will fix.

Another, possible more useful, build would be to do the same thing but take "Spell Focus: Conjuration" and "Spell Specialization: Summon monster I" instead. While you won't start with the spell you can get to the point where you get to rest without it quickly enough, and then you are able to boost the number of minutes the monster sticks around by 4. And ofc you can have as many of them summoned as you are able. That would be 3 additional lvl 1 melee characters to tank and trip for you for a total of 5 minutes rather then 1. This is so fking strong its dumb. But burning people is fun too.

Lastly I wanna mention two things: First that Atheisms is now a thing. And the bonuses are nice! you become trained in Perception and get +2 saves vs divine spells. But no god worshiping classes to multiclass in to... Why would I ever do that anyway? XD Mystic theurge? Oracles are a thing! So no worries! :D

And finally there is the bonuses for you background. I would recommend you, as the main character, to always wanna have points in persuasion and trickery. Also when you start the game you can choose to have only the person making a skill check to be rewarded with the exp. This allows your main character to become higher lvled then others. its fun and useful. and if only active characters gaining exp is also checked then more xp for those you really wanna lvl. Great!

The two paths to gain these two as trained is to take mugger or courtier as your background.

Okay I'll shut up now, good luck!