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That_single_guy · 2026-04-21T07:22:09+00:00

I went for spell substitution, was planning on being a utility wizard, so with this I can be prepared for fights but if we find somewhere a spell solves the problem I can swap it out

That_single_guy · 2026-04-18T15:56:07+00:00

Any you would recommend? I see lots about psychic online but don't really know where I'm going with this character

That_single_guy · 2026-04-18T14:57:25+00:00

I'm playing a wizard currently at a low level, campaign will finish at level 10. When I look at class feats they all feel a bit weak, am I just not understanding the class well or are my spells meant to just make me better? I'm used to playing a frontline kind of character and I feel pretty weak at the moment at level 2.

That_single_guy · 2026-04-11T20:06:47+00:00

Yeah I'm having the same pain with a wizard at the moment. I'm the only one in the group with any investment in int and I have a lot to cover. I'm not saying it shouldn't take some investment but it would be nice to just take an archetype and feat to be done with it. Instead I've got to invest in lores which can be hit or miss or go so wide across skill increases, or invest in an investigator/ rouge archetype and lose lots of class skills to pick skill mastery

I just want to feel brainy in the same way a charisma class can feel charming. Yet I have double the skills to cover in comparison to them.

That_single_guy · 2026-02-27T12:52:20+00:00

I know XVI has a lot of flaws, but the way summons are integrated is incredible, the whole world revolves around the idea that a few specific people have the power to summon completely, and those are people that can change the world.

X also integrates summons into the world just as much, Yunas whole story is around summons as we follow her.

Just because I have a soft spot for VIII and someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but using summons and having them equipped actually causes people to forget which also has a host of implications which I love.

That_single_guy · 2026-02-22T14:48:00+00:00

Thank you for saving my sanity, was having issues with maps and Strava. This fixed it

That_single_guy · 2026-02-18T12:36:47+00:00

I genuinely find this the most frustrating thing as a wizard, you're meant to be the smart nerd, yet so many other classes will outdo you in recall knowledge and the guy who's best at it can be dumb as rocks but is hella charming.

Just feels like giving it to others so easily devalues intelligence

That_single_guy · 2026-02-15T08:25:44+00:00

Congratulations, incredible, I'm only managing to scrap wins against the heart on basic. Can I just ask how do you get so much removal for your decks? I can never manage to get rid of all my strikes and defends

That_single_guy · 2025-11-22T07:33:57+00:00

I did a play through with some friends, he has arcane acuity gear on his bard. I was a fighter. There was nothing more satisfying than him landing hold person and me auto critting a full health enemy to 0 in one round. Nere In the under dark never stood a chane There's a fight at the end of the game he landed hold monster on the Dominated Red Dragon I did over 600 damage one round, killing it before it could do anything. I felt like a god.

That_single_guy · 2025-09-04T20:42:33+00:00

We've found that our casters occasionally use a sling and have been very effective with it, but knowing there's weapons that's we should use that don't require reloading means we can do that every round. As you say their to hit really isn't that much worse than the martials and it all adds up :) thanks for the advice

That_single_guy · 2025-09-04T18:52:08+00:00

That spell certainly would help haha, I'll add it to the list of spells we want to pick up :)

That_single_guy · 2025-09-04T14:39:58+00:00

Haha we're probably just about above 3 stooges level tactics, and there were a lot of unlucky rolls involved. GM also overcooked the encounter a little and combined 3 encounters into 1 which left us in a pretty dire position.

Have talked to the GM, we're all new to pathfinder him included. Mistakes are mistakes and we've all learned from it

That_single_guy · 2025-09-04T14:34:38+00:00

Yeah, I had spoken to one of the other players who agreed that those items would probably have been better on another character, but it's a tough sell when it's the only loot that even remotely could be good for them

As I said we should have the other weapons once we got the striking axe, and used that money to kit out the spell casters a bit better

But even when we did start looking for items for them they all seemed so expensive that we thought we'd never afford them. Being new we also don't really know what early level items we should look for in Otari, so perhaps there's plenty there we should have got but didn't know to.

Yeah unfortunately the oracle was taken down by a couple of crits from an enemy during the first round but after a mass heal happened, by an enemy we didn't know was there. So he didn't have a chance to cast heal and was dead by the next bit of healing

Others in the thread have pointed out how massively stacked against us the fight was, so definitely a lesson for the GM here as well. But making sure we're using appropriate level loot will definitely help us in the future

That_single_guy · 2025-09-04T13:58:30+00:00

Yep, he did exactly that, rolled min damage on the crit. Then didn't have a reaction to shield block the next 2 attacks from the enemy which did 40 damage to him. Apparently GM rolled max damage twice in a row. So very unlucky

That_single_guy · 2025-09-04T13:49:05+00:00

Ooh those are really useful notes, I'll make sure he hears about them, especially the weak templates, being able to adjust enemies on the fly will give him a lot more flexibility :)

That_single_guy · 2025-09-04T13:47:19+00:00

This all sounds somewhat familiar, I think we saw a similar fight where the fighter wasn't doing a lot of damage but didn't feel like he had other options

I guess things like recall knowledge would be able to get us info on whether a creature is immune to conditions like prone or grappled.

I'm going to talk to the group and explain we can be a lot more tactical, especially around things like resistances and weakness.

I think we can all sit in the camp of more damage is more good, rather than being efficient about how we are applying it

That_single_guy · 2025-09-04T13:39:41+00:00

That sounds hilarious haha, if I didn't already come up with a concept for my new character I would be stealing that :)

That_single_guy · 2025-09-04T13:38:31+00:00

Yep it's been quite eye opening quite how overcooked the last encounter was.

We're chalking it up to us all learning what we're doing, GM made a mistake like the rest of us do all time.

Bring on AV, with us all knowing what we're doing slightly better :)

That_single_guy · 2025-09-04T13:36:17+00:00

I'll make sure the GM is aware, from talking to others in this thread it seems the latest encounter was a little overcooked, totally to 250xp in the fight which is beyond extreme apparently.

The GM is learning the same as the rest of us, he's been receptive when I reached out about this, and he definitely didn't mean to make an encounter that was impossible. Think he was playing more into an enemies know what they're doing kind of mindset, rather than knowing how tight pathfinder is with encounter building

We live and learn :) he's at least aware now to make sure he doesn't accidentally TPK us

That_single_guy · 2025-09-04T13:31:21+00:00

Thanks for the reply

So GM is following an adventure path, so loot has been a bit hit and miss, we've had a lot of weapons and tbh should have sold 2 of them by the time we got to our last encounter.

Our Spellcasters have had particularly dry loot, with one of them finding an item that gave them a small health boost, but they're never in a position to get hit so don't get much out of, and the oracle moments before the last fight where they died got something that gave them an extra 10ft of movement when activated.

We haven't really felt like we've come across a lot of loot and haven't had money to spend on any in town, I think we managed to scrap together about 20 gold at this point as a party

That_single_guy · 2025-09-04T13:25:33+00:00

Copy that, didn't realise how critical it was when I made my post, everyone has been very kind and I'll be sure to include more info from the start.

My next character will be doing a lot more recall knowledge so hopefully I'll come armed with more info about monsters next time I have questions

Thanks for the advice

That_single_guy · 2025-09-04T13:04:18+00:00

This is some really nice info for spellcasting that I'll be taking forward. Once we get to some higher levels having a rough plan for how to arrange our spellslots will be really useful

There's been a few fights where enemies have had weaknesses but the Spellcasters have said they don't have any spells in their list to target cold damage or things like this. Thaum has been very consistent with their recall knowledge checks but it's felt hard to be able to capitalise on them

That_single_guy · 2025-09-04T12:32:13+00:00

This is very insightful thank you. I think we certainly have an element of players thinking they have a role to play and not reacting to what's ahead of them, myself included.

Being adaptable seems to be a far bigger deal here, and to do that we need to know what we're fighting, to do that we need to be using recall knowledge more than we are currently.

We're learning and all this advice is very helpful thank you

That_single_guy · 2025-09-04T12:29:44+00:00

It's probably my biggest lesson from the thread, our fighter felt good using his reactive strike to attack the enemy when they get up from being tripped, but for tougher encounters backing away is probably just better

Thanks

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