Archmage Path Powers Questions

[TetsujinOni]

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Deep Understanding: ... In addition, whenever you attempt to identify a magic item using detect magic or a similar effect, you can take 10 on the check to determine its properties.

When you are maintaining detect magic to study an item to identify its properties, this suggests that the concentration requirement normally precludes taking 10? Is this accurate and intentional? (Yep, this is a case of mythic affecting core rules by implication).

[TetsujinOni]

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Familiar Mind (Su): As a standard action, you can see and hear through your familiar’s eyes and ears. While using this ability you can’t see or hear using your normal senses and you can’t move. You can also speak through your familiar, using your own voice to do so. Finally, you

can expend one use of mythic power to cast one arcane spell using your familiar as the spell’s caster. You must expend the spell as normal when using this ability. Aside from its origin, all other aspects of the spell are based upon the archmage.

This power has no described duration.

As an Su, it is already a standard action to activate it.

Does the projection work across planes?

Are there any repercussions if the familiar dies while your mind is projected into the familiar's?

It is unclear from the text but seems intended that senses granted by spells would also be turned off by projecting your senses to the familiar, i.e. the arcane eye spell. Would arcane sight work through the familiar's senses, as in the other remote-sensor spells like arcane eye?

[TetsujinOni]

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Itemcraft (Ex): You are skilled at getting the most out of

magic items. You add 1/2 your archmage tier (minimum
1) to the caster level of potions, scrolls, staves, and wands
you use when determining the effects of the spells
created by them. When using a staff, wand, or other
charged item, you can expend one use of mythic power
in place of one charge.

Is this intended to allow a ring of ferocious action, chime of opening, and other very-low-charge-count items to be powered by mythic power? Does the item need to have at least one charge of its own to be activated in this fashion?

[Drejk]

Deep understanding probably should have "regardless of circumstances" condition added.

[TetsujinOni]

Drejk wrote:

Probably should have "regardless of circumstances" condition added.

For Deep Understanding, I suspect? Being able to study an item for 3 rounds in combat to take 10 on spellcraft doesn't strike me as a good deal...

[TetsujinOni]

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True Archmage (Ex): At 10th tier, whenever you cast an arcane spell that targets one or more nonmythic creatures, those creatures must roll any saving throws associated with the spell twice and take the worse result.

In addition, you gain spell resistance equal to 15 + your highest arcane caster level, but only against arcane spells. Once per round when your spell resistance protects you from a spell cast by an enemy mythic creature, you regain one use of mythic power. You can’t gain more uses of
mythic power than your maximum.

The first part of this power overlaps significantly with Arcane Surge but removes the mythic power cost. If that's intentional, great, but it seems like there's different places to take this that'd be 'cooler'. It seems kind of limiting that there's only one capstone power, and it's mostly mythic power recharging.

[Jason Bulmahn]

TetsujinOni wrote:

Quote:

Deep Understanding: ... In addition, whenever you attempt to identify a magic item using detect magic or a similar effect, you can take 10 on the check to determine its properties.

When you are maintaining detect magic to study an item to identify its properties, this suggests that the concentration requirement normally precludes taking 10? Is this accurate and intentional? (Yep, this is a case of mythic affecting core rules by implication).

This is intentional.

Jason Bulmahn
Lead Designer
Paizo Publishing

[Jason Bulmahn]

TetsujinOni wrote:

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Familiar Mind (Su): As a standard action, you can see and hear through your familiar’s eyes and ears. While using this ability you can’t see or hear using your normal senses and you can’t move. You can also speak through your familiar, using your own voice to do so. Finally, you

can expend one use of mythic power to cast one arcane spell using your familiar as the spell’s caster. You must expend the spell as normal when using this ability. Aside from its origin, all other aspects of the spell are based upon the archmage.

This power has no described duration.

As an Su, it is already a standard action to activate it.

Does the projection work across planes?

Are there any repercussions if the familiar dies while your mind is projected into the familiar's?

It is unclear from the text but seems intended that senses granted by spells would also be turned off by projecting your senses to the familiar, i.e. the arcane eye spell. Would arcane sight work through the familiar's senses, as in the other remote-sensor spells like arcane eye?

We repeat the standard action bit for clarity. The duration is for as long as you maintain it. The projection currently works across planes. There are no repercussions if your familiar dies. As for other senses, yeah, you basically lose those when looking through your familiar.

Jason Bulmahn
Lead Designer
Paizo Publishing

[hogarth]

TetsujinOni wrote:

Is this intended to allow a ring of ferocious action, chime of opening, and other very-low-charge-count items to be powered by mythic power?

A Ring of Wishes is probably the best example.

[Cheapy]

Huh. I did not know concentration duration spells would preclude taking 10. I was thinking that a spell all about IDing magic wouldn't really be distracting to IDing magic. Learn something every day.

edit: guess it is distracting since you're concentrating on one thing...Makes sense in a "I don't think it's spelled out anywhere but when you step back from the rules a bit, it's sort of common sense" way.

[Jason Bulmahn]

hogarth wrote:

TetsujinOni wrote:

Is this intended to allow a ring of ferocious action, chime of opening, and other very-low-charge-count items to be powered by mythic power?

A Ring of Wishes is probably the best example.

Hmm... that is an issue.

Going to have to give that a bit of thought.

Jason Bulmahn
Lead Designer
Paizo Publishing

[TetsujinOni]

Jason Bulmahn wrote:

TetsujinOni wrote:

Quote:

Familiar Mind (Su): As a standard action, you can see and hear through your familiar’s eyes and ears. While using this ability you can’t see or hear using your normal senses and you can’t move. You can also speak through your familiar, using your own voice to do so. Finally, you

can expend one use of mythic power to cast one arcane spell using your familiar as the spell’s caster. You must expend the spell as normal when using this ability. Aside from its origin, all other aspects of the spell are based upon the archmage.

This power has no described duration.

As an Su, it is already a standard action to activate it.

Does the projection work across planes?

Are there any repercussions if the familiar dies while your mind is projected into the familiar's?

It is unclear from the text but seems intended that senses granted by spells would also be turned off by projecting your senses to the familiar, i.e. the arcane eye spell. Would arcane sight work through the familiar's senses, as in the other remote-sensor spells like arcane eye?

We repeat the standard action bit for clarity. The duration is for as long as you maintain it. The projection currently works across planes. There are no repercussions if your familiar dies. As for other senses, yeah, you basically lose those when looking through your familiar.

Jason Bulmahn
Lead Designer
Paizo Publishing

Is there a concentration requirement? Do you gain permanent detect magic from your familiar if they have it? Can a permanent detect magic take 10 on the check to identify items absent Deep Understanding?

[Darkorin]

Hmmm, I've just reread

Enduring Armor:

When preparing your spells you
may leave a single arcane spell slot unfilled in order to
grant yourself a lasting armor of force. This effect grants
you an armor bonus equal to 3 + 1/2 the level of the empty
spell slot (minimum 1). The armor persists as long as the
spell slot remains empty. This ability is an abjuration
effect with a level equal to the level of the spell slot. If it
is dispelled or otherwise ended, it can be resumed as a
standard action.

It's essentialy another way to get a mage armor, but the ability stipulates that only a spellcaster that prepares spells can benefit from it, which I find kind of sad. Was it the intention?

It's quite an interesting ability, but between Endless Power that lets you use Magic armor at will(at an higher level I know), Enduring Armor, isn't there a little repetition?

I'm afraid that Enduring armor misses a little something that can make it a little more at higher level. The new mythic version of Mage armor is so cool, that I'm afraid enduring armor might get overshadowed by it.

I know that the number of mythic point is limited, but to pay one point to get mythic mage armor (with a little help of our dear friend the rod of extends) sure seems like a better solution than taking Enduring Armor, even if I have to admit that Enduring armor is really great at low level.

[Darkorin]

Hmmm, another question just popped in mind...

Endless Power:

You gain the ability to cast spells
without expending your power. If you are capable of
casting arcane spells of 5th level or higher, whenever you
cast a 1st-level arcane spell it is either not expended (if you
prepare spells) or doesn’t use up a spell slot (if you casts
spells spontaneously). You must be at least 6th tier before
selecting this ability. You can select this ability more than
once. Each time you do, the level of arcane spells you can
cast without expending the spell or using up the spell slot
increases by one, to a maximum of 3rd level.

Right now, it seems like it would work with spells modified by metamagic, so if you took Endless Power 3 times, you could get Empowered Magic Missile at will?

[TetsujinOni]

so a Wizard 9 Tier 8 Archmage has infinite empowered magic missile.

Equivalent to 9th level spells? perhaps.

[Darkorin]

TetsujinOni wrote:

so a Wizard 9 Tier 8 Archmage has infinite empowered magic missile.

Equivalent to 9th level spells? perhaps.

It could be infinite Maximized Magic missile or infinite intensified empowered shocking grasp for a magus too... But a Wizard lvl9 Tier 8 Archmage sounds wrong...

[Darkorin]

Hmmm... New question, In theory there is nothing preventing you from using abondant casting with a greater mythic version of a spell.
Would it be really all right?