I have wonder if the Blighted critical feats are useful or not. I know that they are not that good against non casters in till you gain Blighted Critical Mastery. But is it a good Thing to spend feats on. I am thinking of getting Blighted Critical, Greater Blighted Critical, Blighted Critical Mastery and Critical Mastery.
It's going to be a kensai so i will be able to get the last feat at 17 level i think. Is it a good feats investment?
spell perfection shocking grasp is just awsome!
intensefied quiqended shocking grasp as a lvl 1 Spell LOL then add true strike and you got a guaranteed hit! is cool for those realy hard ones
but then again i woul also maxemize it so its becomes a 4the lvl spell and do flat 60+1d6+10 damage or 120+1d6+10 on a crit!
spell perfection is awsome!
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Uhh...Spell Perfection only lets you apply 1 metamagic feat without affecting its level or casting time. You don't get to add 3 for free, you pick 1, and the other metamagic feats modify the spell level and casting time accordingly.
The Spell Perfection Feat allows him to add Quickened with no level increase.
Either the Magical Lineage or Wayang Spellhunter traits allow him to use a single spell (in this case Shocking Grasp) with a metamagic feat, and have it use up a spell slot one level lower than it normally would.
Intensified is a +1 Level increase reduced to +0
So a Quickened Intensified Shocking Grasp is still a Level 1 spell.
He then said to Maximize it which would add +3 Levels to cast it at as a Level 4 spell, which Darkflame said.
He is only paying the cost of a single Metamagic increase.
Powerful? Yes. However he has had to put a lot of Feats & a Trait in order to achieve this.
Spellferection costs 3 feats so its a total of 4 feats but indeed a verry powerful combo :)
And indeed i did calculate magical liniage "schoking grasp"
Sorry ;)
I wanted to discuss these Spellblights a bit more, so let's discuss them.
Specifically:
A spellcaster with disassociation lapses into a mild insanity in which she dissociates her identity and starts to perceive herself as someone else. While subject to disassociation, a spellcaster is incapable of using spells or effects with a range of personal or of targeting herself with a spell effect. A spell with an area that includes her but does not need targeted individual creatures functions normally.
Disassociation can by cured by any effect that removes confusion or insanity.
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A spellcaster afflicted with ritualistic obsession adds unnecessary gestures to her spellcasting activities. Any spell without a somatic component (even a spell cast with the Still Spellfeat) now requires one, and any spell that already has a somatic component requires two free hands rather than one. Spell-like abilities now require a somatic component. The extra complexity increasesswift action casting times to a standard action, standard action casting times to 1 round, and 1 round casting times to 2 rounds. Other casting times are not increased. The extra focus does serve to increase the efficacy of the caster's spells. All save DCs for spells and spell-like abilities that have their Casting Time increased with ritualistic obsession are increased by 1.
Ritualistic obsession is cured by any effect that removes insanity. Creatures that are immune to mind-affecting effects are immune to ritualistic obsession.
The first seems like it can be potentially crippling for any spellcaster that relies on buffing themselves, like transmutation focused wizards and Eldritch Knights.
The second one though, seems to be a way to counter Quicken Spell, which can be pretty useful in a "lockdown" build that attempts to stop casters with huge concentration checks (quickened spells don't provoke, so they also don't need concentration). With Ritualistic Obsession however, would not a Quicken Spell provoke an attack of opportunity? That can potentially be huge.
Also, this might be a Rules Question, but can the "Caster Level" prerequisite be satisfied by SLAs, since it doesn't specify spellcasting? Or does the FAQ prevent that?