Looking for Ways to Reduce Arcane Spell Failure


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Grand Lodge

As said in the title i am looking for ways to reduce Arcane Spell Failure imposed by wearing armor.

Tks in advance


Arcane Amor Training feats and Arcane Armor Mastery feats can help with this.

Grand Lodge

anything else besides those feats?
Items / traits / material/ special armor (well besides mithril of course)

Dark Archive

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Hellknight signifier prestige class.

Sovereign Court

Bracers of armor, no ASF.
Arcane duelist(Bard archetype) can eventually wear Heavy armor without ASF.


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Haramaki and silk ceremonial armor both have 0% ASF.

Darkleaf cloth (special material); basically the same as mithral (except it doesn't count as one category lighter and has a minimum ASF of 5%) with padded, leather armor, studded leather, hide, etc.

Still Spell (or spells without somatic components); either as a feat (adds +1 to spell-level) or a metamagic rod. Alternately, the careful meta word can be used by a wordcaster a certain number of times per day without raising the spell-level (if at least level 1 in the first place).

Folding plate; command word item switches between +1 full plate and a brooch (takes up the neck slot when not serving as armor).

The 3rd-level Archmage mythic path ability Component Freedom can be used to cast any spell without one component (focus*, material*, somatic, or verbal) as desired.

*- Up to 100 gp x mythic tier


Is this for PFS or can you use 3.5 material? If it isn't PFS, does your DM allow you to change up specific magic items?

For Pathfinder material, you have the Celestial armors. These already have really low ASF. If it isn't PFS and your DM is fine with you messing with specific magic items, you can change it to have them made out of mithril, as well. This drops the Celestial Plate Armor to a mere 5% ASF, IIRC.

In 3.5, there is a magical property called Twilight. It is a +1 Armor enhancement and drops an armor's ASF by 10%. I believe you can find this in the Magic Item Compendium.

So if you have access to everything and your DM lets you customize your magic items, you too can have Fullplate with 0% ASF.

Grand Lodge

tks to all those that answered

(i knew about the 3.5 special armor spacial property but this is strictly PF)


No way for you to break the game. 3.5 went full nuts.


As a corollary to using Still metamagic avoid the use of spells with Somatic components. Only spells with somatic components incur an arcane failure chance in the first place.


Just found this when looking at the Ultimate Psionics stuff from Dreamscarred Press on D20PFSRD:

Fusing wrote:

A suit of armor or a shield granted this ability melds with its wearer when the appropriate command word is given, seamlessly fusing with the wearer’s form. The Armor Check Penalty of the armor is reduced by 1 (to a minimum of 0), the Maximum Dexterity Bonus is increased by 1, any arcane spell failure is reduced by 10%, and the armor is treated as if one category lighter for movement restrictions. This decrease does not apply to proficiency in wearing the armor. For example, a character wearing mithral full plate must be proficient in wearing heavy armor to avoid adding the armor’s check penalty to all his attack rolls and skill checks that involve moving. These modifications are in addition to any changes from special materials, but do not stack with effects such as that from graft armor.

Aura Strong psychometabolism; ML 4th; Craft Psionic Arms and Armor, float; Price +2 bonus.

Fusing

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