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I was reading up on the archmage path ability "Channel Power" and was confused by its wording.
arcane power into a spell. You can also expend one use of
mythic power when casting an arcane spell to increase its
damage by 50%. If the spell has a duration greater than
one round, the duration doubles. Any saves required by the
spell take a -4 penalty, although for mythic creatures,
this penalty is reduced to -2. This spell ignores any spell
resistance the targets have, although targets immune to
the spell or to magic still retain that protection.
Is this an editing error? Should it read, "You can expend..."?
So are we going to get an answer? I'm running a Mythic campaign. The arcane caster is going to take this almost immediately when he can. Is there no errata for Mythic?
I thought his Mythic would be fun. But the players outstrip the enemies by such a huge gap that it is literally impossible for a DM to create a challenge without throwing the rules out. There wasn't much oversight for the mythic rules. The Hierophant is a pretty lame mythic hero class compared to he Archmage. Not sure why they create such weak cleric powers and strong mage powers.
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I wouldn't say it's wrong. Does the addition/absense of the world "also" change the meaning in any way? No. If you do expend a use of mythic power the spell's damage is increased by 50%. I'd also like to point out that I don't see the "spending a mythyic" power caveat for the following the sentences, though it's obviously intended for the following sentences to also assume the cost of expending the mythic power by the reference of "this spell".
I think I'm going to run it like Fleet Charge where using it requires an expenditure of Mythic Power. I'm not sure I'll require a second use of Mythic Power to boost damage by 50%. But the absence of clarification on this one is an egregious oversight by Paizo.