Status removal on an Int based character


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Anyone have any suggestions on how you can make this work?


Play a witch?


A witch with the Healing Patron has all the status removal there is.


Witch with the healing patron covers it pretty well.
Living Grimoire Inquisitor is an Int-based prepared divine caster.
Questioner Investigator get the Bard list using Int, and that has a smattering of condition removal.
Various Wizard and Arcanist archetypes get limited access to divine spells or Witch patrons to expand their spells.
Pain discipline Psychic gets self-only Lay On Hands, with associated condition removal.

That's it off the top of my head.


Use pragmatic activator trait to make UMD an int based skill and carry lots of scrolls.

Silver Crusade

Alchemists with the Infusion discovery are pretty good.


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The Healer's Handbook is coming out soon, and will probably offer lots of new ways to remove conditions.

In the meantime, here are four class options that haven't come up yet.

(1) The Cabalist Vigilante uses the Witch Spell list (up to 6th level), and so has a number of status removal spells.

(2) The Puppetmaster Magus gets access to the Bard spell list and so, like the Questioner Investigator mentioned above, has a few status removal spells.

(3) An Occultist can actually make a decent secondary healer and can detect, suppress, or remove a wide range of conditions.

Occultist Healer Breakdown:

AVAILABLE AT 1ST LEVEL

Occult Skill Unlocks
-Faith Healing (Heal): Suppress, suspend, or remove ability damage, curses, diseases, or poison.
-Read Aura (Perception): Determine whether a creature is wounded, poisoned, diseased, confused, disabled, dying, nauseated, panicked, staggered, stunned, or unconscious.

Level 0 Spells
-Detect Poison (Divination)
-Stabilize (Conjuration)

Level 1 Spells
-Cure Light Wounds (Conjuration)
-Diagnose Disease (Divination): Can be used to detect a number of conditions

AVAILABLE AT 3RD LEVEL

Focus Powers
-Flesh Mend (Conjuration): gives you a way to heal hit points using Mental Focus instead of using up spell slots.

AVAILABLE AT 4TH LEVEL

Level 2 Spells
-Calm Emotions (Enchantment): Can be used to suppress fear conditions and confusion
-Cure Moderate Wounds (Conjuration)
-Delay Poison (Conjuration)
-Status (Divination): Can be used to detect a number of conditions

AVAILABLE AT 5TH LEVEL

Focus Powers
-Purge Corruption (Conjuration): Duplicates the effects of the Neutralize Poison and Remove Disease spells. It's really valuable since neither of those spells is on your lists.

AVAILABLE AT 7TH LEVEL

Level 3 Spells
-Age Resistance, Lesser (Transmutation): Can suppress the negative effects of age
-Cure Serious Wounds (Conjuration)
-Dispel Magic (Abjuration): Can end spells which place conditions on you or your allies
-Gentle Repose (Necromancy): Can help preserve your fallen comrades until a better healer is available
-Symbol of Healing (Conjuration)

AVAILABLE AT 10TH LEVEL

Level 4 Spells
-Age Resistance (Transmutation): Can suppress the negative effects of age
-Break Enchantment (Abjuration): Can remove enchantments, transmutations, and curses
-Cure Critical Wounds (Conjuration)
-Death Ward (Necromancy): Can temporarily remove the penalties from negative levels
-Freedom of Movement (Abjuration): Can remove paralysis, grappled, and the like


AVAILABLE AT 13TH LEVEL

Level 5 Spells
-Cure Light Wounds, Mass (Conjuration)
-Dispel Magic, Greater (Abjuration): Can end spells which place conditions on you or your allies
-Temporary Resurrection (Necromancy): Can help preserve your fallen comrades until a better healer is available

AVAILABLE AT 16TH LEVEL

Level 6 Spells
-Cure Moderate Wounds, Mass (Conjuration)
-Heal (Conjuration): Can remove ability damage, blinded, confused, dazed, dazzled, deafened, diseased, exhausted, fatigued, feebleminded, insanity, nauseated, poisoned, sickened, and stunned

(4) The Reliquarian Occultist is, I believe, the only Int-based divine caster. It has all of the options of a standard Occultist except for the Psychic Skill Unlocks. Their big advantage is that they get the abilities of one Domain and add those Domain spells to their list of spells known. That gets them access to new spells and can also free up lots of spells-known slots in their Implement Schools. The Liberation Domain and Healing Domain (Restoration Subdomain) both offer many condition-removal options.


The Magaambyan PrC has steep requirements, but is a great prestige class that can open up a lot of possibilities.


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Gulthor wrote:
The Magaambyan PrC has steep requirements, but is a great prestige class that can open up a lot of possibilities.

It can. The Magaambyan Initiate Arcanist archetype is a great way to meet a lot of those entry requirements.


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Gisher wrote:
(4) The Reliquarian Occultist is, I believe, the only Int-based divine caster.

Living Grimoire Inquisitor is the other one.


QuidEst wrote:
Gisher wrote:
(4) The Reliquarian Occultist is, I believe, the only Int-based divine caster.
Living Grimoire Inquisitor is the other one.

Hah! I didn't know about that one. Bashing people with a book sounds fun!


Thanks all!


A psychic with the rebirth discipline can get one spell per day from another spell list.

The pathfinder savant prestige class gets one spell per level after first in the prestige class from any classes spell list.

There's a surprising number of healing & status removal spells on the alchemist list, so alchemists and investigators with the infusion discovery can do the job if they're high enough level.

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The nice thing about alchemist is they can whip up their extract in a minute so leaving slots open becomes very useful


Sage sorcerer with the Razmiran Priest archetype to never have to worry about expending scrolls.


Gulthor wrote:
The Magaambyan PrC has steep requirements, but is a great prestige class that can open up a lot of possibilities.

As I recall, it only opens up the Druidic list, which isn't that steeped in status removal.

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