Arykiel's page

• counterspelling: Arykiel can ready an action to use her telekinetic blast as dispel magic to counter a spell, and has other tricks that allow her to counter a spell as an immediate action. This should be pretty effective for shutting down at least one enemy magic-user per encounter. When she counters a spell that targets her, she can reflect it back at the caster (Parry Spell).

• debuffing: At-will enervation (once a day per target) and enervating infusion should see an effect against eligible opponents, and Life: Sanctify allows this same strategy against undead ones. And of course she should have lots of dispelling opportunities. When she dispels an effect, she stuns or sickens the target (Destructive Dispel).

• controlling: Both she and her familiar can use Telekinetic Maneuvers to bull rush, disarm, grapple, or trip creatures in combat. Her familiar also has some soft control with its Guardian: Singularity ability and various alchemical formulas.

• blasting: She is mostly focused on single-targets with her kinetic blasts, though her Oath Against Harm and investment into Void limits her damage output somewhat. Against living targets, she can deal nonlethal damage with her Merciful Spell metakinesis. Against constructs and undead, she can deal damage with pure negative infusion blasts.

• tanking: Both Arykiel and Spirit have a ton of hit points, though in Arykiel's case the number is deceptive because she will be suffering a lot of unhealable nonlethal damage from her Draining Casting drawback. Spirit can tank effectively though, especially with its increased natural AC and its Guardian abilities. When patrolling, Spirit can absorb hits within a 30' radius.

• healing: Invigorate grants up to 90 temporary hp to an injured character as a standard action with no resource cost, and also heals the same amount of nonlethal damage for those invested in the Guardian sphere (like her familiar). She can also Selectively channel energy as a move action. If she is willing to spend spell points, she can remove any condition as a standard action.

• scouting: Arykiel can "permanently" shrink herself and her familiar to Fine size, and they both have Telekinetic Invisibility making them nearly undetectable. She can see in darkness and Spirit has blindsense, and they both have a natural fly speed.

• party face: Her Diplomacy skill is excellent, but it's really for converting enemies in combat: either hurling flasks of Improved Liquid Nice from her familiar, or charging enemies while falling from unusual directions and using the damage to initiate Change of Heart.

Arykiel also has a number of obvious weaknesses.

• Oath Against Harm: She cannot deliberately kill a living person, or she loses most of her powers. So obviously she won't do that. This makes her very dependent on others ending combats.

• Negative energy: A lot of her kineticist powers use the Void element, which deals negative damage. She has to spend extra resources to affect undead and constructs with these powers.

• Burn penalties: She has a lot of Dex-based skills, but as she accepts burn they get reduced to around half of their starting values. Likewise her hit point total will shrink as she casts spells.

• Poor in melee: She is pretty weak when fighting up close, and because of her small size she is extremely vulnerable to maneuvers.

• Reactive: Arykiel's best tricks are in response to her enemies, such as countering their spells or turning their loyalty after they attack. If they ignore her and just pound her allies, she's stuck.

• Socially awkward: She doesn't bluff very well, and cannot tell a lie. Despite having a good Diplomacy score, her other social skills are sub-par. She's clearly a Sarenite and doesn't hide it.

Standard
• attack
• channel energy
• Counterspell (i.e. cast dispel magic)
• kinetic blast
• Master of Mysteries
• spherecast

Move
• channel energy (Quick Channel)
• Gather Might (+10 Con) or gather power (-5 burn)
• maintain Master of Mysteries
• move
• retrieve item

Swift
• Gather Might (+8 Con) or gather power (-4 burn)
• kinetic barrage
• quickened kinetic blast

Immediate
• Greater Unweave Magic
• Unbind Spell

Free
• reinforce magic

No action
• impossible magic

Standard
• attack
• Focusing Formula (to another)
• Patrol
• Patrol (spend martial focus, two zones)
• telekinetic maneuver
• telekinetic throw
• Touch of Glory

Move
• Focusing Formula (to self)
• move
• Patrol (spend martial focus)
• retrieve item

Swift
• Swift Aid

Immediate
• Defend Other
• Guardian's Focus (maneuver on Patrol)
• In Harm's Way

Free
• Fast Draw
• second save

Attack of Opportunity
• Assist

No action
• block attacks
• delayed damage pool
• Guardian's Focus (Defend Other successful)

• When she gathers power as a move action, she can reduce the burn cost of her kinetic blasts by 5. That means that with composite specialization, advanced metakinetic master, and infusion specialization, she can reduce most of her blasts by 13 burn.

• Her most damaging blast is an empowered (1) furious (1) aetheric boosted (3) gravitic boosted (3) void blast (2), which deals 34.5d8+61 bludgeoning/negative damage if it hits. Close behind is an empowered (1) furious (1) aetheric boosted (3) hellfire blast (3) that deals 34.5d8+46 fire/negative damage if it hits touch AC, but has to get past spell and energy resistance. Both blasts need pure negative infusion (1 or 3) to affect undead or constructs.

• Kinetic blade costs her no burn, so ideally when she uses it her damage is dealt by reorienting herself so the enemy is down (with gravitic freedom) and then charging them with Branch Pounce. (Her familiar can also throw her if she readies herself with Rhino Charge.) As long as the enemy has already attacked her and she hasn't attacked them first, she can use Change of Heart on this strike, possibly convincing them to be her ally instead.

• Her next-best attack is to use an empowered (1) furious (1) aether boosted (2) gravitic boosted (2) hyper-dimensional blast (3) telekinetic weapon (2) telekinetic blast (0) for base 19.5d8+31 damage, and use it to throw either her scimitar or one of her familiar's alchemical formulae. This uses the weapon's properties and magical qualities, which means the scimitar has a good chance of critically hitting, and the alchemical items can have additional effects beyond the initial blast (tanglefoot bags or liquid nice, for example).

• To attack multiple enemies, her best bet is either an empowered (1) furious (1) aether boosted (2) gravitic boosted (2) telekinetic weapon (2) many throw (4) telekinetic blast (0), which deals 19.5d8+53 damage to up to 20 targets within 30 ft of each other and can use her scimitar and various pellets of special materials, or an empowered (1) furious (1) aether boosted (3) burning infusion (1) fan of flames (1) hellfire blast (3), which deals 34.5d8+48+3d6 to all within a 15 ft cone.

• When she gathers power, she can instead choose to Gather Might, giving herself a +10 alchemical boost to Constitution. This is best on blasts where she really wants her enemies to fail the save-based rider effect, like hellfire blast making them catch fire or enervating infusion giving them a negative level. For example, she can shoot a quickened (3) empty infusion (0) enervating infusion (4) extended range (1) negative blast (0) (Fort DC 43*) or an empowered (1) furious (1) quickened (3) empty infusion (0) hellfire blast (3) (Ref DC 43*). These can be cast as swift actions if she Gathers Might as a move, leaving her standard action free to cast a spell or blast. Alternatively she can cast enervation as a standard action for no burn (but she cannot affect the same target with it twice in 24 hours).

• She should try to always keep her immediate action available to potentially counter any spell she identifies within 90 ft for 1 burn with Greater Unweave Magic. She can also do this with Unbind Spell with no range limit for 1 or 2 spell points, which might give her back temporary spell points. It is probably worthwhile sometimes for her to ready an action to counter spells with Unweave Magic if she is facing a dedicated caster. Doing any of these has a chance of stunning the caster (with Destructive Dispel) and also reflects the spell back at the caster (with Parry Spell) if it targeted her. As a standard action she can activate her Master of Mysteries ability, which lets her take control of any enemy spell effect that comes within 60 ft. She can store it for up to 24 hours and cast it, redirect it, or simply counter it (and trigger Destructive Dispel and Parry Spell). She only gets this last ability for 36 rounds a day, and maintaining it is a move action.

• She can dispel magic on an enemy with an empowered (1) extended range (1) unraveling infusion (3) hellfire blast (3), an empowered (1) fan of flames (1) unraveling infusion (3) hellfire blast (3), or using Essentialize (and potentially gaining temporary spell points). These powers also trigger Destructive Dispel.

• Defensively, she can set up a Bulwark to protect against three magical or physical attacks for one spell point. Her Fallen Fey abilities give her a +5 vs spell resistance, a +5 terrain bonus, and several 1d4+4 boosts to rolls for attack, saves, skills, or abilities. She can also cast Transfiguration on herself and others to add a good chunk of hit points and protect against poison and disease. These effects can last up to 24 hours, so she can activate them the night before resting. With her Alteration sphere powers she can permanently shrink herself and others to Fine size, or increase their size to Colossal. And, she can cast etheric shards, mind blank, and death ward at-will for 1 burn each.

• Using Gift of Knowledge, Arykiel can permanently give her familiar or other characters up to five magic talents. Good choices for this might be: Life sphere, Life: Deeper Healing, Life: Greater Invigorate, Life: Painkiller, and Life: Sudden Invigoration. These talents basically allow Spirit to Invigorate itself as an immediate action. Arykiel can also Transfer spell points to others.

• She has the sphere versions of limited wish and wish, though unfortunately they are just as expensive as the spell versions. Still, if she comes into a lot of money, she can use them to boost her abilities, or any of the other things that wishes are good for. If she is slain and becomes a prana ghost (and thus cannot be brought back with Resurrection), Manifestation is one way she can return herself to life.

• Because of her Mythic Burn path ability, she can take a point of burn in place of spending a mythic point. This might be a good tradeoff to use surge, or kinetic barrage if she needs to punch through DR or energy resistance-- though generally speaking her quickened kinetic blasts are better swift actions. It may be more resource-efficient to activate her Shuffle ability as a standard action and use it to convert fire damage to force damage for an empowered (1) furious (1) quickened (3) burning infusion (1) extended range (1) fire blast (0).

• At the start of each adventuring day, she should activate her force ward with 5 points of burn, giving herself 70 temporary hit points that regenerate 3/minute, or faster when she takes burn with her aether-based talents. She should also cast mind blank for another point of burn, which gives her the maximum advantage from elemental overflow. She should activate her Greater Fey-Link and place several Fey Secrets (for 6 burnlike nonlethal damage for every two fey-blessings). She should also cast Transfiguration on both herself and her familiar.

Benchmark To Hit 38 33 29 Arykiel's To Hit 36 (blue)
Again, just within the benchmark, and this assumes all of her buffs are active.

Benchmark AC 46 41 37 Arykiel's AC 49 (over maximum)
This is just past the benchmark maximum, though without her buffs she is well past the minimum. It's hard to hit creatures that are Fine-sized; not much I can do about it. Presumably opponents will use maneuvers against her to make her more vulnerable if she gets into melee.

Benchmark Saves 36 31 27 Arykiel's Saves 33 (blue) 27 (orange) 25 (under minimum)
Both her Reflex and Will saves are poor, though when she is buffed and her +3 mind-affecting bonus applies it is slightly less bad.

Benchmark DCs vs Good 41 38 35 Arykiel's DCs vs Good 38 (blue)
This is the DC of her best infusion when she is fully buffed.

Benchmark DCs vs Bad 36 33 31 Arykiel's DCs vs Bad 32 (orange)
This is the DC of her worst infusion when she is fully buffed.