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Renegade Paladin wrote:

Ciretose, I'm going to put this as succinctly as I can: One word on one line of a chart does not equate to flavor in any meaningful sense of the word. Saying that Shelyn favors the glaive tells me nothing about how to roleplay one of her followers, and in fact is likely to give the completely wrong idea taken in isolation. You keep harping on and on about flavor in relation to something that in the vast majority of cases is arbitrary; if you want to enforce flavor on the warpriest, devise deity-specific codes of behavior, religious dogma, the ideals of the deity, in short things that actually have some form of substance that informs how one would/should roleplay the character. Favored weapon doesn't do that in any meaningful way.

So how does the goddess of beauty and love get a glaive as her favored weapon? Shelyn bears the glaive gifted to her half brother in exchange for him swearing the Unbreakable Oath. The weapon was crafted by the former god of smiths, who fell during the same murderous spree that claimed Shelyn’s mother. When he received it, the weapon corrupted Zon-Kuthon and convinced him to go to war against the other deities. It was during this war that Shelyn lost her mother and became goddess of love. When created, Whisperer of Souls was given the ability to absorb souls (hence its name) and once it absorbs 100 powerful souls (not just anybody’s soul will do) it will become a god in its own right and bring about an era of murder and death. When Zon-Kuthon received the weapon it held no souls. By the time Shelyn stole Whisperer of Souls it had almost all it needed. In the time since, Shelyn has been able to free most of those souls thanks to the help of Nethys and brave adventurers (a grand quest of goodness must be performed to release a soul). Much to the frustration of Whisperer of Souls, it can’t seem to corrupt Shelyn or influence her in any way (earning her the title "the...

So what I'm getting from this is that a warpriest of Shelyn should be able to use any intelligent evil weapon as a favored weapon. I don't see how it being a glaive is the least bit significant.

This is overpowered. Terribly, terribly overpowered.
The casting system might be workable, but the number of spells prepared per day needs to be reduced significantly. Check out the spirit shaman in 3.5 for a reasonably balanced option. Of course, the spirit shaman was only casting off the druid list and dropped a lot of really powerful class features while the arcanist casts off the wizard list and barely has any class features worth dropping...

I really like this class, it'll be good to have a more balanced cleric type class available. Still, improvements could be made.

Warpriest really, really needs to get channel energy at first level. Given how MAD the class is, guided hand is going to be a very popular option and players shouldn't have to spend their first two levels being useless until they get it.

Something should probably also be done to even out the alignments a bit, as things stand negative energy channelers are better fighters because they can use channel smite and positive energy channelers are better at utility because they can prepare more utility spells. It makes alignment into too much of a mechanical decision for my tastes.

It might be a good idea to rebase channel energy on wisdom. Warpriests need a lot of good abilities just because they expect to be a gish, no good reason to further restrict those who want to use channel smite.

Lawful warpriests are significantly stronger than chaotic ones, adding ghost touch(an ability which is almost always useless but sometimes incredibly powerful) to their weapon on a day to day basis is much better than adding vicious(which is always okay but never better than okay).

It could be cool to add a version of spellstrike that only works with cure/inflict spells. It wouldn't be a huge power boost since they don't have spell combat, but it would give a nice bit of mobility.