I'm wondering a couple of things.
First: How does this work? Do I learn the words as normal for an arcanist, then prepare the words, then create wordspells on the fly?
Second: How does this stack up with a regular arcanist? With a regular wizard? sorcerer?
I'm trying to decide what to do for a Pathfinder game that's starting, and I have no idea what to do. I was thinking a warlock-type blaster, but nothing really works for that. Someone from my group suggested porting over the old warlock and updating it, but... I dunno. Blasting in general gets a bad reputation, even though it's fun. And as a warlock, I could do it all day long. Or I could be a wizard, but that tends to get out of hand at times, and I'm not a fan of Vancian Magic. I want to break things and tear stuff up... but I don't know what to play in the slightest, and I'm starting to hold up the group with my waffling.
Sorry for the rambling, got home from work a bit ago, so I'm not terribly coherent. It's just that I'm really trying to rein in on my min-maxing, but it's difficult. Most of my gaming experiences have been with groups that not only encouraged min-maxing, but required it. So barring the last few years (which haven't been all that game-filled at times), all of my gaming has basically amounted to 'min-max or die'. And I'm trying to corral that so that I don't make the game un-fun for my friends. But then I run into my usual 'well I could do this, but it's not that great' or 'wait, I'm overlapping' and things of that nature. I could really use some advice on what to play.
Right now we have... A warlord (the adamant entertainment one), an artisan (from drop dead studios), a dragonfire adept (converted from 3.5), and one person undecided besides myself. 3rd party and homebrew/custom content is permitted with GM oversight.
