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More or less I've made a cleric and I'm trying to maximize the amount of healing I can do. So far I haven't really found any feats that will help me maximize healing, and nothing that will be genuinely useful except the Healing Domain level 6 power and the Phylactery of Channel Positive Energy (is this Society approved?).
If you haven't actually started your cleric yet, you might want to consider playing a life oracle instead. They can get quite a few class abilities that help with healing.
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If I recall correctly, there are several feats that modify channeling and/or enhance channeling.
Channel Smite, Elemental Channel, Extra Channel, Improved Channel, & Selective Channeling.
For a healing cleric, Extra Channel would give you more channels per day, and Selective Channeling lets you choose whom to hit in your area of effect. Both helpful so that you don't heal your foes or injure your undead allies.
I doubt it. Divine metamagic was widely seen to be extremely and terminally OP and not very well thought out.
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But you can only take Extra Channel once.
Is there any plans to do the channel substitution for metamagics? i.e.-burning channels to metamagic a spell.
I was unaware that you could only take Extra Channel once. For some reason I thought it worked just like all the other "Extra" feats. Hero Lab never corrected me either...
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I just can't wait for the first time I can cast a Selective Spell Fireball on my healbot Cleric w/ Fire Domain and Magical Lineage (Fireball) and ruin the GM's fun. The best part is it will still be a level 3 spell. Build otherwise entitled how to have respectable AoE healing with party-friendly area effect damage. And it was all made possible by Phylactery of Channel Positive energy.
Yes, I am infact a horrible person.
Sounds like fun!
Of course, you would have to be 10th level to get that combo (or actually, 11th when you get a feat). By then, your fireball is maxed out.
By then, your fireball is maxed out.
And 50% of creatures are either resistant to fire, have really good saves, or incorporeal... but if direct damage is your way of having fun, GO FOR IT!
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I was unaware that you could only take Extra Channel once. For some reason I thought it worked just like all the other "Extra" feats. Hero Lab never corrected me either...But you can only take Extra Channel once.
Is there any plans to do the channel substitution for metamagics? i.e.-burning channels to metamagic a spell.
It's the only "Extra" feat that doesn't have the Special heading of being able to take it multiple times. Our group has looked at this and all the errata and it hasn't changed. Since it doesn't have the special ability of taking multiple times, it therefore must be meant to be taken only once.
I'll gladly step aside and stand corrected if I'm wrong, but that's the way we have interpreted it.| 1 person marked this as FAQ candidate. |
I was unaware that you could only take Extra Channel once. For some reason I thought it worked just like all the other "Extra" feats. Hero Lab never corrected me either...But you can only take Extra Channel once.
Is there any plans to do the channel substitution for metamagics? i.e.-burning channels to metamagic a spell.
It's the only "Extra" feat that doesn't have the Special heading of being able to take it multiple times. Our group has looked at this and all the errata and it hasn't changed. Since it doesn't have the special ability of taking multiple times, it therefore must be meant to be taken only once.
I'll gladly step aside and stand corrected if I'm wrong, but that's the way we have interpreted it.
Our group too is wondering on this very topic. It seems a bit odd that "Extra Channel" is the only Extra feat in the core rulebook and APG which doesn't specify you can take it more than once. I hope this is an over sight.
I don't think it is an oversight, unfortunately. The question's been asked in at least 6 or 7 places since the first edition of the core rulebook.
If there is a definittive ruling on this could you point us to the forum thread please. I admit my search fu is not the greatest, but I have looked. I have not found anywhere that says yea or nay, just that is has been brought up several times.
If you could take it mutiple times, human clerics would be the ultimate low-level healbots. They already introduced channel energy as a means of healing so as to free up clerical spells for things other than healing. Making this feat stackable goes waay too far the other way.
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If you could take it mutiple times, human clerics would be the ultimate low-level healbots. They already introduced channel energy as a means of healing so as to free up clerical spells for things other than healing. Making this feat stackable goes waay too far the other way.
Apparently Ultimate Magic is adding a Quicken Channel feat to make Channeling even better:)
My guess is that in case something like DMM ever gets a PF version, that they want to keep a soft-cap on the limit of daily channels to avoid a rebirth of Codzilla. Quicken Channel needed to happen, hopefully we'll get an Empower Channel or Maximize Channel as well.
Just the same couldn't any Life Oracle (with the Channel Energy revelation) also take any of the channeling feats? I'd assume that for pre-requisites sake this counts as having the Class Feature.
You think that Quicken, Empower and Maximize was the worse the CoDzilla could do? I tell you only this: Persistent Spell just before sleeping.
Clericzilla wasn't so OP if you had the kind of DM that liked to have monsters dispel buffs or invoke antimagic fields. Or you know, have a beholder arbitrarily come along.
He still had to beat the cleric's caster level, and a good player could boost his caster level to a really high number. Beholders are iconic, but after looking at their save DC's a few weeks ago they are not all that tough.