Aura of Desecration

[belmondo_89]

Hello.

I'm new to the world of Pathfinder and as my first pg i'm planning to play a GraveWalker Witch.

The problem is that i don't get how the Aura of Desecration works.

UltimateMagic wrote:

"At first level, a gravewalker can create a 20-foot-radius aura of evil power. This aura increases the DC of channeled negative energy by +1 and the turn resistance of undead by +1. At 3rd level and every 2 levels thereafter, the radius of the aura increases by 5 feet, to a maximum of 70 feet at 20th level.

I don't understand what the bolded sentence means.

Thanks in advance.

Matteo

[Malag]

Hey Matteo, welcome to PF

DC is Difficulty Class or in common terms difficulty to resist something which in this case is Channel Negative Energy. By adding +1 on Channel Negative Energy it improves your chance of Commanding the undead creatures.

Turn Resistance is vice versa. It improves your chance ( for the undead ) to resist channeled energy, it this case by 1.

Some undead often have Turn Resistance to help them shrug off the that positive energy which hurts them so bad.

You can find those terms in Paizo PRD.

Hope it helps.

[belmondo_89]

Malag wrote:

DC is Difficulty Class or in common terms difficulty to resist something which in this case is Channel Negative Energy. By adding +1 on Channel Negative Energy it improves your chance of Commanding the undead creatures.

Turn Resistance is vice versa. It improves your chance ( for the undead ) to resist channeled energy, it this case by 1.

Some undead often have Turn Resistance to help them shrug off the that positive energy which hurts them so bad.

It helps a lot :)

So if i'm right, when i try to cast a command undead, the target (if it is in the radius of the aura) gain both a -1 and a +1 to his will save, resulting in a +0?

The real problem is that as a witch i think i'm not a channeling energy class, or i'm wrong?

Thanks again and sorry for my inexperience.

[Grick]

belmondo_89 wrote:

So if i'm right, when i try to cast a command undead, the target (if it is in the radius of the aura) gain both a -1 and a +1 to his will save, resulting in a +0?

By turn resistance I think they mean Channel Resistance which increases the undead's chance to resist the effects of channel energy. This means if you have undead friends hanging around, and some darn cleric shows up and channels positive energy to harm them, they have a better chance of resisting the effects.

And it means if a negative-energy cleric shows up and channels negative energy to harm the living, the DC for living creatures to save against that effect is increased by one.

The Command Undead spell does not use channeled energy, so it's not effected.

The Command Undead feat feat does use channeled energy, so it's affected by the aura.

[belmondo_89]

Thanks for the answers, just a few questions :)

UltimateMagic wrote:

"This aura increases the DC of channeled negative energy by +1"

So if a friendly or foe class, channel negative energy within the area, the DC to resist is increased by 1.

Then if an enemy cleric appear and try to kill me channeling negative energy i help him increasing the DC by 1?

UltimateMagic wrote:

"This aura increases ... the turn resistance of undead by +1"

That means an undead in the aura would have +1 on Will Save if someone try to affect him with positive energy or just if someone try to free him if he is controlled or similar?

UltimateMagic wrote:

"At first level, a gravewalker can create a 20-foot-radius aura of evil power"

"Can create" means i can activate it at will or just that it is always active until i'm alive?

Thanks again for your patience.

Matteo

[Grick]

belmondo_89 wrote:

So if a friendly or foe class, channel negative energy within the area, the DC to resist is increased by 1.

Then if an enemy cleric appear and try to kill me channeling negative energy i help him increasing the DC by 1?

Yep. And if a friendly cleric appears and tries to kill your enemies by channeling negative energy, you're helping him, too.

belmondo_89 wrote:

UltimateMagic wrote:

"This aura increases ... the turn resistance of undead by +1"

That means an undead in the aura would have +1 on Will Save if someone try to affect him with positive energy or just if someone try to free him if he is controlled or similar?

Any time the channel energy ability is used on undead, they get +1 to their saves to resist it. In the case of negative energy to heal them, they are probably willing, so it's not a problem.

belmondo_89 wrote:

UltimateMagic wrote:

"At first level, a gravewalker can create a 20-foot-radius aura of evil power"

"Can create" means i can activate it at will or just that it is always active until i'm alive?

Not clear. Ask your DM. Generally, "can" means optional, so it's probably a standard action to activate the ability. Either free or standard to drop it.

[belmondo_89]

Ok. Thank you very much.
Now i can rest in peace :)

[Malag]

Aura is marked as Su, meaning it's supernatural ability and supernatural abilities by default require standard action.

[The Great Auz]

Malag wrote:

Aura is marked as Su, meaning it's supernatural ability and supernatural abilities by default require standard action.

Thanks for the clarification on this. I have been wondering the same thing as well. I was also curious about their 3rd level ability Deliver Touch Spells, however. The UM says "after casting a touch spell, as a full round action, the witch can designate a target and stab a pin into her poppet delivering the spell as a ranged touch attack." I was wondering if she has to do this every time she casts a touch spell (even if she is keeping the same target) or does it only take a full round action to select or change targets. Thanks in advance for any replies.