Witch - is reach spell any good?


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other than vampric touch (great spell!!! )
any other spells are touch based?


all cure spells are touch (but you can also deliver them by your familiar)


I generally like reach spell, but you should consider just buying it as a rod. It is rather cheap, and 3 uses should take you through a day.

Some useful witch touch spells:

Bestow Curse - Great spell, and very witchy

Touch of Idiocy - Great against casters, and 1d6 wis penalty can be a nice addition to the range of penalties to will saves, the witch got.

Excrutiating Deformation - I haven't actually used it yet, but an offensive transmutation spell is nice against those enemies with a lot of other immunities.

The later levels also have a couple of useful touch spells each.


cant forget the inflect spells they are touch too. and nice to have.


The Gravewalker witch can do touch spells as ranged touch by taking a full round action instead of raising spell level. The range is ever expanding by level. To me, better than the feat.


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I find Reach Spell is better for spontaneous casters like Oracle or Sorcerer because it makes your character infinitely more versatile. For casters that must prepare spells, it's still good, but not quite as good, IMO, since you have to use a higher spell slot when you prepare it and you don't necessarily know what range you'll actually need.

A rod would be nice as it doesn't affect the spell level (so you can just make them all long range), but you said in your other thread that you likely won't have access to rods.


maybe the expended hair trick with hex - is better.


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Ahem...

Spectral Hand

Don't use Reach Spell for touch-range spells. Use Spectral Hand or your Familiar. Or just walk up and touch it.


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One other possible advantage of reach spell is that ranged touch is based on dex instead of strength.

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