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Fortune hex. As any with any spellcaster that can't harm the foes - keep some buff spell at hand. You are never useless as long as you can make the fight easier for the rest of your party.
Take different spells, you don't need to focus in mind-affecting enchantments.
Bestow Curse, blindness, Ash Storm, Rain of Frogs, Web, Lipstitch, Vomit Swarm, Enervation, Black Tentacles are all of them good spells. You can always use Lightning bolt also.
Black tentacles is a level 4 spell which also Isn't on the witch's spell list, enervation is negative levels (constructs and instead are immune), rain of frogs does mediocre damage and poison this doesn't work work in undead, oozes or constructs, lipstich only works casters and blindness and ash storm don't work on oozes (blindsight).
Besides Black Tentacles, which was a freudian slip because my witch has Occult as his patron, everything else still helps you.
You can cast ash storm in the undeads, and enervation in the oozes. You can cast bestow curse on both, and lightning on most.
Most spells have limitations on what they can affect. From Confusion to flesh to stone, from baleful polymorph to fireball. The problem comes when you focus exclusively on one kind of effect (such as compulsions and charms).
1st: Misfortune is one of your more powerful hexes. Just keep using it, and cackle, to keep the baddies mired all battle long. EVen if thats all you can do you are still doing * a ton *.
2nd: If you are literally never able to use the rest of your hexes though I'd advise talking to the DM. A houserule or two could save the day, allowing you to be more effective. (especially if its suddenly turned into an undead only campaign- something you should have been made aware of before making a character in the first place).
While all the suggestions about spells listed in above posters are good, if a good 80% of your class effectiveness is being negated simply because the DM is choosing monsters to hose you then you need to have a talk with 'em about it to see if some middle ground can be reached.
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Black tentacles is a level 4 spell which also Isn't on the witch's spell list, enervation is negative levels (constructs and instead are immune), rain of frogs does mediocre damage and poison this doesn't work work in undead, oozes or constructs, lipstich only works casters and blindness and ash storm don't work on oozes (blindsight).
Black Tentacles is on the spell list, at least according to the pfsrd. It is level four as you say though.
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All the pc's are misfits from the arcane university apart from the cleric who is supposed to keep us out of trouble. So my options are Summoner, Witch, sorcerer, Wizard, bard and some of the 3rd party stuff.
Maybe your new character was a kid who's parents ignored his lack of magical potential and shoved him into the school anyway, where his most noteable achievement was giving swirlies to pasty-faced wizard kids. :)
That's kinda handicapping, saying everyone has to be an arcane character. Not to mention, as you are discovering, it forces players into stepping all over each other's niches.
All the pc's are misfits from the arcane university apart from the cleric who is supposed to keep us out of trouble. So my options are Summoner, Witch, sorcerer, Wizard, bard and some of the 3rd party stuff.
A summoner always can go back to Eidolon Smash! when his repertoire of spells isn't adequated vs the enemies.
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Yeah it sounds like making a summoner would do your group a lot of good. It can actually melee, and all the casters can baby it with their buff spells. It could be your school mascot.
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All bow down before the Almighty School Spirit! It slices! It dices!
Anyway, talk with the GM. Ask him if he's planning to continue going in the current direction (monsters against which the common Witch is ill-equipped), because if he does, you'll either have to switch tactics or characters.
A thought: it's possible he's been putting in a lot of monsters with immunity to your abilities, because he's read GM advice about how to deal with Witches. Witches scare a lot of GMs.
In that case you should talk with him about finding a happier middle ground, where you don't feel useless, but also don't one-shot Slumber everything into oblivion. Obviously the GM should be challenging you, but not so much that you never get to do anything at all.
Also: diversify your attacks. As a wizard I try to have level-appropriate attacks against all three saves and touch AC in my arsenal. It's a bit harder for witches to cover all those bases, but try.
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I am playing a level 6 witch and am finding myself pretty darn useless, so far the opponents we have thought are constructs, oozes, and un-dead and against all 3 my character is next to useless, my hexes don't work (apart from misfortune) my spells don't work (apart from burning touch) so I have pretty much spent the whole of combat flying 10 ft above the battle looking for something useful to do (fly hex got to love it). So what are a witches options against enemies with tonnes of immunities?I've found it useful to grab combat reflexes and a long spear, then just hover above them and wait for them to start moving. You may not be doing insane damage, but combine it with the spell recommendations others have been giving and you should be okay.
Actually better than that: take the Prehensile Hair Hex. It has 10' reach and uses Int as its bonus for attack and damage.
I have to know, what two feats?
if the game is loaded with mind immune crappies- there are 2 feats to take that allow your spells to function as normal- and witches are not feat hungry.
threnodic spell (+2, kinda hefty) lets mind-affecting spells work on undead, not sure what else he's talking about.
Well, death effects, specifically, but yes.
Summon Monster III, Lantern Archon.
