Why is Robe of Arcane Heritage not unbalancing?


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This item seems like almost a "must have" for sorcerers, and is available at a great price. It seems unfair that no other spell-casting class gets something like this. Why is that not unbalancing? Is the sorcerer underpowered? Are other items available for Oracle Mysteries, Wizard Schools, or Cleric Domains? Or is it just that the bloodline powers are not good enough that this breaks things?


Bloodline powers are not that good, and there is an item like this for most other classes. Monk's get a robe, Fighters get a sash and gloves, Paladins get bracers, etc., etc.


It is a fairly expensive item (16k gold is the same cost as a +4 stat item) that enhances a secondary ability (bloodline powers as opposed to spells). Where is the issue? For the same cost the sorceror could be adding +4 to the dc of their spells, a much bigger boon the +4 to their effective level for bloodline powers.

As mplindustries said, there are such items for many classes, in fact the next item down in the prd is the sash of the war champion, which advances the fighter's armor training 4 levels.


Fair enough, I guess I just wonder why there isn't an item that increases level for Oracle mysteries or Domain powers ( also secondary powers that aren't that powerful).


Notabrick wrote:
Fair enough, I guess I just wonder why there isn't an item that increases level for Oracle mysteries or Domain powers ( also secondary powers that aren't that powerful).

Mysteries really are that powerful, though--they're better than feats, for sure.

Domains, for the most part, end at 8th level, though, so such an item would be mostly pointless.


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Oracle Crystals. Like a pearl of power, but they recharge a mystery, bonus spell, use of the appropriate level. Pricing and other details are as a pearl of power.
An additional type of prayer bead could recharge domain spells.


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