You will find some ranges of 100 or so feet in pfs. Anything past this medium range is pretty rare from what I've seen.
Tanglewood bags also could be useful with that class feature.
I just looked through the available alchemical items. There is nothing of worth for this ability. I'm sorry. Just ignore it and move on.
Well, I believe the alchemist would still be dealing Int modifier to damage with splash weapons (even if they don't splash) so that's a little dmg increase. Since they don't splash you don't have to worry about hitting allies. Not their best ability probably but certainly could be helpful if you've run out of bombs.
You can use it on a melee weapon.
Sometimes, people are more than 20' away, and if you do have the action to spare, it's a nice bit of oomph. 3.3 gp is nothing.
It combines nicely with Explosive Missile.
I just looked through the available alchemical items. There is nothing of worth for this ability. I'm sorry. Just ignore it and move on.
Where did you see that list? I'm making a grenadier and I would like to know what's available.
I have a gunslinger/grenadier... I still get the touch attack.
Tanglefoot Bags and Sneezing Powder could probably be pretty good with this.
Also, Smog or Pepper pellets if you need extra range on 'em. I don't think 40 GP is too bad for an emergency Glitterdust.
so the consensus seems to be that this power is pointless. I still did not get an answer as to whether or not it could be used with say a skyrocket. That might make it worth it.
I use it all the time.. It's very helpful last game we were being hammered by trolls I alternated between tanglefoot (entangled no save) alchemists fire and acid on my pistol bullets.
You get to debuff and damage at the same time also it lasts a minute so at the beging of combat you can set up some ammo to use when the opportunity arises.
Bows over distance an extra d6 damage is always handy.
Actually, now I'm wondering...
What if you applied it to a weapon with the scatter quality? One piece of ammunition in that instance technically hits every creature within its cone...
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With a net, that's a ranged touch attack (at -4 if non-proficient), which both entangles (the net), and with an added flask of Ghast Retch (UE P107), sickens (nauseates if they fail the save!)...
Net plus alchemical glue, followed up by a bladder containing several doses of glue accelerant?
I always thought what made it good was the swift action part at level 6. You get the benefit of an alchemical item plus a weapon attack as part of the same standard action. Rather than two rounds, you can spend one to do the same thing, and potentially at longer range.
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I just looked through the available alchemical items. There is nothing of worth for this ability. I'm sorry. Just ignore it and move on.Where did you see that list? I'm making a grenadier and I would like to know what's available.
Post 8 of my Alchemist Guide has a pretty solid list of everything available, although I can't vouch for which are PFS legal since I don't play that.
There's quite a few really great things to combine to your weapon, Ghast Retch Flask and Tanglefoot bags being two. It's honestly a great ability that makes you a solid ranged debuffer.
the Missile discovery sadly does not make your arrow range touch. I wish it did, but it doesn't.
Also tangleshot arrows are, stupidly in my view, not PFS legal. But thats a different thread.
The thing that's making the tangleshot arrows a touch attack are the arrows themselves, which specifically are called out as touch attacks.
Actually, now I'm wondering...
What if you applied it to a weapon with the scatter quality? One piece of ammunition in that instance technically hits every creature within its cone...
Given how the ability is worded, I would just take it literally: The next creature struck takes the effect; the effect does not affect other creatures.
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@ neferas: Hadn't checked on the availability of the tangleshot arrows for PFS. Also found the dye arrows that are touch attack and not PFS legal. Sadness I tell you. Sadness
Another use for alchemical weapon is to give the away. It lasts for a minute and doesn't say who has to fire it. Your Ranger Archer might like having a hybridized acid/alchemists fire that adds you INT damage on it.
A seperate possibility is to have true strike as one of the extracts in your sipping jacket. Although this particular extract being used might need GM permission as its duration is special and not rds or instant.
Some dms are very generous and let throw anything bonuses apply to non-thrown alchemicalweapons that dont splash. Just like some dms let these bonuses stack with the hybridization funnel.
I would expect that most dms allow neither. As a result I would never try this in pfs.