WotW - Making an Arcane Character to balance with my Party

[rhalwarlock]

Hello everyone.

In about a week and a half I will finally get to play in a Way of the Wicked game. I have been looking forward to getting to play in this campaign for quite some time. I know, fairly well know, what my group is going to consist of and the arcane department has fallen to me. However, I would love to get some advice from everyone here on what they think might be the best way to go.

Other Party Members:

Human (I think) Druid - NE, worshiper of Zon-Kuthon, and has the Shades of the Uskwood feat.
Human Undead Lord Cleric worshiping one of the Archdukes of hell (don't remember which).
Alchemist (unknown race)
Melee type (probably fighter, race unknown)
Rogue (race unknown)

I have several concepts:

Sorcerer Crossblodded Infernal and Abyssal going to Diabolist
Summoner - Master Summoner Archetype
Wizard going towards Diabolist
Witch - Gravewalker
Magus

Anyone have any opnions? Any other concept suggestions - class and race?

[Ranax]

Is your rogue melee or ranged? Magus is a fun class for doing damage but it's not got the utility of a full arcane caster. It's spell list is mostly self buff and blast.

You've already got a large group so I'd advise against summoner.

Personally, I would go with Diabolist wizard. Witch would be nice flavor for the group, but Gravewalker might step on the Undead Lord's toes a bit. If Orc's or half-orcs are available I'd go for a scarred witch-doctor with high Con for cool flavor and good survivability.

[XMorsX]

Do not take crossblooded sorcerer, infernal sorcerer is fine by itself. If anything, make a crossblooded infernal / orc sorcerer for better blasting coupled with the channel hellfire feature of the diabolist for bypassing resistances.

[Zahir ibn Mahmoud ibn Jothan]

rhalwarlock wrote:

Human (I think) Druid - NE, worshiper of Zon-Kuthon, and has the Shades of the Uskwood feat.

Human Undead Lord Cleric worshiping one of the Archdukes of hell (don't remember which).
Alchemist (unknown race)
Melee type (probably fighter, race unknown)
Rogue (race unknown)

So is anyone following the advice to players of "be Lawful Evil" and "Worship Asmodeus?" I see the two Divines aren't.

[rhalwarlock]

Ranax wrote:

Is your rogue melee or ranged?

I don't know for sure, but I think melee.

Ranax wrote:

If Orc's or half-orcs are available I'd go for a scarred witch-doctor with high Con for cool flavor and good surviability.

I have thought of this, however I am not sure I like still having to use Int for bonus spells.

Zahir ibn Mahmoud ibn Jothan wrote:

So is anyone following the advice to players of "be Lawful Evil" and "Worship Asmodeus?" I see the two Divines aren't.

I will be, not sure about the others. The druid went with Zon-Kuthon because he is still an evil deity that does have druids who worship him. The cleric needed the death domain, so he took one of the archdukes so he would still beholden to Asmodeus.