|
Arcanist Level 1 Playtest
On Tuesday night I was invited over to a friends house to play PFS and play test some of the new character classes. Todash and Sam Pollak were both in this group.
We played #2-15 Shades of Ice Part 1: Written in Blood.
Our party consisted of
An Elven Investigator
A Half Orc Skald
A Warpriest of Cayden Cayllen
A Swashbuckler
A Shaman
And an Ifrit Arcanist.
I had allot of fun playing (It was a replay for me) through the scenario.
On the whole I think our party worked pretty well. The warpriest did a good job being the “hard point” for tohers to try and pound on. The Investigatero took on the role of “stealth” and lock pick, The Shaman did a good job healing, and the Skald…Rigg the long tooth was the “life of the party”.
my character, Ma'ass al Gin bin Naar, an Ifrit Arcanist who hailed from Katheer in Qadira spent quite a bit of time complaining about the cold..and shivering. He almost passed out form the cold.
As for the Arcanist class, I found it fun to play.
Here Is my Character.
Ma'ass al Gin bin Naar
(Scimitar of the Genies, born of Flames) in Arabic, or at least what a translation site told me.
CR 1 Male Ifrit Arcanist CG Medium Humanoid (Human)
Init +1; Senses Perception +1 (Darkvision)
-------------------- DEFENSE --------------------
AC 11 (15 with mage armor) Touch 11 Flat Footed 10
hp 7
Fort +1, Ref +1, Will +3
-------------------- OFFENSE --------------------
Spd 30 ft.
Melee:
Weapon: Dagger (Jambiya) -1 Melle +1 Ranged (+0 Bab, -1 Str, +1 Dex)
Ranged:
Fire Bolt +1 (1d6+1) Range: 30
-------------------- STATISTICS --------------------
Str 9, Dex 12, Con 12, Int 18, Wis 12, Cha 10
Base Atk +0; CMB +1; CMD 10
Feats: Spell Focus Evocation
Traits: Eastern Mysteries, Elemental Pupol: Fire
Skills: Appraise: +8 Craft: Sculptor +8, Knowledge Arcana: +8 Knowledge Engineering: +8, Knowledge Planes +8, Linguistics +8, Spellcraft +8
Languages: Taldane (common), Kelish, Ignan, Aquan, Auran, Terran
Class Abilities:
Blood Focus: 4 points
Efreeti Blood line
School Specialization: evocation
Boost spell 1 point +1 caster level +1 DC,
Fire bolt 1 point Ranged touch 1d6+1
Spells Burning Hands, Color Spray, Comprehend Languages, Identify, Mage Armor, Magic Missile, Snow Ball
Spells per day 3 first level spells
Spells Prepared 2
-------------------- TRACKED RESOURCES --------------------
Spell Like ability: Burning hands 1/day
Gear: Wizard’s kit, 1 dagger, 1 Potion of Cure light wounds, Scroll 3 spells: Grease, Obscuring Mist, Color Spray.
3 gp left.
I enjoyed playing my Arcanist.
The first day my character had Mage Armor and Burning hands prepared.
In the first battle of the scenario, my character was able to cast mage armor in the first round, and in the next round, to cast Burning hands to good effect, using eastern mysteries, and spending a point of blood focus to make the spell more difficult to save against, and to increase its caster level. My character also went through the color spray, and greese spell on his scroll In the third and 4th round of the battle.
The Skald went down in the fight, and we did our best to heal him, using potions we found, and the Shaman’s healing.
We decided to find an inn for the night. For the next day my character prepared color spray and burning hands.
We got a good lead to find our quarry from a down and out on her luck scholar.
In the next scene we got into a big ruckus which was lots of fun. Color spray came in handy.
In the last fight we faced off against a rival adventuring party, they were in a yard behind the Inn and we were on the second floor
The party worked well together and we were able to prevail
I felt my Arcanist did ok, using his color spray spell. The rest of the party finished off the enemy.
Summary:
All In all I enjoyed my Arcanist. I felt he fit in the “wiard/ Sorcerer” role in the party. I think the Arcanist did a good job providing Arcane support. With his Blood Focus he could also fall back on Fire bolts, from his Efreti blood line by spending points of his blood focus.