I'm trying to build a halfling life oracle with the Spirit Guide archetype. I want to build a very strong healer with some other options in combat. Yes, I know healing is sub-optimal in combat. Never mind, it's what I want to do.
So, which weapons would you suggest?
What about traits? I'm thinking Magical Lineage (Cure Light Wounds) and Sacred Conduit, although maybe the latter is a waste.
As an aside, Hero Lab is telling me that my halfling is not proficient in halfling slingstaff. Any idea why?
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Life Oracles dont qualify for Sacred Conduit as they are not clerics. Magical Lineage is better served on a better spell. Honestly as a Life oracle, boosting your healing spells is the last thing you need to do.
Also Halfling Slingstaff is an awful weapon. Only way to make any sort of use out of it is to be a fighter.
My suggestion is to worship Milani and take the Beacon of Life Feat when you are allowed in order to give good buffs to the party after a channel.
Spirit Guide with the hex that allows you to take some Sorcerer spells from the Lore Spirit is STUPID strong. It will turn you into an incredible buffer.
Good answers (also, duh, I don't why I didn't figure that out, Arutema. I kept reading it as being proficient in martial weapons).
Anyway, what -is- a good weapon for this character?
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Life Oracles dont qualify for Sacred Conduit as they are not clerics. Magical Lineage is better served on a better spell. Honestly as a Life oracle, boosting your healing spells is the last thing you need to do.
Also Halfling Slingstaff is an awful weapon. Only way to make any sort of use out of it is to be a fighter.
My suggestion is to worship Milani and take the Beacon of Life Feat when you are allowed in order to give good buffs to the party after a channel.
Spirit Guide with the hex that allows you to take some Sorcerer spells from the Lore Spirit is STUPID strong. It will turn you into an incredible buffer.
The trait description for Sacred Conduit says nothing about class. But the trait does nothing to improve your healing; it applies only when you channel energy to harm udead (or outsiders if you take Alignment Channel).
Sacred Conduit: Your birth was particularly painful and difficult for your mother, who needed potent divine magic to ensure that you survived (your mother may or may not have). In any event, that magic infused you from an early age, and you now channel divine energy with greater ease than most. Whenever you channel energy, you gain a +1 trait bonus to the save DC of your channeled energy.
Yeah, I meant Sacred Touch.
You could take a different mystery and just bond Life when you might need it via Spirit Guide. Just saying.
OK, weapons. There's a case for not worrying about weapons at all and just using spells & supernatural abilities. Failing that, a longspear keeps you out of easy melee range, or daggers are weapons which you can throw if necessary and which are light so they work with Piranha Strike.
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Going back to weapons... I agree that long spear isn't bad, and morningstars aren't bad either -- both bludgeoning and piercing.
What sort of stats are you running with? What curse are you picking?
I was also noticing the lore spirit hex. I may have to redo my entire oracle character concept for this. But what really wows me is the flexibility... you can have a different spirit guide each day. Wow.
Back to your character... You want to be a life oracle and you want to be decent in combat. Have you considered multiclassing paladin for 2 levels? That would give you lay on hands ability, crazy wonderful saves, and get you Paladin weapons. You can still get revelations via extra feats.
Unfortunately, it might delay getting your spirit guide, which would be a shame because the spirit guide is really quite awesome.
Hmm
Take a morningstar and dont bother too much about it, as there are no outstanding weapons in the simple category. I would not sacrifice one of the feats we oracles get to wield a better weapon, btw. It will tide you over until you can switch to fulltime caster.
I picked Dangerously Curious and Resilient for my traits. I regard all traits and feats which work on channeling as a waste, because you need to spend feats on a mediocre resource. As a full caster you have better things to do with them. And dont get me going about how useless some of those feats are...
Magical Lineage is OK, but wasted on CLW. You use it to bring a manipulated spell you really want to use in a lower range. It would allow (for example) to tack Reach Spell on Bestow Curse, Planeshift or Heal/Harm without raising the level.
You have a small problem with your feats - if a problem it is - since some will work only when you have a certain spirit. These choices can lock you into a certain combination or lose the use of one or more feats.
It depends a lot on how long and in what level range you expect to play the oracle what your solid options are. As Hmm says, many like to cross into Paladin for the saves and proficiencies, but it does cost 2 levels, which hurts, as we get our spells a level late anyway.
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Weapon? Whats that? Your going to have such a bad to hit being a halfling and a oracle that you might not want to invest much money into one. When I play a character like that I like to spend 3K on a adamantine Morningstar. I name it....Master Key. I buy a few scrolls of silence if we are trying to be sneaky as a group. Need to open a door quietly lend it to the fighter type and silence it. After your through you might have a round or so left to throw it mid room to nix a caster type. Depends on your DM if he lets it work to muffler the door breaking. But mine does so im a jerk like that. Also works if you wanna permancy a silence on it and keep it in your haversack.
As a halfling get it medium sized so your fighter doesnt feel like he is swinging a toy.
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If this is not PFS, just take Divine Protection feat instead of dipping Paladin.
I didn't notice that Divine Protection was not PFS sanctioned. Sigh... It goes off the wishlist for my oracle. Dang, I felt like a kid in a candy store when I saw that one in the ACG.
The other reason to dip Paladin is the "Lay on Hands" feature. It is amazing with Life link., as you can recharge a bit more easily. The great thing about dipping Oracle is that many of the best toys are available at first level, and others can be got through the additional revelations feat.
I do recommend that you take selective channel feat, whatever else you plan to do. Please post your build when you're done. We'd love to see it!
Hmm
Thanks for the Milani suggestion. Where can I find Arcane Enlightenment? I don't see it in the PRD or PFSRD.
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The interesting thing about the Spirit Guide Oracle is that their spirit is a *wandering* spirit. It can change each day. This makes it incredibly flexible!
The Arcane Enlightenment hex is listed under the Lore Spirit for Shaman. It is the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen. If I was doing it, I would be tempted to go to IQ 14 so that I could grab those 4th level spells.
Hmm
Yup, that's nice. Maybe trade STR and INT and jettison the spear altogether.
I'm also thinking of delaying Selective Channel to 3rd level and picking up Fey Foundling at 1st.
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The Arcane Enlightenment hex is listed under the Lore Spirit for Shaman. It is the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen. If I was doing it, I would be tempted to go to IQ 14 so that I could grab those 4th level spells.
It is great for Shamans, but RAW it doesn't work for Oracles because of the prepared spells language:
The shaman can add a number of spells from the sorcerer/wizard spell list equal to her Charisma modifier (minimum 1) to the list of shaman spells she can prepare
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The Arcane Enlightenment hex is listed under the Lore Spirit for Shaman. It is the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen. If I was doing it, I would be tempted to go to IQ 14 so that I could grab those 4th level spells.It is great for Shamans, but RAW it doesn't work for Oracles because of the prepared spells language:
The shaman can add a number of spells from the sorcerer/wizard spell list equal to her Charisma modifier (minimum 1) to the list of shaman spells she can prepare
If we were just going by the text of the hex, yes. If we go by the full description of this archetype under Spirit Guide Oracle, you'll see the following:
A spirit guide gains one hex of her choice from the list of hexes available from that spirit. She uses her oracle level as her shaman level and her Charisma score instead of Wisdom for the purpose of determining its effects.
In this, it appears to me that Oracle=Shaman for the Spirit Guide Archetype.
Hmm
I am now!
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A spirit guide gains one hex of her choice from the list of hexes available from that spirit. She uses her oracle level as her shaman level and her Charisma score instead of Wisdom for the purpose of determining its effects.In this, it appears to me that Oracle=Shaman for the Spirit Guide Archetype.
The problem is the language about "prepared spells". Substitute Oracle=Shaman and it still reads "list of oracle spells she can prepare".
My suggestion is to worship Milani and take the Beacon of Life Feat when you are allowed in order to give good buffs to the party after a channel.
Where can one find this "Beacon of Life" feat?
EDIT: I presume you mean Beacon of Hope.