Shaman vs. Witch "Evil Eye" Hex, Is there a difference?

[Harliquinn Whiteshadow]

The Witch's Evil Eye Hex says it's mind-affecting (meaning that it cannot affect many creatures). The Shaman's Evil Eye does not has this restriction. Anyone know if that's intentional or an oversight?

John

[Paulicus]

I was disappointed when I realized the original evil eye was mind-affecting (I was building a shaman). It's most likely an oversight, as that's a big buff to a hex that already lacks the 1/day/target restriction.

[Harliquinn Whiteshadow]

Evil Eye doesn't have the 1/day/target restriction. Misfortune does.

John

[Under A Bleeding Sun]

I suspect it may be an oversight. I brought this up and Mark said he planned on addressing this at some point. Then again, the shaman is a lot slower to start on the debuff department, so we'll see. Right now its RAW, but keep an eye on the FAQ for this.

[Harliquinn Whiteshadow]

Removing the Mind Affecting restriction is a very big advantage. It opens up a lot more monster types to evil eye.

John

[Eltacolibre]

Well that's disappointing if they plan to make it mind affecting for shaman, might as well just call it the same ability and be done with it.

[Harliquinn Whiteshadow]

Personally I think it would be more disappointing if the core class's ability was a severely neutered version of the hybrid class's ability.

John

[Robert Burnell 821]

Has this been addressed by Paizo yet, I will need a ruling for my DM on Thursday? Or is it still as written?

[Chess Pwn]

no change

[Grooven]

"The shaman causes doubt to creep into the mind of a foe within 30 feet that she can see" I don't know how it couldn't be mind affecting based on that. I know I certainly won't be allowing Shaman's to evil eye baddies immune to mind affecting abilities in any game I GM, home or PFS and I doubt many others will either.

[Joe Hex]

I'm pretty certain it's intended to be "mind affecting". Good chance it will be changed when the second print of the book is released.