The unkillable cleric? Envoy of balance build.

[Renegadeshepherd]

Hi all. Played many clerics in my day but despite my being sick of it I was asked to play one once more to help out a group of newer players come into the fold. So I sought out envoy of balance because I wanted an anime style character that could absorb ridiculous amounts of punishment and laugh at my foes.

The basic idea is simple enough, take a beating and then channel positive and negative energy so as to heal me and party while dealing modest damage to a mob of foes. While the action economy is t as great as other clerics the quality of action is awesome. First here is what I got but the order of feats is very much in question....

Human male cloistered cleric 9/unbreakable fighter 1/envoy of balance 10 of Shyka

Domain: death

Edited Feats

1) fey foundling
1H) selective channel
Fighter) diehard and endurance
3) versatile channeler
5) divine protection, scribe scroll for free
7) quick channel
9) antagonize
11) extra channel
13) improved channel
15) toughness
17) ?
19)??

To silver tongue or keep skilled?
Traits: helpful and sacred conduit (+1 Channel use)
Stats: 12,10,14,8,14,16(+2)

Tactics: in the early game I will use aid another to max effect that I can,which is a +3 or better, while drawing fire on myself only to heal the whole group. After a bit ill bring a necromancy army along with my benevolent weapon to aid even more. Once we get envoy going channel like a madman but saving quick channels for emergencies. Eventually ill just walk up to a guy and want to get smacked just to heal myself twice with death domain and positive energy while hurting him. BTW, anyone know a way to force an opponent to attack me with this build?

There are things I wanted to get Into this build but couldn't. Bodyguard, in harms way, improved eldritch heritage (arcane) for familiar and some wizard spells. If anyone can figure a way I'm game.
That should do for a start. Any questions feel free to ask.

[kestral287]

Antagonize forces people to attack you.

[Renegadeshepherd]

kestral287 wrote:

Antagonize forces people to attack you.

Thx :) made an edit in the post to reflect this.

[kestral287]

Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but what exactly are Diehard and Endurance doing for you?

[Renegadeshepherd]

kestral287 wrote:

Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but what exactly are Diehard and Endurance doing for you?

They allow me to keep fighting when I'm reduced to negative HP. The only way that I would be denied the ability to channel to heal myself back up to positive and keep fighting with those feats is if my foes can outright kill me before I can channel as I will not go unconscious, have no dying condition, and against any death effect at all my saves are too high for me to realistically ever fail. I have to be DEAD to be out of the fight.

Edit/add-on: it occurs to me that perhaps with scribe scroll I could hand some kind of life restoring scroll to one of my friends and then they could bring me back even if I am dead :)
I mean I did take that hit for him right?

[Weables]

you wouldn't heal yourself twice with death domain and positive energy.

When you channel you choose one, heal positive, or harm negative. it doesnt double up

[Renegadeshepherd]

Weables wrote:

you wouldn't heal yourself twice with death domain and positive energy.

When you channel you choose one, heal positive, or harm negative. it doesnt double up

But with envoy you channel both energies at the same time. You merely choose a category of living or undead. By channeling positive on me as a living I heal, and with me getting negative I'm treated as undead so I get healed from negative (once I reach level 8 of cleric of course)

[CWheezy]

It is the same for negative energy. You can channel to harm the living or heal undead

[Renegadeshepherd]

CWheezy wrote:

It is the same for negative energy. You can channel to harm the living or heal undead

Right. I get the choice. Will not always be able to eat my cake an have it to but it is practical for me to heal myself twice in a single channel.

[Renegadeshepherd]

Shameless bump. Really need some opinions on how to make the most of this.

[Renegadeshepherd]

Necro my own thread. Day for start of play is just around the corner and would like some help.

[Claxon]

I'm not sure Twinned Channeling works the way you want it to, which is the Envoy of Balance power you're thinking can double heal you.

I'm not sure exactly how it's supposed to work, because it's worded very funky. But I don't think it's going to double heal you.

[GureiKun]

i'm actually looking into a channelling focused neutral cleric of Shyka... who mare or may not be shyka itself.

Have you played this build yet? how does it play out and what would you change?

Also why cloistered cleric?