soul warden prestige class ?

[jonhl1986]

if i take levels in soul warden and i have levels in cleric does that mean i get a channel energy pool and a channel damage pool ?

and if i go cleric 7 soul warden 1 would i have a healing pool of 4d6 and a damage pool of 5d6 ? also should mention i have a cha of 22 and would that be channel energy 9 and channel damage 9 ?

[Kalindlara]

jonhl1986 wrote:

if i take levels in soul warden and i have levels in cleric does that mean i get a channel energy pool and a channel damage pool ?

and if i go cleric 7 soul warden 1 would i have a healing pool of 4d6 and a damage pool of 5d6 ?

It's not a separate pool, per se. Think of it as treating your cleric level as X higher for the purpose of determining your damage rolled. You don't get another 3+Cha uses per day.

With 7 cleric levels, you'd need to reach soul warden 2 before you get another die (as if waiting for cleric level 9). This is because of the stacking.

Any questions? ^_^

[jonhl1986]

ok lots of the prestige classes i looked at i couldn't take since i went true neutral so not many i can take and not sure if its worth trading out healing for just increasing the damage.

[Metux]

It seems to me that it's two different pools.
You gain a new power, doing only a part of the normal channel energy.

It's like the life revelation of oracle and the channel of clerics.
There is FAQ for that : http://paizo.com/paizo/faq/v5748nruor1fm#v5748eaic9o80.

For Channel Damage, you have a new ability, that's based upon a channel:

If you have cleric 7 and SW 1:
Cleric 7 pool: 3+Cha: Heal living 4D6 or Damage Undead 4D6 (Caster lv 7)
Soul Warden 1 pool: 3+Cha: Damage Undead only 4D6 (Caster lv8)

Cleric channel does not advance if you go Soul Warden, but if you go Cleric 8, the Channel Damage follows up:

Cleric 8 and SW 1:
Cleric 8 pool: 3+Cha: Heal living 4D6 or Damage Undead 4D6 (Caster lv 8)
Soul Warden 1 pool: 3+Cha: Damage Undead only 5D6 (Caster lv9)

A one level dip in Soul Warden is kind of awesome :).
Plus, If you got extra channel, you can choose to use those 2 channel as you wish each day, if you need to damage Undead and have no charges left, you can use one floating from the extra channel pool, and you could after that use the 2nd one for healing with the clerics pool.

And if you want a trick, there is a trait (Child of Wati), that allows to dip 1 level while still advancing your channel power (like the trait that allows to get back 2 caster level).

As cleric 7 and SW 1 you could have:
Cleric pool as level 8, then Soul warden as lv 9.
Then you keep leveling cleric, and you lost 0 level, but now you have a 2nd pool at your cleric lv +1 for damaging undeads :).

[Link-Bot]

Metux wrote:

It seems to me that it's two different pools.

You gain a new power, doing only a part of the normal channel energy.

It's like the life revelation of oracle and the channel of clerics.
There is FAQ for that : LINK.

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