ok so im wanting to make a shadow priest how do you guys think i could do it.
While i want the shadow for flavor the group does need a good blaster so i would like ot be able to be a good blaster still
any help would be awesome
im also not against using words of power to make it even more crazy/fun
my favorite class in 3.5 was a shadowcaster
basicly while not being evil i want to do blasting but i want it to be like shadow damage or something.
i just want to make it dark and ominus for lore reasons and being able to cast a fireball of shadow energy would be cool
It would be quite hard to make a character that is close to a shadow priest in Pathfinder... Lots of spells and abilities similar to those of shadow priests are spread between various classes and levels (for example vampiric touch is primarily sorcerer/wizard spell as is false life - the closest spell in PF to power word: shield) while mind-blasty spells are province of psychic magic, and incorporeality is a rare and very high level ability.
EDIT: Also, Pathfinder lacks the sheer number of DoTs the World Of Warcraft had.
It sounds like you want to start with something arcane and then look how to add whatever 'priest' stuff is in the shadow priest description. A twilight sage arcanist maybe, or a sorcerer with wildblooded: umbral.
Or a psychic with the formless adept archetype. If going incorporeal is important you'd like this one.
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So, there are a couple of options that I see, depending on how you want to do things.
First off, if you just want to throw out massive amounts of negative energy damage, then the void kinetisist is the way to go. Downside is that you are useless against undead.
Another option would be a bones oracle with all the negative energy spells and a few meta magic rods of reach (and then cause bleed through one of your revelations)
Or a negative energy cleric with meta magic reach rods, the. You could blast AND channel.
A void specialty wizard can also do some stuff, especially if you get the spell 'ghoul hand,' which will let you vampiric touch/ghoul touch from a distance.
The issue here is that as a blaster, you are going to have to choose what damage type you want to do, as there is no 'shadow' damage. Negative energy damage is the closest, but a lot of things are immune to that (undead, constructs, items, robots).
A void specialty wizard can also do some stuff, especially if you get the spell 'ghoul hand,' which will let you vampiric touch/ghoul touch from a distance.
^^That sounds like good advice, but I think VampByDay meant Spectral Hand instead of 'ghoul hand.'