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So I'm looking at the Exciter Spiritualist Archetype, and I'm having some difficulty understanding some things.....
Specifically....."Merged Phantom: An exciter internalizes his phantom and merges it completely within his mind. He cannot fully manifest his phantom outside of his own body in incorporeal or ectoplasmic form. Emotional focus abilities that affect or require a manifested phantom are lost, except for any aura gained by the phantom at 7th level; if the phantom gains an aura at 7th level, this aura functions despite the phantom not being manifested, and is centered on the exciter."
That "sounds" to me like all phantom emotional focus abilities are lost(aside from the Aura)....as I have yet to see a focus ability that does not require a manifested Phantom ?
Also...." Excitation (Su): At 2nd level, when an exciter is in a rapture, each round he can choose to intensify his emotional fury, expending 2 rounds of rapture instead of 1. When he uses excitation, he chooses one of the two abilities that his emotional focus would normally grant to a manifested phantom, such as strength focus and powerful strike for an anger phantom, or power from despair and miserable strike for a despair phantom. He gains these abilities until the beginning of his next turn. If the ability normally augments only a phantom’s slam attacks, it instead applies to the ectoplasmic tendrils that the spiritualist can sprout using his ectoplasmic bonded manifestation. "
So when looking at the Hatred Phantom (the one I'm most likely to go with).....I see at least 4 abilities to choose from.....am I just taking "two" abilities to literally ?
It uses Strength Focus and Powerful Strike for Anger Phantoms, and Power from Despair and Miserable Strike for Despair Phantoms as its examples for Excitation. If we follow this trend, this means, for Hatred, the two abilities you choose from are Weapon Finesse and Hated Strike.
It uses Strength Focus and Powerful Strike for Anger Phantoms, and Power from Despair and Miserable Strike for Despair Phantoms as its examples for Excitation. If we follow this trend, this means, for Hatred, the two abilities you choose from are Weapon Finesse and Hated Strike.
So those two abilities, and the Aura, are the only ones that ever come on line ?
Anyone else care to weigh in ?
It still seems odd to me that something that is essentially acting as a Bloodragers bloodline....would stop at just the first two abilities...