Arcane Bomber


Rules Questions


The Arcane Bomber states the bomb damage stacks with an alchemist. My question is does the bomb damage increase for the Wizard archtype itself. It seems like an archtype where it needed to be explained more clearly.


Arcane Bomber: Bomb Feature:
Bomb (Su): At 1st level, the arcane bomber gains an ability nearly identical to the alchemist’s bomb ability. Unlike the alchemist, at 1st level, the arcane bomber chooses one type of energy from the following list: acid, cold, fire, and electricity. He can throw bombs of that type, but cannot modify them with discoveries. This ability stacks with the alchemist bomb ability to determine the level of bomb damage, but an arcane bomber that becomes an alchemist does not gain that class’s bomb ability, nor does an alchemist that becomes an arcane bomber gain this bomb ability. This ability replaces arcane bond.

All in all though it's not the greatest of the wizard archetypes.


You add your wizard level and your alchemist level (if any) to determine your effective alchemist level for the purpose of bomb damage. Any other interpretation would be ludicrously punitively.

Alphavoltario wrote:
All in all though it's not the greatest of the wizard archetypes.

It's actually one of the worst archetypes ever published for any class.


Dasrak wrote:
It's actually one of the worst archetypes ever published for any class.

It's not like the Oozemorph Shifter isn't shooting for that spot imho.


Alphavoltario wrote:
It's not like the Oozemorph Shifter isn't shooting for that spot imho.

There are very few archetypes that are that level of bad. Arcane Bomber Wizard isn't in the upper echelon of the top 5, but probably still in the top 20 worst. Out of the hundreds of published archetypes today, that does indeed leave it as one of the worst. At very least it's running neck-and-neck with the siege mage for title of the worst wizard archetype.


You know I get an archtype for flavor. But when I read the Arcane bomber I thought what? I mean 4 schools of magic to do what? Bombs that stay only a 1d6 forever, seriously the drawbacks are ridiculous! You could play a dual class Alchemist Wizard and beat the hell out of this archtype. Bomb damage alone would splatter the archtype.

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