So, I just realized that one of my favorite archetypes makes for a really good VMC cleric. At level 1 for VMC cleric if you have the cure spells on your list and you use prepared casting you can spontaneously convert them to cure spells. Bards can't do this and neither can most maguses, but the puppet master can.
So my question if this, with nothing else known (I'm still planning a build) what are some particularly good domains for a character with this class setup. I particularly like using inquisitions as they are usually more powerful than the typical domains a cleric would chose.
Possession Inq for more enchantments, Shadow Subdomain for better illusions?
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@BaggageBoy: Please tell us what your character will do. I understand Puppetmaster Magus, but there are several ways you could play that. It's tough to choose a domain without knowing what you plan to do.
Do you really think Inquisitions are more powerful than Domains? That's not my perception. To each their own, though :-)
Why do you care about spontaneous cure spells? I've played plenty of clerics that lacked spontaneous cures and never missed it. It's only a small bother to prepare one Cure X Wounds every day.
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For a vmc cleric you don't get the spells, only the domain powers. Inquisitions are balanced on the fact that they don't give spells so typically they give more of what you want as a vmc cleric.
Spontaneous cures are nice as a 6th level caster because you don't want to take up a slot with them. You aren't a primary healer, but if you need to heal someone now you can without the opportunity cost of filling a slot. It's a pretty nice trick if not very powerful. Also because of charmstrike low level slots are actually very important to a puppetmaster.
As a pupetmaster magus I expect I'll be playing mostly with illusions. Using them to alter the battlefield and using an enchantment or two to allow for more illusions to be in place.
I specifically didn't mention a playstyle for this question because some domains can have a huge effect on how a build would go. For instance the chivalry inquisition gives you a mount equivilant to a Cavaliers. It's an awesome domain and can be what a character is built around. I want to see what people can come up with.
I'm going to bump this just once. I have been reading through the various domains, (my goodness there are a lot of them) and I haven't found any that were particularly synergistic.
The politics Inquisition as well as the conversion inquisition were ok, but probably not worth taking VMC cleric for unless only playing up to level 6.
If anyone can think of a domain that would do better please let me know.
If you get a conductive weapon then one of the bad touch domains - chaos for touch of chaos, or madness for vision of madness - might be useful. You won't get a lot of uses/day though. Technically you could fight unarmed and get domain strike to make use of those uses/day more efficiently, but I can't see how you'd afford the feats unless you use normal multiclassing to dip monk as well, and mixing the types of multiclassing is generally disapproved of I think.
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