Hi all
I am going to be playing Ironfang Invasion and am making a character that will be joining the main party at level 3. Basically my idea for the character is that he is an elven medium (relic channeler) who uses his great grandfather’s elven curved blade and is guided by his spirit (champion spirit) however upon arriving in Nirmathas he begins to hear whispers and voices from the spirits of all the people who have died in the conflict between Nirrmathas and Molthune in the past as well as those who have died in the more recent invasion. And he becomes tasked by Ceyannan to help guide these spirits to the Great Beyond and find the source of their deaths.
To represent this change I was thinking of either taking levels as a battle mystery oracle (spirit guide) or as a battle spirit shaman. I think mechanically the oracle would more give him the abilities that I want him to have as I find the shaman hexes to be not particularly great. However one thing I want him to be able to do is channel which as an oracle he cant do until he’s level 7 (taking the life wandering spirit) but he can do at level 4 as a shaman (taking the Life wandering spirit). Any thoughts on which would be a better/more interesting build for a healer/combat focused character?
Also I have one rules question regarding the Arcane Enlightenment Hex granted by the Lore Spirit. If I am a spirit guide archetype oracle and take Lore as my bonded spirit and Arcane Enlightenment as my Bonded Hex, the hex says you can add spells from the wizard spell list to my spell list, but how does that work for an oracle. If I take this hex and then the following level I learn one of the arcane enlightenment spells, if I then choose to commune with a different spirit would I lose access to that arcane spelll? And If so, would I replace it with an oracle spell?
Any help on this would be much appreciated!
Cheers!
Strictly speaking arcane enlightenment does nothing for a spontaneous spellcaster. It does not say it adds these spells to your spell list. It's a reasonable house rule to let it work somehow but you need to talk to your GM about if it will and what the details would be.
If you're making your character as medium 1 / oracle or shaman X then I think channeling is way overrated and oracle would be the better choice. If you're making the character as medium 3 / oracle or shaman X you're clearly going for flavour above all and whichever has the better flavour for you will be your choice.