| Bantya |
So Unsworn Shaman seems to be a little bit of a mess, especially in terms of hexes, and I'm trying to wrap my head around it. At what levels do you get hexes, and what can those hexes be selected from? The way I'm reading it, a shaman's hex choices would be, from level 1-10:
Level 1: 1 non spirit hex, chosen from shaman or witch lists, changes daily
Level 2: 1 hex that changes daily, now chosen from spirit list too
Level 3: same as 2
Level 4: two daily changing hexes
Level 5: same as 4
Level 6: two hexes to choose daily from two spirits, plus a normal hex chosen from the shaman list?
Level 7: same as 6
Level 8: 3 daily hexes, plus the 1 fixed
Level 9: same as 8
Level 10: 3 daily hexes, plus 2 fixed?
My main confusion comes from the levels at which you get hexes outside of minor spirit hexes. The archetype says nothing one way or the other about removing them, but in that case, would you get a fixed hex at level 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10? Just 6 and 10, because levels 2, 4 and 8 all gain minor spirit hexes? Maybe even get your first fixed hex at 2, because technically the minor spirit hex is altering level 1? The RAW reading actually seems to suggest you get every fixed hex in addition to the minor spirits, because it never actually replaces them, but that seems insane.
In case it's unclear in this, I'm referring to minor spirit hexes as daily, and base shaman hexes that don't come from spirits as fixed.
| willuwontu |
Unsworn Shaman: The unsworn shaman’s minor spirit ability tells you exactly when you gain hexes, but it doesn’t technically say you don’t gain the other hexes from the class progression. Pre-errata, it replaced the hex class feature entirely, which unambiguously removed them. How many hexes does the unsworn shaman receive?
Unsworn shaman still only receives the hexes from minor spirit and does not gain hexes at any other levels. The change from ‘replaces’ to ‘alters’ fixes a problem where the unsworn shaman used to have hexes while simultaneously removing the hex class feature, but the way the minor spirit ability alters the hex class feature is that it changes when you gain hexes to the listed levels.