Divine list was severely boosted with the change from alignment damage to spirit damage. Many spells get benefit and improvements from this turning it way more offensive.
One of my kudos comes from Gouging Claw. This attack cantrip basically supersedes the Magus/Eldritch Archer "cheese" to get a "d8" cantrip using psychic archetype. This frees a good feat space for these classes.
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Little quibbles with edge cases aside (they exist but that's for another thread), the new state of condition removal spells is SO much better, I am livin' as a Life Oracle who can feasibly (albeit with some effort!) cover all of that now. Turning 8 condition-clearing spells (Remove Fear, Remove Paralysis, Restoration, Restore Senses, Remove Disease, Neutralize Poison, Remove Curse, and Stone to Flesh) into 4 (Sure Footing, Sound Body, Clear Mind, and Cleanse Affliction) that address everything the old ones did and way more, and do it more practically for combat, is nothing short of blessed. ~w~
Speaking of blessings, Bless isn't the only spell that Became Real and suddenly changed what Divine can easily do, because Protection is now a Common spell that simply imparts +1 AC and saves for a minute! (And has Circle of Protection in its heightening! Though not the Rk 4 version that lasts an hour.) It was bizarrely difficult to get ahold of a basic-ass defense buff in this game, and Protection fills a much appreciated role for that reason. 'w'
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Speaking of blessings, Bless isn't the only spell that Became Real and suddenly changed what Divine can easily do, because Protection is now a Common spell that simply imparts +1 AC and saves for a minute! (And has Circle of Protection in its heightening! Though not the Rk 4 version that lasts an hour.) It was bizarrely difficult to get ahold of a basic-ass defense buff in this game, and Protection fills a much appreciated role for that reason. 'w'
That's a really nice spell! And it grants status bonuses so it will stack with the item bonuses from Mystic Armor. Nice for divine and occult casters because they have both on their spell lists.
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Little quibbles with edge cases aside (they exist but that's for another thread), the new state of condition removal spells is SO much better, I am livin' as a Life Oracle who can feasibly (albeit with some effort!) cover all of that now. Turning 8 condition-clearing spells (Remove Fear, Remove Paralysis, Restoration, Restore Senses, Remove Disease, Neutralize Poison, Remove Curse, and Stone to Flesh) into 4 (Sure Footing, Sound Body, Clear Mind, and Cleanse Affliction) that address everything the old ones did and way more, and do it more practically for combat, is nothing short of blessed. ~w~
Being able to officially remove those conditions from undead PCs with those spells is really nice too since they're all non-vitality healing effects! Well, except Sound Body.
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Little quibbles with edge cases aside (they exist but that's for another thread), the new state of condition removal spells is SO much better, I am livin' as a Life Oracle who can feasibly (albeit with some effort!) cover all of that now. Turning 8 condition-clearing spells (Remove Fear, Remove Paralysis, Restoration, Restore Senses, Remove Disease, Neutralize Poison, Remove Curse, and Stone to Flesh) into 4 (Sure Footing, Sound Body, Clear Mind, and Cleanse Affliction) that address everything the old ones did and way more, and do it more practically for combat, is nothing short of blessed. ~w~
Speaking of blessings, Bless isn't the only spell that Became Real and suddenly changed what Divine can easily do, because Protection is now a Common spell that simply imparts +1 AC and saves for a minute! (And has Circle of Protection in its heightening! Though not the Rk 4 version that lasts an hour.) It was bizarrely difficult to get ahold of a basic-ass defense buff in this game, and Protection fills a much appreciated role for that reason. 'w'
Paizo had made it difficult to access non-circumstance AC bonuses. Probably a trauma from those combos we had with the clerics in previous versions. Restricting the status bonus to basically a very few focus spells.
The remaster kind of shows an overcoming of the traumas left by previous systems, now returning to treating buff spells, especially in AC, in a more rational and equal way with other buff spells and without falling into the traps of very long duration buffs that basically became mandatory because of this.
No GM does what he/she want. The GM doesn't need to follow such limitations for his/her stories.
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Very much enjoying the new remastered core books. I’m a seasoned GM and really appreciate how much material on constructing Social encounters has been pulled forward into the GM Core book.
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Very much enjoying the new remastered core books. I’m a seasoned GM and really appreciate how much material on constructing Social encounters has been pulled forward into the GM Core book.
Yummy! Seasoned GMs are much more delicious than plain ones!
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Another interesting Kudo that I noticed now.
The ancestries weapons familiarity now englobes all weapons listed in the traits not only those who have the racial trait into the proficiency grade requirements reduction. So no more that strange you are only trained into longbows, composite longbows, longswords, rapiers, shortbows, and composite shortbows and only can progress it taking a lvl 13 feat (effectively ignoring the expert proficiency for martials) while the uncommon Three Peaked Tree was reduces to simple and has proficiency auto progressing with your class for just a level 1 feat.
Also the level 5 feat that gives critical specialization of all your racial weapons into the same feat.