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Reading Evil Eye it states:

Your fix your eye on the target, imposing a malevolent hex. The target becomes frightened based on the results of its Will save. This condition value can't be reduced below 1 while the spell is active and you can see the target. Regardless of the outcome, the target is then temporarily immune for 1 minute.

So my reading of this is that only you need to be able to see the enemy, the enemy does not need to see you in order to suffer the effects of Evil Eye. Is this correct?

Correct, it is a magical effect, not a steely glare :p
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Yet remember that Evil Eye still a hostile effect so if you are using the rank 2 invisibility spell or a similar effect that breaks when you use an hostile action the Evil Eye still breaks you invisibility.
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BTW did Remaster clarify what constitutes a hostile action ?
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Hostile Actions are defined in the same way.
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If Evil Eye has the Visual trait, THEN it would require that the target see the spell.
Luke Styer wrote:
If Evil Eye has the Visual trait, THEN it would require that the target see the spell.

Ouch, this is correct. Brutal, that level 4 invisibility is useless here.

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Atalius wrote:

Reading Evil Eye it states:

Your fix your eye on the target, imposing a malevolent hex. The target becomes frightened based on the results of its Will save. This condition value can't be reduced below 1 while the spell is active and you can see the target. Regardless of the outcome, the target is then temporarily immune for 1 minute.

So my reading of this is that only you need to be able to see the enemy, the enemy does not need to see you in order to suffer the effects of Evil Eye. Is this correct?

It's not only a magical effect, it's still a spell. With Manipulate tag. Which means that it demands very visible gestures, incantation and generates glowing visual effects like runes and symbols. It's not subtle at all.

Atalius wrote:
Luke Styer wrote:
If Evil Eye has the Visual trait, THEN it would require that the target see the spell.
Ouch, this is correct. Brutal, that level 4 invisibility is useless here.

Evil Eye doesn't have Visual though.

Ohhh awesome I misread that!
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Also Visual trait talk about effects. When you are invisible you are invisible not your spell effects.

This is more a problem for Subtle spell than for invisibility.
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