Spell focus special effects
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Could someone point me where I can read about the additional effects coded to these feats in arabel? I've failed to find it, but I know there was a summery somewhere.
thanks
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And when someone has found it, can they document it on CoA's Wikia, please?
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I just made a wiki for it, feel free to update where needed.
Find it Here
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Could you add SF: NEcromancy as well Paradox, since you know it best?
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Done
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How about Divination? Or are there really any changes?
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I don't think divination has any bonuses apart from the original NWN engine ones. Does need a boost though, its probably the least used school of all.
Necromancy is used due to its prohibited school being relatively not as useful spells wise (It's divinitation…). Also there are some mean necromantic spells that worth the spell focus.
Illusion is also not missing much (opposite school is enchantment, which hurts a bit but nothing that hurts, also illusion has a few nice spells worth the focus)
Evocation normal bonuses from spell focus worth the feats spent anyway due to the nature of these spells, so is enchantment (Harder to avoid fireballs, lightning bolds from evocation, hold persons from enchantment school)
Transmutation is awesome as it is, so is conjouration, especially with the new durations for summons.
Abjuration got its improvement already so its fixed, some of those spells are really useful anyway.
All in all I think divination needs a serious boost as a priority. So does illusion, but I heard people saying the school is really fine as it is, I don't see how though, lacking enchantments which are the more potent disablers makes a wizard quite less of a threat.
EDIT: I m refering to choosing a school as well, not only getting the spell focus feats. Choosing a school should get a few benefits other than the feats, since it does prohibit use of a list of spells. Specializing in certain schools is far superior than certain others due to this fact alone. It is one of the reasons divination is never actually picked, unless from a desire to RP certain concepts, and even then sometimes avoided.
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Illusion gets phantasmal killer, the lowest level instant death spell.
Clerics have to wait until lvl 9 for slay living while phantasmal is learnable at 7
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@verkosh:
Illusion gets phantasmal killer, the lowest level instant death spell.
Clerics have to wait until lvl 9 for slay living while phantasmal is learnable at 7
For fighters with high fort easy to save
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I think there's also a willsave involved too.
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Spell focus and greater spell focus illusion ups the saves quite considerably though.
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My current character is an Illusionist. And while I feel it's definitely a decent spellschool, it's not as powerful as Enchantment if it's just technical power we're talking about.
The Phantasmal Killer's usefulness is heavily reduced by the dual Will and Fortitude saves. It has a few pros though, like the one Verk mentioned (which is also kind of a minus since it lowers the DC), and the fact it's a medium ranged death spell that doesn't require a touch attack.
Color Spray is a powerful mind spell for being first tier, but its relatively short range and the cone attack makes it more difficult to use than most other mind spells.
I'd say Charm Person, Blindness/Deafness, Hold Person, and Confusion outweigh Color Spray and Phantasmal Killer by far. But then again, it's not like everything can ever be perfectly fair and equal and it's all about the RP anyway.
If focusing in Illusion spell school was to actually get a boost, my suggestion would be for it to enhance the invisibility spell somehow, like counting as a few levels higher, as was done with Abjuration spell school. Would make sense for an illusionist to have better grasp of this backbone of their spell school. Or boost the Shadow Conjuration spells. No one ever uses those (and for good reasons). I guess they'll get a bonus just from Summon Shadow being looked into though.
And I'm not posting this because I want a boost for my character. He'll most likely be dead before any of this could happen anyway!
Edit: Of course, being a proper Enchanter, i.e. having it as chosen spell school, not just the feats, would mean losing Illusion spell school. And losing the spells Invisbility, Improved Invisibility, Ghostly Visage is definitely a bigger hit than losing the Enchantment spells as an Illusionist. When I wrote my post, I only had the Spell Focus feats in mind.