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That's what I meant to imply. (Rather unpolished post actually, I also had a typo I missed in the last sentence.)

All told, they're doing a better job in general with new base classes I think. Though there are a few gems among the older set, such as the marshal, and there are a few, i.e. samurai, new ones that don't quite live up to it.

This is getting a bit off topic though, so I'll stop now.

Thank you Quippish! That looks great!

With this concentration ability the Spirit Shaman can actually have some kind of "Companion" like a druid or a ranger. It can also be used simular to the the PErsistent Divine Metamagic (not nearly as strong), but hey, 24 hour spells is great anyways!

And last but not least, the Spirit Shaman can be a "Spontainius Healer" aswell, smack a few cure spells into you "lists" here and there, and you will be able to help your self and allies without any worries.

Anyways, I have takin you suggestions into account, and the main posts are now updated.

Cheers.

Sent a 21st level Spirit Shaman 20/Hierophant 1 as my party as part of a CR25 encounter in an evil epic one-off. Domain from contemplative was Inquisition, Hierophant ability was Divine Reach.

He was a member of a 4-person team sent to delay the party, which also consisted of a Half-Dragon Half-Ogre Mineral Warrior FB, an arcane hierophant polymorphed into a black ethergaunt, and a Teflammar Shadowlord. The battle took place atop the highest mountain in Faerun (which I decided was in the mountains of the vilhon reach) I think he probably fared best until he was 'killed' for the third time (contingent heal, favoured of the spirits, then death), taken below 100HP, then PWKed. Yes, I know that protection against death magic is possible but they were fairly poor, needing to spend all of their money on AC and stat boosters so they had OK ACs and OK save DCs. They also only had NPC money, meaning about 30% of what a PC of the equivalent level would have. The spells I found the most use (some are specific to this type of encounter) were:

3rd:
Dispel Magic
Rings of Freedom of Movement only have a caster level of 7, meaning this did come in handy.

5th:
Rejuvenation Cocoon
Best done whilst airborne and carried somehow. Without a full attack, opponents aren't going to be able to deal the nessecary 210 points of damage easily (without crits or sneak-attack).

6th:
Greater Dispelling
Not used to dispell the spells of my enemies, but to suppress magic items. This was really useful for getting rid of rings of evasion, rings of freedom of movement, robes of eyes, and other things which made other special attacks ineffective.

7th:
Heal
Never hurts to have it, unless you're fighting undead in which case it hurts them. Sadly my player who was gonna play a Necromancer/Yathrinshee changed to some other arcane/divine combo at the last minute, but the spell was still my most useful 7th level one.

8th:
Frostfell
Perhaps too awesome... Sadly all of the PCs had ridiculous saves, so they weren't changed into ice, but 20d6 ice damage never hurt anyone.

9th:
Summon Elemental Monolith
Air worked fairly well, although in retrospect I shoudl have gone with earth. My three castings of this spell probably used-up more of the enemy resources (banishments, miracles to emulate banishments, ETC) than any other castings of spells.

If there's one thing I learnt from that combat then it's that suppressing magic items is easy and often a better course of action than attacking as long as there are other characters around able to take advantage of the situation. Quickened Suppress Magic (MoI) is a good use of a 6th level sorc/wiz slot too.

Another thing that I learnt is that Spirit Shamans are powerful as DM pawns. they have the ability to cast a large number of very damaging spells a number of times and can alter or maintain their strategies how they see fit.

Whats the best spell to presist on the SS list if you get acess through sacred exorcist? i was thinking bite of the werebear and natures avatar to get something the persistant clerics cant?

persistant Vigorous circle allows you to give fast healing 3 to 1 person per 2 levels all day long.

dependent on your DM you might be able to use the spirit guide to concentrate on your call lighting spells letting you have two active and pulling down at a time.