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1 year ago ::
Jan 24, 2012 - 9:28PM
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Jan 24, 2010
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Obligatory Link.Another familiar based Wizard build.... and some familiars unique to it. 2cp for your thoughts? (Actually, I might just go hide behind something instead)
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1 year ago ::
Jan 24, 2012 - 9:32PM
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Nov 30, 2009
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The eye-strain I get from rolling my eyes when I see more Wizard support prevents me from actually taking note of anything in this preview.
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1 year ago ::
Jan 24, 2012 - 9:36PM
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I seriously hope they're including feats to make your familiar not a squishy joke.
"Invokers are probably better round after round but Wizard dailies are devastating. Actually, devastating is too light a word. Wizard daily powers are soul crushing, encounter ending, havoc causing pieces of awesome." -AirPower25 Sear the Flesh, Purify the Soul; Harden the Heart, and Improve the Mind; Born of Blood, but Forged by Fire; The MECH warrior reaches perfection. My Guides
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1 year ago ::
Jan 24, 2012 - 9:36PM
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Date Joined:
May 19, 2011
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I'm getting a serious deja vu from reading this. Reads almost exactly like the witch, except with an elemental flavor.
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1 year ago ::
Jan 24, 2012 - 9:50PM
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Jun 10, 2008
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Djinnling+Agile Opportunist, but also UGH WIZARD BLOAT. If I didn't already half expect this to book to be a waste of design space I'd be more sickened by this.
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1 year ago ::
Jan 24, 2012 - 9:51PM
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Date Joined:
Jul 16, 2010
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So, it's... really just a Wizard with a free feat instead of an implement mastery? And in fact you lose your spellbook and ritual casting, too?
The exclusive familiars are sort of ok, I guess, though as Zathris points out keeping an active familiar alive can actually be pretty tricky, and the class features don't seem to do much to solve that.
Oh, and there's a free resistance, but you have to pick it at the end of an extended rest, it only applies to a single type, it doesn't stack, it requires adjacency to your active familiar, and it's going to be a smaller amount than almost any other source of resistance in the game until level 4 at the earliest.
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1 year ago ::
Jan 24, 2012 - 10:23PM
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Date Joined:
Jul 14, 2008
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Meh. Given the 3.5 version was a cha based spontaneous caster they could have atleast gone for a Sorcerer build w/ the familiar feat instead of yet another wizard.
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1 year ago ::
Jan 24, 2012 - 10:50PM
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Date Joined:
Sep 19, 2007
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Atleast the witch had some decent thematics to its mechanics. This could have just been more familiars for you know, anyone who wants a familiar.
Doesn't the horrible resistance just last till the familiar dies anyway?
This subclass seems to have been printed simply because they wanted to print more wizard support. Should it even be called support? Maybe just weight. The wizard is plenty solid without it.
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1 year ago ::
Jan 25, 2012 - 12:18AM
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Really ... HotFW gave Wizards all of 2 useful powers, and only one fit a standard build.
@PChubby: Elementalist will be a Sorcerer build
"Invokers are probably better round after round but Wizard dailies are devastating. Actually, devastating is too light a word. Wizard daily powers are soul crushing, encounter ending, havoc causing pieces of awesome." -AirPower25 Sear the Flesh, Purify the Soul; Harden the Heart, and Improve the Mind; Born of Blood, but Forged by Fire; The MECH warrior reaches perfection. My Guides
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1 year ago ::
Jan 25, 2012 - 1:02AM
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So completely identical to the witch it's really embarrassing.
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