u/Mach-side-24

i had a thought about taking a level one dip into titan fighter for caster so they could wield multiple caster implements such as 2 staves or a staff and a dagger, depending on what you are trying to go for. for example the 'edge of force' dagger with 'plague of madness' quarterstaff for a battering blast build. does anyone know if this works? it says their properties are retained but does that include non-trait abilities?

Hey there, everyone. I saw some questions asking how, if any possible way, vanish can be useful. Given it's extremely low uptime, how in the world would you use this? While it has more efficacy in tabletop (getting enemies to shift their attacks) that you don't quite see in the game, there is still some efficacy to be had. Mainly in the eldritch scoundrel. Being a level one spell has it's advantages for this absolute rat of an archetype. Namely in sorcerous reflex and the lesser quicken metamagic rod.

assuming your ES goes first, running up to a caster or archer you just know is gonna be a pain in the ass, shanking him, then swift-popping vanish with sorcerous reflex or the quicken rod gives you an immediate concealment for when the enemies take their turn. You can then use this to get another sneak attack off or as an aid to get back behind the lines.

there is of course situations, enemies, etc. that prevent this, but i think we all know them and I don't want to list them all off. still a useful utility in the ES's belt that can benefit from the first level abundant casting as well as sorcerous reflex.

That damned gibrileth slaver, Sarzaksys. Even Darrazand didnt give me this much trouble. Doing the Azata dragon-kidnapping quest and getting blindsided by that lump of lard was infuriating. i had to fortune-cackle buffer with ember and spam greater dispel with her and nenio and he still managed to be the reason seelah and her horse died. i can absolutely see getting soft-locked and needing to reload a previous save because of him, especially because no one leading up to that fight in the abyss, and even the other opponents in that fight are anywhere near as tough. even his touch ac is relatively insane.

the guy easily hits seelah's horse, even though that horse has ~50 ac fully buffed up, and him having tripping attacks on every hit, including AoO made me want to faceslam my desk. I tried using mobility to negate the AoO on my skill-monkey rogue and he still managed to get an opportunity attack. Now i know how the troops felt with sosiel in the vescavor swarm. constantly having him channel just to keep seelah alive long enough for ember and nenio to do their work.

i wish we could pin his corpse to the walls of the fleshmarkets just to give him one last 'fuck you'.