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awa
2009-12-28, 12:01 AM
Ive been looking over my magic of incarnium book and it really seem like they gain their best abbilities at low level and become increasingly less powerful at higher level both because their high level powers start to seriously lag behind more traditional users and they use up magic item slots.
Level 2 totemists with their totem meld are capable of dealing impressive damage on the front lines and the incarnate can pull off a 3d6 damage ranged touch attack at level 1 all day long. But their abbilities scale slower so they are quickly over taken in power

Keld Denar
2009-12-28, 12:14 AM
True that you can bind ANY soulmeld at level 1.

Unfortunately, many soulmelds don't do much if you just bind them. When you bind them to a chakra, thats when they get really strong. Chakra binds are generally limited in number, and the better binds like Throat, Heart, Waist, and whatnot are only accessable at higher levels.

awa
2009-12-28, 12:21 AM
Sure incarnium classes do get better as they level but their low level powers are extremely strong for their level and their high level abbilities are not. Also the dc of abbilities at low level they will be on average higher then the best a caster can put out at higher level the caster can easily cast spells with much higher dcs.

Zaq
2009-12-28, 12:58 AM
True that you can bind shape ANY soulmeld at level 1.

Unfortunately, many soulmelds don't do much if you just bind shape them. When you bind them to a chakra, thats when they get really strong. Chakra binds are generally limited in number, and the better binds like Throat, Heart, Waist, and whatnot are only accessable at higher levels.

Fixed that for you. HUGE difference.

Sinfire Titan
2009-12-28, 01:01 AM
The Totemist is somewhat frontloaded with the Totem Chakra, but not that much.