Kioran
2007-11-08, 11:02 AM
Hi!
Right now, Iīm playing a warmage in one of my games, unsing the "Shackeld City" adventure path, so please no spoilers. Problem is, we are a party of poorly optimized frontliners (including a Half-celestial and Githzerai with something like a Savage-species progression - at ECL 2), whose secondary skillmonkey and primary spellcaster (a cloistered Cleric) was replaced by a Barbarian, because the player was in denial about his wishes when he created the first character, and in a fit, after or DM told us in as many words that our 1 DIN-A4 page backstories didnīt interest him, dumped the Cleric.
Initially, I built the warmage to get into the spirit of the noisy, uncomplicated and moderately optimized party. Now, one session into the first agonizing dungeon crawl (funny how the story evaporates when nobody can read gnomish), Iīm starting to feel weīre pinched for serious spellcasting.
What should I do about that (apart from multi-classing into Wizard and forgetting I ever was a warmage, which is easy, but I wonīt do it)? My Stats:
Str: 11
Dex: 10
Con: 12
Int: 18
Wis: 15
Cha: 18
Currently, Iīm a Human Warmage 2, with Sudden Maximize and Sudden Widen as my feats. I was, initially, planning to use Arcane disciple (hence the wisdom), but forget that it was written primarily for wizards(knowledge religion prereq.) and possibly going into Human Paragon to net me UMD ranks and a Cha-boost.
Unfortunately, we need a healer/utility caster rather fast, since our DM doesnīt allow the MIC (a correct decision in the eyes of all player, btw.) and is still contemplating restricting access to Eternal wands or similiar devices, and we canīt afford living on potions alone. Any ideas how I can expand my options or optimize my power?
Right now, Iīm playing a warmage in one of my games, unsing the "Shackeld City" adventure path, so please no spoilers. Problem is, we are a party of poorly optimized frontliners (including a Half-celestial and Githzerai with something like a Savage-species progression - at ECL 2), whose secondary skillmonkey and primary spellcaster (a cloistered Cleric) was replaced by a Barbarian, because the player was in denial about his wishes when he created the first character, and in a fit, after or DM told us in as many words that our 1 DIN-A4 page backstories didnīt interest him, dumped the Cleric.
Initially, I built the warmage to get into the spirit of the noisy, uncomplicated and moderately optimized party. Now, one session into the first agonizing dungeon crawl (funny how the story evaporates when nobody can read gnomish), Iīm starting to feel weīre pinched for serious spellcasting.
What should I do about that (apart from multi-classing into Wizard and forgetting I ever was a warmage, which is easy, but I wonīt do it)? My Stats:
Str: 11
Dex: 10
Con: 12
Int: 18
Wis: 15
Cha: 18
Currently, Iīm a Human Warmage 2, with Sudden Maximize and Sudden Widen as my feats. I was, initially, planning to use Arcane disciple (hence the wisdom), but forget that it was written primarily for wizards(knowledge religion prereq.) and possibly going into Human Paragon to net me UMD ranks and a Cha-boost.
Unfortunately, we need a healer/utility caster rather fast, since our DM doesnīt allow the MIC (a correct decision in the eyes of all player, btw.) and is still contemplating restricting access to Eternal wands or similiar devices, and we canīt afford living on potions alone. Any ideas how I can expand my options or optimize my power?