Serafina
2022-06-10, 08:41 AM
So, check out this interaction for me please:
the feat (http://spheresofpower.wikidot.com/practitioner-feats#toc20) Customized Bond exists. In addition to stacking levels for your weapon enchant scaling, "You may summon a customized bound weapon as a free action whenever you would be able to draw a customized weapon as a free action". This obviously gets our summoning down to a free action!
the Store Magic (http://spheresofpower.wikidot.com/armorist#toc51) arsenal trick exists, letting you add Spell Storing (http://spheresofpower.wikidot.com/weapons#toc109) to your weapons and "The armorist can store her own spells or sphere effects into weapons with spell storing as part of the process of summoning them." (fortunately, this is limited to 1/round)
you can draw your weapons as a free action due to Quick Draw, and later even more due to Lightning Draw (though note that 1/round limitation)
together, this allows you to cast a spell as a free action when you summon a weapon (as a free action), if only once per round
This is really good? Unless it doesn't work because I overlooked something?
You don't even need to dip deeply to do it - for either class, it is a short (1-2 levels) dip and a feat. Sure, to get the scaling fully online you'll want 5 levels of Armiger, but that gives you the quite good Rapid Assault? And Antiquarian exists, providing caster level, if you want to focus more on the casting (given this, you might as well).
It also does not conflict with any other actions, as far as I can tell. Meaning you could either full attack, or more likely use Special Attack Actions (e.g. the Spell Attack feat) at the same time. Assuming you manage your caster level well in some way (Antiquarians are medium casters, Armigers low casters - of course you could always cheat via e.g. Veilweaving Sphere) you can out some pretty good damage with that.
Just to use a 10th-level build (Antiquarian Armiger 5, Armorist 5) as an example:
You have CL 6, but this can get boosted by +2 for one Sphere, and will get boosted by +4 from Bound Equipment, and +1 from Mystic Enhancement - for a total CL of 13.
Make a Spell Attack with the Destruction Sphere in one weapon (so it can have it's own talents as suited to that), and if you hit, Mystic Assault will give you another attack - draw a weapon, cast a Blast either without a blast shape into it (Focused Blast will add damage there) or with something single-targeted such as Energy Tether (conveniently in the other weapon) and if that hits, it is two attacks and two destructive blasts going off in the same round! If you don't hit, just keep the weapon, it may be useful for AoOs - you can swap back to your main one next round.
With that CL, each blast can be 14D6 (or D4, D8, depending) and the second one can even add +1/die. That's a fair amount of damage, especially in addition to the attacks you are getting off.
But this can be done much earlier (level 3 at the earliest, really), just without Rapid Assault (so you'll just enchant your weapon for the next round, still very good) and with less stacking CL-boosts.
the feat (http://spheresofpower.wikidot.com/practitioner-feats#toc20) Customized Bond exists. In addition to stacking levels for your weapon enchant scaling, "You may summon a customized bound weapon as a free action whenever you would be able to draw a customized weapon as a free action". This obviously gets our summoning down to a free action!
the Store Magic (http://spheresofpower.wikidot.com/armorist#toc51) arsenal trick exists, letting you add Spell Storing (http://spheresofpower.wikidot.com/weapons#toc109) to your weapons and "The armorist can store her own spells or sphere effects into weapons with spell storing as part of the process of summoning them." (fortunately, this is limited to 1/round)
you can draw your weapons as a free action due to Quick Draw, and later even more due to Lightning Draw (though note that 1/round limitation)
together, this allows you to cast a spell as a free action when you summon a weapon (as a free action), if only once per round
This is really good? Unless it doesn't work because I overlooked something?
You don't even need to dip deeply to do it - for either class, it is a short (1-2 levels) dip and a feat. Sure, to get the scaling fully online you'll want 5 levels of Armiger, but that gives you the quite good Rapid Assault? And Antiquarian exists, providing caster level, if you want to focus more on the casting (given this, you might as well).
It also does not conflict with any other actions, as far as I can tell. Meaning you could either full attack, or more likely use Special Attack Actions (e.g. the Spell Attack feat) at the same time. Assuming you manage your caster level well in some way (Antiquarians are medium casters, Armigers low casters - of course you could always cheat via e.g. Veilweaving Sphere) you can out some pretty good damage with that.
Just to use a 10th-level build (Antiquarian Armiger 5, Armorist 5) as an example:
You have CL 6, but this can get boosted by +2 for one Sphere, and will get boosted by +4 from Bound Equipment, and +1 from Mystic Enhancement - for a total CL of 13.
Make a Spell Attack with the Destruction Sphere in one weapon (so it can have it's own talents as suited to that), and if you hit, Mystic Assault will give you another attack - draw a weapon, cast a Blast either without a blast shape into it (Focused Blast will add damage there) or with something single-targeted such as Energy Tether (conveniently in the other weapon) and if that hits, it is two attacks and two destructive blasts going off in the same round! If you don't hit, just keep the weapon, it may be useful for AoOs - you can swap back to your main one next round.
With that CL, each blast can be 14D6 (or D4, D8, depending) and the second one can even add +1/die. That's a fair amount of damage, especially in addition to the attacks you are getting off.
But this can be done much earlier (level 3 at the earliest, really), just without Rapid Assault (so you'll just enchant your weapon for the next round, still very good) and with less stacking CL-boosts.