Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Woljif Shadowcaster Gold Dragon Run Build

[@stfauth6031]

If you’re taking expanded the Arsenal mythic feat on illusion, you don’t need to waste your combat feats on illusion school feats… all the Enchantment feats are also Illusion feats. If you take Best jokes you should pair it with spell specialization with hideous laughter because you have the extra feats without needing to take spell focus illusion etc. Thanks for the video! 🙏🏻 Hope you have a happy new year!

[@notalefty999]

If you kill the good airship pilot in Alushinyra (I am fairly sure that isnt the spelling) in the bad luck tavern, there are bracers of AC +4 but with also add +2 DC to enchantment. Also, in your favourite dungeon, the Enigma, there is a secret room with googles that add 2DC to all mind affecting, not just enchantment, so it boosts weird also.

[@SlanderedGaming]

Oh that's interesting I never killed her before.

[@yomogami4561]

thanks for the build it might be interesting to make a shadowcaster character

[@Apostle_of_Fate]

Can you make a video about the new gold dragon stuff? In what way is the evil gold dragon different from the good one story wise?

[@SlanderedGaming]

I plan to do that next week.

[@notalefty999]

The story differences are honestly quite underwhelming. There is some (in my view not very plausible) reactivity, but hal basically doesnt care. He gets annoyed at some of the evil gold dragon crusade management choices, but this has no narrative impact beyond those conversations. There is some brief reference to you being corrupted in ending slides and you have the rather naff evil dragon option of just walking away from the world wound rather than staying to guard it. Much more significant are the mechanical differences. For Slandered's build, breath weapon doesn't really matter, but if you are a build which uses it, the annihilating breath specific to vow of dahak fully doubles dragon breath damage against most targets, including doubling the bonus from empowered breath. The extra damage is also fortitude save, so cannot be evaded. At rank 9, you will be hitting for around 350 on average with 50ish DC in a big party friendly AoE, so its pretty good if you can do something alongside it. Personally, I was playing a sorcerer with completely normal spell and favoured metamagic quicken amongst other metamagic feats and I could quicken spells pretty liberally, so could do this alongside breath weapon attacks. And at rank 10, with no cooldown and the breath weapon being empowered and maximised along with the base dice increasing, the breath weapon becomes very powerful, so annihilating breath is a huge deal in inevitable excess if you care to play it. A major drawback is the spellbook changes. At rank 10, your dragon storm applies half the debuff to the enemies that the uncorrupted gold dragon applies as a buff to your party members, which is significantly worse IMO. But somewhat more importantly are the changes to non mythic spells. The normal gold dragon spellbook has a lot of useful buffs, such as extra casts of haste, greater heroism and foresight, but most importantly, had personal buffs including righteous might, divine favour and divine power. If you do not have access to these spells from your class, this is a very significant loss. Divine power is +5 to hit and damage over prayer, so a very significant loss for any martial build, and whilst righteous might is inferior to legendary proportions, it has no reagent cost, so you can use it more liberally, its better than enlarge person and works with shapeshifted forms.

[@lucaszolcsanyi6972]

To be honest I don't like the dip into crossbloded. I used Woljif as a shadowcaster and early on nothing beats Grease. Since he is missing a lot of feats, it's better to focus on Illusion since you wanna use Weird anyway. Phantasmal Web and Putrification are really strong if you get the jump on the enemy, next round you can use Killer. All of which are boosted since you concentrate on Illusion. Any enemy that are immune to mind effecting can be dealt with easily. and they are not immune to Shadow Evocation. You don't miss out on the insanely powerful capstone either.

[@SlanderedGaming]

I also had Camellia in the party as a Skald deploying grease so Woljif having access to it wasn't as important. I disagree that the capstone ability for Shadowform is particularly powerful for this build. It's absence is negligible.

[@notalefty999]

Don't you think the gryphon is a little undersized?

[@SlanderedGaming]

😂

[@briaw40]

I think you kinda missed the plot with this one. If you’re not going to use the shadow spells, you’d be better off taking a different class. Those shadow spells can be quite powerful, are ALL boosted by your illusion school feats/bonuses, and casting one spell will give you access to every spell of that school below it’s level. Massively flexible, but you really have to lean into their deal.

[@SlanderedGaming]

Shadowcaster provides profane increases to your Intelligence which in turn increases the DC of all crowd control spells Woljif uses. I specifically wanted to focus on classes I hadn't used so Shadowcaster fit the bill.

[@fabioferreiragomesdias6090]

Woljif controls a shadow... it fits perfectely.

[@blackfistxu7953]

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[@moonlight2870]

Can't you just get the crossblooded level later?

[@SlanderedGaming]

I could but that would just cause more time where the CC spells don't work against undead and I didn't want that.

[@ksac42]

I personally would rush to get haste first, and then do the cross blood level.

[@27182818284590452354]

Bad mechanically and nonsensical thematically, just embarrassing.

[@SlanderedGaming]

Woljif was a monster my entire playthrough. LOL