There is actually one more meta magic feat: Completely Normal Magic. It reduces the spell slot level required to cast the spell by one and it’s only accessible through Trickster’s Perception 2 trick.
Unfortunately, it does not allow reducing lvl 1 spells to lvl 0, at least for me - it is possible to write the spell, f.ex. mage armor, but it won't be available from lvl0/cantrip selection. However, it's still nice to use with other metamagic skills, like selective.
@@sleepy6x Yea it does not work. It would have been extremely powerful to turn all your 1st level spells into cantrips tho, effectively turning cantrips from 1d3 base damage to 5d6 base damage
Something people coming from 5e should know about heightened spell. Using heightened spell does not increase the amount of dice rolled with damage or duration or targets. Heightened is for the purpose of raising the save DC to keep spells like grease relevant at lvl 20.
To further clarify on this, save dc is spell level dependent, but spell attack rolls (which tend to be touch attacks) are not affected by spell level. Instead of using spell casting modifier as the attack roll bonus, you use Dex for ranged touch attack and Str for melee touch attack. Hence dexterity is very important for spell casters as well.
Buying bolster, persistent, empower, maximize, or quicken rods are high value purchases, in my opinion. They are very versatile since you can use them without having to prepare in advance. And most of the rods remain useful for the entire game.
I’m at the beginning of Act 5 and yet to use Metamagic, I wasn’t playing a spell caster so didn’t really delve too deep beyond buffs in my companions. Having built Ember to essentially be a glorified fire elemental I finally decided to delve into it, but even after taking the feats 4 or so levels ago I had never been able to work out how to apply them - thanks so much for this, it’s super helpful!!
If you are unsure to get Feats, you can find rods typically through vendors that help to offset the "Feat Cost" the downside of which is they are kind of expensive and typically have a limited amount of uses until rest. The one main thing is that some rods will only work for a range of spell levels (listed on the description) and this makes it so one rod will not work for all spells like the Feat would.
What I find is the single best metamagic combo is empower and hellfire ray as each ray from that does at most 15d6 which with the 50% boost from empower rounds to 22d6, however you actually get up to three rays from hellfire ray meaning you can do up to 66d6 and you can add in a maximize rod to make the total damage a more consistent number
@@SNIPExLIGERxMIRAGE I have used rods to do this with ember, also kitted outs with every item I can find that boosts fire damage, and using the mythic feat to offset her -4 penalty from her curse and bypass fire immunity/resistances. She basically deals with any of the optional epic fights, everyone else is just a meat shield. Heck even just scorching ray gets some solid damage at that point. I basically wanted meta magic so for her so I could kit out every spell level with fire ray type spells. And now thanks to this video I know what tab to click on! :)
I love how every single time I watch a video I see the number after the decimal for subscribers going up by one at least. Always glad when good content creators begin getting the recognition they deserve
I absolutely love the addition of selective and persistent metamagics (and bolster to a lesser extent). Metamagics for non-damage based spells seemed a tad lacking without them. Persistent especially is just so cool and you get a ton of mileage out of it with certain spells (e.g. Phantasmal Killer).
So interesting fact is that selective spell is not working per it’s description. It is actually working with non-instantaneous spells like web. It also seems to ignore the stat modifier and just does not affect allies regardless of number.
Just a note about empower and maximize metamagic. Empower Is best used with small dice (1d4 vs 1d10 for example) spells, as well as spells that have static bonuses added on to the dice, since it will multiply the static bonuses in addition to the dice. Maximize is best to use when you're rolling a lot of dice without static modifiers. For example, an empowered magic missile will do a little bit more damage on average than a maximized magic missile, while taking up one spell slot lower. The small damage range of the magic missile 1d4 die combined with the static plus 1 damage per missile synergizes well with empower. On On the other hand a maximized fireball will do considerably more damage than an empowered fireball. Rolling a whole bunch of six-sided dice with no static modifiers works pretty well with maximize.
This is quite useful!! I only know basic dnd rules like how to use your spell at a higher level and didn't figure it out how to use metamagic when playing kingmaker . Thx for this video!
Finally! Been playing a couple weeks and noticed little grey circles on top of the spells with no idea what that meant. No in game tutorial or notification at all.
Early Nenio and Carmellia are very good buffers and their lvl 1-3 spells are great! Blessing, that one spell I don't remember, that protects members against Evil, Chaotic, Lawfull, Good creatures and Haste. I used the Metamagic - Extend to use it for a decent amount of time in the beginning and don't regret it.
A cleric can convert any of their spells modified by reach metamagic into a reach cure or harm spell. You can also scribe scrolls which include the metamagic effects. I've been trying a priest of balance using all reach spells.
Did you mention that any standard action become a full action spell when using metamagic (except Quicken) for spontaneous casters? It's quite important for people like me who aren't particularly familiar with those dnd rules. (I used to think it's a bug in the game lol.)
Don't have forever to play CRPG's, I'm 69 years old, have POE II, played about 15 hours, if you had 100 hours to put into a game would you pick POE II or Pathfinder WOTR. POE II seems to better graphics but not too keen on pirate background. From reviews and gameplay videos POE II seems to have better writing, WOTR more character options. Which do you recommend more?
Heightened + Persistent = Why yes, I did just use phantasmal killer on Baphomet. Got my entire party a level for doing it as well. This was on core with him shaken and hexed. Quickened is great if you pair use it to stack up effects. Firing off two stat draining spells in a turn, hitting an enemy with two different elements to trigger the relevant mythic ability, or just firing off two nukes in the same turn.
Remember to use those metamagic rods, had my lich sorcerer with them on my first run and he was doing insane damage by end game since a lot of lich spells still do full damage even if they pass the savings throw.
I would argue empower is more powerful than maximize, as you can and will go with empower over the maximum limit of the spell. Other spin: It raises minimum, maximum and average damage. Maximize sets min, max and average the same, but never exceeds it. The higher a damage dice is, the more useful becomes maximize. The lower the dice, the more usefull is bolster. Bolster and empowering of Magic missile makes absolute sense (changes D4s to D6+2s with a min of 2+2 … the former max). As magic missile is very special you just add up positive treats. There is a lot more to say about Metamagic, espescially what happens to special spells like non-damage spells: I like to use my necromancer with empowered and maximized spells for calling undeads, so I have more of them. A maximized and empowered spell gives me 9 undead, but bolster does nothing. When a spell has a maximum dice limit can you increase it over that limit? You should also mention that an upgraded spell / same Spell but of a different spellslot literally can give you more uses of that spell. So if you love magic missile (or whatever) but you are unhappy you can regularly cast it only 7-times, than a bolstered one will give you 5 additional uses, an empowered one gives you 4 more uses and an maximized one 2 more uses. Now you have instead of only 7 a total of 18… you literally can no longer run out of uses. You can even more increase that amount by applying several metamagis at once. Your highest tier spells will not make use of metamagic as you cannot go past level 9 spellslots. However - if you have a metamagic that increases spellslots by 1, but you take the option to reduce the penalty to 0, you can even then e.g. bolster level 9 spells. Some lower spells are better/more efficient as an upgraded version on a higher spellslot than other spellslots. Espescially look out for touch spells that bring your casters into melee range. Usually the touch spells are more powerfull than the range ones, so to enlarge their reach might be more useful than to just boost your dice. Heal spells work weird with metamagic.
I havent comfirmed this, but apparently Boldering spell bypasses Selective spell damaging your allies but only for the additional damage granted by Boldstering, tho it may have been pached upp since i found it. I used this to put enforcing vigor on ember to give my team a gentle reminder on how to not suck at killing.
I haven't tested it in the latest patch but yeah this was definitely true a few weeks ago. Also, I don't think you can apply Selective to a single-target spell like Magic Missile that has been Bolstered since the game doesn't consider it an area-of-effect spell.
Selective spells are something I was missing in Kingmaker - selective dragon breath, shout, sirocco ftw. Now if only there was selective kinetic metakinesis for the sweet selective deadly earths/clouds :D
I've really wanted to get into hardcore cRPGs (by that I mean games you basically have to know by heart before playing) for some time now, but seeing how many videos you pump out about mechanics of WotR, I'm starting think I should just give up and stick to simpler and more player-friendly games like Divinity.
Thank you for the video, Mortismal. I have a about 300 hours in total in kingmaker and WotR, so that stuff was known to me, but there are still a lot of things, which I have 0 info on and have trouble finding info on the net. Here are a bunch of questions that I have: 1) The magus arhitype: When using spell combat to deliver a touch spell through weapon strike, do you attack the touch AC (as the spell suggests) or do you attack regular AC, since you are delivering the spell through weapon attack? Eldritch archer using arrowshot to deliver ray-attached spell - again what AC do we target? 2) If we have weapon finnesse do we use dexterity for attackroll with melee touch spells, or do we still use strenght? 3) What exactly is a death effect and how can we know if something qualifies as such? Is it a death tag on the spell, or is it just anything with a chance of killing on successful hit? For example we know that rogue's master strike is death effect. But for example is phantasmal killer a death effect? That is to say if enemy is immune to death magic and I know I can't use stuff like wail of the banshee, because wail of the banshee has spell descriptor: Death. However Weird doesn't have that spell descriptor, so will Weird work on enemies immune to death magic? Would You make a video about those things and similar ambiguous stuff, as I assume other players might have misunderstandings about them as well. Regardless of wether you make such a video or not, thank you for your work. I learned a lot from You :)
Weapon finesse uses dex for melee touch as it just affects melee rolls period, death spells are tagged as death spells, weird and phantasmal killer are fear tagged because the target dies out of fear not because the magic itself killed them. I'd have to check on the first one
@@MortismalGaming I wanted to ask something else. It is about the dark vision of demons. What does that entail exactly? Does it mean that they have higher perception check, so you just need to have much higher stealth skill if you want to sneak around demons, or does it just mean that they simply see invisibile characters and it is impossible to use stealth near demons? Btw I tested the arcane archer, turns out it targets the basic armor class, but it does so with additional attack which has the spell attached to it. So basically you are risking with lower chance to hit and expending a spell slot, but you get more attacks and more condensed damage. It's a simple tradeoff and a matter of choice :)
Can you do a video breaking down the different spell schools and what types of spells fall in those categories? I'm so confused starting out having to choose a specialty school of magic with no context of what they do. I think I figured out buffs may fall under transmutation, but I'm super clueless on most of it.
I think empower might be bugged since there are many spells that can't be empowered but should be allowed to be empowered. Also, there's no mythic metamagic for bolster.
Based on the PnP rules, Selective Metamagic shouldn't work on non intantanous effects, so the very popular Selective Grease or Selective Glitterdust are technically illegal. Curious if OwlCat is gonna change that for the game.
@@Nooctae Basically spells meant to damage. Still don't mind it in this case though. As this makes it less annoying to cast spells like grease. As you don't have to worry about your A.I. stupidly running through it.
It's a pity this wasn't a bit more indepth. This was much more a lets read out the english, rather than lets explain why to use it. Which is a shame, I just got done the other day explaining metamagic feats to someone who wanted to play a summoner trying to keep their summons relevant till endgame. A few examples here would have helped to hopefully hammer the point home about the why's.. the whens.. and the when not to use metamagic. Missed opportunity.
Another question about spells from mythic paths. Azata spellbook uses CHA right? Does it follow the same rules as regular spellcasting? That is to say, if my character has dumped charisma and say I have 7 CHA, will I be able to get at least 1 spell from each level of the azata spellbook, or will I be denied that, just like with regular spellcasting?
@@MortismalGaming Аbout scale, sure. I as wasking about number of spells you can cast. Like for example you need 11 Int to be able to cast lvl 1 spells right? Same for CHA. I was asking if this rule applies to mythic spell books, just in terms of will you be able to even cast those spells with dumped stat, not about the caster lvl or how effective it would be :)
@@zyfryth if you merged the spell book yes it would use your casting stat and would require the appropriate level of that stat to cast the appropriate level spells. If you took the mythic non merged spell book it uses your mythic rank and thus you won't get spells you can't cast for any reason.
@@MortismalGaming I see. That is such a huge relief. I was playing sword saint and wanted to go for azata, but because my mental stat is INT and I have dumped CHA I was worried the game wouldn't let me use the azata spells :((
Wow, I didn’t even know this was a thing. I thought the amount of spells and schools available were already overwhelming and confusing. I’ve only gotten to act 3 and much prefer to use ranged weapons because the spell system seems so lackluster. Lann can be crushing dudes with his bow but nenio casts magic missile for like 10 points. It feels useless, but there has to be more, I just don’t understand
Ranged is good, but blaster casters are on another level entirely when the going gets tough. When the vavakia has 70 AC on normal, it will still get trashed by hellfire rays.
the thing that I'm not quite getting is which spells are concentration because coming from regular DND a lot of spells that would be concentration don't seem to be in Pathfinder
In Pathfinder, concentration is solely used to not lose focus on the spell when you take damage while casting it to begin with from what I can tell. In turn based that usually means only when you trigger attacks of opportunity when casting. However, if you cast a touch spell but are not in range, you will still cast it, and then concentrate on it until your next turn when you get in range, so you can lose it through broken concentration if you take damage in that time. In real time with pause it becomes more important because an enemies regular attacks could disrupt your casting.
You can use it when you need multiple casts of one spell but don't have enough slots of that level or to have it useful on higher levels. It is also very good on spontaneus casters (sorcerer, oracle, ...) that have less spells than prepared casters, but with heighten you can on the fly use spells with higher spell slots - on prepared casters you need to prepare specific metamagic first.
There is actually one more meta magic feat: Completely Normal Magic. It reduces the spell slot level required to cast the spell by one and it’s only accessible through Trickster’s Perception 2 trick.
Unfortunately, it does not allow reducing lvl 1 spells to lvl 0, at least for me - it is possible to write the spell, f.ex. mage armor, but it won't be available from lvl0/cantrip selection.
However, it's still nice to use with other metamagic skills, like selective.
@@sleepy6x Yea it does not work. It would have been extremely powerful to turn all your 1st level spells into cantrips tho, effectively turning cantrips from 1d3 base damage to 5d6 base damage
@@jimsterx2757 5d6 is a gross understatement, cantripping magic missile would be absurd.
@@zelosjr Trickster Use Magic Item Tier 2 is absurd enough. Wand don't lose charges...
@@user-cy7ej4yr6w Would be interesting to combine that with a healing wand to just never worry about any HP total short of lethal.
Something people coming from 5e should know about heightened spell. Using heightened spell does not increase the amount of dice rolled with damage or duration or targets. Heightened is for the purpose of raising the save DC to keep spells like grease relevant at lvl 20.
To further clarify on this, save dc is spell level dependent, but spell attack rolls (which tend to be touch attacks) are not affected by spell level. Instead of using spell casting modifier as the attack roll bonus, you use Dex for ranged touch attack and Str for melee touch attack. Hence dexterity is very important for spell casters as well.
Grease is mental on this game
So a Magus true strikes his maximized empowered shock touch critting whatever stands before him into oblivion. Neat.
Buying bolster, persistent, empower, maximize, or quicken rods are high value purchases, in my opinion. They are very versatile since you can use them without having to prepare in advance. And most of the rods remain useful for the entire game.
I’m at the beginning of Act 5 and yet to use Metamagic, I wasn’t playing a spell caster so didn’t really delve too deep beyond buffs in my companions. Having built Ember to essentially be a glorified fire elemental I finally decided to delve into it, but even after taking the feats 4 or so levels ago I had never been able to work out how to apply them - thanks so much for this, it’s super helpful!!
If you are unsure to get Feats, you can find rods typically through vendors that help to offset the "Feat Cost" the downside of which is they are kind of expensive and typically have a limited amount of uses until rest. The one main thing is that some rods will only work for a range of spell levels (listed on the description) and this makes it so one rod will not work for all spells like the Feat would.
What I find is the single best metamagic combo is empower and hellfire ray as each ray from that does at most 15d6 which with the 50% boost from empower rounds to 22d6, however you actually get up to three rays from hellfire ray meaning you can do up to 66d6 and you can add in a maximize rod to make the total damage a more consistent number
@@SNIPExLIGERxMIRAGE I have used rods to do this with ember, also kitted outs with every item I can find that boosts fire damage, and using the mythic feat to offset her -4 penalty from her curse and bypass fire immunity/resistances. She basically deals with any of the optional epic fights, everyone else is just a meat shield. Heck even just scorching ray gets some solid damage at that point. I basically wanted meta magic so for her so I could kit out every spell level with fire ray type spells. And now thanks to this video I know what tab to click on! :)
As someone who is going through this game for a 3rd run and PETRIFIED of playing a caster, this helps tremendously!
I love how every single time I watch a video I see the number after the decimal for subscribers going up by one at least. Always glad when good content creators begin getting the recognition they deserve
I absolutely love the addition of selective and persistent metamagics (and bolster to a lesser extent). Metamagics for non-damage based spells seemed a tad lacking without them. Persistent especially is just so cool and you get a ton of mileage out of it with certain spells (e.g. Phantasmal Killer).
So interesting fact is that selective spell is not working per it’s description. It is actually working with non-instantaneous spells like web. It also seems to ignore the stat modifier and just does not affect allies regardless of number.
I hope they don't 'fix' that, because honestly, having to select which members the spell would not hit sounds like a freaking nightmare.
Use those rods guys ! Maximizing three bolstered hellrays per day is well worth it.
Don't assume anything! I BARELY understand the magic system of this game... I guess this game has never heard of PASSIVES...
Just a note about empower and maximize metamagic. Empower Is best used with small dice (1d4 vs 1d10 for example) spells, as well as spells that have static bonuses added on to the dice, since it will multiply the static bonuses in addition to the dice. Maximize is best to use when you're rolling a lot of dice without static modifiers.
For example, an empowered magic missile will do a little bit more damage on average than a maximized magic missile, while taking up one spell slot lower. The small damage range of the magic missile 1d4 die combined with the static plus 1 damage per missile synergizes well with empower. On On the other hand a maximized fireball will do considerably more damage than an empowered fireball. Rolling a whole bunch of six-sided dice with no static modifiers works pretty well with maximize.
It's hard to survive this game without guides
Note on bolster, it's still bugged/Tooltip incorrect. The boosted damage is friendly fire even though the Tooltip expressly says 'enemies'.
fuck. i see, so that was the problem..thx
I really don't have a basic understanding of the magic system, I just like watching your vids :D
Mythic metamagic was a game changer for me, in actually using the system.
I love selective spell - grease/web only hitting enemies makes the early game fights a lot easier in terms of positioning
Thank you! This really helped. Pathfinder needs more tutorials. Like, a lot of them... lol (Also, Aivu is voiced now!)
Really appreciate this video, saw the metamagic panel and had no idea what to do with it thanks!
I never knew how to do this for Kingmaker and recently learned how to do it on my own after looking over some builds. Thanks for your vids as always!
This is quite useful!! I only know basic dnd rules like how to use your spell at a higher level and didn't figure it out how to use metamagic when playing kingmaker . Thx for this video!
Thassillion Evoker/Eccliesithurge Mystical Theurge with every single spell slot except level 1 cleric filled with magic missile.
Finally! Been playing a couple weeks and noticed little grey circles on top of the spells with no idea what that meant. No in game tutorial or notification at all.
Thanks for the info. I knew vaguely what they did but now I have a better understanding.
Early Nenio and Carmellia are very good buffers and their lvl 1-3 spells are great! Blessing, that one spell I don't remember, that protects members against Evil, Chaotic, Lawfull, Good creatures and Haste. I used the Metamagic - Extend to use it for a decent amount of time in the beginning and don't regret it.
A cleric can convert any of their spells modified by reach metamagic into a reach cure or harm spell. You can also scribe scrolls which include the metamagic effects. I've been trying a priest of balance using all reach spells.
Did you mention that any standard action become a full action spell when using metamagic (except Quicken) for spontaneous casters? It's quite important for people like me who aren't particularly familiar with those dnd rules. (I used to think it's a bug in the game lol.)
Don't have forever to play CRPG's, I'm 69 years old, have POE II, played about 15 hours, if you had 100 hours to put into a game would you pick POE II or Pathfinder WOTR. POE II seems to better graphics but not too keen on pirate background. From reviews and gameplay videos POE II seems to have better writing, WOTR more character options. Which do you recommend more?
Your awesome Mortem, there is very little info for this game surprisingly lol
Another great topic!
Heightened + Persistent = Why yes, I did just use phantasmal killer on Baphomet.
Got my entire party a level for doing it as well. This was on core with him shaken and hexed.
Quickened is great if you pair use it to stack up effects. Firing off two stat draining spells in a turn, hitting an enemy with two different elements to trigger the relevant mythic ability, or just firing off two nukes in the same turn.
Remember to use those metamagic rods, had my lich sorcerer with them on my first run and he was doing insane damage by end game since a lot of lich spells still do full damage even if they pass the savings throw.
I would argue empower is more powerful than maximize, as you can and will go with empower over the maximum limit of the spell.
Other spin: It raises minimum, maximum and average damage.
Maximize sets min, max and average the same, but never exceeds it.
The higher a damage dice is, the more useful becomes maximize. The lower the dice, the more usefull is bolster.
Bolster and empowering of Magic missile makes absolute sense (changes D4s to D6+2s with a min of 2+2 … the former max). As magic missile is very special you just add up positive treats.
There is a lot more to say about Metamagic, espescially what happens to special spells like non-damage spells:
I like to use my necromancer with empowered and maximized spells for calling undeads, so I have more of them. A maximized and empowered spell gives me 9 undead, but bolster does nothing.
When a spell has a maximum dice limit can you increase it over that limit?
You should also mention that an upgraded spell / same Spell but of a different spellslot literally can give you more uses of that spell.
So if you love magic missile (or whatever) but you are unhappy you can regularly cast it only 7-times, than a bolstered one will give you 5 additional uses, an empowered one gives you 4 more uses and an maximized one 2 more uses. Now you have instead of only 7 a total of 18… you literally can no longer run out of uses. You can even more increase that amount by applying several metamagis at once.
Your highest tier spells will not make use of metamagic as you cannot go past level 9 spellslots.
However - if you have a metamagic that increases spellslots by 1, but you take the option to reduce the penalty to 0, you can even then e.g. bolster level 9 spells.
Some lower spells are better/more efficient as an upgraded version on a higher spellslot than other spellslots.
Espescially look out for touch spells that bring your casters into melee range. Usually the touch spells are more powerfull than the range ones, so to enlarge their reach might be more useful than to just boost your dice.
Heal spells work weird with metamagic.
Great info!
I havent comfirmed this, but apparently Boldering spell bypasses Selective spell damaging your allies but only for the additional damage granted by Boldstering, tho it may have been pached upp since i found it.
I used this to put enforcing vigor on ember to give my team a gentle reminder on how to not suck at killing.
I haven't tested it in the latest patch but yeah this was definitely true a few weeks ago. Also, I don't think you can apply Selective to a single-target spell like Magic Missile that has been Bolstered since the game doesn't consider it an area-of-effect spell.
Very nice. Just wished I had known that 100 hours of gameplay ago -__-
Oh well !
Thanks for the nice guide
My personal use rule for Metamagic is to only use it on a spell of equal spell level or higher than the levels used by the Metamagic feat.
Guess I need to start putting some level up feats or points or wtv un metamagic. Thanks for this video.
Very helpful guide
Selective spells are something I was missing in Kingmaker - selective dragon breath, shout, sirocco ftw. Now if only there was selective kinetic metakinesis for the sweet selective deadly earths/clouds :D
I've really wanted to get into hardcore cRPGs (by that I mean games you basically have to know by heart before playing) for some time now, but seeing how many videos you pump out about mechanics of WotR, I'm starting think I should just give up and stick to simpler and more player-friendly games like Divinity.
Thank you for the video, Mortismal. I have a about 300 hours in total in kingmaker and WotR, so that stuff was known to me, but there are still a lot of things, which I have 0 info on and have trouble finding info on the net.
Here are a bunch of questions that I have:
1) The magus arhitype: When using spell combat to deliver a touch spell through weapon strike, do you attack the touch AC (as the spell suggests) or do you attack regular AC, since you are delivering the spell through weapon attack?
Eldritch archer using arrowshot to deliver ray-attached spell - again what AC do we target?
2) If we have weapon finnesse do we use dexterity for attackroll with melee touch spells, or do we still use strenght?
3) What exactly is a death effect and how can we know if something qualifies as such? Is it a death tag on the spell, or is it just anything with a chance of killing on successful hit? For example we know that rogue's master strike is death effect. But for example is phantasmal killer a death effect? That is to say if enemy is immune to death magic and I know I can't use stuff like wail of the banshee, because wail of the banshee has spell descriptor: Death. However Weird doesn't have that spell descriptor, so will Weird work on enemies immune to death magic?
Would You make a video about those things and similar ambiguous stuff, as I assume other players might have misunderstandings about them as well.
Regardless of wether you make such a video or not, thank you for your work. I learned a lot from You :)
Weapon finesse uses dex for melee touch as it just affects melee rolls period, death spells are tagged as death spells, weird and phantasmal killer are fear tagged because the target dies out of fear not because the magic itself killed them. I'd have to check on the first one
@@MortismalGaming Thanks a bunch! :))
@@MortismalGaming I wanted to ask something else. It is about the dark vision of demons. What does that entail exactly? Does it mean that they have higher perception check, so you just need to have much higher stealth skill if you want to sneak around demons, or does it just mean that they simply see invisibile characters and it is impossible to use stealth near demons? Btw I tested the arcane archer, turns out it targets the basic armor class, but it does so with additional attack which has the spell attached to it. So basically you are risking with lower chance to hit and expending a spell slot, but you get more attacks and more condensed damage. It's a simple tradeoff and a matter of choice :)
Loving bolster and empower, though I think bolster is bugging out and making controlled fireball so the added damage to your friends.
It's so bad that I picked the selective metamagic feat, but constantly kept forgetting to swap some of my spells lol.
Can you do a video breaking down the different spell schools and what types of spells fall in those categories? I'm so confused starting out having to choose a specialty school of magic with no context of what they do. I think I figured out buffs may fall under transmutation, but I'm super clueless on most of it.
good video. I understand it now..well better.
How would persistent affect a spell like phantasmal killer that has 2 saves?
*Should* make them re roll both, can't say I've tested it though
I think empower might be bugged since there are many spells that can't be empowered but should be allowed to be empowered. Also, there's no mythic metamagic for bolster.
Spamming phantasmal is op, metamagic makes it even better
Based on the PnP rules, Selective Metamagic shouldn't work on non intantanous effects, so the very popular Selective Grease or Selective Glitterdust are technically illegal.
Curious if OwlCat is gonna change that for the game.
Those feel like they are ok...Does this work with pit though?
@@DragoonBB Pit would be illegal too pretty sure. The idea of Selective is more for instant damage spells like cone of cold I think in the PnP.
@@Nooctae Basically spells meant to damage. Still don't mind it in this case though. As this makes it less annoying to cast spells like grease. As you don't have to worry about your A.I. stupidly running through it.
I have a hard time justifying taking metamagic feats when rods are so abundant
what I want to know is what the difference between heighten metamagic and just upcasting the spell is
Same thing, Heighten metamagic is how you upcast in this rule set
I'd imagine for a summon build. Metamagic wouldn't be half bad given you could Empower early on, and then change to extended duration later.
I may be wrong but I don’t think you can empower summoning spells
@@andrewtierney1218 Most summon spells have 1 + 1d3 or something similar, thus maximize and empower both work here.
Can heighten spell change 'Summon Monster I' into it's higher level types? Heighten SM1 into SM2 through SM9?
No.
The mythic focus feat for meta magic I took it and can no longer use them?
I havent used it but i want to try metamagic necromancy on a cleric.
It's a pity this wasn't a bit more indepth. This was much more a lets read out the english, rather than lets explain why to use it. Which is a shame, I just got done the other day explaining metamagic feats to someone who wanted to play a summoner trying to keep their summons relevant till endgame. A few examples here would have helped to hopefully hammer the point home about the why's.. the whens.. and the when not to use metamagic. Missed opportunity.
Thanks for the video. What meta magic do you suggest for a magus?
Answer varies wildly per spell
@@MortismalGaming Mainly melee touch attacks. I guess Empower Spell is good for that?
for the algorithm
Another question about spells from mythic paths. Azata spellbook uses CHA right? Does it follow the same rules as regular spellcasting? That is to say, if my character has dumped charisma and say I have 7 CHA, will I be able to get at least 1 spell from each level of the azata spellbook, or will I be denied that, just like with regular spellcasting?
mythic spells scale off your mythic rank unless you merged spellbooks and then it uses your class modifier
@@MortismalGaming Аbout scale, sure. I as wasking about number of spells you can cast. Like for example you need 11 Int to be able to cast lvl 1 spells right? Same for CHA. I was asking if this rule applies to mythic spell books, just in terms of will you be able to even cast those spells with dumped stat, not about the caster lvl or how effective it would be :)
@@zyfryth if you merged the spell book yes it would use your casting stat and would require the appropriate level of that stat to cast the appropriate level spells. If you took the mythic non merged spell book it uses your mythic rank and thus you won't get spells you can't cast for any reason.
@@MortismalGaming I see. That is such a huge relief. I was playing sword saint and wanted to go for azata, but because my mental stat is INT and I have dumped CHA I was worried the game wouldn't let me use the azata spells :((
You mean Metamagic isn’t used so I can slot Fireball into every spell slot past Casting Level 3?
That is correct
Wow, I didn’t even know this was a thing. I thought the amount of spells and schools available were already overwhelming and confusing. I’ve only gotten to act 3 and much prefer to use ranged weapons because the spell system seems so lackluster. Lann can be crushing dudes with his bow but nenio casts magic missile for like 10 points. It feels useless, but there has to be more, I just don’t understand
At that level, nenio is much better casting buffs
Ranged is good, but blaster casters are on another level entirely when the going gets tough. When the vavakia has 70 AC on normal, it will still get trashed by hellfire rays.
the insane damage spells come at the later spell lvls. Combine them with metamagic and you get some crazy combinations.
@@marvalice3455 So what I hear you saying is drop Nenio lol This game makes me feel so dumb.
Seems to me heighten is just the way to go
Kinda don't see the point of bolster or empower when u got heighten
the thing that I'm not quite getting is which spells are concentration because coming from regular DND a lot of spells that would be concentration don't seem to be in Pathfinder
i dont think Pathfinder has Conc. on spells like DnD
In Pathfinder, concentration is solely used to not lose focus on the spell when you take damage while casting it to begin with from what I can tell.
In turn based that usually means only when you trigger attacks of opportunity when casting. However, if you cast a touch spell but are not in range, you will still cast it, and then concentrate on it until your next turn when you get in range, so you can lose it through broken concentration if you take damage in that time.
In real time with pause it becomes more important because an enemies regular attacks could disrupt your casting.
thanks looks like I been trying to up it for no reason good to know
Where did you get that cool portrait??
That's just one of the new ones they added with WotR
But how do you use metamagic wands?
Put them in your quickslots and toggle them, they'll apply to anything they can until out of charges or toggled off
@@MortismalGaming Thank you!
How do you use heighten?
You can use it when you need multiple casts of one spell but don't have enough slots of that level or to have it useful on higher levels. It is also very good on spontaneus casters (sorcerer, oracle, ...) that have less spells than prepared casters, but with heighten you can on the fly use spells with higher spell slots - on prepared casters you need to prepare specific metamagic first.
Metamagic Extend doesnt work on prayer for no reason
This comment is just meant to metamagic: heighten this video in terms of the algorithm.