lukelightning
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Plus I find their ability selection confusing. It needs a chart.
[ToM]Shadowcaster - weak?
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My main problem is the way thier casting abilities progress. The first 5 or 6 levels, they have really horrible casting abilities. Then as soon as they get the next tier of mysteries their casting abilities basically double. Then they start to fall behind again til they get to thier 3rd tier at which point they jump up again. I just don't think it would be fun to play up. If you were starting at a higher level it might be ok, but still not as good as a sorc or wizard in my opinion.
drquestion
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I haven't seen one in play, either, but they do look weak to me, especially at low levels.
The limited number of spells known and spells per day is at least somewhat mitigated by having a lot of the mysteries be more powerful than spells of a similar level.
More than anything, I think it's the path system that bothers me about the class. Being stuck with paths means that you'll often have to take a lower-level mystery that you don't really want in order to get a high-level one that you do.
It also makes shadowcasters suffer severely from the problem that 3.0 sorcerers had: the paths that are good for beginning characters are not those that are good for high-level characthers, but there's no way to swap them out. For example, Flicker and Killing Shadows are both great apprentice mysteries that will remain effective at high levels. But, if you were to start to first level and work up their paths, the only mystery you'd have to use in combat before you got Killing Shadows would be Voice of Shadow, which isn't even very useful. Low-level characters who want to be useful in combat are basically forced to take either the Dark Terrain or Touch of Twilight paths, even if they'd prefer to have other 3rd-level mysteries.
Being able to freely choose mysteries (and just having a set bonus feat progression) would make the class a lot easier to play from 1st through 20th.
The limited number of spells known and spells per day is at least somewhat mitigated by having a lot of the mysteries be more powerful than spells of a similar level.
More than anything, I think it's the path system that bothers me about the class. Being stuck with paths means that you'll often have to take a lower-level mystery that you don't really want in order to get a high-level one that you do.
It also makes shadowcasters suffer severely from the problem that 3.0 sorcerers had: the paths that are good for beginning characters are not those that are good for high-level characthers, but there's no way to swap them out. For example, Flicker and Killing Shadows are both great apprentice mysteries that will remain effective at high levels. But, if you were to start to first level and work up their paths, the only mystery you'd have to use in combat before you got Killing Shadows would be Voice of Shadow, which isn't even very useful. Low-level characters who want to be useful in combat are basically forced to take either the Dark Terrain or Touch of Twilight paths, even if they'd prefer to have other 3rd-level mysteries.
Being able to freely choose mysteries (and just having a set bonus feat progression) would make the class a lot easier to play from 1st through 20th.
Nalfeshnee
Explorer
ii just got TaM today, and the only class in it that seems good is the binder. the Truenamer and Shadow caster, even though full of flavour, are very weak classes (or so it seems tome for now).
where does it state that the shadow caster can take the same mystery twice?
where does it state that the shadow caster can take the same mystery twice?
WarlockLord
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I really don't think it's supposed to be a blaster. I think it's more of an assassin mage.
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