Author Topic: "Bring out the guy with the strange habits" or "Need help with a Wu Jen"  (Read 2750 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Ruam

  • Member
  • Bi-Curious George
  • *
  • Posts: 500
  • First-class monotremancer
    • Email

Risada

  • Grape ape
  • *****
  • Posts: 1827
  • Wearing this outfit in the name of SCIENCE!
    • Email
Books allowed? Your build so far?

Ruam

  • Member
  • Bi-Curious George
  • *
  • Posts: 500
  • First-class monotremancer
    • Email

Levithix

  • Domesticated Capuchin Monkey
  • **
  • Posts: 103
    • Email
Are you taking combat casting for a prerequisite? Otherwise there are much better ways to boost that concentration check.

Omen of Peace

  • Hong Kong
  • ****
  • Posts: 1053
  • Wise Madman
Most wu-jen spells are on the Wiz/Sorc spell list, so any Wizard handbook will have good advice for you (have the Wu Jen spell list at hand to see which spells are available to you). The Wu-Jen-specific spells are often underwhelming except the high-level ones.

You certainly must get Haste.
The Malazan Book of the Fallen, Steven Erikson

Ruam

  • Member
  • Bi-Curious George
  • *
  • Posts: 500
  • First-class monotremancer
    • Email
Combat casting is not required for anything I planned on taking in the future, it is mostly out of old habit and lack of previous experience with arcane casters. 

Soda

  • Bi-Curious George
  • ****
  • Posts: 484
Then don't take combat casting. If you want the boost there, go for skill focus (concentration) because the +3 to all concentration checks is better than +4 to some. Or better yet, get an item.
« Last Edit: May 16, 2009, 01:02:34 PM by Soda »

Levithix

  • Domesticated Capuchin Monkey
  • **
  • Posts: 103
    • Email
also, with good planning, you should rarely be threatened while casting. Keeping you safe is the only job the melee character's have, if they can't do that, then you are probably over your head.

AfterCrescent

  • Honorary Moderator
  • Organ Grinder
  • *
  • Posts: 4220
  • Here After
also, with good planning, you should rarely be threatened while casting. Keeping you safe is the only job the melee character's have, if they can't do that, then you are probably over your head.
I disagree. Keeping yourself safe is YOUR job. After all, you're a caster. ;)

But on topic, get Improved Initiative. Also, pick a better spell than bears endurance or bull strength for your Spell Secret.
The cake is a lie.
Need to play table top? Get your game on at:
Brilliant Gameologists' PbP Forum. Do it, you know you want to.
The 3.5 Cleric Handbook
The 13th Guard - An alternate history campaign idea.
Clerics just wake up one morning and decide they need to kick ass, and it needs to be kicked NOW. ~veekie

PhaedrusXY

  • Organ Grinder
  • *****
  • Posts: 8022
  • Advanced Spambot
The Wu-Jen-specific spells are often underwhelming except the high-level ones.
And a couple of those can be abused in spectacular ways, like Body Outside of Body and Giant Size.

I'd pick out a PrC or two, and head towards it. I don't remember the Wu Jen class features being worth sticking in the class for too long.
[spoiler]
A couple of water benders, a dike, a flaming arrow, and a few barrels of blasting jelly?

Sounds like the makings of a gay porn film.
...thanks
[/spoiler]

Havok4

  • Man in Gorilla Suit
  • *****
  • Posts: 2144
  • It can only be attributable to human error.
I have seen a couple of builds that use Wu Jen to get insane with telekinesis. I it has some spells which alleviate the need for constant concentration on one spell  and spell secrets work very well for focusing on very specific spells.

veekie

  • Organ Grinder
  • *****
  • Posts: 9034
  • WARNING: Homing Miko
The Wu-Jen-specific spells are often underwhelming except the high-level ones.
And a couple of those can be abused in spectacular ways, like Body Outside of Body and Giant Size.
Totally worth every last gp when UMDed from a scroll. Class features carry over just fine to clones if they aren't spellcasting. :D
The mind transcends the body.
It's also a little cold because of that.
Please get it a blanket.

I wish I could read your mind,
I can barely read mine.

"Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. At 2:15, it begins rolling up characters."

[spoiler]
"Just what do you think the moon up in the sky is? Everyone sees that big, round shiny thing and thinks there must be something round up there, right? That's just silly. The truth is much more awesome than that. You can almost never see the real Moon, and its appearance is death to humans. You can only see the Moon when it's reflected in things. And the things it reflects in, like water or glass, can all be broken, right? Since the moon you see in the sky is just being reflected in the heavens, if you tear open the heavens it's easy to break it~"
-Ibuki Suika, on overkill

To sumbolaion diakoneto moi, basilisk ouranionon.
Epigenentheto, apoleia keraune hos timeis pteirei.
Hekatonkatis kai khiliakis astrapsato.
Khiliarkhou Astrape!
[/spoiler]

There is no higher price than 'free'.

"I won't die. I've been ordered not to die."