Magic Missile (see the dedicated section).Reduce person: Your tank’s friend, more AC and Dex.Touch of Gracelessness (sometime useful disabler to lower the AC of an enemy, it’s a touch attack so be careful).Hurricane Bow (useful at low levels to help clear all the trash mobs without using other spells, use with heavy crossbow for maximum love).Shield (stacks with Mage Armor, VERY useful to have your AC 21 wiz, altough with careful positioning your wizard should very rarely be attacked, unfortunately it is personnal only).Ear piercing scream (very few monsters have sonic resistance).Snowball, very good damage potential (1d6 per caster lvl).Color spray (GREAT disabler, few early ennemies have high will save, strongest early game spell IMHO).Burning hands (only early AOE damage / swarm killer for fangberries).There may be others but this covers most of the useful basics for the first encounters.Others easily found scrolls until the Stag lord are: vanish / ray of enfeebelment / ray of sickening / snowball / corrosive touch / enlarge person / summon monster one.Do not take Magic Missile and Mage Armor you start with scrolls on your character and can learn them right at the start.Opposition schools: Necromancy / Divination (early spells are less potent and later if you really need them the 2 slots are not that penalizing).Precise Shot (Need PBS, near the end of the list, else casting a spell on an enemy in melee will have a -4 penalty).The rest are useful when you have to play your MC alone. Very much dependent on your party, the only mandatory are Arcana / World / Use Magic Device. School: Evocation (Intense spells (+damage) means that even your low level damage spells will stay relevant even far into the game).Īlso most of evocation spells trigger an opposite save check so they benefit A LOT from the added difficulty.īond: Strong choices are: Object (spell refresh) / Lizard (+ AC) / Rat (+ Fortitude save which will very probably be your weak one). It may not be the most optimized way to play (as a disabler focused wizard may be more effective) but I find the disabling spells strong enough not to need a lot of feats investment (at least in the early game).Īlso more dakka is always good. The following build is an example for the early levels (as they are the most difficult) of a damage dealer oriented wizard with strong disables and buffs. On a side note its skills are amazing thanks to the high intelligence, and will probably be on cooking duty until the end of its days! So How Do I Become the Next Raistlin Majere? You want the encounters to be short and lethal (for you foes). You shall think of your wizard as a tactical battle platform able to do amazing burst damage. Unlike in the other RPGs in this game the hoarding / selling limited use gear mentality is not that profitable. Its spells are few at first but each of them really have the potential to change the way an encounter plays.Īlso it can easily counter the “few spells weakness” as it has the ability to use wand and scrolls (even divine ones) so it can cover all the spellcaster roles, meaning more flexibility in your party composition. Enemies pelter you with elemental damage? => Resist Energy / Protection from Energy.Ī wizard is a specialised instrument.Need strong melee buff / resist => Haste / Heroism etc.Disable ennemies => Color Spray / Hold Person / Web etc.Very high AC / damage resistant ennemies => Unmissable damage: Magic Missile….Big enemy HP pool / swarm => AOE spells: Fireball / Molten Orb / Lightning bolt, etc.
The most interesting trait of a wizard is its capacity to learn spells from scrolls which means that you’ll eventually be able to cast all the arcane spells in the game.Īs a lot of you have understood, the key to win encounters in pathfinder is to be able to have the “rights” answers to an encounter. So How Do I Become the Next Raistlin Majere?.
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