Hey Bolshy, glad your making videos again. I beat the game with your skald build and your brownfur build. Keep it up interested on how your play through is going to be.
Found out about this channel from your death knight build. Absolutely loving that build! This sounds super fun as well so I'm very tempted to try this out on a new playthrough
A great idea and a great build. I always loved interesting supports (as is probably obvious from my nickname, lol), and this, among all things, seems like a fun roleplaying opportunity!
Welcome back! Given all your previous builds focusing on tanking or massive damage, I would never have guessed you'd play a support character! Having said that, I plan to play Brownfur Transmuter on the lich mythic path to become the master of all with the most powerful undead Gollarion has ever seen!
I'm level 20 in my azata play through on normal and sometimes companions do go down so I looked at the "buff" they were getting when they hit 1hp and the charges are based on your character level (so 20 charges before they pop, instead of my charisma bonus) I think it might still be buggy but it is possible for them to take enough hits that they go down. When they hit 1HP and lifebonding friendship activates they can't be healed back from 1hp, but at least on normal they don't die at the end of the fight they are just at 1hp. If they do die from the charges going down, they fully die: greyed out character portrait even though death's door is active on my playthrough. They can be rezzed with the spell that doesn't cost diamonds though as long as you get to them straight away.
I think the life bonding friendship works slightly differently than the text implies: it's not as OP as a free Last Stand for example. Once you hit 0 HP, instead of being unconscious, you instead get Death's Door condition and cannot receive any healing. Even with greater restoration, after the battle ends, you immediately die on Core or above and require a Breath of Life/raise dead/etc to revive. The superpower is good for making tough fights easier but I'm always on edge since you get punished so hard for hitting 0 HP. I've lost Aivu/Arue so many times because you need to baby sit every one of your companions even in "easier" encounters or you'll burn a lot of diamonds on resurrections. The teamwork feats are amazing tho.
You can't heal them back up after they go to negative hp? That's unfortunate. I guess that will give me incentive to keep my party at high hp. Thanks for the info!
@@bolshyplays1733 I've never been able to heal a "fallen" party member to stable HP in my playthrough so far. You can't actually see your HP while effect kicks in so I can't say sure but I've tried on multiple occassions. I used breath of life here and later channel positive energy but no indication of increasing HP for example ua-cam.com/video/wLX7u_RaPfg/v-deo.html
This is one of the issues with theorycrafting builds. While they do look cool on paper, you don't really know how actually playing them is going to be. Will they be viable on every level or are you gonna hit a brick wall because the scaling just isn't there? This build is probably not aimed at unfair/hard which makes the above less relevant I guess
@@pazgaz7 You make it sound like no build works on unfair when even pure companions can beat the hardest bosses with the right tactics ua-cam.com/video/dij8_A7ohgo/v-deo.html
@@AlacrityTW there are many builds that can work. If you go with pure companions (and by pure I mean not doing 15 dips, but staying true to the spirit of the char) unfair will be a lot harder. This game is luck based, you can theoretically win every fight with enough reloads no matter the build. A main char that's healing mid fight for (even if it's for 50 per round per character) is not going to keep up with the damage you take on unfair consistently, so you're back to reloading. Regarding that vid, it's a really good way to get playful darkness, but that's one fight and tbh you can just skip it and come back in act 5 🙂
Bolshy brother! Great to have you back man. Your builds are great to copy paste, but they also get the creative juices flowing. Very fine work my friend.
Glad you're back mate, your content is literally amazing. Had the same issue you mentioned in this video whilst playing your lichborne build. Astonishingly powerful build, but the evil did not resonate with me haha. Keep up the genuinely awesome content.
Thank you! I was very rusty and making this little video took me way longer than it should have because I had to edit out about a half hour of me rambling or losing my train of though haha. Yea I picked up a couple more teamwork feats at the end of the build to take advantage of it. I might prioritize them ahead of the metamagic feats in my actual playthrough 👍
I love support characters! I played a Dirge Bard tank going Azata for my first run, and gave everyone in the party that I could an animal companion or some kind of summoning without totally busting their roleplay aspect wide open or anything. Seelah was a mounted charger, I made Wenduag a Mad Dog with throwing weapons, Ember a summoner, etc. It was very fun, especially because companions and summons count for Life-Bonding Friendship!
Very cool party concept. I don't want to micromanage all of those pets so I'm just going to go with mounted seelah and the MC's pet. The other added perk of this build is all those animal companions and summons also get to add my charisma bonus on all of their saves! Should make for some very tough pets
@@bolshyplays1733 I was pleasantly surprised with animal companion scaling this time around, compared to Kingmaker! I don't know how much it's changed or anything, but it felt a lot less annoying to keep them alive lategame in this one. I had Daeran filling the bonus-to-saves role in my party with Second Mystery, and it is totally killer. I hope you enjoy Azata! I loved the plotline a lot. Oh also, fun thing, Velociraptor is bugged (I think) and makes a great DPS pet. It gets 8 attacks at 15th Level and beyond, since both of its Talons gain iterative attacks. So it has Talon #1 (3 Attacks), Talon #2 (3 Attacks), Bite, and Claw. I gave it to Wenduag so they'd both be firing off a million attacks per round and let me tell you, it was a meat grinder.
Oh I love Divine Herbalist! RP as well as mechanics. You can, if you truly wanted even higher Charisma actually use half-elf and go Kindred which for some reason allows you to bypass the 20 max initial attributes and put it at 21 (or 22 if you wanna waste points lol), a small extra bonus but an interesting bonus. Once we get patch 1.2 I'm replaying as a Divine Herbalist so will be fun to watch how you handle it with your playthrough which I'm going to start to watch now.
I had a lot of fun with it. I'm currently in late act 5 and at level 20 as a nature/life oracle you get a million immunities as well as dragon form III so my healing halfling has turned into an untouchable plant/dragon tank with 80+AC. It's been a fun ride but I would suggest building towards something other than just healing during the midgame because you can feel useless for big chunks of the game if all you can do is heal. I took dazzling display so that I could weaponize my high charisma through intimidation so I had something to do when the party didn't need heals
@@bolshyplays1733 Thanks, that's a good tip. :D I was thinking to go into summoning more heavily as I rarely do that. I'm just going to play on Core so anything should be reasonable. I definately don't want to just hang back and look out for the party though, so might find a way to make the most out of the Azata spells, more offensively. I guess there's always some nice divine damage spells too to rely on.
Lich brown fur transmutor has been awesome. I can give full 6+ stats to all stats and characters for 24+ hours at a time. And I fight as a dragon3 with every possible buff.
Hey Bolshy, glad you're back again with an amazing build. I will definitely play this on my azata run. And ı was wondering if you could make a druid build. I want to play as an evil nosferatu-born blight druid but I am not sure how to build and which mystic path to choose. (well I guess lich is the best option here)
Awesome video as always man, so glad you did a healer/support video as those are hard to come by. I've been following since you put out your "deathknight" build and I had a question. Is there a way to build a enhancement shaman similar to Wow with more healing? I was thinking a Spirit hunter shaman for the weapon buffs into cleric for a support role who can still fit the fantasy of enhancement.
Spirit Hunter is pretty good but honestly I like the base shaman better for wandering spirit. Shaman is not a class you want to dip out of too much because you lose spell progression and spirit abilities. I was messing with a wow inspired dwarf shaman, but dual wielding is hard on a shaman due to the feat requirements and low BAB.
You should try Oracle Life Mystery Spirit Boost revelation+Boundless Healing Mythic coupled with Mass Heal....it results in 200 temporary HP on whole party Daeran lvl20 oracle casting it....if its possible to take spell specialization and school specialization for heal (mass)+conjuraton it would be 230 temporary HP :)
Glad you're back and awesome! Seriously, you have an unmet friend from Brazil who got really worried about you lol Anyway... I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about the modding thing. The idea of the build is great on itself. It doesn't have to be great or OP. So, I would say to you: ditch the modding and stick to your brains
I'm usually with you on the modding thing however in this case the extra revelation feat is a basic feat in the tabletop game that I think should have made it into the crpg. Im doing it not to be OP but so that I don't have to wait until level 19 for my character to fit the theme I'm after. Thanks for the comment and the support!
I like this build and I would like to try it. Just a quick question, how do I use toybox to add "extra revelations" im new to using more full features of toybox and would like to see how its done. Thanks!
You have to search for the revelation by name in the search and pick section. I take a filler feat which I remove from the party tab of toybox and then add the revelation from search and pick
@@bolshyplays1733 thanks for that! I also found out that Tabletop tweaks mod adds extra revelations into the game as well, so Ive started using that. Thanks again and great build been using it a ton
Just a heads up that Life Link is (still) bugged, just not in the way it was bugged before. If I understand correctly it works as it should until you go through some kind of load screen. Once you've done that the target of the life link takes the 5 damage instead of the caster (so the target heals for 5 and then takes 5 damage). Also, instead of your oracle level increasing the number of instances of life link you can have active at one time it increases the number of times you can use it per day.
Hey I loved the idea of doing this but with a Life Oracle, I was curious how you overrode feats using toy box? I can't seem to figure out how to do that!
You go to the search and pick tab and then type in the name of the revelation. Honestly though as I was playing this build, the extra revelations aren't worth it. I respected around level 14 to a similar, but more effective build.
The summon monster and nature's ally spells summon different types of creatures. You get the nature's ally spells from revelation. I want all the animals
Unity mods hate me and I can't get them to work with my game/on my rig even after extended discussion with the folks who make the mods; is this build workable without mods? What revelations would you exclude?
Pretty cool concept. But I have a question, if you have that "if main character doesn't die, noone dies" superpower, wouldn't life link become counter-productive? I mean, only main char HP really matters, why jeopardize his health?
Man you're fast! It is a pretty minor amount of extra damage that we will be healing away with fast healing and swift action abilities, but yes if the main character gets focused it might get you into trouble. You can cancel the links as a free action as well. I also really wanted life link for the roleplaying side of things as well. This dude is ride or die.
@@bolshyplays1733 hey mate, thanks for the reply! Have been following your channel for a while, I actually like the fact that you care for RP value, the first video I was was Wenduag and it really clicked with me.
I don't know why this video keeps coming up as number one when there's mods being used it's really annoying and a waste of my time when I'm looking for accurate information and I get stuff like this that's diluted with mods
i wish this man would come back and make videos again, one of the most creative builders for pathfinder
Hey Bolshy, glad your making videos again. I beat the game with your skald build and your brownfur build. Keep it up interested on how your play through is going to be.
Found out about this channel from your death knight build. Absolutely loving that build! This sounds super fun as well so I'm very tempted to try this out on a new playthrough
A great idea and a great build. I always loved interesting supports (as is probably obvious from my nickname, lol), and this, among all things, seems like a fun roleplaying opportunity!
Welcome back!
Given all your previous builds focusing on tanking or massive damage, I would never have guessed you'd play a support character! Having said that, I plan to play Brownfur Transmuter on the lich mythic path to become the master of all with the most powerful undead Gollarion has ever seen!
Great to see you again Bolshy.
Welcome back sir, glad you are doing better!
What a cool build. This is going to be a must-try for my next run :) Many thanks good person!
Glad that you are back. Love your content.
I'm level 20 in my azata play through on normal and sometimes companions do go down so I looked at the "buff" they were getting when they hit 1hp and the charges are based on your character level (so 20 charges before they pop, instead of my charisma bonus) I think it might still be buggy but it is possible for them to take enough hits that they go down. When they hit 1HP and lifebonding friendship activates they can't be healed back from 1hp, but at least on normal they don't die at the end of the fight they are just at 1hp. If they do die from the charges going down, they fully die: greyed out character portrait even though death's door is active on my playthrough. They can be rezzed with the spell that doesn't cost diamonds though as long as you get to them straight away.
Thanks for the info!
Neat that you’re modding the game to make him work better! Excited to see more videos :)
I think the life bonding friendship works slightly differently than the text implies: it's not as OP as a free Last Stand for example. Once you hit 0 HP, instead of being unconscious, you instead get Death's Door condition and cannot receive any healing. Even with greater restoration, after the battle ends, you immediately die on Core or above and require a Breath of Life/raise dead/etc to revive. The superpower is good for making tough fights easier but I'm always on edge since you get punished so hard for hitting 0 HP. I've lost Aivu/Arue so many times because you need to baby sit every one of your companions even in "easier" encounters or you'll burn a lot of diamonds on resurrections. The teamwork feats are amazing tho.
You can't heal them back up after they go to negative hp? That's unfortunate. I guess that will give me incentive to keep my party at high hp. Thanks for the info!
@@bolshyplays1733 I've never been able to heal a "fallen" party member to stable HP in my playthrough so far. You can't actually see your HP while effect kicks in so I can't say sure but I've tried on multiple occassions. I used breath of life here and later channel positive energy but no indication of increasing HP for example ua-cam.com/video/wLX7u_RaPfg/v-deo.html
This is one of the issues with theorycrafting builds. While they do look cool on paper, you don't really know how actually playing them is going to be. Will they be viable on every level or are you gonna hit a brick wall because the scaling just isn't there?
This build is probably not aimed at unfair/hard which makes the above less relevant I guess
@@pazgaz7 You make it sound like no build works on unfair when even pure companions can beat the hardest bosses with the right tactics ua-cam.com/video/dij8_A7ohgo/v-deo.html
@@AlacrityTW there are many builds that can work. If you go with pure companions (and by pure I mean not doing 15 dips, but staying true to the spirit of the char) unfair will be a lot harder. This game is luck based, you can theoretically win every fight with enough reloads no matter the build. A main char that's healing mid fight for (even if it's for 50 per round per character) is not going to keep up with the damage you take on unfair consistently, so you're back to reloading.
Regarding that vid, it's a really good way to get playful darkness, but that's one fight and tbh you can just skip it and come back in act 5 🙂
Really looking forward to the playthrough vids!
I am very much looking forward to this playthrough! Can't wait.
I'll have a couple videos up tomorrow. It's been fun so far 👍
Bolshy brother! Great to have you back man. Your builds are great to copy paste, but they also get the creative juices flowing. Very fine work my friend.
Thank you! 👍
Glad you're back mate, your content is literally amazing. Had the same issue you mentioned in this video whilst playing your lichborne build. Astonishingly powerful build, but the evil did not resonate with me haha. Keep up the genuinely awesome content.
Thanks for the support!👍
Great to see some uploads again, thank you for the content!
Azata is gonna be my next run so this is perfect!
This is great I like the idea looking forward to playthrough Also I like the oracle helm actually 😆
Thx for your guides mate
High quality video, thanks
Welcome back, Bolshy!
Hey Bolshy. Glad that you're making builds again, appreciate that a lot. Keep it up ^,^
welcome back!
Welcome back king!
Thank you! I was very rusty and making this little video took me way longer than it should have because I had to edit out about a half hour of me rambling or losing my train of though haha.
Yea I picked up a couple more teamwork feats at the end of the build to take advantage of it. I might prioritize them ahead of the metamagic feats in my actual playthrough 👍
A half elf with kindered spirits (I think that's the name) background can start with 22 charisma which seems really good for a build like this.
Oh wow that would be amazing actually because this guy is 100% charisma focused.
My brother. Always with the great videos.
I love support characters! I played a Dirge Bard tank going Azata for my first run, and gave everyone in the party that I could an animal companion or some kind of summoning without totally busting their roleplay aspect wide open or anything. Seelah was a mounted charger, I made Wenduag a Mad Dog with throwing weapons, Ember a summoner, etc. It was very fun, especially because companions and summons count for Life-Bonding Friendship!
Very cool party concept. I don't want to micromanage all of those pets so I'm just going to go with mounted seelah and the MC's pet. The other added perk of this build is all those animal companions and summons also get to add my charisma bonus on all of their saves! Should make for some very tough pets
@@bolshyplays1733 I was pleasantly surprised with animal companion scaling this time around, compared to Kingmaker! I don't know how much it's changed or anything, but it felt a lot less annoying to keep them alive lategame in this one. I had Daeran filling the bonus-to-saves role in my party with Second Mystery, and it is totally killer. I hope you enjoy Azata! I loved the plotline a lot.
Oh also, fun thing, Velociraptor is bugged (I think) and makes a great DPS pet. It gets 8 attacks at 15th Level and beyond, since both of its Talons gain iterative attacks. So it has Talon #1 (3 Attacks), Talon #2 (3 Attacks), Bite, and Claw. I gave it to Wenduag so they'd both be firing off a million attacks per round and let me tell you, it was a meat grinder.
*GASP* You done did it! so excited.
Oh I love Divine Herbalist! RP as well as mechanics. You can, if you truly wanted even higher Charisma actually use half-elf and go Kindred which for some reason allows you to bypass the 20 max initial attributes and put it at 21 (or 22 if you wanna waste points lol), a small extra bonus but an interesting bonus. Once we get patch 1.2 I'm replaying as a Divine Herbalist so will be fun to watch how you handle it with your playthrough which I'm going to start to watch now.
I had a lot of fun with it. I'm currently in late act 5 and at level 20 as a nature/life oracle you get a million immunities as well as dragon form III so my healing halfling has turned into an untouchable plant/dragon tank with 80+AC.
It's been a fun ride but I would suggest building towards something other than just healing during the midgame because you can feel useless for big chunks of the game if all you can do is heal. I took dazzling display so that I could weaponize my high charisma through intimidation so I had something to do when the party didn't need heals
@@bolshyplays1733 Thanks, that's a good tip. :D I was thinking to go into summoning more heavily as I rarely do that. I'm just going to play on Core so anything should be reasonable. I definately don't want to just hang back and look out for the party though, so might find a way to make the most out of the Azata spells, more offensively. I guess there's always some nice divine damage spells too to rely on.
Nice to see you back!
Lich brown fur transmutor has been awesome. I can give full 6+ stats to all stats and characters for 24+ hours at a time. And I fight as a dragon3 with every possible buff.
You have heighten spell, why waste a 9th level pick when you can use that instead? Am I missing something? (Talking about mass heal pick)
Good point I didn't catch that!
I was just wondering how you are replacing a feat with toybox???
Hey Bolshy, glad you're back again with an amazing build. I will definitely play this on my azata run. And ı was wondering if you could make a druid build. I want to play as an evil nosferatu-born blight druid but I am not sure how to build and which mystic path to choose. (well I guess lich is the best option here)
Awesome video as always man, so glad you did a healer/support video as those are hard to come by. I've been following since you put out your "deathknight" build and I had a question. Is there a way to build a enhancement shaman similar to Wow with more healing? I was thinking a Spirit hunter shaman for the weapon buffs into cleric for a support role who can still fit the fantasy of enhancement.
Spirit Hunter is pretty good but honestly I like the base shaman better for wandering spirit. Shaman is not a class you want to dip out of too much because you lose spell progression and spirit abilities. I was messing with a wow inspired dwarf shaman, but dual wielding is hard on a shaman due to the feat requirements and low BAB.
You should try Oracle Life Mystery Spirit Boost revelation+Boundless Healing Mythic coupled with Mass Heal....it results in 200 temporary HP on whole party Daeran lvl20 oracle casting it....if its possible to take spell specialization and school specialization for heal (mass)+conjuraton it would be 230 temporary HP :)
Wow that's nuts haha
The king is back
Glad you're back and awesome! Seriously, you have an unmet friend from Brazil who got really worried about you lol
Anyway... I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about the modding thing. The idea of the build is great on itself. It doesn't have to be great or OP. So, I would say to you: ditch the modding and stick to your brains
I'm usually with you on the modding thing however in this case the extra revelation feat is a basic feat in the tabletop game that I think should have made it into the crpg.
Im doing it not to be OP but so that I don't have to wait until level 19 for my character to fit the theme I'm after.
Thanks for the comment and the support!
I like this build and I would like to try it. Just a quick question, how do I use toybox to add "extra revelations" im new to using more full features of toybox and would like to see how its done. Thanks!
You have to search for the revelation by name in the search and pick section. I take a filler feat which I remove from the party tab of toybox and then add the revelation from search and pick
@@bolshyplays1733 thanks for that! I also found out that Tabletop tweaks mod adds extra revelations into the game as well, so Ive started using that. Thanks again and great build been using it a ton
Just a heads up that Life Link is (still) bugged, just not in the way it was bugged before. If I understand correctly it works as it should until you go through some kind of load screen. Once you've done that the target of the life link takes the 5 damage instead of the caster (so the target heals for 5 and then takes 5 damage). Also, instead of your oracle level increasing the number of instances of life link you can have active at one time it increases the number of times you can use it per day.
Thanks for the info!
Hey I loved the idea of doing this but with a Life Oracle, I was curious how you overrode feats using toy box? I can't seem to figure out how to do that!
Go to the party section then facts and it will give you a selection of feats and abilities that you can remove
Yo add the revelation you have to go to the search and pick section then search the revelation name. Tags are helpful too
@@bolshyplays1733 Thank you so much man!
Does anyone have a guide on how to add the feats needed for this build with toybox? I know how to install toybox and nothing else about it
You go to the search and pick tab and then type in the name of the revelation. Honestly though as I was playing this build, the extra revelations aren't worth it. I respected around level 14 to a similar, but more effective build.
Question: if you already get summon nature’s ally from the revelation, why are we also taking summon monster each level?
The summon monster and nature's ally spells summon different types of creatures. You get the nature's ally spells from revelation. I want all the animals
I suggested to add Extra Revelation in Alpha and Beta of the game, it is sad that this feat is not part of the vanilla game.
Hey Bolshy. what your race or nation?
so sad as maybe it was bugged before but I was able to respec on higher specs and now its gone? was it a bug?
There is a setting it the difficulty tab that allows you to get respecs. That might be toggled off
Unity mods hate me and I can't get them to work with my game/on my rig even after extended discussion with the folks who make the mods; is this build workable without mods? What revelations would you exclude?
Just take life link at 11, channel at 15 and friend to animals at 19. It will do fine but it will take some time to get everything rolling
@@bolshyplays1733 thanks!
I really love your builds. But you lost me on this one with the modding. How would you do this build without it?
Just take life link at 11, channel at 15 and friend to animals at 19. It will do fine but it will take some time to get everything rolling
quite confused by you manually selecting summon spells when you get those for free from your revelation. good stuff otherwise love your build videos
The summon monster and nature's ally spells summon different types of creatures. You get the nature's ally spells from revelation.
Pretty cool concept. But I have a question, if you have that "if main character doesn't die, noone dies" superpower, wouldn't life link become counter-productive? I mean, only main char HP really matters, why jeopardize his health?
Man you're fast! It is a pretty minor amount of extra damage that we will be healing away with fast healing and swift action abilities, but yes if the main character gets focused it might get you into trouble. You can cancel the links as a free action as well.
I also really wanted life link for the roleplaying side of things as well. This dude is ride or die.
@@bolshyplays1733 hey mate, thanks for the reply! Have been following your channel for a while, I actually like the fact that you care for RP value, the first video I was was Wenduag and it really clicked with me.
I hate that hat too.
I don't know why this video keeps coming up as number one when there's mods being used it's really annoying and a waste of my time when I'm looking for accurate information and I get stuff like this that's diluted with mods