Pathfinder: WOTR - Camellia Suppor Build for Unfair Difficulty (Updated - Patch 1.1)

today we have another video on our series on pathfinder wrath of the writers companion buttes we are going to do camellia for the second time if you have seen the first there are no big changes on this build so you may want to skip this one there is going to be some more combat showcases than the last but nothing really new in terms of the build itself if you are new to the series and don't know how we do our builds they are all made for unfair difficulty and none of them exploit bugs so they should all remain viable despite any bug fixes or patches made to the game it's also worth mentioning that all my builds are tested from early to light levels they are not made just for the sake of youtube videos i do them firstly for my own unfair playthroughs and it's very important to me that they are actually effective at every level in the game so i can actually get through with my playthroughs and not just remain the helm of theory crafting because this is a turn-based system but the game is real of time with pause sometimes builds don't go as i'd expect them and that's why i think the testing is important so i can both bring you the best builds and actually be able to beat the game on unfair difficulty which is my main goal with all that out of the way let's get to our builds for camellia we are going to go for a support build it does extremely well it has one of the most important support mechanics for unfair difficulty in my opinion which is the protective look hex and also has the fortune hex which is a very nice addition so for comedia we are not going to take any levels in the spirit hunter we at second level we go for which and we go stigmatize which this way we can still catch spells because we start with a charisma of 14 and we get the hexes which is what we want the most so on our first which level we take protective luck as a hex and we also take viper familiar for the persuasion bonus for our cars we take demonic it's an extra persuasion bonus on tin date checks um our early game we don't do much besides cast protective look on our animal companion tank or maybe you use someone else for a tank on unfair difficulty i really recommend you use an animal companion for early game as a tank at least and camellia just casts protective look on that animal companion making it tank much more effectively just so you can see how effective protective luck is let's see how we do with protective lock and our fully boof low part against the water lamento if we can actually hold for a few turns and there he goes trying to hit us and as you can see he has a 20 only hits us on a 16 we have 20 percent missed chance from blur which we can get from a potion here and also from scrolls you can buy at the mongro camp so his chances are actually lower than one percent of hitting us which is amazing we can hold several turns against the water elemental while our damage dealers do their job this way we can beat water elemental even on unfair without much of a problem and that's mostly because of camille's protective luck later in the game when we get cackle and ways to extend protective luck we are able to contribute in different ways to the party so at second level we keep going witch and now we already have caco this way we can extend protective luck with just a move action and now our action can be spent demoralizing enemies so they get a -2 bonus to attack and later making it so that we hit for flat foot they see with our damage dealers using shatter defenses the witch's spells are not that relevant you want unbreakable heart to get through confusion and other emotion effects and large person is very important to boost your damage dealer's damage but mostly it's just support spells here we keep going stigmatize witch at level 3 we take weapon focus wrapper so that we can dazzling display later on on level 5 we are at level 4 in stigmatized switch and we take fortune now we have the full hex combo protective look fortune and gecko so we can cast both of those on our party members and extend them with gecko you can even do it out of combat so you have at least a few rounds already set up so you don't need to spend a lot of time during the fight using the buffs so basically you just spray a buff but using protective lock fortune and gecko in between to extend those durations before you actually enter the fight now at level 5 we finally get dazzling display be careful when using dazzling display remember it's a full round action so make sure you have enough durations on protective look and fortune before you use a dazzling display because that turn you won't be able to cackle as a move action so be mindful of your action economy uh okay so now with our three hexes there's nothing much we want from sigma ty switch you actually don't even need fortune that much it's a very nice damage boost but you can really do well with just two levels of witch and you can go for more levels of clarity this way but i like fortune a lot i was going with a trickster main character and fortune combos extremely well with great fishing builds but you can just go with two levels of witch without losing much the most important part in my opinion is the survivability protective luck brings now with cleric we go angel fire apostle the reason for that is because we always get chain of positive energy this way because of camille's alignment that wouldn't be possible otherwise i believe though currently we are able to take positive energy with her i think this is a bug so we are going to avoid that and go into fire apostle this way we don't have to deal with the choice we always get just chain of positive energy now she's able to contribute to the party outside of combat as well giving us some heals when we need and also some nice cleric buff spells and immunity spells like deathwork and freedom of movement here uh we are going to take animal domain as our prima primary domain this way we get an animal companion it is going to be a few level behind but that's not too much of a big deal because it's still a decent tank and a mutual in the worst case scenarios there's not many choices on the cleric levels so we just go full clerics and let's talk about the feats we choose for fits we go for skill focus persuasion then boom companion as soon as we get our animal companion so it catches up a little bit in terms of levels then we go back for persuasion fits on the sitful and persuasive we really need all those fits to be able to demoralize enemies on unfair difficulty later in the game we can do that with someone casting frightful aspect but before you have access to frightful aspect it's extremely useful having someone able to cast dazzling display are just regular demoralized so we can hit for a flat footed ac so at level 15 we take selective channel now we are able to channel positive energy to heal during combats without having to worry about healing enemies then we take metamagic heighten this is just to give us some versatility in which slots we want for our spells sometimes some slots have a lot of some levels have a lot of good spells and not enough slots this way we can take spells to a higher slot that doesn't have as many useful spells there and last we take extra channel just so we get a little more healing um angelfire apostle also has some other ways to use positive channels to cast spells so at later levels we can even cast hill with our positive channels which is nice um i do think the single target target big hill is more useful at later level uh at lighter levels than the lower hue on a aoe so i do think the angelfire apostle as a hue class is a really nice option so this is it for our regular levels let's take a look at our mythic ranks on mythic ranks we go for very standard support stuff during spells greater and during spells this way our buffs last longer than a bulldog casting this way we are able to cast more buffs and make sure everyone has everything they need and no one is going to be missing from our most important spells at level 4 mythic rank 4 actually we get community domain by this time we should be reaching our 8th cleric level meaning we get guarded heart which is just an amazing buff option if you don't know what it does it gives your [Music] wisdom modifier as a bonus on saving throws and attack rose and it's only once per day so choose well which fight you want to use that on but this is a sacred bonus meaning it's probably going to stack with everything else you have it's not easy to come by sacred bonus so you are likely not to have anything that really overlaps with this then we keep going the improved cat abundant casting line but we take a break to get less stand it's something i really think every build should have on unfair difficulty then back to abundant casting then later inspirational leader if all right you already have this on someone asked someone else in your party here you can take healing domain instead for those extra heals and boundless healing you can take at level 9 and at level 10 you can choose whatever you think is more useful mythic ring 10 is not that relevant you get it so late on the game that it doesn't really matter that much but healing domain is still good it makes so that your heels are more effective and inspirational leader if you still don't have it on anyone it's a very nice bonus to initiative which is just great for your damage dealer so you can shut down priority targets before they get you act and for your tanks so they don't get flat footed in terms of spells early game we make some use of the shaman spells with a large person to boost our party's damage and protection from alignment to give our tanks on the early game a plus 2 deflection bonus 3c but later we go to witch which has some more useful spells in mage armor to cast on our animal companions unbreakable heart to stop some confusion effects and glitter dust is a great support spell but we don't stay on witch for too long then we go to angio angel fire apostle sorry and and on angelfire's apostle we get our most useful support spells again unbreakable heart for level 1 some heals for level 2 you get bark skin which is nice you get a line weapon some stat buffing spells and restoration so pretty much standard cleric stuff delay poison protection from resist energy prayer nothing too new here you mostly want to focus on support spells and some spells like magical vestments which depend on caster level to be effective are not the best choice for chameleon you'd rather have someone else in your party to cast those since we are pretty behind on caster levels in our cleric spells because we took those levels in which for the hexes but as you can see just standard cleric stuff for our later spells just use bestow grace um yeah so holy aura should shoot a flaw and here we even get mind blink which is a great bonus to [Music] will saving throws but anyway that's it for spells let's take a look at equipment here again since we are support there is nothing that important um we mostly want something to boost our wisdom so our guarded heart is more effective and we can cast more cleric spells um just a cloak of resistance rings have some nice options for supports just some arrows which can boost your party's damage those are some options that is there is also a ring which gives you a free action to turn someone's damage into force which is great to use on your macho classes companions making so they can overcome damaged immunities like swarms and still contributed to part damage on fights where they wouldn't be able to otherwise it's important to also always have a wrapper doesn't matter which one but without a wrapper which is our chosen weapon focus you won't be able to use dazzling display for gloves just a competence bonus to persuasion so we can team date better and also a place due to charisma also adds to our persuasion checks and here we have probably one of the most important items for this build um signet of house versus percilio this can give us a plus five circumstance bonus from chimney checks it lasts just for one hour but it's a very nice bonus so we can get those intimidatings on the harder targets and if we check out our persuasion it's at a 53 here and this way we are able to even late game still getting team dates um on even the toughest enemies while camilla herself can't do much in terms of combat i'm gonna buff seal a bit and this way we'll be able to see how much better she can handle those enemies that i tackled on on the end of her build video so here i'm just gonna set up a few rounds of protective luck like i said you can do it out of combat i'm going to do this just so we can take amelia out and let sila do it alone but we'll see how much better she handles things with the help of protective luck you could do the same with fortune and your damage dealers so just some pre-buffing here and i think that's enough just so we can have a good look at how good looks at how much better we are going to do here now let's just make sure yeah everyone's on hold so no one's going to interfere here and let's go into combat and see just how is enemy mischance going to go and as you can see still no hits and by this time before the the aranaki got to us we were already on our last stand on syllabus video and the reason for that is protective luck enemies wrote twice and take the worst result because they are able to hit us only on a 20. even now that our transformation ran out they are our ac is still high enough so they are only able to hit us on a 20 and their chance of rolling at 20 is 1 in 400 instead of 1 in 20 and that's how we can keep our things alive on unfair difficulty we also have a chance to avoid uh spells with blink and this way we can survive for much much longer you just keep camellia casting oh here we saw a hit let's see did our protective look and already no they got 220 so you can see how as likely it is but this way we survived for much longer and you can just keep protect um protective lookup by right clicking gecko and just keep camellia close enough to your tanks so she will keep it up for the entire fight and this can be used throughout the entire game you have this ability from level 3 already that's why she's such a good support any other character would have taken much longer to get this and this makes a very big difference from from lower levels to the late game in how effective your tanks can be so this is it for camila build video just very simple support but with a very important mechanic that in my opinion is almost required for you to do well without too many reloads on unfair difficulty i hope you liked the video and until the next one have a good time

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Published: Tue Oct 26 2021