What are the pros of becoming a lich?

[Matt [Reckless Boi]]

Title pretty much, to my understanding in the end you become a skelly man, with - 2 to some stats and you get healed by negative energy like any undead would.

Am I missing something?

[★ PENTA Vivian ★]

Some buffs to charisma, immunity to neg energy, ability draindamage, negative levels, powerful exsanguinate/feast of blood that offer no save for full dmg, false grace for temp hp, repurpose to rise enemies as undead minions(it bugs out with important enemies) and good healing spell that heals whole undead party fully.

[titanopteryx]

Also unique companions, and the lich as it levels up grants buffs to them as it levels up in mythic levels. At 4 I think it is it buffs all the physical stats. At rank 5 they cast spells at 2 levels higher. This applies to a warpriest, and a customizable semi-companion who can become a cleric or other classes that levels up with your mythic rank. I haven't leveled higher in mythic than that. Also you get your own ziggurat.

[Marcos_DS]

Immortality

...and also some pretty awesome stuff like unique spells, ability to merge spellbooks for CL 30(!), and some awesome abilities

[Adeptus Stark]

Because Undead are cool and I like the 10 damage reduction as I am not a spellcaster class Lich.

[Realhollow]

you get to have almost a full roster of undead companions as well dont wanna spoil much else but you do have some fun dialog choices in act 4

[urartu]

Are named unique companions are as talkative as the other companions?

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by urartu:

Are named unique companions are as talkative as the other companions?

That would interest me too. A bunch of your enemies might realise their grave mistake when you turn them undead. It might be not wight, but they cannot complain when you work them to the bone.

At least they do not need to mind their career anymore when they reach the dead end of their job.

[Cutlass Jack]

If Overlord has taught me nothing else, becoming a Lich makes you a hot ladies man and gets you a harem.

[Beewo]

Originally posted by Cutlass Jack:

If Overlord has taught me nothing else, becoming a Lich makes you a hot ladies man and gets you a harem.

Was he a lich all along ? :O been so long since i played those

[Cutlass Jack]

Originally posted by Beewo:

Originally posted by Cutlass Jack:

If Overlord has taught me nothing else, becoming a Lich makes you a hot ladies man and gets you a harem.

Was he a lich all along ? :O been so long since i played those

I was making a reference to the Anime. I completely forgot about the games with the same name. :D

[Something completely different]

You don't need to use the lavatory anymore.

[Malaficus Shaikan]

Lich:
4 lich only companions(I think its 4)

Undead companions dont tire out.

They can walk forever, are immune to many status effects(Including buff's)

You get access too some of the best spells including:

Repurpose: Enemies that died while under the effect of this curse will serve you as undead minnions whenever you are on the map.
They never despawn until the destroyed but wont follow you between area's.

Turn the living into undead spell for 24 hours(might need a feat)
Meaning they get all the bonuses of being undead.
Immune to fear, charm, polymorth, tireness, etc.

Winning crusade fights gets you free troops(Way to little troops for the losses you have in some fights)

Some of the best screw you moments in the game.

Downside of being a lich:
People hate you.
A lot of enemies you should be able to turn into undead minnions arent even an option.
Looking at you traitor girl....

As a general rule:
Lich give you power at the small cost of being hated by some of the less...
Pregmatic people.

[Soft Lockpick]

The character model is... terrifying. Not in the way you want it to be, but seriously.

[serser52]

Originally posted by SirOtterius TheOtter:

Title pretty much, to my understanding in the end you become a skelly man, with - 2 to some stats and you get healed by negative energy like any undead would.

Am I missing something?

Are you asking just about the final part of the transformation or in general?
Lich is ridiculously powerful, has some incredible spells, repurpose (raising enemies into your allies), exsanguinate (cl/d6 damage with no save nor attack roll, and extra bleed and ability damage after a fort save) and it's aoe version, corrupted magic (greater dispell that gives a -1 penalty to AC, saves and attack rolls for each dispelled buff, which singlehandedly drops bosses by 10-15 AC), a spell to turn companions undead and then an AoE heal that just heals all undead to full, etc.
Another incredibly powerful thing is the fact that you and everyone around you gets permanent +2 to caster levels, meaning all your and your companion's spells will be more powerful. You also get a permanent skeleton champion companion, who functions a lot like an animal companion with functioning equipment, and additionally all undead around you get bonuses to their str, dex and cha.
As for abilities you choose you can get one that turns all your damage into negative energy. That means you won't have much problem with overcoming damage reduction, and you can avoid hitting your undead with AoEs (since they're immune). Or you could also take the mythic ability that lets you ignore resistances for negative energy, and simply ignore all immunities against all your damage spells. There's an ability that lets you do ability drain every time you deal spell damage, ability that gives you great spell resistance, etc.

If you're asking solely about the final part of the transformation, then yeah, you get -2 to str and dex and -10 to speed, but you also delete your con stat and replace it with CHA for everything. Meaning your health and fortitude save is calculated from CON. You also get multiple immunities like fatigue/exhaustion immunity, sleep immunity, poison immunity, bleed immunity, death immunity, stun immunity.

[serser52]

Originally posted by urartu:

Are named unique companions are as talkative as the other companions?

Nope, they have a bit of dialogue when you get them and a line or two when talking to them in camp, but they don't seem to comment on anything like normal companions do.