Control Wizard - Worth it?

[Kasa]

So far in D&D and Pathfinder PnP I enjoy playing control wizards + summoning, but it dosn't really seem to be worth it in this version. Most fights end to quickly for it to be worth while to say cast blind, and the only time I really NEEDED to summon was against a particularly nasty worg ( you all may know the one I mean) and that was me just spamming 1d3 summoned dogs with my wizard and the emo cleric.

So my question is this, are there any story cues for you Main characters class or can you play anything?

[NegativeZero]

For me personally, most CC spells felt not worth. Linzi's bard spell fascinate or whatever it is is far superior CC most of the time. The summon spells also felt like complete ass most of the time meanwhile Ekun's dog just tanks and DPS's things like it's nothing.

[The Silver Santana]

Trust me, you will really, really want to have web, slow, haste, and other battlefield control spells later. You will fight enemies that can and will ruin your day if you try to simply tank and spank them, keeping them at a distance, hitting them with crippling debuffs, and moving your team and the enemy around are all vital. Some fights are nearly impossible if you simply have amiri walk up to them with a greatsword.

Most of the good spells seem to be transmutation though. Summons are very useful for initiating fights, however. Otherwise, they are kinduve weak as ♥♥♥♥ and don't keep up-there aren't enough ways to buff them, or tell them to do interesting things, and you can't pick specific summons.

[Kasa]

Woudn't Octavia be ok in that regard? She's pretty much built for arcane trickster which isn't to bad and I can have her learn some CC spells. I thinky by the time I get her would be the point in which they would be particularly usful no?

[The Silver Santana]

Octavia can absolutely do that, although two wizards is never a bad idea. Also, arcane trickster lends itself to being a touch attack boss killer, more than anything. You only really need to save scorching rays and maybe acid arrows for that though, so who knows what's best.

Really, the only character I'm actually really missing is another competent tank. Amiri's STR is a bit too low, and Valerie has no STR to speak of and is a hot mess of a character. I think that's the correct term. I'm suspecting that a Paladin woulden't be a bad idea, as you can have enough Charisma to auto make charisma checks, which is one of the things the main character needs to do himself (although there are other checks made by your character, of course).

[Kasa]

I usally multi class Amiri into a two handed fighter spec, and Valerie into a bard, after about 4 levels of bard I send her into dragons disiple and then eldtritch knight. Put on greater mage armor and boom, +4 mage armor +4 tower shield self healing self buffing frontline tank.

But my original question was, are there any class specific choices in this game? Or is it pretty much ok to pick anyclass and not have to worry about it?

[The Silver Santana]

Originally posted by Kasa:

I usally multi class Amiri into a two handed fighter spec, and Valerie into a bard, after about 4 levels of bard I send her into dragons disiple and then eldtritch knight. Put on greater mage armor and boom, +4 mage armor +4 tower shield self healing self buffing frontline tank.

But my original question was, are there any class specific choices in this game? Or is it pretty much ok to pick anyclass and not have to worry about it?

So your skills matter. And classes impact skills. Other than that, I haven't seen any [class] tagged dialogue options.

[Kasa]

Thanks! I decided to try out a slyvan sorc, all the fun of a druids animal comp and lots of spells to use in encounters.