wtf is "channel energy"? Tristian's Blessing of the Faithful

[TripSin]

Tristian's Blessing of the Faithful spell mentions something about using channel energy to extend the duration. Wtf is channel energy and how do I use it?

[Romana]

Channel Energy is a class feature of the cleric and of higher level paladins. They channel either postive (healing) or negative (hurting) energy depending on their alignment (Neutral clerics can choose which one. It is a permenet choice). If your class can channel energy, it will be an ability you can place on your hotbar like any other.

[TripSin]

Originally posted by Escapist83:

You've not been using his most efficient healing ability apparently.

I use his channel positive energy and cure wounds spells to heal. I barely have been using this spell Blessing of the Faithful, but I don't know wtf it means by using "channel energy" to extend the duration.

[TripSin]

Okay, so it's tied to the number of uses of channel energy. So does that mean the number of uses I have left of channel energy is how long it lasts for? So if I cast it when I can still use channel positive energy 9 times it'll last for 9 rounds even though it only consumes one casting?

[raubrey]

You also have to have enough Charisma to use it well.

It is a feat you can select on level up. If your companions are set to auto-level you may not see it, but you can find a full decstription by selecting

Character>Abilities and hovering over or right-clicking (better) "Channel Energy."
As a cleric you can also select Selective Channel as a feat which he already has.

[Antinous]

Those are active spells, found by default on Clerics' shortcuts abilities bar.
Here's a screenshot of one of the Channel Positive Energy spell in Tristan's spellbook :
http://ascendeadmind.com/Pathfinder/ChannelPositiveEnergy.png

I hope you don't need a screenshot of where to find this spell in your shortcut abilities bar.

Edit: (to answer to the new question)
The duration of « Blessing of the Faithful (Long) » is « equal to the number of dice of cleric's channel energy »
So, how many dices your channel energy use ? « The amount of damage healed is equal to 1d6 [...] plus 1d6 for every two cleric levels beyond 1st (2d6 at 3rd, 3d6 at 5th, and so on) »

Then against about « Blessing of the Faithful (Long) » : « The cleric can expend 1 use of channel energy when activating this ability (Blessing of the Faithful (Long)) to increase the duration to a number of rounds equal to the number of dice [...] »
So, cast the Blessing, then try : cast a Channel Energy and see if it extends the duration of the Blessing, or look for a little arrow atop of Channel Positive Energy's icon in your abilities bar if there's a specific ability to extend the duration of the Blessing.

[raubrey]

Originally posted by Doomed To Lose:

Those are active spells, found by default on Clerics' shortcuts abilities bar.
Here's a screenshot of one of the Channel Positive Energy spell in Tristan's spellbook :
http://ascendeadmind.com/Pathfinder/ChannelPositiveEnergy.png

I hope you don't need a screenshot of where to find this spell in your shortcut abilities bar.

That doesn't explain it. The area I mentioned actually tells how it is calculated so you can make use of the knowledge when building a character.

It is not an active spell, it is a Feat that works on Cleric's spells.

[TripSin]

Okay, so after playing with it some I get it more. What I still don't understand though is what it means by "number of dice of his channel energy". I assume it's 6 since the duration I'm getting when I use the spell (long version) is 35 seconds. But where does the 6 come from? How was that calculated?

[raubrey]

Originally posted by TripSin:

Okay, so after playing with it some I get it more. What I still don't understand though is what it means by "number of dice of his channel energy". I assume it's 6 since the duration I'm getting when I use the spell (long version) is 35 seconds. But where does the 6 come from? How was that calculated?

It's 3 + Charisma modifier for how many times you can use it.
(There is a feat to add more channels as well).

Where are you seeing this message? So I can better understand what you're asking.

[Antinous]

Originally posted by Doomed To Lose:

Edit: (to answer to the new question)
The duration of « Blessing of the Faithful (Long) » is « equal to the number of dice of cleric's channel energy »
So, how many dices your channel energy use ? « The amount of damage healed is equal to 1d6 [...] plus 1d6 for every two cleric levels beyond 1st (2d6 at 3rd, 3d6 at 5th, and so on) »

Then against about « Blessing of the Faithful (Long) » : « The cleric can expend 1 use of channel energy when activating this ability (Blessing of the Faithful (Long)) to increase the duration to a number of rounds equal to the number of dice [...] »
So, cast the Blessing, then try : cast a Channel Energy and see if it extends the duration of the Blessing, or look for a little arrow atop of Channel Positive Energy's icon in your abilities bar if there's a specific ability to extend the duration of the Blessing.

[TripSin]

Originally posted by raubrey:

Originally posted by TripSin:

Okay, so after playing with it some I get it more. What I still don't understand though is what it means by "number of dice of his channel energy". I assume it's 6 since the duration I'm getting when I use the spell (long version) is 35 seconds. But where does the 6 come from? How was that calculated?

It's 3 + Charisma modifier for how many times you can use it.

Where are you seeing this message? So I can better understand what you're asking.

Thanks. It's on Tristian's spell Blessing of the Faithul (Long)

[raubrey]

Originally posted by TripSin:

Originally posted by raubrey:

It's 3 + Charisma modifier for how many times you can use it.

Where are you seeing this message? So I can better understand what you're asking.

Thanks. It's on Tristian's spell Blessing of the Faithul (Long)

That's a good question. I know how to calculate the number of times and the modifiers for the skill but not exactly sure how that translates into number of dice. Perhaps it is in the subclasses description on Pathfinder sites.

The answer may lie here...I am curious myself but don't have time to read it all atm. Hope it helps though. http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2n32r?Dumb-Channel-Energy-Question

[Antinous]

Number of charges ≠ Number of dices

(And again : Channel Energy tooltip « The amount of damage healed is equal to 1d6 [...] plus 1d6 for every two cleric levels beyond 1st (2d6 at 3rd, 3d6 at 5th, and so on) » )

[raubrey]

Originally posted by Escapist83:

Doomed is correct.

I had already pointed that out where you could see the full formula. This is not answering how many dice are used. Which to me is academic but it wouldn't hurt to know.

[Antinous]

How many dices ? Oh my god.
« The amount of damage healed is equal to 1d6 [...] plus 1d6 for every two cleric levels beyond 1st (2d6 at 3rd, 3d6 at 5th, and so on) »

> « 1d6 plus 1d6 every two cleric levels »

> « 1d6 » = 1 die of 6 faces (but for the Blessing spell, the number of faces are irrelevent)

Edit : And just to be clear, duration of Blessing (Long) : 1 round per dice used in Channel Energy.
So with a Cleric lvl3, 2 dices are used for his Channel Energy abilities, so his Blessing (Long) will last 2 rounds.

[raubrey]

Originally posted by Doomed To Lose:

How many dices ? Oh my god.
« 1d6 plus 1d6 every two cleric levels »
« 1d6 » = 1 dice of 6 faces (but for the Blessing spell, the number of faces are irrelevent)

That's for damage/healing calculation.
The OP is asking about length of the heal and how many are used in the calculation -- others have meantioned "healing dice" -- your attitude as you had with the OP helps no one.
I thought it was level based as such but again that is described as magnatitude not time.

The plural of die is dice not dices by the way.