cheezeofages
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cheezeofages
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Pathfinder 2e Stan, overthinker, weirdo.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I have always thought that was too good a design for a first book villain.

Freakin' slaying.
November 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Easy to overlook, but now you know.
a cartoon of a man with the words and knowing is half the battle below him .
ALT: a cartoon of a man with the words and knowing is half the battle below him .
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November 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Literally doing art with AI is more expensive lmao.
November 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Legit since the change we have had 2-3 things come out that play with the dynamic that wouldn't have come about in the old flavor.

Straight up it's layers of buffs to wizard.
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Like, legit you can full on just play the old schools of magic with next to no effort because the structure is identical.

Pool of spells set to a theme, and then the same number of school spells.

Legit it's mostly a dev side change to make it work without schools of magic while making flavor.
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Well, most if not all spontaneous can retrain a spell whenever they get a new spell rank.
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I would be remiss if I didn't point out the compounding effect of this in concert with frighten effects.

This on a martial or second caster that will drop a Fright is a hella punchy acceleration to early level fights. Bonus accuracy and dice with a debuff coming down will slap pretty hard.
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It's just adding solid, sustained DPR boost turn after turn.

A weapon die added to the effect of cantrip + strike turns makes that rotation pretty comparable to higher ranked spells.

Now that it doesn't vanish forever from use like it did pre-remaster I can confidently recommend not sleeping on it
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
1 Runic Weapon either pre-buffed or used during a recharge turn makes all your cantrip spellstrikes hit like a Shocking Grasp Spellstrike but with better criticals.

Speaking of pre-buffing, it also has that advantage.

It's solid for longer than you might think.
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This extends to putting it on yourself as the barbarian, fighter, etc will often already have big swing attacks.

It's also really efficient for the magus in place of a ranked spell attack Spellstrike. More accuracy and more dice or EVERY strike for a duration is solid use of limited slots.
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
If you see a situation where you are going to be doing some room-to-room scrapping this one casting in low levels can last most of your fights in the day with only the 1 minute duration.

Boosting the chances of no-damage fights in these levels like this extends your slot efficiency.
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Pre 4th though it's still a bit of a game changer. Fights are very swingy in the first 5. You either don't need to stop because you swatting everything before it hit anyone or you need to stop because you nearly died

So slapping this on anyone in the first few levels at the right time is big.
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
It's plausible you, as a caster, might not have a +1 striking weapon by 4th, so this is still an okay opener at this level about halfway through a 1-10.

The rest of the fight your weapon is runed up and a good follow-up to a save spell.
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
If you are playing a class that gets a feat similar to Bespell Strikes then at 4th doing this spell to yourself or another ally nets you a +1d6 on cast, comparable to a pre-10 Vicious Swing.

Self-cast that's a R1 slot to just have runeless Vicious Swing the rest of the fight & when cast +1d6
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
From a strictly self-cast perspective you use a spell to essentially close the gap between you and full martials that don't have runes yet with both a bonus to attack that stacks with buffs and a damage booster like a sneak attack

The turn you drop it you shoot & did a rogue hit.
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
It isn't held down by that big nitpick.

Now it's a somewhat quietly baller spell. I have previously been a champion for spells that repeat in full on Sustain. Repeated effect makes your slots more efficient.

Runic Weapon/Body is a buff with a duration but has a similar repeat damage vibe on DPR.
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Which is two-thirds the annual labor budget of my understaffed store.
November 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Legit right before I posted this thread I did a short saying thanks and happy holidays and it already has around 500 views and a handful of upvotes.

I am not used to this 😳
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Like... I'm suddenly vaguely relevant as a 2eTuber? What?

Naturally I'm still a fraction of the viewership of the big guns in the space, my subscriber count isn't even over 300, and I'm never invited to anything in the 2eTuber space or ever mentioned, but what the heck?

Thanks for the support.
November 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM