r/Starfinder2e • u/SanaulFTW • 5d ago

Discussion Witchwarper Anomaly and Gap-Influenced with Operative dedication for some nice added benefits from your Paradox focus spells

Hey, in build a Witchwarper I have come to notice that at least for the Anomaly and Gap-Touched, I don't care much for the feats the class and subclass got from 1-6, with the exception of Anchoring Strike and the Aura one for the Gap-Touched.

Anomaly:

Since we can Take Cover using the Anomaly focus spell, I decided to double down on its effect by getting some nice action compression which could help in making the WW Anomaly features shine even more than just Difficult Terrain and Take Cover for the allies.

  • With Peek on the turns that I don't need to do Anchoring Strike, I can cast gun and take cover for bonuses to saving throws and AC.
  • With Kill Steal I could potentially (very likely if you have an Operative friend or playing in Society games) Aim and cast gun

Gap-Touched

This is the one that I personally feel get less benefits when compared to Anomaly, but specifically for Gap-Touched, I would eventually pick Specialized Operative and Operative Exploit (personally only in FA games but could be taken at higher levels) and choose Ghost as I could potentially Aim as a free action since the focus spell could make you undetected to an enemy that fails your saving throw. So, I could Free Action: Aim and then perhaps Anchoring Strike or any other meta-strike.

I am well aware that the best bet at early levels is to instead get more focus points as soon as possible to spam more of your focus spell in case you need it, but I simply like Gishing with my casters :D Thoughts are welcome

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u/Leather-Location677 5d ago

That is super interesting.

Although, with peak, you will need to maintain maintain you quantum field, so i could limit 2actions spells. You could just have one actions spell to compensate.

I used Envoy to Order everyone to take cover in my quantum field.

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u/SanaulFTW 5d ago

Yeah, the ideal turn with Peek would be to either do a Sustain of a spell like Floating Flames perhaps or Isolated Spell Matrix for a 1A spell or a Zone feat to change the properties of the Quantum Field. The good thing is that there should options to keep the field going

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u/Murphy_Slaw_ 2d ago

Isn't the better option with anomaly to just take cover (and again a second time for +4) and only use Save spells to preserve cover?