I am absolutely baffled as to why you asked this question.ishy wrote:What is so great about the void domain?
ishy wrote:Part the veil doesn't look very useful.
You get that? The confusion is added on as a result of the spell landing without any additional saving throws and needs to be saved against separately. In particular, Part the Veil is very useful for cleric spells in which the person can take actions to mitigate the effect, like Hold Person or Compassionate Ally. It also stretches out the useful of low-level cleric spells by giving it a rider with more unf. Or it gives spells that you've already decided to plunder from other domains or spell lists such as Shadow Conjuration that much more hurting.Part the Veil (Su): At 8th level, you can lace spells you cast with the raw madness that waits in the outer darkness. Activating this ability is a swift action that you must use as you cast a spell that targets a single creature and that allows a Will saving throw to negate or reduce the spell’s primary effect. If the target fails to resist the spell, the target is also confused for a number of rounds equal to the spell’s level as visions of the void cause temporary insanity.
Seriously, have you ever played a blaster cleric at all ishy? I'm downright baffled how you're not drooling at this feature and/or screaming 'hax'.
True neutral -- or really, any kind of neutral -- clerics are better at binding than wizards are. Various cleric-exclusive effects contribute to this particular spell.
Furthermore, the Void domain gives you Lesser Planar Ally a spell level early. Void domain clerics get it at level 7, wizards/sorcerers get it at level 9.
The only thing that wizards have over Pathfinder clerics with the generic binding is the spell Embrace Destiny. But, oh yeah, it's a level 1 spell and Pathfinder makes it so that clerics can train Use Magic Device as long as they don't mind missing out on the +3 bonus. You don't, not with all of that charisma-boosting crap.
Long story short: clerics will be the designated Planar Binding Whore in Pathfinder, not wizards.
Gee, it's too damn bad the cleric can't like put other spells in those domain slots. Guess they're just stuck with that particular spell in the domain spell slot foreeeever.ishy wrote:Planar binding is nice, getting planar binding in domain slots, not so much. Especially multiple versions.