Ember is the eternally loveable and sweet elven companion that you can recruit early on in Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. With so many companions to recruit and develop in this game, it can be hard to narrow down just five to take along with you, but Ember is an easy pick for many thanks to her sweet disposition and eternal optimism.

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That said, like any other companion you may be thinking long and hard about how to build Ember. She's likely the first full caster you've encountered in the game and in a game with so many options, they can be a bit of trouble.

Ember's Basic Stats

Ember has three levels in the Stigmatized Witch class. This is a Witch archetype made entirely for the game and is an arcane spontaneous caster, meaning that Ember doesn't have to prepare her spell slots individually every day.

Ember is built to be an offensive caster. Not only does she get Hexes that make her foes easier to hit, but her feats are built for shooting spells into battle as a back-row offensive mage. This is largely where the builds in this article will keep her, but she does have options on how to further her abilities.

Pure Stigmatized Witch Build For Ember

One of the best ways to build a full caster is to avoid multiclassing altogether, and Ember is no exception. Stigmatized Witch gives her a great spellbook, plenty of Hexes to work with, and works well with her above-average Charisma stat. There's not much to see in the preamble for such a simple build.

• While Ember can certainly thrive with damage-dealing as her main combat role, the Witch spellbook has a plethora of fantastic Enchantment spells that can also be really useful to focus on.
• Restless Slumber and Agony are fantastic Hexes to have and should be used liberally. Conversely, while Iceplant Hex is utterly fantastic on characters like Camellia, it finds little use on a character who should be avoiding close combat entirely.
• Improved Eleven Immunities is fantastic for this build as not only does it protect Ember from offensively cast Enchantment spells, but it makes hers even more effective.

• These Mythic Path selections are centered around making Ember a really flexible spellcaster. Metamagic is especially useful with spontaneous casters as they can make plenty of spells to fit each and every situation they may find themselves in.
• The Expanded Arsenal feat makes it so that the Spell Focus and School Mastery features also apply to another school. Conjuration is a good pick for this build but Evocation might be tempting for those who prefer a Witch more capable of dishing out the pain.
  • If you plan to go for Evocation instead (or any other spell school), you may wish to alter Ember's spellbook selections to favor this new school.

• With plenty of casts available and a spellbook filled with Quickened spells, Ember will be firing off tons of spells every turn.

• Ember gets a number of spells automatically thanks to her Curse. These are Burning Hands, Scorching Ray, Burning Arc, Fire Snake, and Hellfire Ray. As a result, you should not take these spells upon leveling up.
• The spells chosen for this build largely gravitate towards Enchantment and Conjuration to benefit from the feat choices detailed above. If you wish to pick a different school, however, you'll want to alter these choices accordingly.
• Make sure to keep your spellbook updated with suitable Metamagic whenever you gain new spells and new spell levels. With the Selective Spell Metamagic, spells like Fire Snake, Lightning Bolt, Stinking Cloud, and Web become amazingly potent.

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Mystic Theurge Build For Ember

This build is all about getting the most spells possible on Ember, turning her into the most versatile spellcaster imaginable. Mystic Theurge is a prestige class that requires proficiency in both arcane and divine spells, and it progresses both disciplines at the same time. We trade the ability to cast Level Nine spells for pure versatility.

We level Ember in Oracle in order to make use of her high Charisma stat and to keep her as a fully spontaneous caster. This build also focuses on Fire damage, but those feats can easily be repurposed to make Ember specialize in anything you want.

• The Fire focus feats could easily be swapped for the Spell Focus of your choice to turn this Ember build into any specialist you want.
• The Metamagic choices here are some of the most adaptable and globally useful ones - Selective Spell especially is great for use with Ember's crowd control and area damage spells.
• Spell Penetration is very important for any offensive caster, and you may wish to take those feats sooner if you find you're having trouble dealing with Spell Resistance.
• The final levels in Oracle could easily be swapped for two levels in Stigmatized Witch instead. Whichever you choose will gain access to Level Eight spells. This choice really depends on your preference when it comes to spell lists.

• This set of feats is geared heavily towards making Ember the most versatile caster possible. Making full use of her Metamagic feats means that you really should have a tool for every possible situation in the game, and investing in Quicken Spell can really amp up her action economy once you have the spell levels required.
• If you don't use Ember for damage much, consider changing the School Mastery feat to something else like Conjuration or Enchantment.

• With this build and all the Mystic Theurge levels, Ember ends up with a full spell roster of 115 Spells. Some of them are duplicates with different levels but that's still a staggering spellbook - not counting Metamagic.
• These spell selections are geared towards making Ember able to do anything, with a slight focus on Fire damage, especially in the later levels.
• It's plain to see that even if Ember is up against an opponent completely immune to fire, she will always have something to do.

Tranquil Whisper Build For Ember

With such high Charisma, it's not a terrible choice to repurpose Ember as a Bard. She's a beacon of hope and good so it makes sense, and Tranquil Whisper is a Bard archetype that really suits her! This archetype has a sustained song that increases AC and resistance to emotion effects.

This build is a Hideous Laughter build that uses the Best Jokes Mythic Ability to really amp up the fun. It's not a totally optimized build, but a fun RP-heavy one that you may wish to play around with if you're in need of a Bard.

• As before, you may wish to move Spell Penetration feats up a little if you're having trouble with the game's enemies. This is a more pressing issue on higher difficulties.
• Once possible, make sure you always have Hideous Laughter as your Spell Specialization and use both the Heighten Spell and Persistent Spell metamagics with it for the greatest chance of success.
• Other than Hideous Laughter, this build will work really well with Enchantment spells, which Bards get a lot of.

• There are some great choices here. Choosing Pranked as a beneficial curse will get Ember a lot of free spells that she can use really well, and Boundless Healing gives her a bit more utility to be a healer without getting close to the action.
• Witch Wandering Hex is something of a placeholder as it doesn't provide a whole lot per rest, but it can be situationally fantastic if you manage to use the curses effectively.
• Best Jokes is the lynchpin of the build, turning Hideous Laughter into a potentially brutal and fight-winning spell.

• Ember makes a very decent support healer, especially with Boundless Healing.
• Haste and Slow are never wasted spell slots, but the former is much more of a priority. Greater Invisibility is another great spell better cast onto the physical attackers of the party.
• There are some really great crowd control spells here, such as Grease, Confusion, and Waves of Ecstasy. Use them to your advantage!

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