Item was found in Libris Mortis, due to the way it was written you could "stack" it's effect. However one does have to remember it's a rod, however unlike most rods that have to be held to have an effect, this rod only needs to be in your possession. Average weight of a rod is 2lbs so as long as you can carry them you could use them.
One of the big problems D&D3E and PF had was that they flooded the market (so to speak) with a bazillion fucking feats. It didn't help that some feats were deliberately designed as 'trap feats' -- they might look good, but they weren't all that effective. But even if there HADN'T been craptastic feats, you still at best had ten plus whatever bonus feats your class gave (if any), plus one if you were human. Thankfully, most GMs in my group would allow for retraining feat slots if it turned out the feat you'd taken was a total dud.
Pathfinder didn't really have an issue with feats or even prestige classes like D&D 3.x did, their major problem was the amount of archtypes. Many of the abilities past level 7 are more powerful than their base abilities arguably and better than any feat. Hell some of the best feats had feat chains you had to focus on to use them correctly.
The fact that people are comparing Pathfinder 2.0 to D&D 4e does zero favors either. In other news, I'm trying to conjure a backstory for my current superhero and how he got his powers through a traumatic incident. Kinda banking on having to eject from a plane over Myanmar with a Burmese-Russian comrade while on assignment and the parachutes failed to deploy. No, the comrade didn't die, he just grew wings. Time to write down the following traits: Sambo practitioner and Lethwei practitioner. Also, I found what what happens if you try to attack the street preacher. You get your entire body torn up in a tornado of fury and the gore just flies every which way.
It's more like 5th Edition, if they removed everything good about it and decided that if you're going to play you need at least a healer or two because you can't use potions and cure scrolls unless you want to spend an magic slot for them.
So basically, they are forking a fork.
Well they're known for making Pathfinders rules better or to make "addons" for Pathfinder Adventure Paths with even more content than official books themselves. They're the only ones to work on Mythic Adventure stuff and to create more content for Adventure Paths. Hell the space settings they have are better than Paizo's, if one wanted to do a d20 game set in space I'd go with their stuff. Not a fan of their Hypercorps 2099 stuff though, if I want to play Shadowrun I'll play 4th Edition Shadowrun.
I'm sorry, what? Even if you HAVE a healer, those potions and scrolls come in handy in a pinch.
Well now you get to decide if you want those or other magical items. You can no longer deck yourself in magical gear, which I thought was one of the points of making a fantasy character.
Yes they do, ask @Randall Fragg or @Adamska for it.
We do, and we'd not mind seeing a new active player.
In fairness, they strongly suggested they were planning on removing / dramatically reworking resonance. Or maybe it was just removing it from Alchemists (so that they weren't MAD and gimped to the point of being a meme class)? I can't remember what was """confirmed""" to be tweaked in the final version.
I think it was just going to be for Alchemists due to the way they play.
