I think the problem with patron's puppet isn't only that it costs a focus point, but because it's a hex you can't use any other hex that round. If a player really wants their familiar to act for free they can take the independent familiar ability. I like what Paizo was going for, but I feel it should have been a reaction focus spell that triggered when you cast or sustained a hex instead of being a hex itself. I like all the rest of the changes to hexes though.
As a wild witch playing through Abomination Vaults, there haven't been many opportunities for me to cast Wilding Word, so I've been waiting for news of how they were making it more general-purpose. The change looks good. Thank you very much for the video! This was the last bit of information on the witch remaster that I was missing.
Another quiet benefit of Patron's Puppet is it's a free action hex so it applies your special familiar benefit such as the one that extends conditions. Off the top of my head you could have the familiar that grants flanking when you hex provide flanking for a three action summon.
Yeah, the Hexes really needed those upgrades. Aside from a few, they just were way to situational, with insane limits on succeptible creatures. And _then_ they had limits for 1/turn and 1 minute immunity. Now the Hexes are not crap. And _then_ we get the Familiar ability thing.
06:07 can you explain this with an example question mark are you saying that a monster with weakness 5 to Fire and weakness 5 to slashing who takes damage from a short sword with a flaming room would only take one or the other of the weakness damage?
When are you going to circle back and cover changes to Domain spells? Not trying to sound pushy, just curious when or even if you plan on covering that.
Patron's Puppet is... underwhelming. When they initially teased some hints at the Puppet ability it sounded super interesting. Oh man! My patron will control my familiar to do something! This sounds super powerful! Amazing! .... And then it turns out to... be nothing more than... Paying a precious Focus Point to do literally nothing more than just move my cat or something?