There often isn’t time before a fight to buff yourself and your companions as you would like. Luckily, there are a good number of buffs you can apply well ahead of time.
Permanency
- Arcane Sight
- Comprehend Languages
- Darkvision
- Detect Magic
- Enlarge Person
- Hod’s Gift (Deep Magic)
- Magic Fang
- Magic Fang, Greater
- Read Magic
- Reduce Person
- Resistance
- See Invisibility
- Telepathic Bond
- Tongues
Until Dispelled Buffs
- Instant Refuge (Spell Compendium)
- Renewal Pact (Spell Compendium)
- Stalwart Pact (Spell Compendium)
1 Day Per Level Buffs
24 Hour Buffs
- Age Resistance (Ultimate Magic)
- Anticipate Teleportation (Complete Arcane)
- Anticipate Teleportation, Greater (Complete Arcane)
- Detect Scrying
- Elf Lord’s Battle Armor (Deep Magic)
- Endure Elements
- Endure Elements, Communal
- Energy Immunity (Spell Compendium)
- Mind Blank
- Resistance, Superior (Spell Compendium)
- Spellbane (Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea Magic)
- Tireless (Deep Magic)
- Tyche’s Touch (Lost Empires of Faerûn)
2 Hour Per Level Buffs
1 Hour Per Level Buffs
- Appraising Touch (Spell Compendium)
- Countless Eyes (Ultimate Magic)
- Cushioning Bands (Ultimate Magic)
- Delay Pain (Ultimate Magic)
- Delay Poison
- Delay Poison, Communal (Ultimate Combat)
- Eaglesoul (Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea Magic)
- False Life
- False Life, Greater (Ultimate Magic)
- Getaway (Advanced Player’s Guide)
- Mage Armor
- Mage Armor II (Book of Magic: Spells 1)
- Mage Armor, Greater (Spell Compendium)
- Mage Armor, Improved (Unapproachable East)
- Mage Armor, Mass (Spell Compendium)
- Magic Vestment
- Magic Weapon, Greater
- Misdirection
- Moment of Prescience
- Nine Lives
- Nondetection
- Nondetection, Communal (Ultimate Combat)
- One With the Cosmos (Deep Magic)
- Overland Flight
- Protection from Arrows
- Protection from Arrows, Communal (Ultimate Combat)
- Prying Eyes
- Prying Eyes, Greater
- Ride the Waves (Ultimate Magic)
- Tireless Pursuit (Advanced Player’s Guide)
- Treasure Scent (Spell Compendium)
Tips
- Don’t forget the Extend Spell feat. With Extend Spell, you can apply 24hr buffs the day before you enter the dungeon and have those spell slots available for other spells the day that you do enter the dungeon.
