Piercing Cold Feat

Drowbane · Oct 5, 2012

Dandu said:
That's really odd, isn't it? I personally assume it's a typo of some sort because it would imply that, even if you turn half the spell damage into some other kind of damage, if the target is immune to the kind of damage dealt by the original spell, then the entire spell would fail to affect it, including the portion which was changed into another type of damage.

Which, again, strikes me as really strange. Of course, given how hard Vile damage is to heal, it may be an intentional thing, but you don't just see it with other feats that convert half a spell's damage to another type, such as Born of Three Thunders, nor is it a restriction in the Violate Spell metamagic feat.

A Corrupted and Violated SLA, say Cone of Cold for 40pts would deal 10 Unholy, 10 Unholy / Vile, 10 Cold, and 10 Cold / Vile.

The cold immune victim would be immune to the latter half (both of which are still Cold dmg)... making it Vile does not make it less cold.

Vile is not a damage type of its own. It just makes whatever you deal harder to heal.

edit: Violate Spell (in your link above) also states that a creature immune to Lightning is completely immune to the Violated Lightning Bolt in the example).

Dandu · Oct 5, 2012

Oh, interesting. Then I guess Corrupt Spell-Like Ability would be the best choice in this situation.

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