Upgrading Witchfire?

[Mentat55]

A player in my 4e paragon tier game does not really like the options at level 13 for fey pact warlocks. He does, however, like his level 1 power, Witchfire. I floated the idea that I could generate a level 13 version of Witchfire.

However, I am kind of stumped for ideas right now. Any suggestions? I thought about changing the effect from an attack penalty to something else, or adding another small penalty, or changing the damage type to fire AND psychic.

 

[keterys]

Could do like a Witchfire Storm that hits an area burst 1.

 

[Psikus]

Making it an area attack seems excessive to me - the attack penalty should be about -6/-7 at those levels, which is almost as good as a stun. The base power is already quite good, so I'd raise the damage to 2d10+Cha (or maybe just 2d8+Cha) and call it a day.

 

[keterys]

Making it an area attack seems excessive to me

True, it'd only be still quite a bit less effective than Prismatic Burst (Wizard 13)

And likely less effective than my other thought, which was treat it like Eldritch Rain and just give it a 2nd target.

On that note, Mesmeric Hold might be an interesting option for a warlock.

 

[Nifft]

I'd go with 2nd target.

Cheers, -- N