Warlock's Curse: Applied per enemy per round, or just per round?

[Ravingdork]

It is my understanding that if you curse 10 creatures, then zap 10 creatures, you roll a single damage roll against all 10, then roll 10 attack rolls (one each), and then you apply your Curse damage to a SINGLE enemy. Then you are done.

 

[filthgrinder]

You "apply" the curse damage bonus ONCE per round. Area effect spell, you only roll damage once, however, you apply that damage multiple times.

You get your extra curse damage once per creature per round.

There isn't a need for official clarification.

 

[DracoSuave]

You "apply" the curse damage bonus ONCE per round. Area effect spell, you only roll damage once, however, you apply that damage multiple times.

You get your extra curse damage once per creature per round.

There isn't a need for official clarification.

You can deal extra damage from Warlock's Curse once per round. Not once per creature per round. The advantage of Cursing multiple monsters is not from the damage, but from the fact your pact and subsequent paragon path gives you abilities that key off of a cursed enemy's demise, regardless of how the enemy got killed. These abilities are not restricted by the number of times they trigger in a round, and in the case of Star Pact, stack with itself.

That said I can understand how you could come to this conclusion, and so perhaps clarification would be in order.

 

[Wisdom Penalty]

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The WP

 

[Cabral]

I would think it's per enemy per encounter. Here's why:

The hunter's quarry effect remains active until the end of the encounter, until the quarry is defeated, or until you designate a different target

Sneak attack is triggered once per round but deals more damage.

The Warlock's curse allows you to mark multiple distinct enemies. Each curse is a distinct effect. Each effect is triggered once per round. Of course, I can see the other reading of it, due to 4e's lack of precise language like 3.x.

 

[Incendax]

There is only one damage roll on most AOE effects. There is no other place to apply the extra damage, so it must be applied to the single damage roll. Only afterwards do you check whether or not each enemy in the effect is cursed and determine if it gets the extra damage or not.

If the rules intended for you to not get extra damage on multiple enemies they would have worded the ability like Hunter's Quarry. They did not.

 

[Branduil]

There is only one damage roll on most AOE effects. There is no other place to apply the extra damage, so it must be applied to the single damage roll. Only afterwards do you check whether or not each enemy in the effect is cursed and determine if it gets the extra damage or not.

If the rules intended for you to not get extra damage on multiple enemies they would have worded the ability like Hunter's Quarry. They did not.

By that logic if you crit with one attack in an area attack spell the maximum damage applies to all the attacks. That's not how it works.

 

[Incendax]

By that logic if you crit with one attack in an area attack spell the maximum damage applies to all the attacks. That's not how it works.

Incorrect. You roll one damage roll for the entire area of effect. Any targets that might be critted have their damage substituted by a maximum damage value.

 

[Branduil]

Incorrect. You roll one damage roll for the entire area of effect. Any targets that might be critted have their damage substituted by a maximum damage value.

But you're still wrong. With Twin Strike a Ranger can hit two enemies, and one of them won't be his quarry. He obviously does not apply quarry damage to that enemy, so it is obviously possible for quarry damage to apply to only one attack.

 

[Cabral]

But you're still wrong. With Twin Strike a Ranger can hit two enemies, and one of them won't be his quarry. He obviously does not apply quarry damage to that enemy, so it is obviously possible for quarry damage to apply to only one attack.

Which works well with his statement that Hunter's Quarry was an example of how to word it if they had intended it to affect only one target ...