Faerie Fire too powerful
the Jester
Legend
So they nerfed it again…
What are you referring to? AFAIK they haven't changed a thing about it, and it's functionally superior to earlier edition versions of the spell.
Mournblade94
Adventurer
Or light Domain Cleric
Radaceus
Adventurer
fair catch, I suppose even the Eldritch Knight, or perhaps Arcane trickster could take it as an off school spell... not that they'd have a lick of a chance with a high DC unless they have some very nice chargen
FrogReaver
As long as i get to be the frog
Level 7 you have 4 level 3+ available. If he just used one per combat that takes him through 4 combats. (Which is getting near the max that most people see in a given adventuring day). However, his chosen spells also last an hour. Due to how combats are spaced out in a longer adventuring day it's very likely that even if he were in a longer adventuring day that he would have the higher level spell slots on most days to meet that challenge.
Now if we here a bard as opposed to a Druid - you might have a point.
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FrogReaver
As long as i get to be the frog
The reason I don't call faerie fire good is that
2. It can flat out miss
3. Even when it don't miss it can no effect (no would be misses turn to hits or crits)
4. Even when it doesn't miss it can have minimal effect (only a single would be miss turns to a hit or crit)
5. The chance of no to minimal effects occurring is fairly high
6. In hard fights there are better concentration slots.
7. In easy fights you likely will have as much impact with your scaling cantrip attack.
The only all the time circumstance where faerie fire is potentially very powerful is if your party is making great use of the -5/+10 feats. Then and only then is their accuracy low enough that advantage really benefits and their damage high enough that turning even 1 miss into a hit is a huge gain.
TBeholder
Explorer
I don't know what you call "functionally superior", but —
AD&D*: Made it actually useful, increased range from 60 to 80 yd, and reduced duration from 10× to 4×CL rds.
3.x: Unborked AoE, but in the way that made it single-target without being targeted (most of the time); gave it huge range, but reduced duration to 1 rd×CL.
3.5 to 5: made it "concentration" and reduced range (down to OD&D value). And gave it a saving throw.
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