Divine Challenge=Divine Sanction?

[Nahat Anoj]

One thing to be aware of when changing DC to use DS notation is that swarms will stop taking extra damage from DC, making Paladins less effective against them. One thing that Paladins have always had going for them was their Defendery efficacy against swarms, not just undead. (Vulnerable to close powers -does- include Divine Challenge, but divine sanction is a feature, not a power)

Well, reducing a paladin's effectiveness against swarms doesn't bother me, as I've never thought swarm's were vulnerable to DC damage before.

 

[DracoSuave]

Well, reducing a paladin's effectiveness against swarms doesn't bother me, as I've never thought swarm's were vulnerable to DC damage before.

Yeah, but that doesn't change the fact it's been one of their niches since day one... it's not a bad thing when a class excells at defeating certain types of monsters.

 

[Nahat Anoj]

Yeah, but that doesn't change the fact it's been one of their niches since day one... it's not a bad thing when a class excells at defeating certain types of monsters.

I don't really mind if swarms are vulnerable to DC damage by virtue of DC being a close burst. Indeed, having heard of that interpretation, I can justify how it might work - to me, a swarm's vulnerability to close and area attacks represent the extra damage these attack type do because the swarm is composed of lots of monsters bunched up together. In a sense, every monster that makes up the swarm is DCed. I just wouldn't have thought of that on my own, because swarms are vulnerable to close or area attacks and DC isn't an attack.

In any case, if swarms are vulnerable to DC damage now, I'd still say they'd still be vulnerable to a DC power write-up that uses DS.