Is Painful Oath Too Painful?

[TarionzCousin]

Painful Oath, a Paragon level feat, would allow my avenger to do +5 damage every round.

The feat allows (WIS Modifier) extra radiant and necrotic damage to the first hit every turn to the avenger's Oath target.

Yes, it says "the first time you hit each turn."


Questions:
1A. Is this feat too powerful?
1B. Am I going to take this feat anyway?

 

[sigfile]

The typical complaint from people looking at avengers is that they don't do enough damage. I disagree, but, hey, Painful Oath gives them a nice bump you'd be silly to pass up.

 

[Dice4Hire]

Painful Oath, a Paragon level feat, would allow my avenger to do +5 damage every round.

Questions:
1A. Is this feat too powerful?
1B. Am I going to take this feat anyway?

It must be a DI/Dragon feat as I do not see it in my books, but as quoted, yes, it sounds on par with a lot of daily utility buffs. + stat damage once every turn is pretty nice, but I'm not sure it is overpowered. I would have to put it on the overpowered side, probably as it is not that hard to get its benefits. If hte avenger is attacking a non-oath target, something is wrong.

 

[Mengu]

Necessary evil/tax/must have/whatever you want to call it. It's an avenger damage feature (along with the epic Hand of Divine Guidance that makes their weapon crit on 19-20 against oath target). The two feats are good and needed. Most avengers will have both feats at earliest opportunity. So, it's a bit of a non-choice choice, but it keeps the avenger on par with the scaling and feat enhanceable damage bonuses of the rogue, ranger, etc.

 

[Obryn]

IME, it's necessary to keep Avengers even close to other Strikers in damage.

Also, by mid-Paragon, the fact that it's radiant damage is a lot more important than the damage kicker itself if you face undead on a regular basis.

-O

 

[Black Knight Irios]

It must be a DI/Dragon feat as I do not see it in my books

It's in DP dragon 382 (P41).

No it's not overpowered - reasons were already stated. And the best part is that it adds the radiant keyword to the power it applies to. If you don't believe me this is the closest thing to being called out in a FAQ/Update that it indeed does add the radiant keyword.

 

[Dice4Hire]

It's in DP.

You sure about that? If it is I am not seeing it.

 

[Black Knight Irios]

You sure about that? If it is I am not seeing it.

My bad, it's dragon 382 (P41). Enjoy!

 

[TarionzCousin]

The typical complaint from people looking at avengers is that they don't do enough damage. I disagree, but, hey, Painful Oath gives them a nice bump you'd be silly to pass up.

Can I be silly and still take the feat?

 

[Black Knight Irios]

Can I be silly and still take the feat?

Mr. T can even hack WoW why shouldn't he be able to be silly and have that feat.