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Well, the major thing for me is that I don't see that as broken-ness. I see Blade Cascade, Seal of Binding, and Divine Miracle in general as broken. That requires focus to be good. When it gets good, it's awesome, but you still actually need to have a Doomsayer, use a wand with the fear keyword...

People have been talking about striker damage, and been comparing Firestorm to Striker-level damage. Let's see how much damage Strikers can do, eh? Bugbear Ranger/Pit Fighter, Using Cruel Cage of Steel (19 daily) w/2 oversized +4 bastard swords. Has Lethal Hunter, WF: Bastard Sword, and...

Yes, but PCs have much less health than appropriate challenges for those PCs. Where'd you get 39? It's half damage, which I assume means half of everything. Yes, for damage, even the first round is good. I'll agree to that. Relatively small damage every round is useless? Ah, an admittance! The...

Heh, yeah. You're right! It is fun being called a ninja! :) Oh, I see. That's not official errata. That's a collection of "assumed" errata. Stuff that they think will be errata'd. The stuff in there that's strikethrough and has a <WotC update> tag at the end is officially errata'd. They're...

Okay, let's examine your example. So, you say 8 standard monsters. No elites or solos, and a large number of low hitpoint enemies. So in other words, a very nice group for Firestorm. I'll assume, as you did, that all attacks hit. Okay, so after you hit them the first time, let's assume that 2/3...

Are you sure about that? It's not in the first 'update' on the Wizards site, and I don't see any other 'updates'. @mourn: no, the text on 226 doesn't support that. It says, "when you use a magic item..." It doesn't say, "when you use a magic item's power...." Also, the example doesn't support...

Yes. He was saying that if a class like the swordmage had encounter powers that had one of those keywords, then it could be made into a wand of that power, which would have those keywords, which could then be applied to all of your powers. He then said that would be broken. I agreed. Though...

Agreed. Hopefully they won't allow stance or reliable keywords on any encounter powers of classes that can use wands... that would be... interesting, to say the least. Legion's Hold, and if I miss someone, I don't expend it. Anyone. In a close burst 20. Yeah, that would be a little overpowered...

I agree. When I first discovered this, I was surprised, and thought that this would lead to some fun times (brokeness). After I thought about it for a while, though, I realized that this is an awesome way to make the game more interesting mechanically, for all the reasons that you stated. So...

Agreed. I've been curious as to how people justify to themselves saying, "Clearly this is what the designers intended," in all sorts of various topics. How can anyone actually know without talking to them? Yes, you can sometimes look at something and say, "Well, common sense tells me that it...

Damage. Is. Not. Useful. For. Control. Let's examine this, shall we. 1. No, you don't. You need to hit again if they manage to escape, and they wasted their action to do so. 2. Yes, but you don't lose your attack if you miss, (like you would with almost all other attacks) and you can easily get...

lol, whut? No, you are wrong. Wizards can destroy solos and elites. All they need is a good status effect and an orb. Oh sorry, you're out of the encounter for... 2 or 3 rounds, that okay? Sure, we might all coup de grace you during that time, but I'm sure it won't hurt too much. Besides that...

No, it's probably going to be in Tome of Treasures or Martial Power.

I hope you mean blast, and are talking about a Resounding Thundered, Arcane Reached, Thunderwave. Otherwise, did they come out with another Dragon magazine? (lol) Agreed. (though more damage never hurts... well actually, I guess it does...)

Can you cite any text to back that up? Read page 226 again, it says it quite clearly, IMO. I don't see how it can really be interpreted in any other way...

Dracosuave: You seem to misunderstand keywords. You don't "apply" keywords to damage. They are on the power, and they tell you what to do with the power. If the power has damage keywords, you distribute the damage equally between all of the damage keywords. That is how it works. There is no...

lol, sigged.

I still don't understand in the slightest why this is a problem... maybe it's just me, but I don't see why you don't start a thread about Divine Miracle or something. Divine Miracle is overpowered. It has a large number of ways of being abused, most of which can kill Orcus in a few rounds short...

And what is wrong with that. Again, wasn't it the intent of the designers to make it so that the clear progression of quality of weapons isn't actually so clear? And besides that, this is rather focused on getting maximum worth out of that 2d4, and requires a 30th level item. I don't see any...

Well my point was that if the wizard did manage to get all of the enemy combatants trapped, then either he wasted way too many of his resources (dailies) or he got lucky, but either way the battle will be significantly easier. I'd rather not use my powers and win easily than do something...