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The somatic component is not a problem if you're wearing no armor or no-ASF armor, possibly with the help of a level of spellsword. Still spell is another option, especially if the DM rules that it's a move action to re- grasp a two-handed weapon after casting wraithstrike. Opponents rarely...

Where does it say that ghosts get to use their Str with a ghost touch weapon? In order to attack the ghost must manifest and become incorporeal. If so, "t has no Strength score, so its Dexterity modifier applies to both its melee attacks and its ranged attacks." This is not contradicted in the...

Why would diety faiths need conversion? Surely "don't eat pork" or "no carbs" or "only eat fish on Thursdays" or whatnot can be transferred easily enough? :confused: ( :p )

“We find comfort among those who agree with us -- growth among those who don't.” I don't come here to to be comforted or to get some perverse kick out of announcing my holy and inviolate opinion to the unwashed masses. I suffer from the belief that an objective reality exists, and that...

You wanted testimonies form people who'd seen wraithstrike in play - you got it. You wanted builds - you got it. Then you wanted "actual builds" and "real numbers". You casually dismissed most supplements as irrelevant to a balance discussion, even the Spell Compendium, where wraithstrike...

Here are a couple of monsters with wraithstrike. Now I know monsters like this tend to run at the first sign of melee with an arcane caster or a lightly armored character, but just in case you don't have one in the party to chase it away, let's see what they can do... Adult Green Dragon, CR...

OA is the obvious place to look. It got a 3.5 update in Dragon 318 . (Don't know how complete it was.) How do you determine ability scores? Anyway, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the monk. Many of the abilities are usable in armor (though it must be light armor for evasion) and feats like...

Yikes! I did not. That's a big deal indeed. :uhoh: (Good thing I looked it up before telling you you were wrong. :)) http://www.d20srd.org/srd/specialAbilities.htm#damageReduction

Dragons may be familiar with special melee spells (and may in fact have wraithstrike themselves), but giants? I don't see some enormous and arrogant giant running from the little guy in light armor just in case he's got wraithstrike prepared. A powerful melee monster's best chance of winning a...

Human Monk 1/Stalwart Sorc (CMag) 8 (lv9) 25 pb Levels Item Total Polymorphed annis Str 13 +2 15 (+2) 27 (+8) Dex 8 8 (-1) 12 (+1) Con 16 +2 18 (+4) 14 (+2) Int 8 8 (-1) - Wis 8 8 (-1) - Cha 16 +2 +2 20 (+5) - Feats (1,1,3,6,9): Improved Unarmed Strike*, Improved Grapple...

From the other thread (underlining mine): and True, you were not as aggressive about "actual builds" as Mistwell were, but you did make claims that can only be proven wrong by example. What did you expect? Were you just making noise, not expecting anyone to take you up on it? This is what you...

First of all, he character in the OP is "melee optimized", not "wraithstrike optimized". (Though the two are much the same of course.) Wraithstrike is a melee spell. It makes no sense at all to balance it for a non-melee character, when the "melee mage" is an effective and reasonably common...

Dread wraith: AC 25, 104 HPs. Monk 13 (DMG): AC 21, 75 HPs. In the immortal words of Shania Twain: That don't impress me much. The wraith will most likely survive a full attack. If it's a solo campaign it may even survive the round. The monk will probably not be as lucky. All without any help...

What do you think? :\ No. We're "assuming" that melee characters get into position for a full attack on a fairly regular basis. And they do. It's the players who tend to go out of their way to avoid full attacks. High level melee monsters are not in the habit of running away from combat with...

Right. The goalpost-moving continues. A detailed build with attached damage tables wasn't good enough - now you want a detailed character progression with estimated damage for each level. Considering how +180 damage from a swift 2nd level spell was met with casual hand-waving I see little...

4+2+5+1=12. With a 2nd level spell? No. Regardless of character level. The tactics used are perfectly viable without wraithstrike. The "unload everything" option requires a lot of resources, but 180 damage is what you get above and beyond what you'd get anyway.

It does "say". Unless otherwise stated, melee attacks follow the default rules for melee attacks. There is no ambiguity in the RAW here. It would be a major oversight to "forget" to mention something like that if it was the "intent", especially considering that wraithstrike attracted a lot of...

I decided to post example characters in a new thread: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?p=3295389#post3295389 .It's a 12th level character and I'm curious: Is it reasonable for a 2nd level spell to effectively add 180 damage as a swift action?

Continued from http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=184454&page=6 . In the above thread I promised to post a few example builds with average damage calculations. I finally got around to making the average damage spreadsheet I asked about. I based it on the one from ENWorld's download...

The text is somewhat ambiguous, but the intent seems clear. 1d8+3. You have +6 Str for purposes of attacks, graple checks and breaking or crushing items. You are attacking with the longsword. Thus you have +6 Str, and thus +3 damage. Look at the slam damage example in the spell - your "new...