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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 1008813" data-attributes="member: 5834">I don't quite understand how you can make this statement. The change to DR where any magic weapon bypasses #/Magic DR combined with the change that any arrow fired from a magic bow, even a +1 magic bow, is considered magical for bypassing DR makes this spell fairly useless and easily defeatable. Any cleric or wizard or class with any spell that provides a magical bonus to its arrows can bypass Protection from Arrows. So once a caster gains Greater Magic Weapon, Protection from Arrows becomes an utter non-factor, just like before. And any character or enemy with a +1 or better bow can blow through the DR of a person with Protection from Arrows.I modified this spell and gave it DR 10/-. Otherwise it is never used because of its utter uselessness, even in  3.0 it was marginally useful because of the way it scaled compared to GMW. I mean for both enemy and ally. The archers characters I have run as a DM blow through 10/- DR of any enemy casters. Enemies usually never use archers or rarely do. They usually have a mage or cleric deal with the PC casters. Windwall while flying is a much more effective defense for PC's who normally face archers en masse as part of enemy troops. If the DM specifically creates an archer specialist to deal with a caster, then that archer is going to kill the PC caster so quick he may not have time to cast Windwall, which will be his only defense now besides Stoneskin.I don't know your experience with archers, but specialized archers blow through 10 points of DR like nothing. I see that now specialization has no 30 foot limit, which means they will blow through 10 DR even easier and from farther away. What would you have a wizard do if he is getting bombarded by arrows and Protection from Arrows doesn't really protect?</blockquote>

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