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<blockquote data-quote="Dandu" data-source="post: 5492272" data-attributes="member: 85158">For all we know the &quot;loss of versatility&quot; statement applies to the loss of warlock class features such as Deceive Item, which allows a warlock to craft magical items, a very versatile class feature.If you check the text of the Hellfire Blast description, you'll notice that it says &quot;If your blast hits multiple targets (for example, the eldritch chain or eldritch cone blast shape invocations), each target takes the extra damage.&quot;Since Eldritch Chain and Eldritch Cone are blast shape invocations, they can only be applied to Eldritch Blast. If they can be applied to a Hellfire Blast as well, that would argue that a Hellfire Blast counts as an Eldritch Blast for the purposes of invocations that modify an Eldritch Blast.Lacking precedent isn't really evidence that it can't be done, only that it hasn't been done.Just because it is of one energy type does not mean it is incomparable with other energy types; as you yourself pointed out, there is a feat that allows two essences to be used together.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dandu, post: 5492272, member: 85158"] For all we know the "loss of versatility" statement applies to the loss of warlock class features such as Deceive Item, which allows a warlock to craft magical items, a very versatile class feature. If you check the text of the Hellfire Blast description, you'll notice that it says "If your blast hits multiple targets (for example, the [I]eldritch chain[/I] or [I]eldritch cone[/I] blast shape invocations), each target takes the extra damage." Since Eldritch Chain and Eldritch Cone are blast shape invocations, they can only be applied to Eldritch Blast. If they can be applied to a Hellfire Blast as well, that would argue that a Hellfire Blast counts as an Eldritch Blast for the purposes of invocations that modify an Eldritch Blast. Lacking precedent isn't really evidence that it can't be done, only that it hasn't been done. Just because it is of one energy type does not mean it is incomparable with other energy types; as you yourself pointed out, there is a feat that allows two essences to be used together. [/QUOTE]

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