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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ryryguy" data-source="post: 5080330" data-attributes="member: 64945">[sblock=OOC/Judge]Yeah, I knew that was going to come up.There was a discussion about it recently on <a href="http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19686342/Rules_Q38;A_FAQ__ask_a_simple_question?post_id=386697049#386697049" target="_blank">wizards rules forum</a>.  (The discussion continues a bit past that first post, interleaved with other stuff.)I think I agree with the position that the follow on effect is not an attack, and since the vulnerability is to "close or area attacks" (and the resistance is to "melee or ranged attacks"), it doesn't come in to play no matter what the keyword is, that damage doesn't trigger either the resistance or the vulnerability.  The same thing would be true with, for example, Cleave - the main damage would be halved, but the follow-on would just be straight damage.(If it were treated as an attack, then I think the strict raw would be that the power has the melee keyword, the follow on effect is not saying to make a second attack, and the close blast just specifies a range; so the damage would trigger the resistance and be halved... which seems kind of dumb and not well in keeping with the fluff, but that's what it would be.)I also agree that the power is poorly written.  PP seems to have a lot of those (e.g, Fire Hawk).But what say you, Sir Judge?PS - Don't worry, you do have a controller with you!  I believe a couple of you also have dailies that do close bursts or blasts.  I'm not going to tell you that you should use your dailies.  I will tell you that, at least at this point in the adventure, you shouldn't worry about saving every single last one of your dailies for some uber-difficult final encounter.  (Don't just squander them, of course. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />)[/sblock]</blockquote>

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