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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eltern" data-source="post: 1356839" data-attributes="member: 5870">Alright, my 8th level, four person (and a cohort) party encountered a CR 7 Huge Air elemental last session, and it ate them for breakfast.  Well, first they had blown some of the cleric's spells awhile before with some healing from a trap, then they had to deal with two of these elementals, right after each other.  This amounted to the first one charging and missing a slam attack, then turning into a whirlwind and dealing continuous damage to 3/4 of the party.  Right after they killed it another showed up (they activated this door opening trigger again), promptly whirlwinded and picked up everyone other than the party rogue, who was incapable of dealing sufficient damage to it to beat DR (normal shortsword d6-1 for strength.  DR is 5) so she ran away, leaving the other guys to beat it up from the inside.  Wizard died, the cleric with diehard got into negatives, the cohort went to 0 then was healed back up, the fighter was down to one more round to live, then the cleric (with no ranks in concentration, for some reason) got off a Sound Burst, and the fighter power attacked the crap out of it.  El Fin.Was the double whammy why it was so bad, the concentration checks, the rogue being useless, or did I do something wrong? Can the elemental pick them all up (if they fail their saves) in one round if it whirlwinds?  Yes, they were all next to each other in a hall. Thanks,Eltern</blockquote>

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