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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cignus_pfaccari" data-source="post: 5780194" data-attributes="member: 14557">Heh, nice.  OTOH, I'd be the first to admit that I'm lazy, and would prefer to do something fun, rather than, say, accounting.Besides, one of our other players is big on accounting-style preparation and contingency planning, anyway, so he hands out the Alchemist's Bleargh as needed.  It makes him happy to complain about us not preparing, so everyone wins.Yes, dumping money on problems is not my idea of fun and exhilirating and heroic.  But I'm sure that you enjoy it, so that's fine.Especially once you count the party members caught in the damage spread.  That REALLY amps up the damage count!Now, I perfectly recognize that getting two or more monsters in the burst is better than one when the damage output is more or less equivalent.  Of course.  But we don't all play in a perfect world where the monsters bunch up in a burst/blast for the sorcerer to nuke them without a care in the world.As an example, my game was at low epic.  We had 3-4 melee types, my sorcerer, and a bard, with an occasional wizard.  The monsters tended to be Large, actively tried to avoid bunching, except around the melee, and enough of them tended to have the damage/screw-you auras that are so prevalent at epic levels that my going into Close Blast range was a poor use of everyone's time.  Even using War Wizardry, it would still be so likely that I'd hit the party members* that it was a choice of either take forever trying to place the attack to minimize damage (which is OH SO FUN for everyone else), accept the friendly fire and overburden the healer, or use accurate single-target at-wills to take down one target at a time.  Given that the bard specialized in granting basic attacks, I went with the third option.When conditions lined up for AoE, well, that's when I pulled out my encounters and dailies.Had the campaign gone on, more minions shown up, and I had more resources to devote to avoiding friendly fire, then I might've retrained my second at-will to the Radiant one.  OTOH, being able to reliably target Will with Chaos Bolt was generally more useful.* - The usual attack bonus was +29.  With War Wizardry, that'd be +24.  The ranger's Reflex defense was about 26, and the fighter's was about 30.No, seriously, look at the definition.  Say, Heroes of the Fallen Lands, p. 35.  Where the entire definition of their role says that strikers do lots of damage to single targets.Of course, there are strikers that do AoE.  Duh.  But their overall job is to make things die, and it's better to focus fire things down than sandblast them.And I've seen those situations too.  I've also seen situations where someone left the monster for someone else, and it recharged a power and ripped someone a new one.  Death being the ultimate action denial, it's better to not skimp on damage than it is to worry about overkilling the monster and instead have it live to do something else.Brad</blockquote>

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