Attack of opportunity for each shot?

[Vahktang]

So, our hero is an archer with multiple shots.
Our monster has combat reflexes.
So, is it one attack of opportunity for each shot?
Or the act of using a missle weapon, one attack of opportunity for the attack with the ranged weapon.

 

[Arkhandus]

No. You can only make one attack of opportunity against any particular target each round, no matter how many attacks of opportunity you're allowed on the whole (they have to be directed against different targets).

 

[Michael Silverbane]

No. You can only make one attack of opportunity against any particular target each round, no matter how many attacks of opportunity you're allowed on the whole (they have to be directed against different targets).

This was true in 3.0, but is no longer so in 3.5...

Combat Reflexes and Additional Attacks of Opportunity

If you have the Combat Reflexes feat you can add your Dexterity modifier to the number of attacks of opportunity you can make in a round. This feat does not let you make more than one attack for a given opportunity, but if the same opponent provokes two attacks of opportunity from you, you could make two separate attacks of opportunity (since each one represents a different opportunity). Moving out of more than one square threatened by the same opponent in the same round doesn’t count as more than one opportunity for that opponent. All these attacks are at your full normal attack bonus.

So... Yes. Each time a character makes a ranged attack (which he does multiple times during a full attack), he provokes an attack of opportunity from each threatening creature.

Later
silver

 

[welby]

ouch. wouldn't want to be an archer surrounded by monsters with combat reflexes

 

[Gerion of Mercadia]

PHB 3.5, pg 137-138

Combat Reflexes and Additional Attacks of Opportunity: If you have the Combat Reflexes feat (page 92), you can add your Dexterity modifier to the number of attacks of opportunity you can make in a round. This feat does not let you make more than one attack of opportunity per opportunity, but if the same opponent provokes two attacks of opportunity from you - such as by moving out of a threatened square and then casting a spell ina threatened square - you could make two separate attacks of opportunity (since each one represents a different opportuntiy). Moving out of more than one square threatened by the same opponent in the same round doesn't count as more than one opportunity for that opponent. All these attacks are at you full normal attack bonus.

Attacking with a ranged weapon is a provoking act without the combat archery feat in the ELH. Therefore, for every shot the archer fires Combat Reflexes BBEG gets 1 AoO;

Silver - ya beat me to it it seems.

 

[Vahktang]

But isn't the full attack one ranged attack.
Not each shot?

 

[hong]

But isn't the full attack one ranged attack.
Not each shot?

Each shot is a separate ranged attack. You make separate attack rolls, at varying bonuses to hit, separate damage rolls, possibly on separate targets, and so on.

 

[Arkhandus]

Ouch. I hadn't noticed that change in 3.5.

They really did make Combat Reflexes leaps and bounds more powerful in 3.5!

To the OP: Each attack made with the ranged weapon counts as a separate instance of provoking an attack of opportunity. I just didn't know 3.5 changed CR's restriction. So yeah, archer shooting a lot while in melee with a Combat Reflexes character = insane flurry of AoOs and one bloodied archer!

 

[hong]

Ouch. I hadn't noticed that change in 3.5.

They really did make Combat Reflexes leaps and bounds more powerful in 3.5!

Eh. Noone still takes CR unless they have a reach weapon.

To the OP: Each attack made with the ranged weapon counts as a separate instance of provoking an attack of opportunity. I just didn't know 3.5 changed CR's restriction. So yeah, archer shooting a lot while in melee with a Combat Reflexes character = insane flurry of AoOs and one bloodied archer!

Or the archer could just 5' step away and shoot with impunity.

 

[Arkhandus]

Which helps him not at all if the monster is an ogre or anything else with with natural reach.

Immediate Edit: Derrr, ogres aren't very nimble. But the point stands. A dextrous monster with reach still threatens the archer.