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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bganon" data-source="post: 5313618" data-attributes="member: 60886">The ability to reroll attacks is generally a VERY GOOD option.  There's a reason Elven Accuracy is considered one of the strongest racial powers.  Daily arcane powers tend to be powerful things themselves (sleep, anyone?).  Half surge value in damage is 1/8 or less of your hp total; the party's 30 hp level 1 fighter will only take 3 damage, for example.  I can easily imagine groups where the party would be happy to sacrifice a few hp so the caster can land a stun or something similar on the solo.  It's actually a quite tempting option with a predictable and limited downside.The dark-pact warlock stuff was a bit different, in that there were a number of different effects, but often the ally damage didn't scale with ally hp, wasn't predictable (often a dice roll), and was a straight damage trade.RP-wise... there's a pretty classic example of "heroic defiling" in the novels: Sadira, one of the heroes who slew Kalak, defiled when she thought she had no other option.  Basically, in her mind it was a terrible thing, but worth it if she could defeat an even greater evil.  The Veiled Alliance, however, never really forgave her for it.More generally, it's not so much that arcane magic is bad because even preserving magic slightly defiles the environment.  It's that arcane casters are dangerous because even a preserver can succumb to the temptation to defile anytime they cast a spell.  Every arcane caster is like a walking cache of biological WMD, and people aren't going to trust them just because they've (so far) chosen not to dip into their arsenal.</blockquote>

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