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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Numion" data-source="post: 289584" data-attributes="member: 124">Flame Strike, a 5th level spell, will dish out an average damage of 12*3.5 = 42, or 31.5 if 50% of targets make their save on average. If you hit five targets (if you can't hit several targets, don't use it <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=";)" />) with it, thats about 150 points of damage. To cause same kind of damage with Persistent Divine Favor, you'd need to hit about 40 times. At two attacks / round, minus time moving to the next target and missing and doing things other than hacking, it's about 30-40 rounds of combat. At that level combats (IMC, YMMV) take usually less than 5 rounds a pop, often less. From these guesstimations it follows that there would have to over  seven fights in a day for the spell to be more powerful than flame strike - a very unlikely occurence, at least in my games. In very hack'n'slash game it could be unbalanced, but I'd say that it isn't as good as people think.</blockquote>