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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5022082" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yeah, and make sure your DM knows about Monster Manual errata. The Drow Warrior's Rapier attack power had a typo. It should look pretty much exactly like the Hand Crossbow power, if the Drow Warrior hits you with his weapon then he makes an ADDITIONAL attack at +13 vs FORT and if that hits THEN you get poisoned.In other words its not that easy to get poisoned by them. First they have to hit +14 vs AC, then they have to hit +13 vs FORT. To fall unconscious you then need to fail 2 saves in a row. Its going to happen sooner or later to a PC if you fight Drow enough, but even without any kind of preparation you should only rarely end up unconscious. With a leader or some sort of item or power bonus to poison saves or a reroll ability etc the chance of failing 2 saves in a row gets to be fairly low. Assume a Drow Warrior hits 50% of the time. 25% of the time he's managing to hit with his poison. 25% of those poison hits, or 1 round in 8 overall he's going to manage to knock someone unconscious. Most encounters last no more than 8 rounds max. The monster is a Lurker, so it probably shouldn't be the main bulk of what you meet either. Worst case 3-4 of these guys could make a fairly dicey encounter with a bit of bad luck. Notice though they are really overall a pretty weak monster and if you can get them to melee or pin them down they'll die pretty fast.I don't really see any big problem with Cloud of Darkness either. The Arachnomancer has it, but she's a leader and thus probably the only one of her type in a group of Drow. Blademasters also have it, but again they're an Elite monster and so you rarely meet more than one at a time. CoD is really intended to be more of a "Get out of Dodge" kind of thing for the Drow anyway. Either they cast it around themselves right from the start like an Arachnomancer fighting from the back row, or a Blademaster might use it so he can effectively disengage for hit-n-run purposes.</blockquote>

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