Thanee said:
Hmm... we use wands if the spells do not suffice.
I've never found wands useful for in-combat healing, except in the case of a fallen ally you're trying to stablize. They are simply too expensive. Outside of combat, yes, wands are fantastic. But in combat you need a lot of healing in as few actions as possible.
But the healing power is not phenomenal...
extended Vigor... now that's phenomenal healing power with just a 4th level slot.
I'm not familiar with that spell. Where's it from?
And for instant healing, there's nothing to beat Heal, anyways.
For a single target, yes. But in many cases I'd rather spend that action casting an augmented
Mass Cure Critical Wounds.
Absolutely. Precise Shot is more useful at lower levels than Rapid Shot, altho the latter is more powerful overall.
*shrug* I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I can easily imagine an archer without Rapid Shot. But unless I'm building a higher-level character who can afford a Seeking bow, going without Precise Shot is unthinkable to me.
Besides, a fighter can make a 5-foot step away after attacking, so you could still shoot the same target without penalty, if that would be required.
I've never played in or DM'd a group that was coordinated enough to have several melee characters continually taking 5' steps and delaying to allow them to be adjacent to a foe when it's their turn but 10' away on the archer's turn. Perhaps your groups are better at this. I'd be interested in hearing how this works out, since you'd have to take flanking into account as well, as well as the monster's movements. If two fighters try to flank, and they move 10' away to accomodate an archer, the monster is likely to move toward one of them, meaning the other one loses his full attack when he moves to engage the next round. Or they both fight on the same side of their foe, each sacrificing their flanking bonus for the sake of the archer. Worse if one of them is the rogue hoping for sneak attack dice.
Thinking on it further I have to ask, in all honesty, is this something you've done during the game, or did you just throw this out as an off-the-cuff counter to my points about Precise Shot?
