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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6440335" data-attributes="member: 5834">No. It would have done 31 points instead of 15 points. It was a fireball. It would not have made the fight trivial.It depends on the spell. A missed save on a polymorph or petrification spell could make a fight trivial. A missed save on an enchantment spell is a mixed bag. So many enchantment spells allow additional saves on damage or each turn, it might only slow things down for a round or two. Helpful, but not trivial, especially if it still has lair actions. A missed save on a damaging spells is the difference between half damage and full damage. Given how much damage martials do, that is a significant difference. For example, chain lightning does 12d6 or an average of 42 points to a single target with a 6th level spell slot of which I get two a day. If he saves, it does 21 points. Bless does not help spells without attack rolls.The fighter did 48 points at level 5 with action surge. Something he can use every short rest. He had used it three times that day at level 5. When he gets 3 attacks, it will double the effectiveness of Action Surge. There are no saves against his attacks. It kind of depends on what we're fighting. Legendary Resistance puts a premium on damage and buffing and pretty much makes it hard to land anything with a save effect (which is hard anyway with save every round and high saves for Legendary Creatures). Thus you have to focus your selection of spells. Might be worse for a warlock or sorcerer with fewer overall spells to select from. Though Warlocks have Eldritch Blast which can be quite a potent attack and is affected by bless.</blockquote>

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