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<blockquote data-quote="Simulacrum" data-source="post: 1187072" data-attributes="member: 7749">I always thought chainlightning to be horribly underpowered, even tho that it can be fun to use against a larger horde of enemies.Still its too weak for a 6th level spell. why?It affects one guy at full strenght and then the next gets half of that and so on.....sounds nice, but wait its a sixth level spell. thus you will have to wait much too long till you can dish out 20 dice worth of damage *plonk* and damn half of 11d6 is only 5d6 *slap* and all of this can be HALFED *zing*Now why dont J just take a normal fireball and empower it with my empower (or a lesser rod of empowering) and widden the AoE with metamagic and BLAM! do a lot more damage to more targets and all of them get the same burn. Ok its less selective and has less DC but in those levels I expect the PC's to maneuver cleverly or be at least temporary immune/resistant to some attack forms in combat.Firebrand is bad ass thats true, Id probably restrict it a bit more on the area you can dish it out, or put it into 6th level (but keeping the lower damage cap)Thus Chainlightning would still be good at higher levels due to the better damage cap.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Simulacrum, post: 1187072, member: 7749"] I always thought chainlightning to be horribly underpowered, even tho that it can be fun to use against a larger horde of enemies. Still its too weak for a 6th level spell. why? It affects one guy at full strenght and then the next gets half of that and so on.....sounds nice, but wait its a sixth level spell. thus you will have to wait much too long till you can dish out 20 dice worth of damage *plonk* and damn half of 11d6 is only 5d6 *slap* and all of this can be HALFED *zing* Now why dont J just take a normal fireball and empower it with my empower (or a lesser rod of empowering) and widden the AoE with metamagic and BLAM! do a lot more damage to more targets and all of them get the same burn. Ok its less selective and has less DC but in those levels I expect the PC's to maneuver cleverly or be at least temporary immune/resistant to some attack forms in combat. Firebrand is bad ass thats true, Id probably restrict it a bit more on the area you can dish it out, or put it into 6th level (but keeping the lower damage cap) Thus Chainlightning would still be good at higher levels due to the better damage cap. [/QUOTE]

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