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<blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 4604795" data-attributes="member: 71571"><p>No I understand basic things like</p><p></p><p>Step 1) Thunderwave</p><p>Step 2) Interpose the fighter between you and targets.</p><p></p><p>That's what coordination is, and it deftly handles the problem of what happens when you miss.</p><p></p><p>I figured that would be obvious, but the fact that it is not might imply why such coordination isn't an assumption to you.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Those times are rare and far between.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I apologize. I am not a mind reader and I don't automaticly telepathicly pluck this information from your brain. See, in my country, you actually have to -say- things for people to register that you said them.</p><p></p><p>For the record, you didn't.</p><p></p><p>Wait. That'd not be my fault then. That would be your own.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If your cleric is in that much trouble, your party is in a lot more trouble than a single force orb is going to help you with. If the goblins aren't minions, then yes, thunderwaving the cleric then having the next player Heal check him to get the second wind might actually be optimal as well. This way the cleric ends up above bloodied when he healing words himself (which he should do.)</p><p></p><p>But they aren't minions than that force orb -might- be put to better use by using its primary so that you can concentrate damage, because your necessity is to lower their numbers as fast as possible.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm not saying it's never an option. But you have to weigh the loss of that primary damage vs the situation, and it gets -very rare- that that loss of opportunity is less than the value you get from using force orb over other, less expendable, options.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DracoSuave, post: 4604795, member: 71571"] No I understand basic things like Step 1) Thunderwave Step 2) Interpose the fighter between you and targets. That's what coordination is, and it deftly handles the problem of what happens when you miss. I figured that would be obvious, but the fact that it is not might imply why such coordination isn't an assumption to you. Those times are rare and far between. I apologize. I am not a mind reader and I don't automaticly telepathicly pluck this information from your brain. See, in my country, you actually have to -say- things for people to register that you said them. For the record, you didn't. Wait. That'd not be my fault then. That would be your own. If your cleric is in that much trouble, your party is in a lot more trouble than a single force orb is going to help you with. If the goblins aren't minions, then yes, thunderwaving the cleric then having the next player Heal check him to get the second wind might actually be optimal as well. This way the cleric ends up above bloodied when he healing words himself (which he should do.) But they aren't minions than that force orb -might- be put to better use by using its primary so that you can concentrate damage, because your necessity is to lower their numbers as fast as possible. I'm not saying it's never an option. But you have to weigh the loss of that primary damage vs the situation, and it gets -very rare- that that loss of opportunity is less than the value you get from using force orb over other, less expendable, options. [/QUOTE]
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