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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 4377353" data-attributes="member: 2011">Only if it hits.Stunning one enemy is great control.But, what have you really accomplished if you use Ice Tomb? 50% chance of one enemy damaged and he goes from 50% chance to hit to 0% chance to hit.So one encounter in four, Ice Tomb damages and helps with control. One encounter in four, it damages, stops movement, but the foe was going to miss anyway. And, two encounters in four, it doesn't do anything.Compared to multiple enemies potentially being damaged and unable to move and unable to attack the caster and possibly unable to attack anyone else.There are times when Ice Tomb misses. But with multiple rolls, Enthrall might miss the first enemy and still hit others. On average, Enthral will hit more often more rounds for more damage and will affect combat more because some of those foes will not be able to attack back for that round.Many potentially damaged and partially controlled versus one potentially damaged and fully controlled (and typically not able to be damaged by most allies). Sure, you might stop one guy with Ice Tomb for a round. You also protect that one guy from most further damage if you do for a round.Single target attacks are great if they hit, but not very controlling if they miss. Multiple attack rolls often make up in quantity what they lack in quality.All in all, Enthral typically has more utility and average control than Ice Tomb because it affects more NPCs in the lifetime of the caster.It also does not prevent allies from attacking those immobile targets like Ice Tomb typically does.You are looking at this too much in black and white, and assuming that attacks always hit or always affect combat. They don't. Because of that, multiple foe attacks have a signficant edge over single foe attacks.</blockquote>

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