Grease (the Daily) is it Useful?

[Khime]

Opportunity attacks are free actions, and yet they fall under this rule.

Actually, they are not. Check out PHB p289 again. It lists the actions you can take in combat. It has a list of Standard Actions, Move Actions, Minor Actions.... and then it lists Immediate Actions, and Opportunity Actions... and then it goes on to list Free Actions and No Action actions.

If Opportunity Actions were free actions, they'd be listed under the list of Free Actions along with the rest of them. Opportunity, Immediate, and Free are all different action types, with different rules for when you can make them.

 

[BobTheNob]

Any one have any experiences with the Wizard Daily Spell Grease.

It seems intriguing to me...as from my reading of it anyone entering the area...will trigger the Free Action Burst effect that will either knock them prone on a Hit and allow you slide them 3 squares if you miss.

Oddly enough it looks like missing someone can have better control features than actually hitting with this power....and would be useful for Allies as well...(eg party mate is being mobbed, cast this spell close to the ally, have them enter "Grease" and hopefully miss and slide them to safety)

What are peoples play experiences with this?

My biggest quibble with this spell as written is the non intuitive fact that the spell only works on people "entering" the area of effect....which seems odd. So I conjure Grease under your feat, and you are fine to move through it, but someone from the outside better be ready for a prat fall.
Also strikes me that when you knock someone down, it is all to easy for them to get up as a move action, and then move again as a standard to avoid the zone.

I am considering this as my Spell Book daily but am not quite sold on it yet.
So what is the word on Grease....(Please no responses stating that Grease is the word on Grease)

And while we are at it, if I use a lightning weapon as an implement, does it make the spell "Grease lightning"?

(and btw, Grease is the word)