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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 2090938" data-attributes="member: 29014">Occ: Well, I obviously can't speak for Morrus's group, but they sound *a lot* like my group.  My group always defends against Sonic because very few monsters defend against it, so their spellcasters prefer it, and they figure others will too.  However, you should note that the sonic Energy attacks do -1 damage per die.  Thus, Swarm of Crystals is completely preferrable to Sonic Energy Ball (same damage, but no Save).  I agree that we should move away from instakills; you were the one to originally suggest them, and I just figure that if you use an instakill, it should at least be the correct one.As to your clerical question: The main weakness of the Queen's team is that they have not a single divine or arcane caster.  Thus they cannot heal, and they cannot use useful antimagic effects.  That's why I'm worried about Forcecage, etc.  If they had a cleric to cleric-buff and a wizard to wizard-buff, and of course the lich-queen to psion-buff, and they had done this beforehand, there's no question that the PCs would be dead.  The only chance the PCs have going for them is this vulnerability of their enemies, but of course, we need to shore this up to keep if from being too exploitable.</blockquote>