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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6946224" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Let's say that you do try to use Quivering Palm in every fight. Now you're spending ki, and you're telling your allies not to attack it, and if it's something that has legendary resistances it's about 70-80% likely to not even need to use those legendary resistances against your ki anyway. E.g. an adult red will succeed on a DC 19 Con save 75% of the time.So every time you do this, you're spending 3 ki and a round of combat to inflict 55 points of damage and force expenditure of 0.25 legendary actions by the dragon.Not terrible, but definitely not overpowered. The fighter is probably doing more damage than that on his turn when he Action Surges.IMO, the best use of Quivering Palm is on opportunity attacks. &quot;You turn your back on me, I make you explode.&quot; That's a significantly better deterrent effect than Sentinel's &quot;You turn your back on me, I make you stop moving briefly.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6946224, member: 6787650"] Let's say that you [I]do[/I] try to use Quivering Palm in every fight. Now you're spending ki, and you're telling your allies not to attack it, and if it's something that has legendary resistances it's about 70-80% likely to not even need to use those legendary resistances against your ki anyway. E.g. an adult red will succeed on a DC 19 Con save 75% of the time. So every time you do this, you're spending 3 ki and a round of combat to inflict 55 points of damage and force expenditure of 0.25 legendary actions by the dragon. Not terrible, but definitely not overpowered. The fighter is probably doing more damage than that on his turn when he Action Surges. IMO, the best use of Quivering Palm is on opportunity attacks. "You turn your back on me, I make you explode." That's a significantly better deterrent effect than Sentinel's "You turn your back on me, I make you stop moving briefly." [/QUOTE]

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