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<blockquote data-quote="DaveDash" data-source="post: 6521078" data-attributes="member: 6786202">It's all about tactical choice.If you're going up against a Dragon you don't cast your concentration spells until after it breaths. The casters in my party know this. They also work together to mitigate hits, use full cover to their advantage, etc. Also the way the game works - one big hit for lots of damage or many small hits for small damage. The big hit can be avoided with abilities like cutting words, warding flare, popping shield, etc. The smaller hits are a bunch of DC10 checks which are easy to pass with the appropriate feats.AOE? They shut this down with counterspell or simply focus fire enemy casters down.BBEG fights the Abjurer loads up on Mirror Image, Blink and his Arcane ward. He is IMPOSSIBLE to hit. Bard and Cleric will usually hang back and help each other with cutting words/warding flare. They usually buff then find full cover to hide behind and pop in and out as required.Bard took shield as part of his magical secrets.Paladin just gets in there and smashes things in the face.And also so people know, I use custom monsters that do MORE damage than their MM counterparts. Vampires with bows that do an extra 6D6 necrotic with melee strikes, just recently used a CR15 Banshee that hit for 15d10.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DaveDash, post: 6521078, member: 6786202"] It's all about tactical choice. If you're going up against a Dragon you don't cast your concentration spells until after it breaths. The casters in my party know this. They also work together to mitigate hits, use full cover to their advantage, etc. Also the way the game works - one big hit for lots of damage or many small hits for small damage. The big hit can be avoided with abilities like cutting words, warding flare, popping shield, etc. The smaller hits are a bunch of DC10 checks which are easy to pass with the appropriate feats. AOE? They shut this down with counterspell or simply focus fire enemy casters down. BBEG fights the Abjurer loads up on Mirror Image, Blink and his Arcane ward. He is IMPOSSIBLE to hit. Bard and Cleric will usually hang back and help each other with cutting words/warding flare. They usually buff then find full cover to hide behind and pop in and out as required. Bard took shield as part of his magical secrets. Paladin just gets in there and smashes things in the face. And also so people know, I use custom monsters that do MORE damage than their MM counterparts. Vampires with bows that do an extra 6D6 necrotic with melee strikes, just recently used a CR15 Banshee that hit for 15d10. [/QUOTE]

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