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<blockquote data-quote="Mengu" data-source="post: 4375044" data-attributes="member: 65726">In 3.x casting a spell provoked an AoO unless you made a Concentration check. I see using utility powers as casting spells. In that context it's possible this is the intended behavior.&nbsp;Having said that, I'm not totally convinced this is so. Healing Word for instance is very carefully worded to be a single target close burst. I might think perhaps this was a late change, and they forgot to carry it over to utility powers. But that would be a giant oops. Powers such as Knight's Move, Crescendo of Violence, and Shake It Off being ranged makes absolutely no sense to me. &nbsp;The worst offender though is Corellon's Grace. Say someone spends an action point, and I want to use Corellon's Grace to shift away from a swarm before the beginning of my turn. Good use of the power yes? Except I just provoked an opportunity attack from the swarm by using a ranged power. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/worried.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":-S" title="Uhm&nbsp; &nbsp; :-S" data-shortname=":-S" />&nbsp;So for the moment, I'm going with the &quot;giant oops&quot; theory, that these non-attack ranged powers should be bursts instead of ranged.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mengu, post: 4375044, member: 65726"] In 3.x casting a spell provoked an AoO unless you made a Concentration check. I see using utility powers as casting spells. In that context it's possible this is the intended behavior. Having said that, I'm not totally convinced this is so. Healing Word for instance is very carefully worded to be a single target close burst. I might think perhaps this was a late change, and they forgot to carry it over to utility powers. But that would be a giant oops. Powers such as Knight's Move, Crescendo of Violence, and Shake It Off being ranged makes absolutely no sense to me. The worst offender though is Corellon's Grace. Say someone spends an action point, and I want to use Corellon's Grace to shift away from a swarm before the beginning of my turn. Good use of the power yes? Except I just provoked an opportunity attack from the swarm by using a ranged power. :-S So for the moment, I'm going with the "giant oops" theory, that these non-attack ranged powers should be bursts instead of ranged. [/QUOTE]

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