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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BarkingDeathSquirrel" data-source="post: 4595289" data-attributes="member: 12851">My personal tweaks I made based on the recent controller powers:Magic Missiles - renamed "Magic Missiles". Range 20, targets one or two creatures no more than 3 squares apart. Int vs. Ref, 1d6+Int damage. At 21st, targets one, two, or three creatures no more than 3 squares apart, 2d4+Int damage. No longer counts as a ranged basic attack.Reasoning: Kinda reminiscent of the 3.5 version of the spell. Divine Lightning still has a better chance of being able to strike maximum number of creatures (since Magic Missile is, more or less, targeting a burst 3 area), but Magic Missile can strike from a longer range. At epic levels, Divine Lightning does more damage, but Magic Missile targets more creatures.Ray of Frost - On a critical hit, the target is immobilized instead of slowed. Can be used as a Ranged Basic Attack.Reasoning: Difference between being immobilized and slowed is somewhat fairly minor (to a certain extent, anyway), but making it occur only on crits limits the effect it will have. Being able to use it as a Ranged Basic Attacks just seems like a natural choice, especially with the changes I made to Magic Missile.Scorching Burst - Damage upped to 2d4+Int (4d4+Int at 21st).Reasoning: With dealing Int damage every time the target makes a opportunity attack, it has the potential to deal a lot more damage than Scorching Burst, even with the damage as it now (especially if the Invoker has a high Int). Upping the damage goes with the theme of the current Wizard at-wills supposedly focusing more on damage than control... I might lower (well sort of...) than damage to 1d8... but I like having reasons to use the d4's <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Cloud of Daggers - Can be used as a Ranged Basic Attack. I might rewrite this to just target a single creature to avoid any weirdness resulting from that...Reasoning: Don't really have a good reason, just kinda liked the idea.Illusionary Ambush - On a critical hit, the target grants combat advantage to the next attack made against it before the end of its next turn.Reasoning: There are probably enough ways to get combat advantage that one more that occurs semi-rarely won't affect much. Also kinda meshes nicely with the flavor text.I also added one new at-will power, based off a power the gnome illusionist in the MM has:Startling GlamorAt-Will * Arcane, Implement, Illusion, PsychicStandard Action  Ranged 10Target: One CreatureAttack: Int vs WillHit: 1d8 + Int psychic damage, slide target 1 square.Special: Can be used as a ranged basic attack.Reasoning: I've had this power in my Wizard house rules for a while now (though the damage was only 1d6+Int... and it wasn't a ranged basic attack), and with the Invoker having a similar (basically the same...) power, I guess it wasn't a bad idea, after all. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I'm kinda thinking of removing the damage and making it take a Minor Action to use... even more like the power the Gnome in the MM has...These changes are probably a bit more than are needed, but, meh... I think they mesh nicely with the At-Wills the Druid and Invoker are getting... *shrugs*</blockquote>

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