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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greyfeld" data-source="post: 5708477" data-attributes="member: 93479">Yeah, that's the gist of it.  I know it's not worded very well, but I had a hard time figuring out how to word it properly.  I'm sure I'll fix it eventually. I thought it would be interesting to grant them vulnerability to radiant damage to signify their tie to shadow and necrotic damage.  It's more of a flavor thing, really. Actually, there are plenty of at-will and encounter powers that generate zones.  It's just that daily powers with zones tend to have the "sustain" tag on them.That said, I was going back and forth on this a lot, whether to make it encounter or daily.  I patterned it after the Wizard's Grease spell in wording.  The thing is, the "sustain minor" is only available for those who took Desecrated Ground as a class feature, which made me want to make it an Encounter power.  Maybe I'll just make it sustainable by any necro, and bump it to a daily.You get to use the secondary attack any time a creature moves into the zone or starts its turn inside the zone.  So, it triggers however many times that situation comes up while the zone is active. I was actually thinking about dropping it to 1 zombie summoned.  I don't have any personal gameplay experience with summoned minions or undead in 4e, so I went with two zombies to start with, assuming they'd be weak and easily disposed of.  But if it's not as bad as I thought, I'll drop it down to 1 zombie.  It'll give me a lower starting threshold for ramping up the power of summoning dailies in future levels, anyway.</blockquote>

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