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<blockquote data-quote="dhunton" data-source="post: 4856250" data-attributes="member: 72040"><p><strong>Our Issue with Weapon Focus and Implements...</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">See:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><a href="http://wizards.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wizards.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1396" target="_blank">http://wizards.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wizards.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_fa</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><a href="http://wizards.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wizards.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1396" target="_blank">qid=1396</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Item #21</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">In addition, in a question to support at WotC, they replied:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">If you you are using a staff implement and have the Weapon Focus feat, the bonus to damage will apply to all powers with the implement keyword.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Medium'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Magic Missile is an Implement power, therefore when using your staff as an implement you get the damage bonus from Weapon Focus.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Medium'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Medium'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Medium'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">However, our GM's ruling is:</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Medium'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[FONT=&quot]</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Medium'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Unless a power’s damage is listed with the [W] showing, the damage does not come from the weapon, but from the magic. In which case, I do not see how a WEAPON focus increases MAGICAL damage. A magical WEAPON would increase magical damage, of course.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span>[/FONT]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dhunton, post: 4856250, member: 72040"] [b]Our Issue with Weapon Focus and Implements...[/b] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]See: [URL="http://wizards.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wizards.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1396"]http://wizards.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wizards.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_fa qid=1396[/URL] Item #21 In addition, in a question to support at WotC, they replied: [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] If you you are using a staff implement and have the Weapon Focus feat, the bonus to damage will apply to all powers with the implement keyword.[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium][SIZE=3] [FONT=Times New Roman]Magic Missile is an Implement power, therefore when using your staff as an implement you get the damage bonus from Weapon Focus. However, our GM's ruling is: [FONT="] Unless a power’s damage is listed with the [W] showing, the damage does not come from the weapon, but from the magic. In which case, I do not see how a WEAPON focus increases MAGICAL damage. A magical WEAPON would increase magical damage, of course.[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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