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<blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6473789" data-attributes="member: 5834"><p>They did. But they're not geared for using them. The fighter has a dex of 14. He fired one arrow and hit with a 20 for 12 points. The paladin has an 8 dex. He's not good with a bow. ACs are relatively low, but you still need to be geared for using a bow to do good damage. </p><p></p><p>I was going to cast <em>fly</em> on the fighter. He was hammered before I got to him. Breath weapons a few times. Lair actions of an average of 11 points a round. It did not help the breath weapon and lair actions dropped the life cleric in the first couple of rounds. 59 point breath weapon with a Con save and 3d6 per round AoE Lair action ate the cleric up quickly. With very little healing, hard to stay up with the all the incoming AoE damage.</p><p></p><p>We tried to spread out to avoid the breath weapon. That made it hard to buff. I had just cast the <em>fly</em> spell when the fighter went down to a second breath weapon attack for another 58 points. It got lucky on the breath recharge. That did not help at all.</p><p></p><p>There's a lot of going on when you lair and legendary actions coupled with the main attacks. Healing doesn't help much with AoE damage. Not strong enough healing at low level when you get hit for 58 and 59 points and you're AoE heal does 2d8+8 with a 3rd level slot. Not keeping up with the damage at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celtavian, post: 6473789, member: 5834"] They did. But they're not geared for using them. The fighter has a dex of 14. He fired one arrow and hit with a 20 for 12 points. The paladin has an 8 dex. He's not good with a bow. ACs are relatively low, but you still need to be geared for using a bow to do good damage. I was going to cast [I]fly[/I] on the fighter. He was hammered before I got to him. Breath weapons a few times. Lair actions of an average of 11 points a round. It did not help the breath weapon and lair actions dropped the life cleric in the first couple of rounds. 59 point breath weapon with a Con save and 3d6 per round AoE Lair action ate the cleric up quickly. With very little healing, hard to stay up with the all the incoming AoE damage. We tried to spread out to avoid the breath weapon. That made it hard to buff. I had just cast the [I]fly[/I] spell when the fighter went down to a second breath weapon attack for another 58 points. It got lucky on the breath recharge. That did not help at all. There's a lot of going on when you lair and legendary actions coupled with the main attacks. Healing doesn't help much with AoE damage. Not strong enough healing at low level when you get hit for 58 and 59 points and you're AoE heal does 2d8+8 with a 3rd level slot. Not keeping up with the damage at all. [/QUOTE]
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