Only one mark at a time?

[DracoSuave]

The whole Marked thing confuses me... just for absolute clarification...

Lets say a Paladin uses the power to mark other people, but has only one marked with Divine Challenge. Ok...the DC one either will attack the Paladin or suffer DC consequences, but the others marked are ONLY marked, nothing else.

The condition of being just marked, for the sake of only be marked, means that if that target attacks anybody else OTHER than the one who did the marking, that target suffers a -2 penalty to attack rolls? That's it, right? And this applies no matter what character of any class does the marking?

Correct.

It helps if you conceptualize Divine Challenge not as 'The Paladin Mark'. That's not how it works, exactly.

Think of it as 'A Mark + <Another Effect>'. The fact that the effect and the mark have synergy doesn't change this fundamental aspect of the power.

This way, you think of Paladins of having quite a few ways of marking an opponent, and one of them happens to be the most common and carries an additional benefit as well.

 

[Ahrimon]

I never thought of it that way. Let me see if I'm understanding the paladin mark correctly.

The paladin DC's 3 people in front of him using all minors for a round. Target 1 & 2 are still marked. But only marked. No further DC effect will apply to them. Target 3 is marked and is under the effect of DC and will take damage if it attacks anyone other than the paladin.

Is that correct?

 

[Kordeth]

I never thought of it that way. Let me see if I'm understanding the paladin mark correctly.

The paladin DC's 3 people in front of him using all minors for a round. Target 1 & 2 are still marked. But only marked. No further DC effect will apply to them. Target 3 is marked and is under the effect of DC and will take damage if it attacks anyone other than the paladin.

Is that correct?

No, for two reasons. One, the first line of divine challenge's Effect entry explicitly says the target is marked until you use this power against another target, or until you fail to engage the target. Two, the last line of the Effect entry tells you you can only use divine challenge once per turn.

 

[the8bitdeity]

No, for two reasons. One, the first line of divine challenge's Effect entry explicitly says the target is marked until you use this power against another target, or until you fail to engage the target. Two, the last line of the Effect entry tells you you can only use divine challenge once per turn.

Which is very important to realize, because if you use powers that mark they will actually replace a DC mark. Take Piercing Smite for example: marks adjacent enemies. If one was previously marked by DC, that mark is now a "vanilla" mark and won't have the DC radiant dmg. If you're going to use PS you need to know to use DC AFTER making a PS attack.