Please rate Reach Spell

[Ridley's Cohort]

E-B,

It is conceivable that the smackdown obsessed crowd is cranking up the rating based purely on Reached Harm. Unfortunate that.

The spontaneous reached healing is a cute trick. I didn't think of that one. But I don't see how this can rate better than a '5' or '6' on the outside for those of us who play less than 15th level characters.

 

[Noldor Elf]

It (quite literally) of limited use. Good for cleric to stabilaze a friend on a situation when that 30 feet really matters. Seems to be very unlike metamagic to be prepared unless you can combine it with flameblade or similar spells which has range of touch, but work for multiple rounds (shocking grasp, vampiric touch,...)

 

[Archer]

If you just want ranged heals there are many spells from different sources that heal at range. The most core is healing circle but there is mass stabilize at lvl 2 (heals everyone within 30' 1 hp from dragon magazine and spells and spellcraft has at least one ranged healing effect. You still have to hit your ally with a ranged attack to use this feat.

 

[Orco42]

As others have posted the one thing that makes this feat great is reach harm plus quickened reach cause wounds.

Not counting that the feat seems to rank about a 4 or 5 to me.

 

[Ridley's Cohort]

As others have posted the one thing that makes this feat great is reach harm plus quickened reach cause wounds.

Not counting that the feat seems to rank about a 4 or 5 to me.

Considering that the overwhelming majority of game time in real campaigns surely involves characters of less than 15th level, that is not much of a recommendation, is it?

I gave this feat a '4', and I am thinking I was too generous. The smackdown possibilities are muddling too many voters' brains. This is a virtually useless feat for anyone less than 11th level -- you won't have enough high level slots to actually get to use it.