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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Werebat" data-source="post: 3967363" data-attributes="member: 40158">Yeah, once it maxes out, it isn't bad at all.  Without any other fancy tricks, a Split Ray modification on it yields 10d12 damage, no save, as a 4th level spell -- and that ain't bad.It's just having to wait until 15th level for it to kick in that sucks a bit.  In the normal course of things it might seem to be a good spell to take at high level and then modify with metamagic -- which makes it a good candidate for Arcane Thesis I guess.Trouble is, taking it as a Domain Spell (it's the obvious choice for my theme) saddles me with it at the lower levels when it more or less sucks.  Now I could throw a Shaped Color Spray in my 2nd level slot instead while I'm at low levels (and shaped color spray is pretty darn cool), but then I need ANOTHER feat to pull that off, and I'm not made of feats (besides, the lesser rod of spell shape is so cheap I'd feel silly burning a feat on it).Oh, well.  I may just have to eat it.  As I said, my build adds about 3.5 levels to my CL when casting Rainbow Ray anyway, which does help.  Only have to wait until level 11.5...  :\ I was hoping it would be a more impressive early-on sub for the horrible 4th level Rainbow Pattern, which is such a sucktacular spell that it boggles the mind.  The target snaps out of fascination if they feel "threatened", which could be by, say, a stranger in their lair...  Useless.  Nice if you want to entertain at the county fair, or if you're alone and invisible and happen upon some frost giants lounging near a cliff or a pool of lava, but otherwise -- useless.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" />    - Ron   ^*^</blockquote>

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