Reaving Rod and...

[Dark_beebles]

Ok with a Rod of Reaving you do its enchancment bonus to dmg when you curse something. So...lets say you pop a minion off easy enuf to do, but you have the other implement (forgot the name) when you can forgo your pact boon and have all enemies within a 5burst of the target get the curse....would that work? because one is when you do the curse they take the dmg and the other one says you lose your pact boon but curse all within 5?

Just saying you can drop minions by the tons if this is correct...

 

[blargney the second]

Yep, Nifft beat you to this one. He found a potential infinite minion bamfing combo with those items.
-blarg

 

[Nifft]

Ok with a Rod of Reaving you do its enchancment bonus to dmg when you curse something. So...lets say you pop a minion off easy enuf to do, but you have the other implement (forgot the name) when you can forgo your pact boon and have all enemies within a 5burst of the target get the curse....would that work? because one is when you do the curse they take the dmg and the other one says you lose your pact boon but curse all within 5?

Just saying you can drop minions by the tons if this is correct...

By a strict reading of the rules the Rod of Corruption transfers your curse, while the Rod of Reaving only deals damage when you place your curse.

You can still use the combination of Rods to auto-pop one (closest) minion and spread your curse to all foes within 5 squares of him, and that's very useful, even if you don't get to auto-kill every minion on the board.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Tellerve]

Isn't that something likely to be in the errata soon? No roll, no distance, just LOS and boom, minion is down? Seems pretty annoyingly strong for a minor action.

Tellerve

 

[Nifft]

Isn't that something likely to be in the errata soon? No roll, no distance, just LOS and boom, minion is down? Seems pretty annoyingly strong for a minor action.

Minions are supposed to die. A minion eating a Striker's extra damage is saving a big bad for half a round or so. That's success.

It's possible for a Warlock to exploit minions to his advantage, and this is one of the few areas where the Warlock is actually ahead of the Rogue or Ranger. (He's far behind them in terms of damage, normally the Striker's forte.)

Cheers, -- N

 

[jedrious]

I'd like to see where you're getting that you can use two implements for the same minor action

 

[Dalzig]

I'd like to see where you're getting that you can use two implements for the same minor action

Properties require no action....

 

[FadedC]

Properties require no action....

You do have to wield the rod to use the property though. Can you wield 2 rods at once for the same action?

 

[Dalzig]

You do have to wield the rod to use the property though. Can you wield 2 rods at once for the same action?

No, you have to hold the rod for the property.

 

[Tellerve]

Minions are supposed to die. A minion eating a Striker's extra damage is saving a big bad for half a round or so. That's success.

It's possible for a Warlock to exploit minions to his advantage, and this is one of the few areas where the Warlock is actually ahead of the Rogue or Ranger. (He's far behind them in terms of damage, normally the Striker's forte.)

Cheers, -- N

I can see this argument a bit, but then if you use the Rod of Reaping and Corruption and instead of you "cursing" the BBEG you just curse a minion within 5 squares, killing him and then cursing the BBEG as well. The warlock can then do the normal action to attack the BBEG with curse in tow. *shrugs* I guess I see the point of rangers typically attacking twice and maybe getting Hunter's Quarry (difficult on BBEG and ranged), and rogues getting the higher striker extra damage.

It still feels a bit off to me though. I know you say it helps save the BBEG for half a round or so, but considering considering anyone else would have to actually attack the minion to bring him down, as opposed to just looking at him from across the battlefield, it seems awfully broken. Despite the fact that warlocks might be down on the striker totempole.


Tellerve