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<blockquote data-quote="Gadget" data-source="post: 6977774" data-attributes="member: 23716"><p><em>Witchbolt</em> is a poor spell choice in all but the most contrived situations, no matter the level or the class using it. The distributed damage over time sounds kind of nice at first blush, but D&D combat favors more damage quicker (thus the ever effective focus fire tactic). It is not helped by the all or nothing initial attack roll (which can't even benefit from True Strike, as they are both concentration spells), and the short range. Add to that the action cost on future rounds to keep it up, concentration and the fact that the target could be dead (or out of range) before you 'get your money's worth' out the spell and it really starts to stink. I mean, if it allowed you to make a new ranged spell attack against a target in range each round for the duration, that would be something;</p><p> at least you could switch targets and such if circumstances warranted it and a miss would not be devastating.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gadget, post: 6977774, member: 23716"] [I]Witchbolt[/I] is a poor spell choice in all but the most contrived situations, no matter the level or the class using it. The distributed damage over time sounds kind of nice at first blush, but D&D combat favors more damage quicker (thus the ever effective focus fire tactic). It is not helped by the all or nothing initial attack roll (which can't even benefit from True Strike, as they are both concentration spells), and the short range. Add to that the action cost on future rounds to keep it up, concentration and the fact that the target could be dead (or out of range) before you 'get your money's worth' out the spell and it really starts to stink. I mean, if it allowed you to make a new ranged spell attack against a target in range each round for the duration, that would be something; at least you could switch targets and such if circumstances warranted it and a miss would not be devastating. [/QUOTE]
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