Skill Focus: Concentration vs Combat Casting

[0-hr]

In my experience, (way) more than 75% of my Conentration checks are for casting defensively, so Combat Casting is the better return.

 

[pawsplay]

Combat Casting is very salient, and hence, the discount is very slight. Further, you can take both Combat Casting and Spell Focus (Concentration).

 

[James McMurray]

You can, but why would you want to?

 

[pawsplay]

You can, but why would you want to?

In case you need to cast a spell defensively while being attacked by a grappling creature with poison (Con damage)?

 

[Bagpuss]

In case you need to cast a spell defensively while being attacked by a grappling creature with poison (Con damage)?

But as long as you are casting defensively you can use Combat Casting against all those situations.

 

[EyeontheMountain]

or even just being distracted by a hot elven babe that walked into the room during casting.

Hmm, no such thing.

But yes, no real eason to take combat casting.

 

[Bagpuss]

Except it's a +4 rather than +3, and applies the majority of the time, you need to make concentration checks.

 

[Slaved]

Except it's a +4 rather than +3, and applies the majority of the time, you need to make concentration checks.

You could pick up martial study for a desert wind maneuver, gain tumble as a class skill, spend the points that you would have spent on concentration on tumble, and then virtually never have to cast defensively again.

Plus you get a maneuver and could spend one more feat for an always on stance!

 

[welby]

5% of the time you'll wish you had combat casting. So the question is, are you casting defensively 20 times for every 1 regulat concentration check you have to make?

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

Simpler solution: Survive until you have the ranks needed for it, and take Steady Concentration feat instead. Take ten on all concentration checks beats all! (Unless you're in a grapple or something and the DC is obscenely high, but in that case, you're screwed anyway ^_^)