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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PaulGreystoke" data-source="post: 1035741" data-attributes="member: 10810">Why all the Fuss?I'm surprised people are still complaining about the Spell Focus nerf.  I know it seemed startling a few weeks ago when we first heard about it, but it scarcely seems to be an issue now that the books are out.  Those who have roved through the 3.5 spell lists have discovered that there has been a dramatic increase in the number of no save spells.  The 3.5 paradigm is that if a spell requires a touch attack roll, then it allows no save.  There are now spells (new & old alike) of almost every level that fit this new paradigm, so spellcasters don't need to buff up their spell DCs in order to affect creatures with good saves.  They just need to succeed at a touch attack roll, which remains absurdly easy. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />The same is true of those complaining that SR wasn't nerfed.  The fact the most Conjuration spells can't be resisted by SR renders the point moot.  A good spellcaster will just make sure that they have some Conjurations available when they are likely to face opponents with SR.  Only Specialists who have taken Conjuration as one of their opposed schools won't be able to benefit from this change.  Of course, since Teleportation is now part of the Conjuration school, I doubt we will see many of these theoretical Conjuration-bereft Specialists in actual play. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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