Split Ray and Orb spells

[Testament]

So split Empowered Maximised Scorching rays! Still hideously nasty.

 

[Hypersmurf]

So split Empowered Maximised Scorching rays! Still hideously nasty.

Any moment now, someone's going to try to tell you that there's a rule that any extra ray produced by the Split Ray feat would not share the benefits of the Empower or Maximize feats.

They won't actually be able to show you this 'rule' in any of the books, of course.

-Hyp.

 

[Yig]

Well, Scorching Ray allow SR. At the level we're at, that's not a good idea

 

[Elder-Basilisk]

My obersvation is that a full level caster with the proper feats, spells, and/or equipment can deal with SR. What really hurts scorching ray is fire resistance--which, in my observation about 50-60% of monsters have at level 14-16.

Well, Scorching Ray allow SR. At the level we're at, that's not a good idea

 

[Liquidsabre]

Well, let just say that I'm playing a level 17 warmage.

With the feats I have I can throw a few Splitted, (Sudden) Maximized, Empowered Orb per day. That's 90+7d6+1d3 per Orb. Then I add my Warmage Edge.

When I do that, the fight is over.

Generally it's not a good idea to throw out an example of a high-level character casting a single spell modified by multiple metamagic feats (and a special ability) that bump the spell to a higher spell level and produces an effect that cannot be reproduced numerous times per day - and use it as proof that something is broken. Just FYI.